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https://hackaday.com/2022/07/12/open-firmware-for-pinephone-lte-modem-whats-up-with-that/ | Open Firmware For PinePhone LTE Modem – What’s Up With That? | Arya Voronova | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Phone Hacks",
"Reverse Engineering",
"Slider"
] | [
"cellular modem",
"custom firmware",
"Firmware modding",
"LTE",
"open smartphone",
"open-source firmware",
"pinephone",
"PinePhone Pro",
"smartphone hacking"
] | In their monthly announcement,
among all the cool things Pine64, they talked about the open firmware for PinePhone’s LTE modem. The firmware isn’t fully open – a few parts remain closed. And Pine emphasizes that they neither pre-install nor officially endorse this firmware, and PinePhones will keep shipping with the ve... | 30 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491924",
"author": "ScriptGiddy",
"timestamp": "2022-07-12T15:19:16",
"content": "What do you mean by “we’re moving away from openwrt flashed routers…” in the caption? I see it being adopted more and more every day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,372,633.286078 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/12/even-doom-can-now-run-doom/ | EvenDOOMCan Now RunDOOM! | Jenny List | [
"Games",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"doom",
"gaming",
"Will It Doom?"
] | For years now, the standard test of any newly hacked piece of hardware has been this: can it run
DOOM
? id Software’s 1993 classic first-person shooter has appeared on everything, but here’s one from [kgsws] that’s a bit special.
It’s
DOOM
, running inside
DOOM
itself
.
So how has this feat been achieved? There’s a cod... | 30 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491889",
"author": "CRJEEA",
"timestamp": "2022-07-12T11:22:17",
"content": "Now you load the original doom inside the doom in doom and make infinite layers of doom inception.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6491893",
... | 1,760,372,632.862165 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/13/overwhelmed-by-odd-inputs-the-contest-winners-and-more/ | Overwhelmed By Odd Inputs: The Contest Winners And More | Elliot Williams | [
"contests",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider"
] | [
"contests",
"diy",
"hid",
"kerbal",
"keyboard",
"macropad",
"mechwarrior",
"odd inputs",
"peculiar peripherals",
"usb"
] | The
Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals Contest
wrapped up last week, and our judges have been hard at work sifting through their favorite projects. And this was no easy task – we had 75 entries and so many of them were cool in their own right that all we can say is go check them all out. Really.
But we had to pick win... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6492319",
"author": "voxnulla",
"timestamp": "2022-07-13T20:24:27",
"content": "Not really sure why a literal single button keyboard or a telegraph key interpreter were chosen over some others. Those have literally been done to death for years, even on HAD.IO. Single button keyboard... | 1,760,372,632.729521 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/13/bringing-some-discipline-to-an-sdr-transmitter/ | Bringing Some Discipline To An SDR Transmitter | Dan Maloney | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"ADALM-PLUTO",
"amateur radio",
"Es'hail-2",
"gps",
"gps disciplined oscillator",
"ham",
"QO-100",
"radio",
"sdr"
] | The proliferation of software-defined radio (SDR) technology has been a godsend for RF hobbyists. SDR-based receivers and transmitters have gotten so cheap that you’ve probably got a stick or two lying around your bench right now — we can see three from where we sit, in fact.
But cheap comes at a price, usually in the ... | 16 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6492251",
"author": "Varga Tom",
"timestamp": "2022-07-13T16:11:12",
"content": "ublox GPS module support PPS out of the box without any SW.When we gonna see actual DIY GPS spoofing?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6492254",
... | 1,760,372,633.342465 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/13/you-wouldnt-3d-print-a-house-would-you/ | You Wouldn’t 3D Print A House, Would You? | Matthew Carlson | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Featured",
"home hacks",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"3d printed",
"3d printed house",
"construction"
] | Most houses built in the US today are platform construction: skinny two-by-fours are stacked and layered to create walls with studs. Each floor is framed on top of the other. It is fast, relatively cheap, and easy to learn how to do. However, it is not without drawbacks. Some estimates put the amount of waste generated... | 66 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "6492212",
"author": "Inhibit",
"timestamp": "2022-07-13T14:25:47",
"content": "What’s the qualifier and breakdown on that waste figure? Is it just biodegradable wood offcuts?Seems like those’d be more environmentally friendly than a huge concrete structure. And usable in a variety o... | 1,760,372,632.98887 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/13/tio-is-a-serial-terminal-for-us/ | Tio Is A Serial Terminal For Us | Al Williams | [
"Linux Hacks"
] | [
"linux",
"rs232",
"serial port",
"terminal"
] | With Linux and the serial port there is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that Linux has great support for serial hardware of all sorts and a host of tools for accessing the serial port. That’s important when you use a lot of serial-like devices like Arduinos with USB ports and the like. The bad news is... | 31 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6492173",
"author": "ka1axy",
"timestamp": "2022-07-13T11:11:46",
"content": "My first job out of college was on the team that designed the Data General D200 serial terminal, so I’m getting a kick out of this. Thanks for developing this. The serial interface is probably the simplest... | 1,760,372,633.163825 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/13/a-guitar-from-scratch/ | A Guitar From Scratch | Jenny List | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"electric guitar",
"guitar",
"homemade guitar"
] | You can pursue your dreams of rock superstardom with any guitar, be it from an expensive luthier, a pawn shop, or a mail order catalog. But to join the ranks of rock greats there’s one way to have a truly special instrument, which is to build it yourself. [Bensoncraft] may not be [Bryan May]’s dad or indeed [Eddie van ... | 15 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6492152",
"author": "Daniel",
"timestamp": "2022-07-13T09:08:49",
"content": "Rob Scalion helped a professional luthier build an acoustic guitar and made a YT video about it. After watching that video I’d say building an electric guitar is easy.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth":... | 1,760,372,633.209838 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/12/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-a-live-air-traffic-plane-spotting-simulation/ | It’s A Bird! It’s A Plane! It’s… A Live Air Traffic Plane Spotting Simulation | Ryan Flowers | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"ads-b",
"air traffic control",
"atc",
"flight simulator",
"planespotting",
"simulation",
"virtual"
] | Plane spotting has been a hobby of aviation enthusiasts for generations. Hanging out by the airport, watching aircraft come and go, maybe even listening to Air Traffic Control on a scanner from your local Radio Shack. Yep- we’ve been there, and it can be a lot of fun! But how can those of us who don’t live near a major... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6492216",
"author": "Rick",
"timestamp": "2022-07-13T14:49:37",
"content": "Another place to listen to ATC is onhttps://www.liveatc.net/. You don’t get all the ADSB data, but you can choose what airport you want to listen to.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": ... | 1,760,372,633.098687 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/12/build-your-own-whatever/ | Build Your Own… Whatever | Al Williams | [
"how-to"
] | [
"how-to",
"library",
"repository"
] | You can read all about making, say, a bookshelf or bowling, but unless you’ve actually done it, you don’t really know how it works. That’s the idea behind [codecrafters-io]
Build-Your-Own-X GitHub repository
. It is a collection of software projects from around the Web that offer “step-by-step guides for recreating our... | 23 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6492097",
"author": "Bunsen",
"timestamp": "2022-07-13T02:43:26",
"content": "Hey, give the “Make your own blog” series a shot. Maybe they’ll teach you how to make replies appear under their parent comments.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,372,632.795659 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/14/its-linux-on-an-esp32/ | It’s Linux. On An ESP32 | Jenny List | [
"Linux Hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"ESP32",
"linux",
"RISC-V"
] | By today’s standards, the necessities for running a Linux-based operating system are surprisingly meagre in terms of RAM and processor power. Back in the day we ran earlier Linux versions on Intel 386 and 486 machines with tiny quantities of memory compared to the multi-gigabyte many-core powerhouses we do today.
So it... | 30 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6492474",
"author": "jpa",
"timestamp": "2022-07-14T11:17:21",
"content": "Isn’t ESP32 supposed to have an actual MMU? Or is the datasheet just misleading?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6492475",
"author": "doragasu"... | 1,760,372,633.050877 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/14/game-boy-repurposed-solely-as-a-camera/ | Game Boy Repurposed Solely As A Camera | Lewin Day | [
"Nintendo Game Boy Hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"c mount lens",
"camera",
"game boy camera",
"lens",
"lens mount",
"nintendo",
"Nintendo Game Boy"
] | As much as we all love the Game Boy Camera, it’s really just an add-on to the popular handheld console. Twitter user [@thegameboycam] decided to build a dedicated camera platform using the hardware, and the result was
the Game Boy DSLR.
Camera pedants will note that it’s not really a DSLR, but that’s not really the poi... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6492447",
"author": "no",
"timestamp": "2022-07-14T09:09:46",
"content": "This begs for a nice B&W display, like a low-power Sharp memory display, readable in full sun.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6492634",
"author... | 1,760,372,633.384822 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/13/cp-m-is-now-freer-than-it-was/ | CP/M Is Now Freer Than It Was | Jenny List | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"8080",
"CP/M",
"open source",
"z80"
] | It’s easy to think of the earlier history of desktop computing operating systems in terms of DOS, Windows, and Mac OS with maybe a bit of AmigaOS, TOS, or RiscOS thrown in. But the daddy of desktop computing, the OS that put word-processors and spreadsheets in 1970s offices and had a huge influence on what followed, is... | 32 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6492448",
"author": "hartl",
"timestamp": "2022-07-14T09:13:01",
"content": "The website linked above says “Let this paragraph represent a right to use, distribute, modify, enhance, and otherwisemake available in a nonexclusive manner CP/M and its derivatives.”It is still unclear wh... | 1,760,372,633.647976 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/13/cracking-the-mifare-classic-could-get-you-free-snacks/ | Cracking The MiFare Classic Could Get You Free Snacks | Lewin Day | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"mifare",
"mifare classic",
"NFC",
"NFC tag",
"vending machine"
] | [Guillermo] started a new job a while back. That job came with an NFC access card, which was used for booking rooms and building access. The card also served as a wallet for using the vending machines.
He set about hacking the card to see what he could uncover.
Initial scans with
NFC Tools
revealed the card was an Infi... | 24 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6492380",
"author": "Val",
"timestamp": "2022-07-14T02:08:25",
"content": "Picking a lock can get you some freebies too. It’s called theft, though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6492446",
"author": "Frankel",
... | 1,760,372,633.505682 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/13/because-its-cool-to-make-a-watch-that-thin/ | Because It’s Cool To Make A Watch That Thin | Matthew Carlson | [
"clock hacks",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"ferrari",
"watch",
"watchmaking"
] | Recently [Richard Mille] and Ferrari (yes, that Ferrari) announced
the thinnest mechanical watch ever made, the RM UP-01
.
It measures a scant 1.75mm thick (~1/16 of an inch). The aesthetic is debatable, and the price tag is not even listed on the page, but we suspect it is a rather significant sum. But setting aside t... | 48 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6492354",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2022-07-13T23:37:24",
"content": "I can hardly wait for Lamborghini’s response!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6492358",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.3",
... | 1,760,372,634.189453 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/13/throwback-designing-addressable-leds-from-scratch/ | Throwback: Designing Addressable LEDs From Scratch | Lewin Day | [
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"addressable led",
"addressable leds",
"ws2812",
"ws2812b"
] | These days, addressable LEDs are all the rage. A little chip paired with each LED receives signals and modulates the light output as needed. [John Peterson] was working on a project along these very lines,
designing his Curilights back in 2008!
[John] wasn’t the first to come up with the idea; he designed the Curilight... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6492372",
"author": "YGDES",
"timestamp": "2022-07-14T01:07:54",
"content": "It’s funny, I wanted to do something like that around that time :-)But the business never materialised…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6492408",
... | 1,760,372,633.95555 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/13/one-shot-ir-helper-is-a-great-beginner-project/ | One Shot IR Helper Is A Great Beginner Project | Lewin Day | [
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"ir blaster",
"pi pico",
"Raspberry Pi Pico"
] | Sometimes you need a little utility device to do a very simple job, and do it well.This
one-shot IR helper from [Gregory Sanders] is just that.
[Gregory] had a TV that didn’t support automatically turning on when the power was applied. This is frustrating when you like to leave devices switched hard off when not in use... | 50 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6492290",
"author": "fiddlingjunky",
"timestamp": "2022-07-13T18:40:43",
"content": "That wiring job is exactly the right mixture of pragmatic and bonkers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6492292",
"author": "Rumble_in_the_J... | 1,760,372,634.317717 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/11/the-digital-ham-hack-chat/ | The Digital Ham Hack Chat | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider"
] | [
"Hack Chat"
] | Join us on Wednesday, July 13 at noon Pacific for
The Digital Ham Hack Chat
with Rosy Schechter and John Hays!
For most of its existence, amateur radio has been the quintessence of the analog arts. From the very earliest days of radio, hobbyists have been piecing together circuits to ply the radio spectrum, using whate... | 2 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6492035",
"author": "Jason Guerard",
"timestamp": "2022-07-12T21:57:07",
"content": "Once you start realizing how deep into nothing digital modes can grab a signal the world becomes a different place. #JS8CALL",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,372,634.232978 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/11/watching-a-boat-get-welded-together-is-workshop-asmr/ | Watching A Boat Get Welded Together Is Workshop ASMR | Tom Nardi | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"aluminum",
"boat",
"boatbuilding",
"metalworking",
"welding"
] | If you’ve been on the Internet long enough to know about Hackaday, we’ll wager you’re familiar with the concept of autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) — a tingling sensation in the scalp that’s said to be triggered by certain auditory stimuli. There are countless videos on YouTube that promise to give you “the ... | 33 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491637",
"author": "Viktor",
"timestamp": "2022-07-11T15:05:23",
"content": "Why doesnt it sink?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6491642",
"author": "Amiable Ninja",
"timestamp": "2022-07-11T15:38:00",
... | 1,760,372,634.094201 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/11/nasas-flying-telescope-is-winding-down-operations/ | NASA’s Flying Telescope Is Winding Down Operations | Tom Nardi | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"News",
"Slider",
"Space"
] | [
"astronomy",
"Hubble Space Telescope",
"infrared",
"james webb space telescope",
"SOFIA",
"space telescope"
] | NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is arguably the best known and most successful observatory in history, delivering unprecedented images that have tantalized the public and astronomers alike for more than 30 years. But even so, there’s nothing particularly special about Hubble. Ultimately it’s just a large optical telescop... | 13 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491667",
"author": "Witold Witkowski",
"timestamp": "2022-07-11T16:57:55",
"content": "Marcus on the OmegaTau podcast had a good deep dive episode about SOFIA. He actually rode on one of the missions, and had a great chat with some of the scientists involved.Good listening:https://... | 1,760,372,634.012034 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/11/injecting-a-bit-of-rust-via-dll/ | Injecting A Bit Of Rust Via DLL | Matthew Carlson | [
"Games",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"DLL Injection",
"rust",
"snes9x"
] | Ever been frustrated that a software package was missing a feature you want? In the best-case scenario, the software would be open source and you could just tweak the code and rebuild. But in many cases, the software is closed-source. In the case of [Faster than lime], he found a SNES emulator (Snes9X) that didn’t supp... | 16 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491602",
"author": "Matt",
"timestamp": "2022-07-11T12:10:54",
"content": "Wait, Snes9x *is* open source isn’t it?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6491608",
"author": "Grizzly Adams",
"timestamp": "2022-07-11T... | 1,760,372,634.371089 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/11/a-custom-outdoor-cooking-station-for-city-life/ | A Custom Outdoor Cooking Station For City Life | Dave Rowntree | [
"cooking hacks"
] | [
"burner",
"cooking",
"outdoor",
"Wok Hei"
] | [shoobs] relocated from Australia to Luxembourg, and was really
missing the whole outdoor cooking scene that is apparently very common in those parts
. Now living in a modest apartment building in the city, he had no easy way to recreate some of his favorite cooking methods — specifically that of Wok Hei (breath of a w... | 13 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491558",
"author": "Jan Ciger (@janoc200)",
"timestamp": "2022-07-11T08:36:12",
"content": "Lucky author that is able to cook on the balcony – most places I have been to explicitly prohibit grilling/cooking on balconies because of the smoke, especial in rented flats. Or maybe the l... | 1,760,372,634.48682 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/10/grok-rust-in-a-flash/ | Grok Rust In A Flash | Matthew Carlson | [
"how-to",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"learning",
"rust"
] | Here at Hackaday, we are big proponents of using the best tool for the job (or making your own tool if required). But when all you know how to use is Java, everything looks object-oriented. Bad jokes aside, it is important to have many tools at your disposal to allow you to choose wisely. Why not spend a few minutes wi... | 19 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491533",
"author": "Jouni",
"timestamp": "2022-07-11T05:45:13",
"content": "Is there somewhere some summary what real problem Rust tries to solve (and really solves)?What I mean is; considering how small part actual coding is of the software projects, is it really worth learning an... | 1,760,372,634.431283 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/10/venting-your-pc-outside/ | Venting Your PC Outside | Matthew Carlson | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"Gaming Computer",
"Linus Tech Tips",
"PC cooling"
] | As the power requirements of CPUs and GPUs in modern gaming machines continue to rise, they are quickly becoming more and more of a space heater that happens to play games. If you’re using your PC in a tight space with a door shut, you might find the temperature in your office rising relatively rapidly. Some solutions ... | 83 | 26 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491491",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2022-07-11T02:13:49",
"content": "“If you’re using your PC in a tight space with a door shut, you might find the temperature in your office rising relatively rapidly.”Not a new thing. Had an old AMD that was a real heater with a matching... | 1,760,372,634.60524 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/12/automate-internet-life-with-python/ | Automate Internet Life With Python | Al Williams | [
"Software Development",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"automation",
"python"
] | Most of us are adept enough with computers that you know what they can easily do and what they can’t. Invent a new flavor of ice cream? Not easy. Grab the news headlines related to Arduinos from your favorite news feed? Relatively easy. But, of course, the devil is in the details.
FreeCodeCamp
has a
3-hour course
from ... | 19 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491880",
"author": "dfsrger",
"timestamp": "2022-07-12T10:16:11",
"content": "why not ruby? is faster than python",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6491914",
"author": "Dustin",
"timestamp": "2022-07-12T14:02:14... | 1,760,372,634.658782 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/11/water-drips-up-in-kid-friendly-engineering-experiment/ | Water Drips Up In Kid-Friendly Engineering Experiment | Ryan Flowers | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"illusion",
"strobe",
"water"
] | Did you know that water can drip UP instead of down? It’s true! Okay, okay- it’s a bit of an optical illusion, but one that’s mesmerizing no less, and it’s one that is especially awe-inspiring for kids.
As [Science Buddies] explains in the video below the break
, it’s also achievable for anyone with some basic supplies... | 7 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491851",
"author": "helge",
"timestamp": "2022-07-12T07:30:45",
"content": "A Kelvin water dropper is the logical next step, necessarily.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6492404",
"author": "Greg Skyles",
"tim... | 1,760,372,634.702853 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/11/why-you-should-totally-roll-your-own-aes-cryptography/ | Why You Should Totally Roll Your Own AES Cryptography | Maya Posch | [
"Software Development"
] | [
"aes",
"cryptography",
"security",
"software"
] | Software developers are usually told to ‘never write your own cryptography’, and there definitely are sufficient examples to be found in the past decades of cases where DIY crypto routines caused real damage. This is also the introduction to [Francis Stokes]’s article on
rolling your own crypto system
. Even if you und... | 27 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491818",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.1",
"timestamp": "2022-07-12T03:09:30",
"content": "I always translate to French, ROT13, put it through a Polybius/Playfair square then encode it with a one time pad based on values derived from reel to reel tape of 20M band radio emissions from Jupit... | 1,760,372,634.773742 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/11/iceblaster-a-dragndrop-bitstream-loader-for-ice40/ | ICEBlaster: A Drag’n’Drop Bitstream Loader For ICE40 | Dave Rowntree | [
"FPGA"
] | [
"fpga",
"iCE40",
"lattice",
"USB mass storage"
] | The iCE40 series of FPGAs gets a fair bit of coverage on these pages, largely due to its accessibility (thanks to huge efforts in reverse engineering and open tool chains) and likely also due to Lattice Semiconductors’ attitude to open source in general. Whilst these devices are small and rather limited, you can’t real... | 10 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491800",
"author": "Gravis",
"timestamp": "2022-07-12T01:00:30",
"content": "“based on STM32”They totally passed up the chance to program it with another iCE40!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6491822",
"author": "Tin... | 1,760,372,635.204918 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/11/old-cnc-brain-swapped-with-an-arduino/ | Old CNC Brain Swapped With An Arduino | Arya Voronova | [
"cnc hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"cnc",
"CNC controller",
"cnc conversion",
"CNC machine",
"grbl",
"isel"
] | [Sebastian] and [Stefan Shütz] had a ISEL EP1090 CNC machine at home, sitting unused, and they
decided to bring it to life.
With
pretty good mechanical specs,
this CNC looked promising – alas, it was severely constrained by its controller. The built-in CPU’s software was severely outdated, had subpar algorithms for mot... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491746",
"author": "Phil Barrett",
"timestamp": "2022-07-11T21:14:21",
"content": "Always fun to see a dead CNC machine brought back to life. Old iron is good iron.A better way to handle EMI is to use standard isolation techniques: isolated power supply, opto isolators for I/O, e... | 1,760,372,634.918621 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/11/burn-pictures-on-a-cd-r-no-special-drive-needed/ | Burn Pictures On A CD-R, No Special Drive Needed | Jenny List | [
"Art"
] | [
"CD-R",
"CD-ROM",
"lightscribe"
] | When we routinely carry devices holding tens or hundreds of gigabytes of data, it’s sometimes a shock to remember that there was once a time when 650 MB on a CD was a very big deal indeed. These now archaic storage media came first as silver pre-recorded CD-ROMs, then later as recordable CD-Rs. Most people eventually o... | 63 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491696",
"author": "0xfred",
"timestamp": "2022-07-11T18:33:56",
"content": "I recently threw away a large stack of unused DVD-Rs because there seems to be no use for them any more. Some were LigtScribe ones that were designed to have an image burned on to the top.https://en.wikipe... | 1,760,372,635.108347 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/11/where-are-our-video-phones/ | Where Are Our Video Phones? | Al Williams | [
"Featured",
"History",
"Original Art",
"Phone Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"history",
"video phones"
] | Videoconferencing has been around in one form or another for quite a while, but it took the pandemic to thrust into prominence with just about everyone. In a way, it has been the delivery of something long-promised by phone companies, futurists, and science fiction writers: the picture phone. But very few people imagin... | 72 | 24 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491673",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2022-07-11T17:20:22",
"content": "I blame the failure on morning hair.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6491683",
"author": "LordNothing",
"timestamp": "2022-07-11T1... | 1,760,372,635.322976 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/10/hackaday-links-july-10-2022/ | Hackaday Links: July 10, 2022 | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links",
"Slider"
] | [
"beaver",
"book",
"calculus",
"crypto",
"exchange",
"hackaday links",
"Idaho",
"parachute",
"radio shack",
"radioshack",
"WWV"
] | We always like to call out a commercial success stemming from projects that got their start on Hackaday.io, and so we’re proud to announce the release of
MAKE: Calculus
by Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron, a book that takes a decidedly different approach to teaching calculus than traditional courses. Geared to makers and ... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491462",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2022-07-10T23:19:03",
"content": "I can just hear the BeeGees sing:“It’s a flight beaver, flight beaver…we know how to move it!”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_... | 1,760,372,635.156346 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/10/remembering-nicam-deep-dive-into-a-broadcasting-legacy/ | Remembering NICAM: Deep-Dive Into A Broadcasting Legacy | Maya Posch | [
"History",
"Teardown"
] | [
"MTS",
"NICAM",
"public television",
"Zweikanalton"
] | Although for many the introduction of color television would have seemed to be the pinnacle of analog broadcast television, the 1970s saw the development of stereo audio systems to go with TV broadcasts, including the all-digital NICAM. With NICAM broadcasts having ceased for about a decade now, the studio equipment fo... | 19 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491460",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2022-07-10T22:55:20",
"content": "It seems NICAM was never a big thing in the United States:NICAM – Historyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NICAM#History",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "... | 1,760,372,635.383676 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/10/when-combat-robot-wheels-need-to-be-nice-and-cheap-but-mostly-cheap/ | When Combat Robot Wheels Need To Be Nice And Cheap (But Mostly Cheap) | Donald Papp | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"cheap",
"combat robot",
"diy",
"E-6000",
"EVA foam",
"robot",
"robot wheels"
] | It started with [CHORL] making a promise to himself regarding constructing a new combat robot:
no spending of money on the new robot
.
That rule was violated (but only a little) by
making his robot’s wheels out of
EVA
kneeling pads
. EVA (Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate) is a closed-cell foam that makes for durable yoga mats, k... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491411",
"author": "rpavlik",
"timestamp": "2022-07-10T18:19:23",
"content": "Oh there are a lot of clever ideas here. Thanks for sharing this one!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6491434",
"author": "paul",
"timestamp"... | 1,760,372,635.438136 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/10/masking-tape-pen-plotter-gets-an-upgrade/ | Masking Tape Pen Plotter Gets An Upgrade | Chris Lott | [
"cnc hacks"
] | [
"grbl",
"label printer",
"masking tape",
"pen plotter"
] | [Mr Innovative] decided to
make his version of a small pen plotter
(video after the break) to make labels on masking tape. The result is an impressive compact machine that is remotely controlled using your smartphone. The plotter is constructed using several different techniques, a piece of plywood as the base, a 3D pr... | 20 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491388",
"author": "makefu",
"timestamp": "2022-07-10T14:35:09",
"content": "Very cool! The only issue i see is that masking tape generally not made for sticking too long due to its primary use case. Putting some other tape (e.g. white Duct Tape) on would be pretty cool though",
... | 1,760,372,635.545355 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/10/vapor-trails-and-fan-make-for-fantastic-photos-in-diy-wind-tunnel/ | Vapor Trails And Fan Make For Fantastic Photos In DIY Wind Tunnel | Donald Papp | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Art"
] | [
"3d printed",
"diy",
"fog machine",
"model car",
"vape pen",
"wind tunnel"
] | Every wanted a mini wind tunnel to check the aerodynamics of scale model cars, drones, or other small objects? Then check out [dannyesp]’s
mostly-3D-printed DIY wind tunnel
(video, embedded below). Don’t forget to also browse the additional photos
in this Reddit thread
.
A junk parts project doesn’t have to
look
like a... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491395",
"author": "Kevin M Parrotte",
"timestamp": "2022-07-10T15:20:56",
"content": "Wow, I love it!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6491412",
"author": "no",
"timestamp": "2022-07-10T18:19:36",
"content": "Congra... | 1,760,372,635.48977 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/10/carver-m-400-amplifier-repair-keeps-the-1980s-alive/ | Carver M-400 Amplifier Repair Keeps The 1980’s Alive | Al Williams | [
"Repair Hacks",
"Teardown"
] | [
"amplifier",
"audio",
"carver",
"HiFi"
] | Carver is a famous name in audio equipment although they have been known to use odd names for things. For example, the 1980’s vintage M-400 magnetic field power amplifier that [JohnAudioTech] is repairing (see the two videos below). That sounds like something off a bad Star Trek remake, but, apparently, we weren’t alon... | 22 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491438",
"author": "Bryantherobotman",
"timestamp": "2022-07-10T20:51:45",
"content": "This amplifier has a positively weird power supply – a triac switched 60Hz fly back converter? I’ve got to study this one more. Full schematics can be found here on page 19:https://www.manualslib... | 1,760,372,635.599378 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/09/gcore-make-portable-devices-with-less-frustration/ | GCore: Make Portable Devices With Less Frustration | Donald Papp | [
"hardware",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"charge control",
"dev board",
"ESP32",
"lcd",
"portable",
"touchscreen"
] | [Dan Julio]’s
gCore
(short for
Gadget Core
) is aimed at making GUI-based portable and rechargeable gadgets much easier to develop. gCore is the result of [Dan]’s own need for a less tiresome way to develop such hardware.
A touchscreen is great, but high-quality power control and charging features are what really make ... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491315",
"author": "Thomas Anderson",
"timestamp": "2022-07-10T07:09:15",
"content": "Cool design, let’s see if any of these parts can actually be bought anywhere.. sad truth about projects these days.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comme... | 1,760,372,635.651352 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/09/easier-self-hosting-with-umbrel/ | Easier Self Hosting With Umbrel | Al Williams | [
"Linux Hacks"
] | [
"docker",
"HomeAutomation",
"linux",
"Nextcloud"
] | While it is undeniable that cloud-based services are handy, there are people who would rather do it themselves. For many of us, it is because we want what we want the way we want it. For others, it is a distrust of leaving your personal data on someone’s server you don’t control.
Umbrel is a Linux distribution
just for... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491305",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2022-07-10T04:12:34",
"content": "Looks like some useful tools even if one doesn’t go for Umbrel",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6491319",
"author": "vazhnov",
"timestamp": "... | 1,760,372,635.791735 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/09/can-peripheral-for-rp2040-courtesy-of-pio/ | CAN Peripheral For RP2040, Courtesy Of PIO | Arya Voronova | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"CAN",
"can-bus",
"PIO",
"rp2040"
] | [Kevin O’Connor] writes to us about his project,
can2040
–
adding CAN support to the RP2040.
The RP2040 doesn’t have a CAN peripheral, but [Kevin] wrote code for the RP2040’s PIO engine that can receive and send CAN packets. Now we can all benefit from his work by using this openly available CAN driver. This library is... | 31 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491274",
"author": "OG",
"timestamp": "2022-07-09T23:16:09",
"content": "I wonder how difficult it would be to make an OBD-II pass-through device that filters out error codes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6491275",
... | 1,760,372,635.744264 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/09/sneeze-into-your-hand-not-your-elbow-with-this-nose-shaped-sanitizer-dispenser/ | Sneeze Into Your Hand, Not Your Elbow With This Nose-Shaped Sanitizer Dispenser | Dan Maloney | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"hand sanitizer",
"nasal",
"nose",
"proximity",
"reflective",
"servo",
"sneeze",
"sternutation"
] | You’ve got to love a language like German, where not only is it possible for a word or two to stand in for a complex concept, but you don’t even need to speak the language to make a good guess at what it all means. Of course when your project is a
giant nose that mock-sneezes sanitizer into your hands
, it doesn’t real... | 7 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491171",
"author": "poiuyt",
"timestamp": "2022-07-09T17:39:37",
"content": "Thank you [Dan], for teaching me another word for sneezing! (in the article’s tags)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6491487",
"author": "The... | 1,760,372,635.892856 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/09/when-is-one-pixel-cooler-than-millions/ | When Is One Pixel Cooler Than Millions? | Elliot Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Rants",
"Slider"
] | [
"laser",
"laser show",
"newsletter"
] | On vacation, we went to see a laser show – one of the old school variety that combines multiple different lasers of many different colors together into a single beam, modulates them to create different colors, and sends it bouncing off galvos to the roof of a planetarium. To a musical score, naturally.
When I was a kid... | 14 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491175",
"author": "Brian Jorgensen",
"timestamp": "2022-07-09T18:27:55",
"content": "I have to admit that I’ve been to the Floyd too.hello, hello… are coherent photons in here? Please answer interfering. Is your spin that way, or are you just a wave?There is no Higgs boson, I’m ma... | 1,760,372,636.041087 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/09/your-console-your-cartridge-you-choose-nintendo-faces-a-challenge/ | Your Console, Your Cartridge, You Choose? Nintendo Faces A Challenge | Jenny List | [
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"intellectual property",
"ip",
"nintendo"
] | If you read our articles, you’ll notice that we will usually feature images related to the subjects we talk about. If they came from another source and they’re not CC-licensed or similar then they are the property of someone else but we are using them under a doctrine known as
fair use
. Excerpts of copyrighted materia... | 30 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491121",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2022-07-09T13:17:04",
"content": "Writing revolves around IP, theirs or someone else’s.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6491129",
"author": "neamerjell",
"timestamp": "2022-0... | 1,760,372,636.210229 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/09/when-your-logic-analyzer-cant-tell-good-and-bad-signals-apart/ | When Your Logic Analyzer Can’t Tell Good And Bad Signals Apart | Arya Voronova | [
"Repair Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"fpga",
"LA104",
"logic analyser",
"logic analyzer",
"miniware",
"proprietary"
] | [Avian] has picked up a Miniware LA104 – a small battery-powered logic analyzer with builtin protocol decoders. Such analyzers are handy tools for when you quickly need to see what really is happening with a certain signal, and they’re cheap enough to be sacrificial when it comes to risky repairs. Sadly,
he stumbled up... | 17 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491016",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": "2022-07-09T08:12:43",
"content": "“and they’re cheap enough to be sacrificial when it comes to risky repairs”Ehmm…. what does that mean. I can see what you mean if this article was about a chisel, used a a screwdriver.But an electronic tool, ... | 1,760,372,636.792737 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/08/badges-of-2022-emf-tidal/ | Badges Of 2022: EMF TiDAL | Jenny List | [
"cons"
] | [
"badgelife",
"electromagnetic field",
"emf"
] | As we slowly return to a summer of getting together in fields for our festivals of hackery, it’s time to look at another of this year’s crop of badges. The UK’s Electromagnetic Field, or EMF, is normally a two-yearly event, but its return this year comes after a four year absence due to the pandemic.
The EMF 2022 badge... | 5 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6491005",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2022-07-09T07:49:54",
"content": "Is it my screen, or is the PCB curved rather than flat? Since when was that possible??!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6491074",
"author": "Sv... | 1,760,372,636.25957 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/08/lift-the-veil-on-rsa-with-this-rsa-calculator/ | Lift The Veil On RSA With This RSA Calculator | Arya Voronova | [
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"calculator",
"cryptography",
"rsa",
"RSA encryption"
] | Encryption algorithms can be intimidating to approach, what’s with all the math involved. However, once you start digging into them, you can break the math apart into smaller steps, and get a feel of what goes into encryption being the modern-day magic we take for granted. Today, [Henry Schmale] writes to us about his ... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490844",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2022-07-09T02:25:17",
"content": "Just in time for the quantum-resistant algorithms to hit the market.https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces-first-four-quantum-resistant-cryptographic-algorithms",
"parent_id": n... | 1,760,372,636.29944 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/08/pulling-a-chainsaw-with-gravity/ | Pulling A Chainsaw With Gravity | Matthew Carlson | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"chainsaw mill",
"log cutting",
"milling",
"woodworking"
] | [Flowering Elbow] had a large ash log that needed to be milled. He had his chainsaw and shared an excellent technique
for an easier cut
. After cutting down a tree, letting it dry for a season, and then hauling it to your saw site, you’re ready to cut. However, cutting a humongous tree with a chainsaw is an enormous ta... | 18 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490804",
"author": "Arjan Wiegel",
"timestamp": "2022-07-08T23:28:55",
"content": "I wouldn’t dare cutting down a tree without blocking the road like a Dutch farmer…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6491562",
"author":... | 1,760,372,636.401361 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/08/a-new-javascript-runtime-fresh-out-of-the-oven/ | A New Javascript Runtime Fresh Out Of The Oven | Matthew Carlson | [
"Software Development"
] | [
"javascript",
"zig",
"ziglang"
] | A sizable portion of the Hackaday audience groans and runs their eyes when some new-fangled Javascript thing comes out. So what makes Bun different?
Bun is a runtime (like Node or Deno)
t that offers a performant all-in-one approach. Much to the Spice Girl’s delight, it is
written in Zig
. It offers bundling, transpili... | 15 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490766",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2022-07-08T21:01:06",
"content": "Can the gluten sensitive use Bun?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6490771",
"author": "deshipu",
"timestamp": "2022-07-08T21:08:56... | 1,760,372,636.347209 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/08/the-sf1-mini-is-a-homebrew-version-of-an-obscure-nintendo-console/ | The SF1 Mini Is A Homebrew Version Of An Obscure Nintendo Console | Robin Kearey | [
"classic hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"replica",
"Sharp SF1",
"snes"
] | The Super NES is arguably the best known console of the 16-bit era. It typically came in the form of a grey box with either grey or purple buttons, and an angular or streamlined design, depending on whether you lived in North America, Europe or Asia. Compact and mini versions followed later, but there were also a few l... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490719",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2022-07-08T19:40:48",
"content": "The amazing Spiderman isn’t a superhero… But an electrical engineer.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6490769",
"author": "Twisty Plastic",
... | 1,760,372,636.44605 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/08/same-taste-with-less-energy-optimizing-the-way-we-cook-food/ | Same Taste With Less Energy: Optimizing The Way We Cook Food | Maya Posch | [
"Featured",
"green hacks",
"Interest",
"Slider"
] | [
"cooking",
"energy efficiency",
"induction heating"
] | Preparing food is the
fourth most energy-intensive activity in a household
. While there has been a lot of effort on the first three — space heating, water heating, and electrical appliances — most houses still use stoves and ovens that are not too dissimilar to those from half a century ago.
More recent technologies t... | 159 | 29 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490621",
"author": "aleksclark",
"timestamp": "2022-07-08T17:26:48",
"content": "I was initially typing up a rant about gas stoves being far superior for actual cooking, but it looks like they do a better job at thermal transfer, and you don’t have to have special cookware. Really ... | 1,760,372,636.730609 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/08/hackaday-podcast-176-freezing-warm-water-hacking-lenses-hearing-data-and-watching-youtube-on-a-pet/ | Hackaday Podcast 176: Freezing Warm Water, Hacking Lenses, Hearing Data, And Watching YouTube On A PET | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts",
"Slider"
] | [
"Hackaday Podcast"
] | It’s podcast time again, and this week Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams sat down with Staff Writer Dan Maloney to review the best hacks on the planet, and a few from off. We’ll find out how best to capture lightning, debate the merits of freezing water — or ice cream — when it’s warm, and see if we can find out what R2D... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490722",
"author": "Dude",
"timestamp": "2022-07-08T19:44:07",
"content": "For the Mpemba effect, the problem is in the premise: what is your definition for “freezing”?If freezing means forming ice crystals, then the non-equilibrium answers may have a point. If it means having a so... | 1,760,372,636.535069 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/08/use-apriltags-to-let-guests-open-your-front-gate/ | Use AprilTags To Let Guests Open Your Front Gate | Arya Voronova | [
"digital cameras hacks",
"home hacks"
] | [
"access control",
"AprilTag",
"Electric gate",
"micropython",
"OpenMV"
] | [Herb Peyerl] is part of a robotics team, and in his robotics endeavours, learned about AprilTags; small QR-code-like printable patterns that are easily recognizable by even primitive machine vision. Later on, when thinking about good ways to let his guests through his property’s front gate,
the AprilTags turned out to... | 18 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490584",
"author": "Daniel",
"timestamp": "2022-07-08T15:37:22",
"content": "Similar to my gate. I have a WiFi router at my front gate that i sniff the mac addresses off of. Whenever my phone connects it opens the gate. I setup an easy way to onboard new phones and all of my friend... | 1,760,372,638.737193 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/08/this-week-in-securitybreaking-cacs-to-fix-ntlm-the-biggest-leak-ever-and-fixing-firefox-by-breaking-it/ | This Week In Security:Breaking CACs To Fix NTLM, The Biggest Leak Ever, And Fixing Firefox By Breaking It | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"CAC",
"firefox",
"ntlm",
"This Week in Security"
] | To start with, Microsoft’s June Security Patch has a fix for
CVE-2022-26925
, a Man-In-The-Middle attack against NTLM. According to NIST,
this attack is actively being exploited in the wild
, so it landed on the KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities) Catalog. That list tracks the most important vulnerabilities to addres... | 16 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490538",
"author": "Huh?",
"timestamp": "2022-07-08T14:04:59",
"content": "Wow. Pizza must be expensive where you live…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6491320",
"author": "Frankel",
"timestamp": "2022-07-10T0... | 1,760,372,638.51457 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/08/turns-out-you-can-just-unlock-any-honda-car/ | Unlock Any (Honda) Car | Arya Voronova | [
"car hacks",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"Honda",
"key fob",
"keyfob",
"replay attack",
"rolling code",
"sdr"
] | Honda cars have been found to be severely vulnerable to a newly published
Rolling PWN attack
, letting you remotely open the car doors or even start the engine. So far it’s only been proven on Hondas, but ten out of ten models that [kevin2600] tested were vulnerable, leading him to conclude that all Honda vehicles on ... | 76 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490495",
"author": "kuro68k",
"timestamp": "2022-07-08T11:29:17",
"content": "I wonder how practical this attack is. The sliding window of codes means that an attacker needs to gather multiple sequential codes, not just unrelated ones over a long period.If the attacker say lives ne... | 1,760,372,638.846351 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/08/badges-of-2022-bornhack/ | Badges Of 2022: BornHack | Jenny List | [
"cons",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"badgelife",
"BornHack",
"rp2040"
] | While the rest of the world’s hacker camps shut their doors through the pandemic there was one which managed through a combination of careful planning and strict observation of social distancing to keep going. The Danish hacker community gather every August for BornHack, a small and laid-back event in a forest on the i... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490465",
"author": "Elliot Williams",
"timestamp": "2022-07-08T08:15:33",
"content": "That is sooooo beautiful. Nice one!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6490611",
"author": "JARM",
"timestamp": "2022-07-08T16:58:30",
... | 1,760,372,638.553722 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/07/lora-helps-with-remote-water-tank-level-sensing/ | LoRa Helps With Remote Water Tank Level Sensing | Arya Voronova | [
"home hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"home automation",
"LoRa",
"water level",
"water pump"
] | [Renzo Mischianti]’s friend has to keep a water tank topped up. Problem is, the tank itself is 1.5 km away, so its water level isn’t typically known. There’s no electricity available there either — whichever monitoring solution is to be used, it has to be low-power and self-sufficient. To help with that, [Renzo] is
wor... | 9 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490510",
"author": "steve rice",
"timestamp": "2022-07-08T12:40:09",
"content": "so no power ? but there is a pump to fill the tank ? pumps require power.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6490516",
"author": "xxreef",
... | 1,760,372,638.461828 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/07/a-mostly-fair-deal-for-all-with-a-raspberry-pi/ | A Mostly Fair Deal For All With A Raspberry Pi | Jenny List | [
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"cards",
"playing cards",
"raspberry pi",
"robot"
] | To be a professional card dealer takes considerable skill, something that not everybody might even have the dexterity to acquire. Fortunately even for the most ham-fisted of dealers there’s a solution, in the form of
the Dave-O-matic
, [David Stern]’s automated card dealer using a Raspberry Pi 4 with a camera and patte... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490520",
"author": "BitMage",
"timestamp": "2022-07-08T13:02:27",
"content": "He should proudly display that Programming for Dummies book.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6491177",
"author": "Nudli Wiggins",
"... | 1,760,372,638.589371 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/07/trying-out-a-3d-printed-microscope-lens-adapter/ | Trying Out A 3D Printed Microscope Lens Adapter | Al Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"macro photography",
"microscope",
"photography"
] | If you want to take pictures of tiny things close up, you need a macro lens. Or a microscope. [Nicholas Sherlock] thought “Why not both?” He designed a
3D-printed microscope lens adapter
that you can find on
Thingiverse
. Recently, [Micael Widell]
tried it out with a microscope lens
and you can see the results in the v... | 11 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490408",
"author": "Nicholas Sherlock",
"timestamp": "2022-07-08T01:10:01",
"content": "Here’s my image gallery of photos taken using my adapter:https://imgur.com/a/2rUz2U8",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6490475",
"a... | 1,760,372,638.415601 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/07/esp32-powers-fresh-take-on-an-iot-geiger-counter/ | ESP32 Powers Fresh Take On An IoT Geiger Counter | Tom Nardi | [
"High Voltage",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"environmental sensor",
"ESP32",
"geiger counter",
"Geiger tube",
"mqtt",
"SBM-20"
] | Over the years we’ve covered many projects aimed at detecting elevated radiation levels, and a fair number of them have been Internet connected in some way. But as they are often built around the Soviet-era SBM-20 Geiger–Müller tube, these devices have generally adhered to a fairly conservative design. With the current... | 17 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490330",
"author": "Andre Bryx",
"timestamp": "2022-07-07T20:14:33",
"content": "These Russian based “Tubes” are decades old and no one takes care to the degradation of the “quenching gas” inside, causing many double and false counting of radiation levels.All these based “Geiger C... | 1,760,372,638.906309 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/07/retrotechtacular-1990s-cd-mastering-fit-for-a-king/ | Retrotechtacular: 1990s CD Mastering Fit For A King | Dan Maloney | [
"Retrotechtacular"
] | [
"cd",
"Compact Disc",
"digital audio",
"Michael Jackson",
"production",
"retrotechtacular"
] | Before it was transformed into an ephemeral stream of ones and zeroes, music used to have a physical form of some kind. From wax cylinders to vinyl discs to tapes of various sizes in different housings and eventually to compact discs, each new medium was marketed as a technological leap over the previous formats, each ... | 48 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490307",
"author": "Howard",
"timestamp": "2022-07-07T18:45:18",
"content": "I did a lot of work with both u-matic and 1” tape, and the audio quality of the Sony u-Magic’s was amazingly good. I didn’t know they used it as the analog mastering medium- that’s cool.It was not endless ... | 1,760,372,638.987247 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/07/the-benefits-of-displacement-ventilation/ | The Benefits Of Displacement Ventilation | Lewin Day | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider"
] | [
"ac",
"air",
"air conditioning",
"cooling",
"displacement ventilation",
"heating",
"hvac",
"pandemic",
"ventilation"
] | The world has been shaken to its core by a respiratory virus pandemic. Humanity has been raiding the toolbox for every possible weapon in the fight, whether that be masks, vaccinations, or advanced antiviral treatments.
As far as medicine has come in tackling COVID-19 in the past two years, the ultimate solution would ... | 27 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490286",
"author": "Perry",
"timestamp": "2022-07-07T17:20:05",
"content": "Displacement ventilation is pretty common in residential construction when a house is built on a crawl space. In areas where slab construction is prevalent, I doubt displacement ventilation is used.",
... | 1,760,372,638.36659 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/07/diy-low-cost-lora-satellite-ground-station/ | DIY Low-Cost LoRa Satellite Ground Station | Chris Lott | [
"Radio Hacks",
"Space"
] | [
"FossSat",
"Ground Station",
"LoRa",
"satellite",
"telemetry",
"TinyGS"
] | Embedded engineer [Alberto Nunez] has put together
a compact LoRa satellite telemetry ground station
that fits in your hand and can be built for around $40 USD.
The station receives signals from any of several satellites which use LoRa for telemetry, like the
FossaSat
series of
PocketQube
satellites. Even with a sub-op... | 23 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490273",
"author": "ScriptGiddy",
"timestamp": "2022-07-07T16:17:55",
"content": "Oh yay! Another satellite project to dig into….and the parts are already in my junk drawer :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6490369",
"auth... | 1,760,372,639.051834 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/07/big-chemistry-ultrapure-water/ | Big Chemistry: Ultrapure Water | Dan Maloney | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Science",
"Slider"
] | [] | My first job out of grad school was with a biotech company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was a small outfit, and everyone had a “lab job” in addition to whatever science they were hired to do — a task to maintain the common areas of the lab. My job was to maintain the water purification systems that made sure everyon... | 53 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490263",
"author": "mayhem",
"timestamp": "2022-07-07T15:05:30",
"content": "I used to work for a company that made slurries for polishing the wafers used in semiconductor fab. Your article is very well written and paints a great picture of what it takes to get water that pure. The... | 1,760,372,639.554574 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/07/berlin-clock-takes-inspiration-from-sci-fi-sources-looks-incredible/ | Berlin Clock Takes Inspiration From Sci-Fi Sources, Looks Incredible | Ryan Flowers | [
"clock hacks",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"berlin",
"burlinuhr",
"KiCAD",
"led",
"pcb",
"USB C"
] | What would a HAL9000 look like if it eye were yellow and sat atop a front panel inspired by an Altair 8800? You’d have today’s feature,
[Stephan]’s BerlinUhr
, a gorgeous little take on a Berlin Clock.
At Hackaday, we have a soft spot for clock builds. They’ve graced our pages from early times. When we saw this ultra c... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490218",
"author": "Then",
"timestamp": "2022-07-07T11:06:37",
"content": "After having hotpot i stumbled into this guy in Berlin:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_Flowing_Timeblew my mind",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": ... | 1,760,372,639.597944 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/07/pico-makes-capable-logic-analyzer/ | Pico Makes Capable Logic Analyzer | Al Williams | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"logic analyzer",
"pico"
] | A common enough microcontroller project is to create some form of logic analyzer. In theory, it should be pretty easy: grab some digital inputs, store them, and display them. But, of course, the devil is in the details. First, you want to grab data fast, but you also need to examine the trigger in real time — hard to d... | 11 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490202",
"author": "jpa",
"timestamp": "2022-07-07T08:58:08",
"content": "RLE compression could help make the best use out of the limited sample memory.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6490208",
"author": "no",
... | 1,760,372,639.663391 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/06/diy-chicken-mcmansion-is-a-real-hen-house/ | DIY Chicken McMansion Is A Real Hen House | Ryan Flowers | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"chicken",
"chicken coop door",
"farm",
"turkey"
] | You might recognize [Robert Dunn] from his YouTube channel Aging Wheels, where he hacks on all sorts of automotive delights. On his other channel, Under Dunn, [Robert] tends to focus on building things. In this case, his nine chickens grew a bit, and
he needs a new coop for his twenty chickens, three turkeys, and two g... | 9 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490182",
"author": "darkspr1te",
"timestamp": "2022-07-07T05:35:46",
"content": "I enjoy his silly approach to his builds but i bet site safety guys would freak. he was also dang lucky not to break any windows in the move.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []... | 1,760,372,639.352106 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/06/3d-printed-splint-goes-toe-to-toe-with-medical-grade-equipment/ | 3D Printed Splint Goes Toe To Toe With Medical Grade Equipment | Ryan Flowers | [
"Medical Hacks"
] | [
"medical",
"medical devices",
"medical hacks"
] | When you think of medical devices, the idea of high end, well, pretty much
everything
, comes to mind. This is definitely the case when it comes to prosthetics, or in this similar case, custom fit splints. A hacker by the name of [sammyizimmy] wasn’t put off by the complexity of a custom splint for his fractured big to... | 11 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489964",
"author": "Ant",
"timestamp": "2022-07-06T12:16:22",
"content": "I printed a wrist brace from Thingiverse to manage carpal tunnel syndrome issues until I was able to have surgery. I went from severe pain and sleepless nights to being able to sleep without pain the night I... | 1,760,372,639.407292 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/06/3d-print-your-own-multi-color-filament/ | 3D Print Your Own Multi-Color Filament | Donald Papp | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"3d printing",
"bi-color",
"diy",
"filament"
] | Interested in experimenting with your own multi-color filament? [Turbo_SunShine] says to
just print your own, and experiment away!
Now, if you’re thinking that 3D printing some filament sounds inefficient at best (and a gimmick at worst) you’re not alone. But there’s at least one use case that it makes sense for, and m... | 11 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489924",
"author": "Andrzej",
"timestamp": "2022-07-06T08:17:29",
"content": "It seems just wrong to use a 3d printer to print a spool of wire. But hey, it works ! :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6489949",
"author"... | 1,760,372,639.458916 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/05/scratch-built-electric-buggy-tears-up-the-dunes/ | Scratch-Built Electric Buggy Tears Up The Dunes | Dan Maloney | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"dune buggy",
"electric vehicle",
"ev",
"fabrication"
] | It’s a fair bet to say that the future of personal transportation will probably be electric. In support of that, every major car manufacturer either has an electric drivetrain option available now, or they’re working furiously on developing one. And while it’s good that your suburban grocery grabber will someday be pow... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489896",
"author": "Miles",
"timestamp": "2022-07-06T06:26:23",
"content": "‘Tears up’ not so sure.I’m very sure it is capable of said tearing, possibly needs a lower gear, which is easy to obtain with his chain drive.He hit 75 (mph or kph) way too easily, with a lower gear he coul... | 1,760,372,639.762595 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/05/classic-amp-revived-with-a-pi/ | Classic Amp Revived With A Pi | Jenny List | [
"Musical Hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"effects pedal",
"guitar",
"guitar amp"
] | Guitar amplifiers have a hard life, and as anyone who’s run a venue can tell you, they often have significant electrical issues after a life on the road. [Dsagman] had a Vox amplifier with fried internals, and rather than repair the original he rebuilt it with a Raspberry Pi inside to provide a
fully-loaded array of ef... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489966",
"author": "mikeb",
"timestamp": "2022-07-06T12:31:23",
"content": "Really appreciate the slide deck! I had something like this on my TODO list for the summer.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6489979",
"autho... | 1,760,372,639.858988 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/05/never-miss-an-email-with-this-1970s-style-desktop-notifier/ | Never Miss An Email With This 1970s Style Desktop Notifier | Robin Kearey | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"1970s design",
"notifier",
"vfd display"
] | If you like the 1970s aesthetic but think bell-bottoms, big hair and psychedelic wallpaper are a bit too much in this day and age, you might want to have a look at
[Pierre Muth]’s latest build,
The Absurd Notifier
. It’s a useful desk accessory that adds just a little bit of ’70s flair to your office: housed inside wha... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489832",
"author": "Joel B",
"timestamp": "2022-07-06T02:05:02",
"content": "Nicely done. There’s many of us that would have been content to throw the parts on a breadboard and call it a day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "648... | 1,760,372,639.712066 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/05/new-gear-saves-old-printer/ | New Gear Saves Old Printer | Jenny List | [
"cnc hacks",
"Repair Hacks"
] | [
"cnc",
"gear",
"printer"
] | As the digital photographic revolution took off, and everyone bought a shiny new film-less camera, there was a brief fad for photo printers. The idea was you’d have the same prints you’d always had from film, but the media for these printers would invariably cost a fortune so consumers moved on pretty quickly.
Now the ... | 18 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489701",
"author": "John Arbuckle",
"timestamp": "2022-07-05T20:36:18",
"content": "Oh man, it hurts that he plunged in and then translated along the part – that deflection could have been partially avoided if he just did that motion in reverse",
"parent_id": null,
"depth":... | 1,760,372,639.818876 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/05/the-warm-glow-of-a-luminous-clock/ | The Warm Glow Of A Luminous Clock | Jenny List | [
"clock hacks"
] | [
"clock",
"luminous",
"Micro:bit",
"uv"
] | It seems there will never be an end to the number of ways to show the time. The latest is
the LumiClock
from [UK4dshouse], and it uses the seldom-seen approach of a sheet of luminous paper excited by a strip of UV LEDs that pass over it guided by a lead screw.
At its heart is a micro:bit, which generates the time in do... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489704",
"author": "tetsuoii",
"timestamp": "2022-07-05T20:42:05",
"content": "Gotta love that eerie glow 🌟",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6489740",
"author": "Tom",
"timestamp": "2022-07-05T21:44:54",
"content": ... | 1,760,372,640.021836 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/05/hacker-camps-post-pandemic-electromagnetic-field-2022/ | Hacker Camps Post-Pandemic, Electromagnetic Field 2022 | Jenny List | [
"cons",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider"
] | [
"electromagnetic field",
"EMF camp",
"hacker camp"
] | After a four-year hiatus and a cancelled event, it was time earlier this month for British and European hackers to return to their field in Herefordshire. A special field, Eastnor Castle Deer Park, venue for the Electromagnetic Field 2022 hacker camp. I packed up an oversized rucksack and my folding bike, and set off t... | 21 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489566",
"author": "mime",
"timestamp": "2022-07-05T17:18:15",
"content": "is there an easily accessible and regularly updated list of said hacker camps in the UK?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6489944",
"author": "... | 1,760,372,640.127576 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/05/tiny-berlin-clock-replica-also-counts-seconds/ | Tiny Berlin Clock Replica Also Counts Seconds | Robin Kearey | [
"clock hacks"
] | [
"Berlin clock",
"wemos d1 mini",
"wristwatch"
] | If you’re a clock aficionado and have ever visited Berlin, you’re probably familiar with the Berlin Clock on Budapester Straße: a minimalist design of yellow and orange lights that displays the time in a base-5 number system. This clock has been telling the time to the few that can read it since 1975, and is but one of... | 7 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489552",
"author": "Nick",
"timestamp": "2022-07-05T17:03:59",
"content": "For more information on the clock:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengenlehreuhr",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6489670",
"author": "Dennis",
"ti... | 1,760,372,640.068696 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/05/companies-rumored-to-harvest-washing-machines-for-ics/ | Companies Rumored To Harvest Washing Machines For ICs | Arya Voronova | [
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Slider"
] | [
"chip shortage",
"parts shortage",
"shortages",
"washing machine"
] | Wired
and
SCMP
are reporting on interesting trivia from the realm of chip shortages. Apparently, some large conglomerate out there is buying new washing machines and scavenging the chips they can’t obtain otherwise. My imagination pictures skilled engineers in a production room, heavy-duty electric screwdrivers and des... | 162 | 32 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489495",
"author": "Val",
"timestamp": "2022-07-05T14:37:32",
"content": "Is this like… an engineering urban myth? I’ve been hearing this thrown around in my company and never expected to see it on hackaday. Does anyone have actual names or sources? I had been looking into it and c... | 1,760,372,640.719747 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/05/raspberry-pi-pico-modchip-unlocks-the-gamecube/ | Raspberry Pi Pico “Modchip” Unlocks The GameCube | Tom Nardi | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"flash cart",
"gamecube",
"homebrew",
"Raspberry Pi Pico"
] | In terms of units sold, it’s no secret that the GameCube was one of Nintendo’s poorest performing home consoles. You could argue increased competition meant sales of the quirky little machine were destined to fall short of the system’s legendary predecessors, but that didn’t keep the Wii from outselling it by a factor ... | 30 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489443",
"author": "Gregg Eshelman",
"timestamp": "2022-07-05T11:24:26",
"content": "Can the Rpi Pico be used to replace a Sega Dreamcast GD-ROM drive?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6489454",
"author": "Joshua",
... | 1,760,372,640.338904 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/05/viewing-atoms-with-electrons/ | Viewing Atoms With Electrons | Al Williams | [
"Science"
] | [
"electron microscope",
"scanning electron microscope"
] | When we were in school, they always told us we can’t see atoms. If you have an electron microscope, then they were wrong. [AlphaPhoenix] has access to a
scanning
tunneling
transmission electron microscope
and he shows us some atoms in a very thin slice of a crystal.
Of course, you aren’t directly imaging the atoms. You... | 9 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489437",
"author": "0xCOFFEE",
"timestamp": "2022-07-05T10:41:19",
"content": "Please correct: This is not measured by a “scanning tunneling electron microscope” but a scanning *transmission* electron microscope!STM (Scanning tunneling microscopy) is a completely different techniqu... | 1,760,372,640.213187 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/04/uart-cant-arduino-canserial-can/ | UART Can’t? Arduino CANSerial Can! | Elliot Williams | [
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"arduino",
"canbus"
] | [Jacob Geigle] had a problem. A GPS unit and a Bluetooth-to-serial were tying up all the hardware UARTs on an AVR Arduino project. “Software serial”, I hear you say. But what if I told you [Jacob] already had the board in question sending out data over CAN bus?
[Jacob]’s sweet hack
creates an arbitrary number of CAN “d... | 11 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489370",
"author": "J_B",
"timestamp": "2022-07-05T05:30:43",
"content": "One of the big advantages of using a mictrocontroller with a hardware CAN controller instead of emulating it in software is that required retransmissions, buffering, error corrections, filtering unwanted mess... | 1,760,372,640.524037 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/04/photovoltaic-cells-in-ltspice/ | Photovoltaic Cells In LTSpice | Al Williams | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"LTSpice",
"photovoltaic",
"SPICE"
] | We like to build things using real parts. But we do think the more you can model using tools like LTSpice, the less time you can spend going down dead ends. If you need to model a common component like a resistor or even an active device, most simulators have great models and you can tweak them to have realistic parasi... | 19 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489367",
"author": "M",
"timestamp": "2022-07-05T05:07:17",
"content": "Headed down the renewable power electronics rabbit hole? There are buckets of educational resources, though one course I’m finding ‘just right’, hails from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore:https://w... | 1,760,372,640.476192 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/03/ajax-command-radio-is-an-oldie-but-goodie/ | AJAX COMMAND Radio Is An Oldie But Goodie | Al Williams | [
"Repair Hacks",
"Teardown"
] | [
"transistor radio",
"vintage radio"
] | If you are a certain age, it is hard to wrap your head around the fact that an old radio might have transistors — the old ones all had tubes, right? But a radio from the 1960s or 1970s is reaching the 60+ year mark and people are restoring old transistor sets. [Adam] picked up his first old radio, a
1970s vintage Ajax ... | 32 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489122",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.1",
"timestamp": "2022-07-04T04:00:50",
"content": "Radios like this were primary tinker training for scamps with a screwdriver of my age. What can the kids take apart these days that will learn them something?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,... | 1,760,372,640.789042 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/03/hackaday-links-july-3-2022/ | Hackaday Links: July 3, 2022 | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links",
"Slider"
] | [
"5g",
"amd",
"crypto",
"downlink",
"flare",
"geomagnetic",
"gpu",
"hackaday links",
"ku-band",
"MakerGear",
"NVIDIA",
"Solar Cycle",
"solar storm",
"Starlink",
"sunspots"
] | Looks like we might have been a bit premature in
our dismissal last week
of the Sun’s potential for throwing a temper tantrum, as that’s exactly what happened when
a G1 geomagnetic storm
hit the planet early last week. To be fair, the storm was very minor — aurora visible down to the latitude of Calgary isn’t terribly ... | 10 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489080",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.3",
"timestamp": "2022-07-03T23:11:17",
"content": "I propose we dim our albedo with a few megatons of coal dust and project a holographic image of earth a few hundred thousand miles in our orbital wake, so even if the Sun brushes up on it’s deflectio... | 1,760,372,640.418314 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/03/testing-a-tube-without-a-tube-tester/ | Testing A Tube Without A Tube Tester | Al Williams | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"tube tester"
] | [M Caldeira] needed to test a tube and didn’t have a spare to do the old swap test. He also didn’t have a tube tester handy. Drawing inspiration from a 2015 video, he managed to cobble up an
ad hoc
tube tester using stuff around the
workbench
. You can see a video of the process below.
To duplicate his effort, you are ... | 10 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489023",
"author": "Michael Black",
"timestamp": "2022-07-03T20:23:22",
"content": "Most people didn’t have tube testers. They went to the radio store or the drugstore, or maybe the local repairman would let them use theirs.But since tubes are mostly obsolete, the used testers are ... | 1,760,372,640.837539 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/03/ai-image-generation-sharpens-your-bad-photos-and-kills-photography/ | AI Image Generation Sharpens Your Bad Photos And Kills Photography? | Al Williams | [
"Artificial Intelligence"
] | [
"ai",
"artificial intellegence",
"DALL-E",
"photography"
] | We don’t fully understand the appeal of asking an AI for a picture of a gorilla eating a waffle while wearing headphones. However, [Micael Widell] shows something in a recent video that might be the
best use we’ve seen yet of DALL-E 2
. Instead of concocting new photos, you can apparently use the same technology for cl... | 66 | 25 | [
{
"comment_id": "6488945",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.3",
"timestamp": "2022-07-03T17:16:39",
"content": "Digital hasn’t even killed fim, so no.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6488946",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.3",
"timestamp": "2022-... | 1,760,372,641.092796 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/03/ride-diy-or-die-this-badge-less-suzuki/ | RideDIY Or Die This Badge-Less Suzuki | Kristina Panos | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Parts"
] | [
"badge",
"emblem",
"motorcycle",
"vinyl cutter"
] | A few years ago, [Charles] picked up a sweet Suzuki motorcycle that checked all the boxen: it was in good shape, bore a few useful upgrades and a box of spare parts, plus the price was right. Though he assumed that he had pored over every picture on the classified site before buying, it wasn’t until later that [Charles... | 12 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6488900",
"author": "QBFreak",
"timestamp": "2022-07-03T15:04:05",
"content": "My work-around for the inability to use SVGs in the free version of Silhouette Studio, is to write a quick one-line OpenSCAD script that imports the SVG. Then I render and export that 2D design as a DXF. ... | 1,760,372,640.897586 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/03/pulling-out-burger-flavor-with-a-magnet/ | Pulling Out Burger Flavor With A Magnet | Matthew Carlson | [
"cooking hacks"
] | [
"burger",
"burgers",
"lehemoglobin",
"vegan"
] | If you’re vegetarian or don’t eat beef, you are probably already familiar with Impossible. Impossible meat tastes like beef and cooks like beef while being plant-based. They achieved this with significant R&D and a few special patents. But if you don’t want to pay Impossible prices, [Sauce Stash] has been
trying to rec... | 91 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6488854",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2022-07-03T12:17:58",
"content": "Not all oxidation states of iron are ferromagnetic. As a quick search will show, hemoglobin is diamagnetic.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6488979",
... | 1,760,372,641.222886 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/03/bluetooth-8-track-adapters-are-a-thing/ | Bluetooth 8-Track Adapters Are A Thing | Lewin Day | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"8-track",
"bluetooth",
"car audio",
"corvette"
] | When it comes to classic cars, the entertainment options can be limited. You’re often stuck with an old cassette deck and AM/FM radio, or you can swap it out for some hideous flashy modern head unit. [Jim] had a working 8-track deck in his Corvette, and didn’t want to swap it out. Thus, he set about building himself
a ... | 33 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6488822",
"author": "olaf",
"timestamp": "2022-07-03T08:14:23",
"content": "Are these devices only sold in the USA? I have never seen one in Europe.Olaf",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6488832",
"author": "Stuart Longl... | 1,760,372,641.298709 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/04/fighting-all-that-can-go-wrong-with-resin/ | Fighting All That Can Go Wrong With Resin | Elliot Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printing",
"3D resin printer",
"resin"
] | [Jan Mrázek] is on a quest to make your resin 3D prints more accurate, more functional, and less failure prone. Let’s start off with his recent post on
combating resin shrinkage
.
When you want a part to have a 35 mm inner diameter, you probably have pretty good reasons, and when you draw a circle in your CAD software,... | 6 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489341",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2022-07-05T00:12:49",
"content": "“…you’ll probably have to anyway because of resin-to-resin variation.”Is there any kind of industry standardization? How about quality control? Sensors and software to reduce the variability.",
"pare... | 1,760,372,641.348451 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/04/think-you-know-how-mario-kart-works/ | Think You Know How Mario Kart Works? | Elliot Williams | [
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"mariokart",
"software",
"video"
] | In what looks like the kickoff of a fun video series, [MrL314] takes us on a
quick but deep tour of how the AI in Mario Kart works
. (Video, embedded below.) Don’t play much Mario Kart anymore? Well, have a look anyway because some of the very simple tricks that make Bowser pass Princess Peach without running into her ... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489333",
"author": "come2",
"timestamp": "2022-07-04T23:19:35",
"content": "Linking a video that could have probably the same title, but on Trackmania and using MLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Bo2DHrrow",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"co... | 1,760,372,641.384385 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/04/dithering-makes-everything-cooler-now-even-animated/ | Dithering Makes Everything Cooler: Now Even Animated | Elliot Williams | [
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"algorithms",
"dithering",
"games",
"graphics"
] | [dukope] was writing a game, Return of the Obra Dinn, with a fantastic visual style. One of the choices was to make everything in glorious one-bit color, otherwise known as black and white, and then dither it back to monochrome. You know, like they used to do on the Mac Plus.
If dithering is your aesthetic, then it mak... | 37 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489262",
"author": "Arthur Mezins",
"timestamp": "2022-07-04T17:19:22",
"content": "I’m unsure what to call those invasive visual artefacts when there’s motion (aliasing?), but one word pops into my head: annoying!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,372,641.456227 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/04/moteus-open-source-bldc-controller-gets-major-upgrade/ | Moteus Open Source BLDC Controller Gets Major Upgrade | Chris Lott | [
"Tech Hacks"
] | [
"BLDC controller",
"mjbots quad A0",
"moteus"
] | [Josh Pieper] of mjbots Robotic Systems just released a major revision to his
moteus
open sourced brushless DC (BLDC) electric motor controller. The update adds a flexible I/O subsystem which significantly expands the kinds of feedback encoders and peripherals the controller can accept. In the video below the break, [J... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489297",
"author": "Ghent The Slicer",
"timestamp": "2022-07-04T19:10:29",
"content": "Josh is very knowledgeable and eager to share his findings with everyone. He has put a huge amount of research into this project. I want to say huge thank you for that.Yes the world of open sourc... | 1,760,372,641.505779 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/04/a-3d-printer-big-enough-to-print-a-kayak/ | A 3D Printer Big Enough To Print A Kayak | Dan Maloney | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printer",
"CoreXY",
"kayak",
"large format"
] | When one of your design goals for a 3D printer is “fits through standard doors,” you know you’re going to be able to print some pretty big stuff. And given that the
TAUT ONE printer
by [Nathan Brüchner] could easily be mistaken for a phone booth, we’d say it’ll be turning out some interesting prints.
The genesis for th... | 43 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489195",
"author": "bstriggo",
"timestamp": "2022-07-04T11:48:26",
"content": "<>Designers used to build cedar strip boats to prototype designs. This would be way faster.I’m curious how much abuse he was able to heap onto the prototypes:https://www.pinterest.com/pin/55028364819319... | 1,760,372,641.580987 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/04/need-a-linux-kernel-module-scratch-that/ | Need A Linux Kernel Module? Scratch That | Al Williams | [
"Linux Hacks",
"Software Development",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"linux",
"linux kernel modules",
"MIT scratch",
"scratch"
] | If you have been for (or against) Rust in the Linux kernel, get ready for a
Linux kernel module written in… Scratch
. That’s right. Scratch, the MIT-developed language with blocks popular for teaching kids to code. We didn’t mean “from scratch.” We meant IN Scratch. The bootstrap code and Makefile is out there on
GitHu... | 15 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489172",
"author": "Stappers",
"timestamp": "2022-07-04T09:28:26",
"content": "It was already documentedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_lawAnd there was no need for triggering polarization withIf you have been for (or against) Rust in the Linux kernel,",
"parent_id":... | 1,760,372,641.632105 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/03/when-is-an-led-a-lamp-when-its-50mm-wide/ | When Is An LED A Lamp? When It’s 50mm Wide | Kristina Panos | [
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"giant led",
"led"
] | Call us childlike, but we sure do get a kick out of both larger-than-life and miniature things, especially when they work as their “normal-sized” counterparts do. So you can imagine our glee when we saw
[JGJMatt]’s 50mm LED lamp
, which looks like a giant version of something you might have wired up on your bench at an... | 12 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489144",
"author": "Erik Johnson",
"timestamp": "2022-07-04T06:31:43",
"content": "Nice! I exhibited a ~130mm RGB LED at maker faire bay are for a few years around 2012http://lightbright.net/images/IMG_3815r.JPGcomplete with cement block “protoboard” base",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,372,641.721789 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/06/tensorflow-lite-on-a-commodore-64/ | TensorFlow Lite – On A Commodore 64 | Jenny List | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"c64",
"commodore 64",
"tensorflow",
"Tensorflow Lite"
] | TensorFlow is a machine learning and AI library that has enabled so much and brought AI within the reach of most developers. But it’s fair to say that it’s not for the less powerful computers. For them there’s TensorFlow Lite, in which a model is created on a larger machine and exported to a microcontroller or similarl... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490329",
"author": "Bryantherobotman",
"timestamp": "2022-07-07T20:10:48",
"content": "Those usb inference accelerators are all int8 anyways, time for the 6502 to shine bright again!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6490765",
... | 1,760,372,641.669704 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/06/headphone-cable-trouble-inspires-bluetooth-conversion/ | Headphone Cable Trouble Inspires Bluetooth Conversion | Arya Voronova | [
"Repair Hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"bluetooth",
"csr",
"csr8645",
"headphones"
] | [adblu] encountered the ever-present headphone problem with their Sennheiser Urbanite headphones – the cable broke. These headphones are decent, and despite the cable troubles, worth giving a new life to. Cable replacement is always an option, but [adblu] decided to see – what would it take to
make these headphones wir... | 12 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490133",
"author": "ian 42",
"timestamp": "2022-07-06T23:43:40",
"content": "I’ve been doing some stuff like this with headphones too – but the big trouble here in Aus is the battery. Those small lipo batteries are often ‘fake’ – ie will only be usable for about 10 charges, or at b... | 1,760,372,642.147882 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/06/pocket-radio-powered-by-tiny-microcontroller/ | Pocket Radio Powered By Tiny Microcontroller | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"attiny",
"audio",
"code",
"fm",
"oled",
"radio",
"schematics",
"speaker"
] | Before the days of MP3 players and smartphones, and even before portable CD players, those of us of a certain age remember that our cassette players were about the only way to take music on-the-go. If we were lucky, they also had a built-in radio for when the single tape exhausted both of its sides. Compared to then, i... | 33 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490099",
"author": "Bruce Perens K6BP",
"timestamp": "2022-07-06T20:45:06",
"content": "This is confused. FM has not been a cutting edge technology since about 1940, closer to a century ago than “just a few decades”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{... | 1,760,372,642.358259 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/06/ggwave-sings-the-songs-of-your-data/ | GGWave Sings The Songs Of Your Data | Elliot Williams | [
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"arduino",
"audio",
"cellphone",
"data",
"modem"
] | We’re suckers for alternative data transmission methods, and [Georgi Gerganov]’s
ggwave
made us smile. At its core, it’s doing what the phone modems of old used to do – sending data encoded as different audio tones. But GGwave does this with sophistication!
It splits the data into four-bit chunks, and uses 16 different... | 12 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490076",
"author": "RickB",
"timestamp": "2022-07-06T18:47:05",
"content": "Oh good, yet another way to exfiltrate the corporate crown jewels without plugging an unapproved device into the tightly controlled corporate laptop or the tightly controlled corporate network. I thought I ... | 1,760,372,642.192374 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/06/linux-fu-the-browser-emacs-fusion/ | Linux Fu: The Browser Emacs Fusion | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Linux Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"autokey",
"Emacs",
"linux"
] | It is no secret that I have a few things permanently burned into my neurons: the 1802 instruction set, the commands for WordStar, and the commands for emacs. There was a time when emacs was almost my operating system. With no X11, emacs gave you a way to have a shell in one window, check your mail, and keep your work o... | 20 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490048",
"author": "Twisty Plastic",
"timestamp": "2022-07-06T17:15:55",
"content": "“It probably doesn’t work if you have switched to Wayland”This warning right here is how you know something is good.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comme... | 1,760,372,642.098925 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/06/hacking-the-rf-protocol-of-an-obscure-handheld-game/ | Hacking The RF Protocol Of An Obscure Handheld Game | Tom Nardi | [
"Games",
"Radio Hacks",
"Reverse Engineering"
] | [
"gnu radio",
"reverse engineering",
"RTL-SDR",
"wireless protocol"
] | When you think old school handheld games, you probably imagine something like Nintendo’s Game Boy line or the Sega Game Gear. But outside of those now iconic systems, there was a vast subculture of oddball handheld games vying for a chunk of an adolescent’s weekly allowance. Many of these were legitimately terrible and... | 9 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6490052",
"author": "Jacob W",
"timestamp": "2022-07-06T17:27:22",
"content": "The stars must have just aligned, because not even a week ago i went to ebay to find one of these. I remembered loving them as a kid and wanted to see if i could somehow dump the ROMs and emulated it. Cra... | 1,760,372,642.027322 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/06/windows-98-for-spaceships-not-quite/ | Windows 98 For Spaceships? Not Quite! | Jenny List | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Retrocomputing",
"Slider",
"Space"
] | [
"Mars Express",
"windows",
"Windows 98"
] | One of the news items that generated the most chatter among Hackaday editors this week was that
ESA’s Mars Express mission is receiving a software update
. And they’re updating the operating system to…Windows 98.
Microsoft’s late-90s consumer desktop operating system wouldn’t have been the first to come to mind as appr... | 78 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "6489990",
"author": "Pio",
"timestamp": "2022-07-06T14:08:28",
"content": "“32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can’t stand 1 bit of competition.”was mak... | 1,760,372,642.476582 |
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