Show HN: Custom Firmware for Insta360 Wave

Category: infrastructure

Tags: firmware, reverse-engineering, privacy, rust, embedded

Score: 7.8/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 9, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Wave Open Firmware replaces the stock software on the Insta360 Wave speakerphone with a Rust-based firmware that eliminates telemetry and cloud dependency, giving users full control over their recordings. It includes reverse-engineered hardware drivers, a custom NPU backend for running neural network models, and a safe revert path. The project is notable for its deep reverse engineering and privacy-focused design.

Target audience: embedded developers, privacy-conscious users, hardware hackers

Repository: https://xaviergeerinck.github.io/insta360-custom-firmware/ · C · MIT · 1 stars

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