media.ccc.de Courses

Place and Route Algorithms for Digital Integrated Circuits

A gentle introduction to the algorithms that place standard cells and route metal wires to turn digital circuit netlists into chip layouts.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

BLUFFS: Bluetooth Forward and Future Secrecy Attacks and Defenses

BLUFFS exposes how Bluetooth session-key reuse breaks forward and future secrecy, then presents a backward-compatible key-derivation fix.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Sonic Alchemy: From Audio Basics to Phase Alignment with FFT Analyzers

Der Vortrag zeigt, wie sich typische Probleme mit Tontechnik und Lautsprechern mithilfe physikalischer Grundlagen und einfacher Maßnahmen lösen lassen.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

SPC700 Architecture: The Ultimate Guide to SNES Sound Processing

Explores how the SNES’s SPC700 processor and S-DSP produced the distinctive music of games such as Super Metroid and Chrono Trigger.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Opening Hackspaces for Deaf People - Lessons from CCC Wien and Metalab

Der Vortrag teilt Ansätze, mit denen Hackspaces für gehörlose Menschen zugänglich werden, damit Hörende und Gehörlose gemeinsam Projekte umsetzen können.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Reconstructing Game Footage from a Game Boy's Memory Bus

A cartridge adapter rebuilds Game Boy gameplay video in real time by tracing the memory bus and emulating the graphics unit.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Digitalisation, Sustainability, and Climate Justice - Critical Analysis and Future Directions

A critical look at how digital technology’s energy demands and corporate practices intersect with ecological injustice, and what a just, sustainable digital future could entail.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Self-Cannibalizing AI: Exposing Generative Text-to-Image Models

Artists and programmers probe Stable Diffusion pipelines through recursive outputs, dataset manipulation, and experiments that expose hidden biases and correlations.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

From ePA to EHDS: 7 Theses on Current Digital Health Policy

Sieben Thesen beleuchten technische und gesellschaftspolitische Risiken von ePA und EHDS und skizzieren Wege zu einer alternativen Digitalisierung des Gesundheitssektors.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

DevOps for Artworks in Museums - Preserving Digital Media Art

Explores how software development pipelines can maintain and deploy computer-based artworks in museums and art spaces.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

From Darkroom to Blackbox: The Effects of Digitalization on Gay Dating

Effekte der Digitalisierung auf schwules Dating: Von Darkrooms zu Apps. Kulturgeschichte, Plattformeffekte und Unterschiede zu heterosexuellem Dating. Kritische Analyse der vermeintlichen Vernetzungsvorteile.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Euclid - The New Space Telescope Exploring Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Wie Euclid mithilfe von Galaxienvermessungen Dunkle Materie und Dunkle Energie erforschen soll – von schwacher Gravitationslinsenwirkung bis zum kosmischen Längenmaßstab.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions in the Universe - From Discovery to the BOAT

Using the record-breaking BOAT burst to explore how gamma-ray bursts are detected, what may cause them, and what remains unknown.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dissecting EU Electronic Evidence Regulation - Impact and Implementation

An insider examination of how the EU’s e-evidence law enables cross-border law-enforcement access, and where its legal safeguards and technical implementation remain unresolved.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Unlocking Hardware Security - Red Team, Blue Team, and Trojan Tales

A red-team/blue-team case study tests image-based methods for detecting hardware Trojans across four digital ICs.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video