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# [Before you reverse engineer a USB device, check if someone already did](https://emirmrkaljevic.hashnode.dev/before-you-reverse-engineer-a-usb-device-check-if-someone-already-did?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

I built usb-rea to take a USB capture of a vendor app, infer the protocol, and write a pyusb driver. The earlier posts in this series are about that second half: the overall pipeline, handshakes, name

16h ago · 8 min read · emirmrkaljevic.hashnode.dev  
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