[Den Delimarsky] had a Stream Deck and wanted to be free of the proprietary software, so he reverse-engineered it. Now, he has a Stream Deck Plus, and with the same desire, he reverse-engineered ...

In this case, Shimano went off book with their DI2 groupset, leaving [kwakeham] with a reverse engineering job on his hands. [kwakeham] gives us a great example of how to approach reverse engineering.