With the advent of IoT connected everything - doorbells, dishwashers, ovens, alarms, and uh... more private items - you may be interested to try your hand at pwning some devices. Messing with web portals and network traffic is one thing, but what about the board itself? What do those components do? What is that chip doing? How do I not electrocute myself? All equally important questions. This talk covers the basic hardware knowledge you need to start picking apart boards, accessing debug functionality, dumping firmware, and finding juicy secrets.