Java and C would be useful in creating UIs for hacking. How are you at wintel i/o?
Touch base with BillW, our resident software guru for some good information.
If you want to grab the camera by the gonads, uRISC assembly is de rigeur.
These links were posted by binaryweaver in another area:
From the "links" section @
forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=3" target="_blank">http://camerahacks.10.
forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=3
Instruction Set:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981207020826/www.vautomation.com/v8/v8.html
Disassembler:
http://cexx.org/dakota/disv8.zip
These should give you plenty of info to get you started.
When you go post grad, may I help write your thesis? I can see it now:
"Zerted, Lister, et al on Reverse Engineering of SMaL uRISC ASIC Systems"
Subtitle "The Encroachment of Leet Capitalization into Professional PaPerZ"
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