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Hacking Bluetooth Sports Tech for Fun and Profit — Part 4: Understanding the WHOOP Protocol With a £12 Sniffer

22 Jun 2026 5 min read Vestigator
How a Raspberry Pi, two Nordic dongles, and a carefully-timed Bluetooth toggle revealed an undocumented protocol variant. The WHOOP is a fascinating device to reverse-engineer because it almost looks open. It

Hacking Bluetooth Sports Tech for Fun and Profit — Part 3: The Strap Comes With an SDK

21 Jun 2026 5 min read Vestigator
After a chest strap that leaked its ECG by accident and a band that hid everything behind one undocumented byte, here's the device that comes with a manual, and what I

Hacking Bluetooth Sports Tech for Fun and Profit — Part 2: Raw ECG From an £80 Chest Strap

20 Jun 2026 5 min read Vestigator
Reverse-engineering the Wahoo TRACKR HR — no documentation, no SDK, no authentication. Just a BLE connection and methodical curiosity. The Wahoo TRACKR HR is a rechargeable chest strap heart rate monitor. It costs

Hacking Bluetooth Sports Tech for Fun and Profit — Part 1: What Else Is In Your Chest Strap?

20 Jun 2026 2 min read Vestigator
How much data is your heart rate monitor actually capable of sharing, and what else could you use? If you've ever worn a Bluetooth chest strap during a run or a

On the Subject of Coffee

29 Mar 2026 2 min read Newsletter
A Prose Piece After Douglas Adams
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