NES-dev VS E58ProDroneInterception

I'm a data scientist and work in Python, but my favorite personal project was learning 6502 Assembly and making a (very simple) game for the original NES. It was really fun going from such a high level language immediately down to about as low level as you can get. It taught me a ton about hardware, what my code is actually doing when it runs, and gave me a new angle to appreciate old school videogames.

Here's my space shooter based on your tutorial. I got stuck trying to implement a static HUD using sprite 0 hit and nametable switching, hoping to give it another shot soon.

Malware samples during the our Malware Analysis class, and then for my Capstone project, I reverse engineered Drone software to understand its communication protocols in order to write drone interception software.

Yes, it was for stealing control of drones. It disconnected the actual controller, then allowed you to steal control using the Xbox controller. It's here.

Either my Mandelbrot Set Explorer which lets you move around the Mandelbrot Set, or my Drone Interceptor that lets you hijack control of a specific type of drone.

I did something similar to hack drones for a Capstone project, and I basically did as the above commenter described. It was a long process of comparing data in captures, and then trying to recreate the same traffic in response to an Xbox controller.

It's great. I've used it multiple times for projects. It was one of the big pieces of a drone "hacking" project I did for school. We encoded the drone's communication protocol into Scapy, which let us easily construct and parse packets.

My two favorites are my Drone Interceptor and Mandelbrot Set Explorer projects. Both took months of work and gave me interesting challenges. The Mandelbrot Set Explorer was the first complex UI I had ever written (which is why it looks like crap), and the Drone Interceptor required a fairly involved reverse-engineering effort.

This is what I did when I wanted to manipulate my wireless NIC using Python. I created a simple class that just uses subprocess to run iwconfig for me.

It depends on what your goals are. I just finished a long-ish, 4-month school project. It worked as planned, we demoed it, and now it sits on Github. It wasn't really made to be expanded (no unit tests :|), but if I ever wanted to package it, I could do it at that point.