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https://hackaday.com/2017/06/03/hackaday-prize-entry-water-level-station/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Water Level Station | Pedro Umbelino | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"arduino",
"cloud",
"water level"
] | All over the world, in particular in underdeveloped countries, people die every year by the thousands because of floods. The sudden rise of water levels often come unannounced and people have no time to react before they are caught in a bad spot. Modern countries commonly have measure equipment deployed around problema... | 17 | 10 | [
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"comment_id": "3647293",
"author": "???? ????",
"timestamp": "2017-06-03T21:33:40",
"content": "A vertical pipe with the top closed and the bottom in water will have it’s internal air pressure change in proportion to the water level change. Have a tall pipe set in concrete with a horizontal passag... | 1,760,374,805.810185 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/03/holograms-cant-be-too-thin/ | Holograms Can’t Be Too Thin | Al Williams | [
"Laser Hacks"
] | [
"hologram",
"laser",
"research"
] | We’ve seen the 3D phone fad come and go, with devices like the Evo 3D, that used a parallax barrier to achieve autostereoscopy (that is, 3D viewing without glasses). These displays aren’t holograms, they are just showing your eyes two different images like a 3D movie or a stereopticon. However, researchers from Austral... | 28 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "3646253",
"author": "Artenz",
"timestamp": "2017-06-03T17:11:08",
"content": "How would the hologram display information outside the screen area ?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3646304",
"author": "Robot",
"t... | 1,760,374,805.8774 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/03/antique-pinball-machine-lives-as-clock/ | Antique Pinball Machine Lives As Clock | Bryan Cockfield | [
"clock hacks"
] | [
"attiny85",
"backglass",
"clock",
"microcontroller",
"neopixel",
"pinball"
] | A big problem with restoring old arcade or pinball machines is finding original parts to get them running again. That’s part of the fun, though; when something finally works after weeks or months of effort. On the other hand, sometimes the only hope for old parts that will never be in a pinball machine again is for [Ra... | 10 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3646639",
"author": "echodelta",
"timestamp": "2017-06-03T19:03:04",
"content": "Add some seagull sounds and waves, maybe even the salt air.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3646929",
"author": "Chris friberg",
"timestamp... | 1,760,374,805.522819 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/03/fluorescence-microscopy-meets-diy-fluid-management/ | Fluorescence Microscopy Meets DIY Fluid Management | Michael Uttmark | [
"chemistry hacks"
] | [
"Fluid Management",
"Fluorescence Microscopy",
"Fluorophore"
] | Fluorescence microscopy is an optical technique that incorporates fluorescence or phosphorescence (as opposed to reflection and absorption) in order to study the properties of organic and inorganic substances. Not a stranger to bringing DIY techniques into the lab, [Philip] is using
3D printing resources to advance sci... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "3645608",
"author": "dhaffnersr",
"timestamp": "2017-06-03T11:56:48",
"content": "Hey man, this is fantastic! What an ingenious way to utilize a 3D CNC machine :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3647124",
"author": "AJ cali"... | 1,760,374,805.724275 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/02/the-trouble-with-old-model-steam-engines/ | The Trouble With Old Model Steam Engines | Adam Fabio | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"coal",
"models",
"steam",
"steam engines"
] | Model steam engines have intrigued hackers and makers for over 100 years. Many of us have seen old steam engine models up for sale at garage sales and various internet auction sites. The problem with these engines is the fact that many of them were sold as rough casting kits. This means the quality of the model is only... | 13 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3642826",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-06-02T16:15:47",
"content": "Something peaceful about watching these work, like old locomotives.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3642842",
"author": "AtariMan",
"timesta... | 1,760,374,805.990453 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/02/the-neuron-a-hackers-perspective/ | The Neuron – A Hackers Perspective | Will Sweatman | [
"Curated",
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Original Art"
] | [
"biology",
"brain",
"cortex",
"neuron"
] | It’s not too often that you see handkerchiefs around anymore. Today, they’re largely viewed as unsanitary and well… just plain gross. You’ll be quite disappointed to learn that they have absolutely nothing to do with this article other than a couple of similarities they share when compared to your neocortex. If you wer... | 21 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3642677",
"author": "Craig Stewart",
"timestamp": "2017-06-02T14:34:31",
"content": "This article sugests the voltage spike travels accros the synapse via the use of a similar process to the signal propigation down the axion, using sodium and potassium ions. This isn’t the case. whe... | 1,760,374,805.940362 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/02/hackerspace-jukebox/ | Hackerspace Jukebox! | James Hobson | [
"Musical Hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"hackspace",
"jukebox",
"makerspace",
"mopidy",
"music",
"workshop"
] | Depending on whom you talk to, music can be an integral part of getting work done. At the Hackheim hackerspace in Trondheim, Norway, [Nikolai Ovesen] thought that the previous system of playing music over Bluetooth took away from the collaborative, interactive spirit of the space. Solution: a weekend build of a
Raspber... | 11 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "3642465",
"author": "Tyler Bletsch",
"timestamp": "2017-06-02T12:26:48",
"content": "Wait, how do those screws hold it together? It looks like it just compresses the tab and doesn’t interact with the other piece.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,374,805.571706 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/02/game-gear-console-edition/ | Game Gear, Console Edition | Adam Fabio | [
"classic hacks",
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"console",
"game gear",
"retro gaming",
"sega"
] | What if the Game Gear had been a console system? [Bentika] answered that question by
building a consolized version of this classic handheld
. For those not in the know when it comes to 1980s Sega consoles, the Game Gear is technically very similar to the Master System. In fact, the Game Gear can even play Master System... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3642045",
"author": "Haydn Jones",
"timestamp": "2017-06-02T08:40:49",
"content": "This guy took it a lot further a few years ago…..http://www.lcv.ne.jp/~mgs1987/sega/gg10.html",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3642649",
... | 1,760,374,805.425967 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/01/and-the-grandfather-of-the-year-award-goes-to/ | And The Grandfather Of The Year Award Goes To… | Dan Maloney | [
"Toy Hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"engine",
"grandfather",
"locomotive",
"model",
"railroad",
"railway",
"scale"
] | Hacker dads often have great plans for all the fun projects they’ll build for their kids. Reality often intrudes, though, creating opportunities for hacker grandfathers who might have more time and resources to tackle the truly epic kid hacks. Take, for instance, [rwreagan] and the
quarter-scale model railroad
he built... | 11 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3641700",
"author": "anginere",
"timestamp": "2017-06-02T05:37:52",
"content": "It sounds more like it´s the grandpa´s ego having the fun there.I doubt the granddaughter will have fun for 1/10 of the time the grandfather had building this.And for the same price he could have bought ... | 1,760,374,805.473218 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/01/new-useless-machine-does-the-twist/ | New Useless Machine Does The Twist | Lewin Day | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"3d printer",
"twist vase",
"twist vases",
"useless machine",
"vase",
"vases"
] | Useless machines might not do any work or produce anything of value on their own, but they can be a great learning tool, and are often beautifully crafted as an expression of the builder’s artistic talents. By and large, they consist of a switch to turn the machine on, and an arm that switches the machine back off in r... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,374,805.757422 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/01/restoring-a-strange-milling-machine-from-craigslist/ | Restoring A Strange Milling Machine From Craigslist | Adam Fabio | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"Bridgeport",
"Machine tool",
"mill",
"milling machine",
"tree",
"v-mill"
] | [diyVT] found a real white elephant in
this milling machine from Craigslist
. It cost him only $200, cheap for a small mill, so it was worth the gamble. We’re not sure what to call this — it’s not exactly a gantry mill, not a horizontal mill, and definitely not a knee mill. The tag says V-Mill, made by either Pierce We... | 25 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3640607",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-06-01T23:24:25",
"content": "” During the move one of the cast iron chain drive handwheel brackets broke into three pieces. Cast iron is no fun to weld. It has to be pre-heated, welded with nickel rod, and slowly cooled. ”Now where’... | 1,760,374,806.259668 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/01/watch-the-clearwalker-light-up-and-dip-its-toes/ | Watch The ClearWalker Light Up And Dip Its Toes | Donald Papp | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"ClearWalker",
"cnc",
"FPV",
"jeremy cook",
"led strip",
"polycarbonate",
"robotics",
"strandbeest",
"walker"
] | [Jeremy Cook]’s latest take on the Strandbeest,
the ClearWalker
, is ready to roll! He’s been at work on this project for a while, and walks us through the electronics and control system as well as final assembly tweaks. The ClearWalker is fully controllable and includes a pan and tilt camera as well as programmable LE... | 10 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "3640469",
"author": "Mark",
"timestamp": "2017-06-01T20:12:59",
"content": "Nice one. But isn’t it the point of Standbeesten that they move at will and without a motor?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3640477",
"author... | 1,760,374,806.698184 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/01/hackaday-prize-entry-a-community-mesh-network/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: A Community Mesh Network | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"mesh",
"mesh network"
] | While the Internet of Things is here to stay, and will kill us all, there are a few places left on the planet that will remain unscathed during the robot uprising. These underserved communities still have a need for communications and networking, leading [hlew] to create a
Community Engagement Mesh Network
as an entry ... | 26 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3640395",
"author": "agopjk",
"timestamp": "2017-06-01T18:43:23",
"content": "Imagine all the urinals connected in an IoT mesh network. You could gather some statistics about urination.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3642133... | 1,760,374,806.475763 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/01/invention-killed-the-inventor/ | Invention Killed The Inventor | Manuel Rodriguez-Achach | [
"classic hacks",
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"Horace Lawson Hunley",
"invention",
"Inventor",
"Jean-Francoise Pilatre de Rozier",
"Marie Curie",
"Otto Lilienthal"
] | The desire to innovate and change the world can drive one to take dangerous risks. Sometimes, inventors pay the ultimate price. Inventors can be early testers of a device under development, and sometimes pushing the limits of what’s possible has deadly consequences. In this era of warning labels on coffee cups, it’s pe... | 45 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3640285",
"author": "Philippe",
"timestamp": "2017-06-01T17:20:10",
"content": "Jean-Francoise is feminine. I am pretty sure it was a guy: Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Pil%C3%A2tre_de_Rozier",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,... | 1,760,374,806.642548 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/01/diy-induction-soldering-iron/ | DIY Induction Soldering Iron | Jack Laidlaw | [
"how-to",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"diy soldering iron",
"diy tool",
"induction heater",
"induction heating",
"soldering hack",
"soldering iron"
] | [Kasyan TV] shows us how to make a really simple
DIY induction soldering iron
complete with DIY soldering tips.
This is a pretty cool project. Most of us are used to temperature controlled ceramic heating elements, but there are other ways to get those irons up to temperature. Using scraps from older, presumably broken... | 36 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3639748",
"author": "Steven Gann",
"timestamp": "2017-06-01T15:39:02",
"content": "Excellent article. I love these sorts of sketchy DIY projects, and I’d never heard of an inductive soldering iron.“they are pretty durable and will take a knock or two”I’ve never had a soldering iron ... | 1,760,374,806.549129 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/01/fpga-rescues-scope-from-the-dumpster/ | FPGA Rescues Scope From The Dumpster | Adil Malik | [
"Engineering",
"Featured",
"Misc Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"digital Oscilloscope",
"fpga",
"lcd",
"oscilloscope",
"repair",
"vga"
] | I’m always on the lookout for a quality addition to my lab that would respect my strict budget. Recently, I’ve found myself pushing the Hertz barrier with every other project I do and hence desperately wanted a high bandwidth scope. Unfortunately, only recently have 70 MHz to 100 MHz become really affordable, whilst a ... | 62 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "3639297",
"author": "CanuckFire",
"timestamp": "2017-06-01T14:12:03",
"content": "I have been watching out for HP test equipment for some time as it was all built to incredible standards and most repair documents are available.The downside is that people are aware of this and they c... | 1,760,374,806.805093 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/01/simulating-vr-obstacles-with-wheelchair-brakes/ | Simulating VR Obstacles With Wheelchair Brakes | John Baichtal | [
"Virtual Reality"
] | [
"exergaming",
"hobby servo",
"WheelChair"
] | [Joey Campbell] is studying for his PhD at the Bristol Interaction and Graphics Lab, focusing on the interplay between real and virtual objects within the realm of exergaming–“gamercising” where physical motion and effort drives the game. The goal is to make the physical effort
seem
to correspond with what’s seen on th... | 6 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "3638994",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2017-06-01T13:18:03",
"content": "Tie it in with Google Maps so they can exer-whatever with existing bike trails and scenery.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3640446",
"author":... | 1,760,374,806.412115 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/01/current-sink-keeps-the-smoke-in/ | Current Sink Keeps The Smoke In | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"constant",
"current",
"power supply",
"regulator",
"smoke",
"source",
"transistor"
] | One of the most versatile tools on anyone’s work bench, at least as far as electrical projects are concerned, is a power supply. Often we build our own, but after we’ve cobbled together some banana jacks with a computer’s PSU or dead-bug soldered a LM317 voltage regulator to a wall wart, how will that power supply perf... | 11 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3638132",
"author": "JDat",
"timestamp": "2017-06-01T10:31:12",
"content": "I’ll just leave it there:http://www.sbprojects.com/projects/ccsink/index.php:-/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3657566",
"author": "electrobo... | 1,760,374,806.90104 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/03/super-mario-world-jailbreak-requires-no-external-hardware/ | Super Mario World Jailbreak Requires No External Hardware | Adam Fabio | [
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"gaming hacks",
"jailbreak",
"nintendo",
"retro",
"retrogaming",
"snes",
"super mario world"
] | [SethBling] has
released a Super Mario World jailbreak that allows players to install a hex editor
, then write, install and run their own game mods. What’s more is this all works on unmodified cartridges and SNES hardware. No hardware hacks required.
[Seth] is quick to say he didn’t do all this alone. This mod came to... | 24 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3645142",
"author": "Moosepr",
"timestamp": "2017-06-03T08:32:53",
"content": "“SUPER MARIO WORLD JAILBREAK REQUIRES NO EXTERNAL HARDWARE”“installing this mod still requires quite a bit of hardware. Beyond the SNES and cartridge,”¯\\_(ツ)_/¯",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,374,807.047549 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/02/integrated-circuit-reverse-engineering-1970s-style/ | Integrated Circuit Reverse Engineering, 1970s Style | Jenny List | [
"hardware"
] | [
"die shot",
"ice",
"Integrated Circuit Engineering Corporation",
"reverse engineer silicon",
"reverse engineering",
"z80",
"Z80 CTC",
"zilog"
] | We are used to stories about reverse engineering integrated circuits, in these pages. Some fascinating exposés of classic chips have been produced by people such as the ever-hard-working [Ken Shirriff].
You might think that this practice would be something new, confined only to those interested in the workings of now-o... | 11 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "3644988",
"author": "Internet",
"timestamp": "2017-06-03T05:09:11",
"content": "You are forgetting one of the big motivators for pouring a lot of resources into ROing silicon. Patent infringement.There’s a whole ecosystem out there, including offensive patents such as patents on how... | 1,760,374,806.857058 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/02/540-pcbs-make-a-giant-led-cube/ | 540 PCBs Make A Giant LED Cube | Al Williams | [
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"easyeda",
"eda",
"led",
"LED cube",
"panelization",
"pcb",
"Printed Circuit Board"
] | Just about anyone can make a simple LED cube. But what if you want to make a 1-meter cube using 512 LEDs? [Hari] wanted to do it, so he
created two different kinds of LED boards
using EasyEDA. There are 270 of each type of board, for a total of 540 (there are only 512 LEDs, so we guess he got some spares due to how th... | 21 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3645022",
"author": "SouperNerd (@SouperNerd)",
"timestamp": "2017-06-03T05:57:37",
"content": "This guys demeanor and ideas are going to make him god status over time.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3645968",
"author... | 1,760,374,807.468118 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/02/usb-charger-persuaded-to-variable-voltage-source/ | USB Charger Fooled Into Variable Voltage Source | Inderpreet Singh | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"hardware"
] | [
"arduino",
"hack",
"power supply",
"Quick charge",
"wall wart"
] | USB chargers are everywhere and it is the responsibility of every hacker to use this commonly available device to its peak potential. [Septillion] and [Hugatry] have come up with a hack to manipulate a USB charger into becoming a variable voltage source. Their project
QC2Control
works with chargers that employ
Quick Ch... | 25 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3643647",
"author": "Clovis Fritzen",
"timestamp": "2017-06-02T23:23:42",
"content": "Was someone ever able to hack a simple “no-quick-charge” usb charger into a variable power supply?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3643685",... | 1,760,374,807.358478 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/02/game-boy-mod-uses-raspberry-pi-compute-module-3/ | Game Boy Mod Uses Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 | Sean Boyce | [
"Nintendo Game Boy Hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"emulator",
"game boy",
"Raspberry Pi Compute Module"
] | [inches] wanted the power of a Raspberry Pi 3 in a form factor closer to the Pi Zero for a Game Boy mod. This led him to
design a custom PCB
to interface with one of the less popular items in the Raspberry Pi line:
the Compute Module 3
. A hardware comparison between the three platforms is
available here
.
After correc... | 17 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3643413",
"author": "dahud",
"timestamp": "2017-06-02T20:06:45",
"content": "This may be the first time I’ve seen someone actually use the Compute modules for anything. I’m surprised the RasPi Foundation still makes them.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,374,807.622975 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/02/hackaday-prize-entry-refugee-reuniter/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Refugee Reuniter | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"Refugee",
"rfid"
] | The world is dealing with a serious refugee crisis, and with that comes a problem: finding people.
The Refugee Reuniter
, a project entered into this year’s Hackaday Prize, is a possible solution to this problem. It’s a device that allows people to reconnect with their family, whether it’s children lost in transit to d... | 15 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3643194",
"author": "None",
"timestamp": "2017-06-02T19:12:43",
"content": "This proposed network/database does not need an RFID wristband/tag. This isn’t a time clock.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3643627",
"author... | 1,760,374,807.412952 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/02/first-thoughts-on-the-new-up-core/ | First Thoughts On The New UP Core | Alasdair Allan | [
"Featured",
"Reviews"
] | [
"Asus Tinker",
"kickstarter",
"raspberry pi",
"SBC",
"single board computer",
"Up Core",
"x86"
] | I normally stay away from talking about x86 single-board computers because I don’t have a lot to say about them. They’re too expensive, and run too hot, to be interesting. Enter the new UP Core funding
now on Kickstarter
.
The UP Core is just 56.5 mm × 66 mm (2.2 in × 2.6 in) and powered by a 64-bit Quad Core Intel Ato... | 55 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "3642913",
"author": "Rich",
"timestamp": "2017-06-02T17:45:52",
"content": "The USB 3.0 is a big win. Makes it a possible candidate of a DIY NAS. Will keep an eye on this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3642937",
"aut... | 1,760,374,807.572101 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/31/additive-subtractive-one-powerful-machine/ | Additive + Subtractive = One Powerful Machine | Dan Maloney | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"cnc hacks"
] | [
"Additive",
"cnc",
"extruder",
"subtractive",
"Titan Aero",
"VMC"
] | It says it right on the title of the video below: it was bound to happen eventually. It’s only natural that somebody would stick
a 3D printer extruder on the business end of a CNC machine
. The long-awaited convergence of additive and subtractive manufacturing is here.
OK, that may be overstating things a bit, but we t... | 26 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "3635963",
"author": "Olav Storstrøm",
"timestamp": "2017-05-31T15:19:55",
"content": "Old news, have you seen Stepcraft? Their CNC machine can be fitted with 3D printer head, laser cutter or drag knife cutter…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,374,807.908184 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/31/malduino-elite/ | Malduino Elite – First Impressions | Pedro Umbelino | [
"Featured",
"Reviews",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"badusb",
"malduino",
"review",
"security"
] | A while back, I wrote an
article about Malduino
, an Arduino-based, open-source BadUSB device. I found the project interesting so I signed up for an Elite version and sure enough, the friendly postman dropped it off in my mail box last Friday, which means I got to play around with it over the weekend. For those who mis... | 39 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "3635908",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-05-31T14:21:05",
"content": "“It’s like those things you see in the movies where a guy plugs in a device and it auto hacks the computer.”Scene from Iron Man. You’d think in the future they’d do away with that loophole?",
"parent... | 1,760,374,807.847949 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/31/hacking-an-external-mic-port-onto-a-camera/ | Hacking An External Mic Port Onto A Camera | John Baichtal | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"4k camera",
"Action camera",
"cheap camera",
"microphone jack"
] | A sub-$100 camera competing in the 4K market, the Akaso EK7000 has a few features typical for the range: wifi, 12MP photos at 30 frames per second, and the like. [Foxx D’Gamma] wanted to
add an external mic jack
to his camera, replacing the internal mic, which featured poor sound pickup due to being buried in the heart... | 19 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3635755",
"author": "Redhatter (VK4MSL)",
"timestamp": "2017-05-31T11:39:09",
"content": "I’d be inclined to use the on-board camera microphone purely for synchronisation purposes and have a completely separate device record the audio.I quite often do this with regular digital camer... | 1,760,374,807.711781 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/31/counterfeit-hardware-may-lead-to-malware-and-failure/ | Counterfeit Hardware May Lead To Malware And Failure | Jack Laidlaw | [
"hardware",
"Security Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"clone",
"clones",
"counterfeit",
"D.O.D",
"ecu hack",
"fake chips",
"fake hardware",
"fakes",
"FTDI gate",
"router fake"
] | Counterfeit parts are becoming increasingly hard to tell the difference from the real deal, the technology used by the counterfeiters has come on leaps and bounds, so even the experts struggle to tell the real product from a good fake. Mere fake branding isn’t the biggest problem with a counterfeit though, as ieee.com ... | 89 | 23 | [
{
"comment_id": "3635578",
"author": "Sjaak",
"timestamp": "2017-05-31T08:32:44",
"content": "Wondering what techniques are used to clone chips. Slicing the layers and reproduce them or less advanced?Also how to detect a cloned chip. Asumming if they manage to copy the silicon it will be hard if not... | 1,760,374,808.031607 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/30/oddly-satisfying-twist-containers/ | Oddly Satisfying – Twist Containers | Lewin Day | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printing",
"twist vase",
"twist vases",
"vase",
"vases"
] | One of the great strengths of 3D printing is that it makes creating objects with certain geometries much easier than it would be with traditional subtractive machining methods. Things like thin-walled perfect spheres or objects with wild undercuts become trivial to make. A great case in point is
these amazing 3D-printe... | 18 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3635447",
"author": "Saabman",
"timestamp": "2017-05-31T05:33:47",
"content": "lol “All the way back to 2009” love it",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3635468",
"author": "Magpie",
"timestamp": "2017-05-31T06:02:16",
... | 1,760,374,807.766324 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/30/inside-a-microswitch/ | Inside A Microswitch | Al Williams | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Teardown"
] | [
"microswitch",
"teardown"
] | We’ve taken a few microswitches apart, mostly to fix those pesky Logitech mice that develop double-click syndrome, but we’ve never made a video. Luckily, [Julian] did, and it is worth watching if you want to
understand the internal mechanism
of these components.
[Julian] talks about the way the contacts make and break.... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3635259",
"author": "Pirate Labs",
"timestamp": "2017-05-31T02:08:30",
"content": "Very informative. Thanks…I learned something.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3635294",
"author": "WJCarpenter",
"timestamp": "2017-05-3... | 1,760,374,808.096008 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/30/ps-vita-hacked-to-accept-micro-sd-instead-of-costly-memory-cards/ | PS Vita Hacked To Accept Micro SD Instead Of Costly Memory Cards | Jack Laidlaw | [
"handhelds hacks",
"Playstation Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [] | Sony loves to have control of their own media formats: Beta, DAT, Minidisc, MemoryStick, Universal Media Disc, MemoryStick Micro, and more. When they released the PS Vita they used a format that was similar in shape to SD but not compatible. The higher capacity ones can be quite costly, However [thesixthaxis] Report th... | 23 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3635121",
"author": "All Systems Bakkoi (@AllBakkoi)",
"timestamp": "2017-05-30T23:40:25",
"content": "Available? It sold out more or less instantly.Not that hard to make your vita 3G, can get a mainboard to swap in for like $25 on ebay",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"... | 1,760,374,808.250889 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/29/re-creating-the-apollo-dskys-display/ | Re-Creating The Apollo DSKY’s Display | John Baichtal | [
"chemistry hacks",
"classic hacks"
] | [
"apollo",
"el",
"EL display",
"electroluminescent",
"Fran Blanche"
] | Apollo astronauts used the DSKY (Display-Keyboard) to interact with the flight computer with a series of 2-digit codes punched into a numeric keypad. Above the keyboard was a high voltage electroluminescent (EL) display whose segments were driven by electromechanical relays; old-ass technology not seen in operation in ... | 56 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "3633422",
"author": "John Jorsett",
"timestamp": "2017-05-30T06:48:15",
"content": "How does one go about getting permission from the Smithsonian to dismantle an artifact? That would be an interesting story in itself.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{... | 1,760,374,808.487453 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/29/float-spectrum-a-sound-reactive-installation/ | Float Spectrum, A Sound-Reactive Installation | John Baichtal | [
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"processing",
"sound reactive"
] | [Sam Kent] and friends built a
sound-reactive LED display
as part of the Leeds (UK) Digital Festival and exhibited it at Hyde Park Book Club. The installation consists of a grid of 25 tubes, each one made out of four recycled 2-liter bottles equipped with a string of a dozen WS2812B LEDs controlled by a central Arduino... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3632521",
"author": "notarealemail",
"timestamp": "2017-05-30T02:27:46",
"content": "Looks like something that belongs on an alien spaceship. The music is weird too, but I found it quite enjoyable.Great idea for the tubes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
... | 1,760,374,808.390703 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/29/crossing-the-atlantic-in-a-42-inch-boat/ | Crossing The Atlantic In A 42 Inch Boat | Jenny List | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"atlantic ocean",
"boat",
"sailing",
"yacht"
] | In the world of sailing, there are many records to compete over. Speed records, endurance records, size records. The fastest crossing, the longest solo journey, the largest yacht.
But not all records concern superlatives, for example in the size stakes, there are also records for the smallest vessels. The Atlantic cros... | 42 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "3631763",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-05-29T23:10:37",
"content": "“We don’t often cover boat building here at Hackaday.”Many a bathtub awaits.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3632824",
"author": "Darren",... | 1,760,374,808.569302 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/29/hackaday-prize-entry-deer-an-electronic-repellent/ | Hackaday Prize Entry : DEER — An Electronic Repellent | Anool Mahidharia | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"Animal repeller",
"Animal Safety",
"deer",
"repellent",
"Repeller",
"ultrasonic",
"ultrasonic transducer",
"ultrasound",
"wildlife",
"wildlife safety"
] | Ultrasonic repellent devices used to keep away insects, rodents, birds, and even large animals have been around for quite a while, but their effectiveness depends on who you ask. Some critters just don’t seem affected, while some others definitely will avoid being around such a device. Deploying a few of these devices... | 37 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3631552",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-05-29T20:32:01",
"content": "How much power would be needed to cover adequately such a large area?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3631624",
"author": "Whoknows",
... | 1,760,374,808.700786 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/29/metal-3d-printing-insta-layers/ | Metal 3D Printing: Insta-Layers | Michael Uttmark | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printing",
"laser",
"laser array",
"laser diode"
] | Selective Metal Sintering is cool but slow. Fear not, a technology that was initially developed to smooth and pattern laser beams is here to save the day, according to a
new paper
by Lawrence Livermore researchers.
In a paper titled “Diode-based additive manufacturing of metals using an optically-addressable light valv... | 19 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3631378",
"author": "Internet",
"timestamp": "2017-05-29T18:05:12",
"content": "Huge, high resolution, cheap AND quick 3D printed metallic parts are what we are waiting for.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3631389",
"a... | 1,760,374,808.625089 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/29/digital-clock-goes-with-the-grain/ | Digital Clock Goes With The Grain | Al Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"ARM",
"clock hacks"
] | [
"3d printing",
"arm",
"clock",
"dht22",
"ESP8266",
"PLA",
"stm32",
"veneer",
"vinyl",
"wood"
] | This
good-looking clock
appears to be made out of a block of wood with LED digits floating underneath. In reality, it is a block of PLA plastic covered with wood veneer (well, [androkavo] calls it veneer, but we think it might just be a contact paper or vinyl with a wood pattern). It makes for a striking effect, and we... | 28 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "3630059",
"author": "starhawk",
"timestamp": "2017-05-29T15:38:23",
"content": "Video doesn’t work. Also… have you not heard of paper veneer? ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3631073",
"author": "ville. vaisanen",
... | 1,760,374,808.767595 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/29/retrotechtacular-the-transistor-1953-film/ | Retrotechtacular: The Transistor (1953 Film) | Jenny List | [
"Retrotechtacular"
] | [
"bell labs",
"junction transistor",
"point contact transistor",
"retrotechtacular",
"transistor",
"vacuum tube"
] | If we cast our minds back to the early years of the transistor, the year that is always quoted is 1947, during which a Bell Labs team developed the first practical germanium point-contact transistor. They would go on to be granted the Nobel Prize for their work in 1956, but the universal adoption of their invention was... | 17 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3629252",
"author": "gir / [Tobi]",
"timestamp": "2017-05-29T14:33:48",
"content": "I love those old technical films! Please more!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3631806",
"author": "Stu",
"timestamp": "2017-0... | 1,760,374,808.826346 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/30/lte-imsi-catcher/ | LTE IMSI Catcher | Michael Uttmark | [
"Cellphone Hacks"
] | [
"IMSI",
"LTE",
"stingray"
] | GSM IMSI catchers preyed on a cryptographic misstep in the GSM protocol. But we have LTE now, why worry? No one has an LTE IMSI catcher, right? Wrong. [Domi] is here with a software-defined base transceiver station that will
catch your IMSI faster
than you can say “stingray” (YouTube video, embedded below).
First of al... | 19 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3634603",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-05-30T20:22:47",
"content": "Wouldn’t IMSI be tied to the SIM card, which can be moved to a different phone?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3634625",
"author": "Mikry... | 1,760,374,808.884329 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/30/hackaday-prize-entry-a-modular-open-source-av-receiver/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: A Modular Open-Source AV Receiver | Jenny List | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"av",
"AV amplifier",
"AV processor",
"Hackaday Prize"
] | Hi-Fi hasn’t changed much in decades. OK, we’ll concede that’s something of a controversial statement to make in that of course your home hi-fi has changed immensely over the years. Where once you might have had a turntable and a cassette deck you probably now have a streaming media player, and a surround sound process... | 24 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3634537",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2017-05-30T19:13:49",
"content": "Nice. I thought about something like this for the first HAD prize, but quickly realized I was in over my head. I’m glad someone’s working on it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
... | 1,760,374,808.946098 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/30/diy-google-aiy/ | How To Build Your Own Google AIY Without The Kit | Inderpreet Singh | [
"Featured",
"google hacks",
"Raspberry Pi",
"Skills",
"Slider"
] | [
"AIY",
"diy",
"google",
"hack",
"KiCAD",
"make",
"raspberry pi",
"teardown"
] | Google’s voice assistant has been around for a while now and when Amazon released its Alexa API and ported the PaaS Cloud code to the Raspberry Pi 2 it was just a matter of time before everyone else jumped on the fast train to maker kingdom. Google just did it in style.
Few know that the Google Assistant API for the Ra... | 52 | 29 | [
{
"comment_id": "3634346",
"author": "Buddy Casino",
"timestamp": "2017-05-30T17:15:35",
"content": "Pff, Raspberry Pi is easy.I’ve built an Amazon Alexa client (basically an Echo Dot) using just a ESP32, a Knowles SPH0645LM4H mic and a MAX98357A I2S amp. Coded the firmware from scratch in C, as is ... | 1,760,374,809.058029 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/30/microchips-pic32mz-da-the-microcontroller-with-a-gpu/ | Microchip’s PIC32MZ DA — The Microcontroller With A GPU | Brian Benchoff | [
"Microcontrollers",
"News"
] | [
"gpu",
"microchip",
"pic32",
"PIC32MZ",
"PIC32MZ DA"
] | When it comes to displays, there is a gap between a traditional microcontroller and a Linux system-on-a-chip (SoC). The SoC that lives in a smartphone will always have enough RAM for a framebuffer and usually has a few pins dedicated to an LCD interface. Today, Microchip has announced a microcontroller that blurs the l... | 63 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "3634215",
"author": "Sykobee",
"timestamp": "2017-05-30T16:10:50",
"content": "Looks like a good fit for the example they give – a coffee maker UI. The one at work is a touch-screen that looks similar, but it certainly doesn’t need more than the 2D functions listed here, or more tha... | 1,760,374,809.305945 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/30/disco-flashlight-binary-analog-clock/ | Disco Flashlight Binary Analog Clock? | Al Williams | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"clock hacks"
] | [
"3d printing",
"arduino",
"binary clock",
"clock",
"Laser cutting",
"neopixel",
"Rhino",
"solidworks",
"solidworks rhino"
] | As multitools have lots of different functions in one case, so [Shadwan’s]
clock design
incorporates a multitude of features. He started the design as a binary clock using a Fibonacci spiral for the shape. However, the finished clock has four modes. The original binary clock, an analog clock, a flashlight (all lights o... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "3633955",
"author": "Pirate Labs",
"timestamp": "2017-05-30T14:51:45",
"content": "Very nice project. I still have no idea what time it is though, ha ha.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3634079",
"author": "tillorly",
"... | 1,760,374,809.118192 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/30/hdmi-out-on-the-gameboy-advance/ | HDMI Out On The Gameboy Advance | Lewin Day | [
"Nintendo Game Boy Hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"fpga",
"game boy",
"game boy advance",
"gameboy",
"Gameboy Advance",
"gba",
"hdmi",
"hdmi out",
"nintendo",
"video out"
] | The Gameboy line of handheld systems from Nintendo have been wildly popular, but lack one major thing – a video output. This can be troublesome if you’d like to view the games on a bigger screen, for more comfortable gaming sessions or detail work like producing chiptunes. One option is to use the Gameboy Player for th... | 35 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "3633657",
"author": "ahmet",
"timestamp": "2017-05-30T11:23:41",
"content": "this is real hack",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3633689",
"author": "pefclic",
"timestamp": "2017-05-30T11:58:12",
"content": "Take…my…mo... | 1,760,374,809.522763 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/30/nitro-powered-rotary-tool/ | Nitro Powered Rotary Tool | Pedro Umbelino | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"dremel",
"nitro",
"rotary tool"
] | We really don’t know if the world needs it but we’re sure glad [johnnyq90] took the time to build one. We’re talking about
a nitro powered rotary tool
. Based on a Kyosho GX-12 nitro engine, commonly used in R/C cars, [johnnyq90] machines almost all other parts in his shop to make a really cool ‘Nitro-Dremel’. But succ... | 26 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3633479",
"author": "cyk",
"timestamp": "2017-05-30T08:25:00",
"content": "This looks like something a traveling dentist in a post-apocalyptic world would use.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3633562",
"author": "Buddy... | 1,760,374,809.58601 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/31/shoot-video-in-26-different-directions/ | Shoot Video In 26 Different Directions | John Baichtal | [
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"360 degree camera",
"beaglebone",
"camera",
"Nvidia Jetson",
"rhombicuboctahedron"
] | [Mark Mullins] is working on a project called Quamera: a camera that
takes video in every direction simultaneously
, creating realtime 3D environments on the fly.
[Mark] is using 26 Arducams, arranging them in a rhombicuboctahedron configuration, which consists of three rings of 8 cameras with each ring controlled by a... | 9 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3637378",
"author": "OLD_HACK",
"timestamp": "2017-06-01T05:23:27",
"content": "I was doing something similar for fun… now doing something else. =/Those 360 cameras are not cheap:https://www.ptgrey.com/ladybug5plusGood luck ;-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies":... | 1,760,374,809.735364 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/31/zerobot-is-as-simple-as-it-gets/ | ZeroBot Is As Simple As It Gets | Cameron Coward | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"kids",
"Raspberry Pi Zero W",
"robot"
] | Usually at Hackaday we like to post projects that are of interest because of their complexity. That’s especially true for robots — the more motors and sensors the better. But, occasionally we come across a project that’s beautiful because of its
simplicity.
That’s the case with [Max Kern]’s ZeroBot,
recently posted ove... | 22 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3637122",
"author": "CupOfJoe",
"timestamp": "2017-06-01T03:27:58",
"content": "Now to add some sort of manipulation- pincers, tractor beam, taser, hand, etc…Reminds me of something from Rainbow Six…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id... | 1,760,374,809.669392 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/31/a-water-jet-cutter-from-a-cheap-pressure-washer/ | A Water Jet Cutter From A Cheap Pressure Washer | Jenny List | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"cnc",
"pressure washer",
"water cutter",
"water cutting"
] | We’ve become used to CNC mills and 3D printers becoming staples of our workshops, and thanks to the wonders of international trade even a modest laser cutter is not beyond the reach of most experimenters. But there is one tool that has so far evaded all but either commercial operations or the extremely well-heeled, the... | 67 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "3636769",
"author": "Jerry",
"timestamp": "2017-05-31T23:06:13",
"content": "Watch those fingers dudes and dudettes..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3636862",
"author": "Leithoa",
"timestamp": "2017-06-01T00:1... | 1,760,374,809.92118 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/31/hijacking-the-sonoff-ota-mechanism/ | Hijacking The Sonoff OTA Mechanism | Lewin Day | [
"home hacks",
"News",
"Slider"
] | [
"ESP8266",
"home automation",
"internet of things",
"IoT",
"OTA",
"over-the-air update",
"sonoff"
] | ITEAD’s Sonoff line is a range of Internet-of-Things devices based around the ESP8266. This makes them popular for hacking due to their accessibility. Past projects have figured out how to reflash the Sonoff devices, but for [mirko], that wasn’t enough –
it was time to reverse engineer the Sonoff Over-The-Air update pr... | 25 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3636423",
"author": "Nitori",
"timestamp": "2017-05-31T20:09:28",
"content": "The best thing you can do to an IoT device is remove the need for it to phone home to the corporate mothership.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3636... | 1,760,374,809.808532 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/31/hackaday-prize-entry-3d-printed-mini-lathe/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: 3D Printed Mini-Lathe | Lewin Day | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"3d printed",
"3d printer",
"lathe",
"mini lathe",
"tool"
] | Lathes can be big, powerful, dangerous machines. But sometimes there’s a call for making very small parts out of soft materials, like plastic and wood. For jobs like this, you could use something like this
3D printed mini-lathe
.
The benefits of 3D printing a tool like this are plentiful. The design can be customized a... | 20 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3636249",
"author": "ganzuul",
"timestamp": "2017-05-31T18:38:46",
"content": "You could probably get a decent surface finish on other printed parts using this machine.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3636257",
"author... | 1,760,374,811.867721 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/31/interview-francesco-de-comite-makes-math-visually-awesome/ | Interview: Francesco De Comité Makes Math Visually Awesome | John Baichtal | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Featured",
"Interviews"
] | [
"Fractals",
"math",
"polyhedra",
"sea shells"
] | Francesco de Comité is an
Associate Professor in Computer Science
at the University of Sciences in Lille, France, where he researches the 2D and 3D representation of mathematical concepts and objects. He’s presented papers on a variety of topics including anamorphoses, experiments in circle packing, and Dupin cyclides
... | 7 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3636102",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2017-05-31T17:43:08",
"content": "“Francesco de Comité is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Sciences in Lille, France, where he researches the 2D and 3D representation of mathematical concepts and objects. ”On a ... | 1,760,374,811.606965 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/31/friday-hack-chat-audio-systems/ | Friday Hack Chat: Audio Systems | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"audio",
"audio systems",
"Hack Chat"
] | Join us this Friday for
a Hack Chat on Audio Systems
. It’s going down June 2 at noon PDT (
handy time zone converter thing
).
Every Friday, we gather round the campfire with the best in the business to tease out whatever secrets are stored in their mind. This is the Hack Chat, and this week, we’re going to be talking ... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "3636495",
"author": "steveeeee",
"timestamp": "2017-05-31T20:40:41",
"content": "I can’t make it to the chat, but just wanted to post that I fell onto the same course at York for similar reasons and got my BEng at the same time as [Dafydd Roche]. While I ended up going into softwar... | 1,760,374,811.545806 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/29/chocolate-factory-simulation-makes-bars-with-lego/ | Chocolate Factory Simulation Makes Bars With LEGO | John Baichtal | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"chocolate",
"factory",
"lego",
"mindstorms",
"Pneumatics"
] | [Michael Brandl] got to visit the Milka chocolate factory in Bludenz, Austria and was inspired to
build this simulation
of the production process for the LEGO world 2017 event in Copenhagen.
The process begins with the empty mold riding on a double row of tank treads. Subsequent modules seem to fill the mold with LEGO ... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "3629118",
"author": "Michael Roberts",
"timestamp": "2017-05-29T14:26:43",
"content": "im impressed",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3629119",
"author": "localhost",
"timestamp": "2017-05-29T14:26:59",
"content": "Can... | 1,760,374,811.739574 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/29/chess-set-from-car-parts/ | Chess Set From Car Parts | Lewin Day | [
"car hacks"
] | [
"automotive",
"car",
"chess",
"chess set",
"metalwork",
"metalworking"
] | Chess has been around for an awfully long time, automobiles less so. However, there’s no reason the two can’t be combined, like in
this chess set fashioned from automotive components.
The project was made as a gift, and is the sort of thing that’s quite accessible for an interested maker to attempt at home. Parts used ... | 23 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3627020",
"author": "macona",
"timestamp": "2017-05-29T08:04:35",
"content": "Bead blast one set and do a black oxide treatment on the other and it will be much more permanent, and probably look nicer than paint.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,374,811.813211 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/28/segas-game-gear-gets-a-video-output/ | Sega’s Game Gear Gets A Video Output | Adam Fabio | [
"Slider",
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"AV out",
"cpld",
"game gear",
"sega",
"video"
] | [EvilTim] dug deep into a classic system to finally give the Game Gear a
proper video output
. The Game Gear was Sega’s answer to Nintendo’s Gameboy. Rushed to market, the Game Gear reused much of the hardware from the very popular Master System Console. The hardware wasn’t quite identical though – especially the cart... | 29 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3626922",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-05-29T05:59:06",
"content": "I miss my GG. Practically pristine. Even had the TV cartridge. Ate batteries though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3626965",
"author": "... | 1,760,374,812.22092 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/28/a-tube-am-transmitter-in-a-soup-can/ | A Tube AM Transmitter In A Soup Can | Jenny List | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"am",
"AM Transmitter",
"radio",
"soup can",
"transmitter",
"tube transmitter"
] | A standard early electronics project or kit has for many years been the construction of a small broadcast transmitter with enough power to reach the immediate area, but no further. These days that will almost certainly mean an FM broadcast band transmitter, but in earlier decades it might also have been for the AM broa... | 23 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "3626406",
"author": "RandyKC",
"timestamp": "2017-05-29T02:03:04",
"content": "Does this also work with cream of mushroom?????",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3626428",
"author": "OscarZulu",
"timestamp": "2017... | 1,760,374,812.281471 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/28/hackaday-links-may-28-2017/ | Hackaday Links: May 28, 2017 | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links"
] | [
"3D printing pen",
"AliExpress",
"Anycon",
"autonomous car",
"boeing",
"c16",
"Commodore TED",
"crowdfunding",
"darpa",
"Random Chinese crap"
] | Boeing and DARPA
are building a spaceplane
. Right now it’s only a press release and a few concept images, but it looks like this is an air-launched system kind of like a
Tristar/Pegasus
, only much higher and completely unmanned. It’s a ton and a half to low earth orbit, with a goal of 10 flights in 10 days.
Up in Alb... | 46 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3626311",
"author": "Biomed",
"timestamp": "2017-05-28T23:16:10",
"content": "Casey Neistat Investigation link is incorrect.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3626318",
"author": "mkomarinski",
"timestamp": "2017... | 1,760,374,811.698963 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/28/esp32-monster-and-getting-started-quickly/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: ESP32 Monster And Getting Started Quickly | Elliot Williams | [
"Microcontrollers",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"can-bus",
"development board",
"esp-idf",
"ESP32",
"ethernet",
"wifi"
] | Prolific hacker [kodera2t] is working on his own “
ESP32 monster board
” dev board for the still-newish ESP32 WiFi module. His board has everything: Ethernet, OLED, LiPo, and even CAN-bus. But all that peripheral connectivity is worth nothing if you can’t program the microcontroller to use it.
The Arduino environment f... | 19 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3626206",
"author": "gogo",
"timestamp": "2017-05-28T20:17:01",
"content": "What autorouter crap is this?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3626313",
"author": "LOL",
"timestamp": "2017-05-28T23:17:28",
"... | 1,760,374,811.929112 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/28/imsai-8080-resurrection/ | IMSAI 8080 Resurrection | Al Williams | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"altair",
"imsai 8080"
] | When MITS introduced the Altair 8800–about 43 years ago–it spawned the first personal computer clone: the IMSAI 8080. The clone had several improvements and MITS had difficulty filling orders for real Altairs, so they sold pretty well. [IMSAI Guy] has one of these vintage computers that has been in storage for over 30 ... | 76 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3626025",
"author": "jcwren",
"timestamp": "2017-05-28T17:08:18",
"content": "If you really miss them, I’ll sell you mine. Original IMSAI 8080, 22-slot motherboard, 40 amp supply, Tarbell DSDD controller with 3 Qume Datatrak-8 drives, 4 port serial card, 64K static memory card, 256K... | 1,760,374,812.041554 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/27/use-the-force-to-turn-on-this-lamp/ | Use The Force To Turn On This Lamp | Rich Hawkes | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"Holocron",
"ir sensor",
"jedi",
"led light",
"particle photon",
"servo"
] | Holocrons are holographic data storage devices used in the
Star Wars
universe by both Jedi and Sith as teaching devices or for storing valuable information. After the fall of the Jedi, they became rare and closely guarded artifacts. [DaveClarke] built one to
light the room
.
[DaveClarke] built the lamp around a Particl... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "3622391",
"author": "notarealemail",
"timestamp": "2017-05-27T18:23:54",
"content": "I’m in agreement with [starhawk] this time; 20 MB crappie GIF, delete it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3622457",
"author": "notare... | 1,760,374,812.330408 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/27/the-internet-of-cigars/ | The Internet Of Cigars | Al Williams | [
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"AM2302",
"cigar",
"humidity",
"humidor",
"raspberry pi"
] | We know, we know. They are bad for you. You shouldn’t start, but some people do love a cigar. And a fine cigar is pretty particular about drying out. That’s why tobacconists and cigar aficionados store their smokes in a humidor. This is anything from a small box to a large closet that maintains a constant humidity. Of ... | 35 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3622018",
"author": "iojage",
"timestamp": "2017-05-27T15:49:36",
"content": "Some people would do the same thing for dildo devices. They can be hard to use when dry.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3622909",
"author":... | 1,760,374,812.401434 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/27/sense-hat-comes-alive/ | Sense Hat Comes Alive | Al Williams | [
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"animation",
"raspberry pi",
"RGB LED",
"sense hat"
] | Remember the Raspberry Pi Sense Hat? Originally designed for a mission to the International Space Station, the board has quite a few sensors onboard as well as an 8×8 RGB LED matrix. What can you do with an 8×8 screen? You might be surprised if you use [Ethan’s]
Python Sense Hat animation library
. You can get the full... | 11 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "3622106",
"author": "notarealemail",
"timestamp": "2017-05-27T16:50:09",
"content": "Is it possible for this array to sense touch? As in use the LED(s) as light sensors?Doesn’thaveto be super-accurate, just to be more interactive.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replie... | 1,760,374,812.508724 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/27/esp32-hamster-wheel-tracker-tweets-workout-stats/ | ESP32 Hamster Wheel Tracker Tweets Workout Stats | John Baichtal | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"DataLogging",
"ESP32",
"hamster wheel",
"twitter"
] | Even with all the hamster wheel trackers out there (and on this site) there’s room for improvement. [Bogdan] upgraded his
hamster wheel
from an Arduino and datalogging shield to an ESP32, and unleashed some new capabilities one does not ordinarily associate with hamster wheels.
[Bogdan]’s project logs distance in feet,... | 21 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "3621702",
"author": "Mart",
"timestamp": "2017-05-27T12:16:16",
"content": "nicely done",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3621731",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2017-05-27T12:21:37",
"content": "Think the thing spe... | 1,760,374,812.568342 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/26/energy-harvesting-wristwatch-uses-a-versatile-photodiode/ | Energy Harvesting Wristwatch Uses A Versatile Photodiode | Sean Boyce | [
"clock hacks",
"Solar Hacks",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"atmega328",
"bpw34",
"DIY wrist watch",
"supercapacitor"
] | There’s some interesting technology bundled into
this energy harvesting wristwatch
. While energy harvesting timepieces (called
automatic watches
) have been around for nearly 240 years, [bobricius] has used parts and methods that are more easily transferable to other projects.
Unlike early mechanical systems, this des... | 25 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3620632",
"author": "Yann Guidon / YGDES",
"timestamp": "2017-05-26T23:04:56",
"content": "You made it, yeah !",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3620637",
"author": "Yann Guidon / YGDES",
"timestamp": "2017-05-26T23:08:27"... | 1,760,374,812.690305 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/26/hackaday-prize-entry-lifepo4weredpi/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: LiFePO4wered/Pi+ | Pedro Umbelino | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"LiFePO4wered",
"raspberry",
"ups"
] | For some of you the title might seem familiar, as [Patrick Van Oosterwijck] LiFePO4wered/Pi project is a quite successful Hackaday.io project. Now he’s designing from scratch the
plus
version to fill in some gaps and solve some of the challenges that affected the initial project. So
what exactly is LiFePO4wered/Pi+
and... | 21 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3620113",
"author": "Gordon Endersby",
"timestamp": "2017-05-26T19:07:01",
"content": "I really like his power boards and would like to use them.But the price, plus postage and getting hit by import taxes on both my orders from the USA to the UK makes it too expensive to use for me.... | 1,760,374,812.628133 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/26/the-tri-rotor-drone-why-has-it-been-overlooked/ | The Tri Rotor Drone: Why Has It Been Overlooked? | Jenny List | [
"drone hacks",
"Featured"
] | [
"aircraft",
"drone",
"multirotor",
"trirotor"
] | A DJI Phantom 3. Zimin.V.G. [
CC BY-SA 4.0
]
If you are a watcher of the world of drones, or multirotors, you may have a fixed idea of what one of these aircraft looks like in your mind. There will be a central pod containing batteries and avionics, with a set of arms radiating from it, each of which will have a motor ... | 80 | 30 | [
{
"comment_id": "3620008",
"author": "David Lang",
"timestamp": "2017-05-26T17:09:36",
"content": "so what is the benefit again?If you are going to go to all the effort of adding yaw to an arm, you can do it just as well with any number of arms, going to three doesn’t gain anything.mandatory extra c... | 1,760,374,812.813544 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/28/a-flying-fetching-helping-hand-omnicopter/ | A Flying, Fetching, Helping-Hand Omnicopter | Steven Dufresne | [
"drone hacks"
] | [
"diy drones",
"drone",
"ETH Zurich",
"PixHawk",
"PX4"
] | Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a flying machine that could maneuver in any direction while rotating around any axis while maintaining both thrust and torque? Attach a robot arm and the machine could position itself anywhere and move objects around as needed. [Dario Brescianini] and [Raffaello D’Andrea] of the Institute... | 26 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "3625705",
"author": "TheGodfather",
"timestamp": "2017-05-28T15:17:34",
"content": "Well the outfielders just lost their job to a robot. Maybe baseball will be exciting now!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3626156",
"a... | 1,760,374,812.880897 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/28/procedurally-generating-random-medieval-cities/ | Procedurally Generating Random Medieval Cities | John Baichtal | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"maps",
"medieval city",
"procedurally generated"
] | With procedural content generation, you build data algorithmically rather than manually — think Minecraft worlds, replete with all the terrains and mobs you’d expect, but distributed differently for every seed. A lot of games use algorithms similarly to generate appropriate treasure and monsters based on the level of t... | 17 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3624769",
"author": "Rhodri Metcalfe-Davies",
"timestamp": "2017-05-28T11:10:02",
"content": "TO D’n’D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3625149",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-05-28T13:02:20",
"content": "I... | 1,760,374,812.931734 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/28/head-up-display-augments-bionic-turtles-reality/ | Head-Up Display Augments Bionic Turtle’s Reality | Dan Maloney | [
"Robots Hacks",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"amphibian",
"ar",
"bionic",
"hud",
"navigation",
"operant conditioning",
"Pavlov",
"waypoints"
] | There’s a harsh truth underlying all robotic research: compared to evolution, we suck at making things move. Nature has a couple billion years of practice making things that can slide, hop, fly, swim and run, so why not leverage those platforms? That’s the idea behind
this turtle with a navigation robot strapped to its... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3624626",
"author": "Nitpicker Smartyass",
"timestamp": "2017-05-28T10:27:19",
"content": "> compared to evolution, we suck at making things move.Actually, the opposite is correct. We are quite good at putting into practical use what we come up with in our minds. Evolution has to do... | 1,760,374,812.978932 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/27/gamecube-advance-sp/ | Go Portable With GameCube Advance SP | James Hobson | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"advance",
"console",
"cube",
"game",
"gameboy",
"portable",
"sp",
"video",
"wasp"
] | Off the hop, we love portable consoles. To be clear, we don’t just mean handhelds like the 3DS, or RetroPie builds, but when a maker takes a home console from generations past and hacks a childhood fantasy into reality — that’s amore. So, it’s only natural that [Bill Paxton]’s GameCube re-imagined as a
Game Boy Advance... | 12 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3623826",
"author": "Joe",
"timestamp": "2017-05-28T06:02:00",
"content": "That is a beautiful build, but the fat power cord! Now I want to build one with my old GC!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3623975",
"author": "Steve... | 1,760,374,813.088281 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/27/openstf-dock-ready-to-farm-clicks/ | OpenSTF Dock Ready To Farm Clicks | Brian Benchoff | [
"Android Hacks"
] | [
"click farm",
"Compute Stick",
"griffin",
"OpenSTF",
"STF"
] | Deep in the heart of a Chinese click farm — and probably used by the company your company hired to build an ‘app’ — is a magical device. Call it a Beowulf Cluster of Phones. Call it the farm. By any name, it’s a whole bunch of smartphones, smart watches, tablets, and other Smart Things all controlled remotely. This is ... | 18 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3623272",
"author": "Tucson Tom",
"timestamp": "2017-05-28T02:04:57",
"content": "Looks like a waste of money to me. Who needs a fone pharm?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3623329",
"author": "notarealemail",
... | 1,760,374,813.036334 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/27/radio-controlled-pacemakers-are-easily-hacked/ | Radio Controlled Pacemakers Are Easily Hacked | Jack Laidlaw | [
"Medical Hacks",
"News"
] | [
"pacemaker",
"penetration testing",
"security",
"unencrypted",
"vulnerability"
] | Doctors use RF signals to adjust pacemakers so that instead of slicing a patient open, they can change the pacemakers parameters which in turn avoids unnecessary surgery.
A study on security weaknesses of pacemakers (highlights)
or f
ull Report
(PDF) has found that pacemakers from the main manufacturers contain securit... | 40 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "3622965",
"author": "CRImier",
"timestamp": "2017-05-27T23:24:07",
"content": "Oh, that screenshot could as well be St. Jude Medical – the script names&paths & terminology checks out, and SJM is notorious, partly thanks to seemingly-targeted security researcher attacks. However, the... | 1,760,374,813.48659 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/27/hackaday-prize-entry-makernet/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: MakerNet | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"i2c",
"SAM11"
] | One of the biggest trends in whatever market ‘Maker’ stuff belongs to is the Legofication of electronics. Building electronics is
hard
, if you haven’t noticed. Anything that turns transmission lines, current loops, and RF wizardry into something a five-year-old can use has obvious applications to education. For his Ha... | 18 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3622644",
"author": "Olsen",
"timestamp": "2017-05-27T20:19:49",
"content": "The more “plug and play” you make electronics, the more complex it gets.Still cool! Electronics education is not what it could be. This might be of great benifit to the future electronics community.",
"... | 1,760,374,813.338989 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/25/linux-sambacry/ | Linux SambaCry | Pedro Umbelino | [
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"CVE-2017-7494",
"exploit",
"samba",
"security",
"smb"
] | Great news everyone, Windows is not the only operating system with remote code execution via SMB. Linux has also its own, seven-year-old version of the bug. /s
This Linux remote execution vulnerability (
CVE-2017-7494
) affects Samba, the Linux re-implementation of the SMB networking protocol, from versions 3.5.0 onwar... | 25 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3618842",
"author": "???? ????",
"timestamp": "2017-05-25T20:53:21",
"content": "All Debian derived distributions should have had this covered already by a recent update. I’d recommend never using Samba over more exposed networks, sshfs mounts work really well unless you need more t... | 1,760,374,813.40139 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/25/hackaday-prize-entry-heart-failure-detection-device/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Heart Failure Detection Device | Pedro Umbelino | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"Doppler",
"medical",
"ultrasound"
] | Early and low-cost detection of a Heart Failure is the proposal of [Jean Pierre Le Rouzic]
for his entry for the 2017 Hackaday Prize
. His device is based on a low-cost Doppler device, like those fetal Doppler devices used to listen an unborn baby heart, feeding a machine learning algorithm that could differentiate bet... | 19 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3618741",
"author": "Will",
"timestamp": "2017-05-25T19:09:27",
"content": "Just a heads up, “heart” is spelled as “hearth” several times in this article.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3618758",
"author": "FrankTheCa... | 1,760,374,813.540639 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/25/taming-those-music-reading-demons/ | Music Reading For Machines | Steven Dufresne | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Musical Hacks",
"Skills"
] | [
"555",
"555 timer",
"music",
"music player",
"optical recognition",
"sheet music"
] | “Dammit Jim, I’m a hacker, not a musician!”, to paraphrase McCoy
Scotty
from the original Star Trek series. Well, some of us are also musicians, some, like me, are also hack-musicians, and some wouldn’t know a whole note from a treble clef. But every now and then the music you want is in the form of sheet music and you... | 17 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3618669",
"author": "kjoehass",
"timestamp": "2017-05-25T17:09:42",
"content": "Your introductory paragraph paraphrases Dr. McCoy, not Scotty. Is it sad that this is what caught my eye?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3618690"... | 1,760,374,813.608837 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/25/coleco-in-spat-with-colecovision-community/ | Coleco In Spat With ColecoVision Community | Jenny List | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"Coleco",
"colecovision",
"console",
"dmca"
] | If you were a child of the late 1970s or early 1980s, the chances are that your number one desire was to own a games console. The one to have was the Atari 2600, notwithstanding that dreadful E.T. game.
Of course, there were other consoles during that era. One of these also-ran products came from Coleco, a company that... | 82 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "3618611",
"author": "Internet",
"timestamp": "2017-05-25T15:41:23",
"content": "Err, adult content for consoles has existed for literally 40+ years now. Even the Atari 2600 had all sorts of titles such as Bachelor Party, Burning Desire, Custer’s Revenge, A Knight on The Town, Beat ‘... | 1,760,374,813.73285 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/25/ohm-dont-forget-kirchhoff/ | Ohm? Don’t Forget Kirchhoff! | Al Williams | [
"Engineering",
"Featured",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"KCL",
"Khan academy",
"kirchhoffs laws",
"KVL",
"mesh analysis",
"ohms law"
] | It is hard to get very far into electronics without knowing Ohm’s law. Named after [Georg Ohm] it describes current and voltage relationships in linear circuits. However, there are two laws that are even more basic that don’t get nearly the respect that Ohm’s law gets. Those are Kirchhoff’s laws.
In simple terms, Kirch... | 52 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3618538",
"author": "Capmo",
"timestamp": "2017-05-25T14:39:16",
"content": "Uh, no… the law of nodes is conservation of charge, not of energy.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3618539",
"author": "Capmo",
"time... | 1,760,374,813.894996 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/25/nist-helps-you-with-cryptography/ | NIST Helps You With Cryptography | Elliot Williams | [
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"aes",
"aes-128",
"crypto",
"microconroller",
"microcontroller",
"nist"
] | Getting cryptography right isn’t easy, and it’s a lot worse on constrained devices like microcontrollers. RAM is usually the bottleneck — you will smash your stack computing a SHA-2 hash on an AVR — but other resources like computing power and flash code storage space are also at a premium. Trimming down a standard alg... | 33 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3618399",
"author": "Whoknows",
"timestamp": "2017-05-25T11:38:04",
"content": "Is AES and other such more complex security really needed for IoT? I mean can’t you just go simple and use things like dictionary encryption or some such? It’s not like you are protecting from some major... | 1,760,374,813.801155 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/25/these-engineering-ed-projects-are-our-kind-of-hacks/ | These Engineering Ed Projects Are Our Kind Of Hacks | Mike Szczys | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"definitely a hack",
"education",
"engineering",
"kits",
"stem"
] | Highly polished all-in-one gear for teaching STEM is one way to approach the problem. But for some, they can be intimidating and the up-front expenditure can be a barrier to just trying something before you’re certain you want to commit. [Miranda] is taking a different approach with the aim of making engineering educat... | 23 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3618070",
"author": "8031brown",
"timestamp": "2017-05-25T08:25:58",
"content": "I am buried (not really but it seems like it sometimes) under piles of ‘might come in useful’ stuff, plastic and cardboard packaging and broken things that I intend to re-make. The line between maker an... | 1,760,374,813.960576 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/26/nintoaster-the-next-generation/ | Nintoaster: The Next Generation | Adam Fabio | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"gaming",
"nes",
"nintendo",
"retrogaming",
"toaster"
] | The original Nintendo Entertainment System is affectionately called “the toaster” due to the way the cartridge is inserted. [MrBananaHump] decided to take things a bit literally and
installed a NES inside an actual toaster
. This isn’t [MrBananaHump’s] design, the Nintoaster comes to us from [vomitsaw], who also built ... | 22 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3619933",
"author": "zosh",
"timestamp": "2017-05-26T15:37:45",
"content": "Welcome to 2010’s news.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDGR2MiCyYs",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3619940",
"author": "zosh",
"timest... | 1,760,374,814.014533 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/26/embed-with-elliot-lin-is-for-hackers/ | Embed With Elliot: LIN Is For Hackers | Elliot Williams | [
"Engineering",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"bus",
"embed with elliot",
"LIN"
] | A car is a rolling pile of hundreds of microcontrollers these days — just ask any greybeard mechanic and he’ll start his “carburetor” rant. All of these systems and sub-systems need to talk to each other in an electrically hostile environment, and it’s not an exaggeration to say that miscommunication, or even delayed c... | 18 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3619834",
"author": "codifies",
"timestamp": "2017-05-26T14:12:49",
"content": "I love what I can get up to with technology, but how long will it be before your car does a compulsory police detour and you won’t be able to regain control till after the detour (even if you decide you ... | 1,760,374,814.080421 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/26/intels-vision-for-single-board-computers-is-to-have-better-vision/ | Intel’s Vision For Single Board Computers Is To Have Better Vision | Mike Szczys | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"depth camera",
"euclid",
"fisheye camera",
"intel",
"Intel RealSense",
"Joule",
"rgb camera",
"rov",
"SBC",
"single board computer",
"underwater"
] | At the Bay Area Maker Faire last weekend, Intel was showing off a couple of sexy newcomers in the Single Board Computer (SBC) market. It’s easy to get trapped into thinking that SBCs are all about simple boards with a double-digit price tag like the Raspberry Pi. How can you compete with a $35 computer that has a huge ... | 33 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3619573",
"author": "Internet",
"timestamp": "2017-05-26T11:12:35",
"content": "Joule is $299-$349. Euclid is $399. And that’s the sound of a limited market share. Sell these at $100 and you are starting to establish something. As it is, these are vastly overpriced. How open are the... | 1,760,374,814.159026 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/26/making-an-inexpensive-dro/ | Making An Inexpensive DRO | John Baichtal | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"digital caliper",
"dro",
"lathe",
"mill",
"pic"
] | [Andrew] wanted a digital readout (DRO) for his mini lathe and mini mill, but found that buying even one DRO cost as much as either of his machines. The solution? You guessed it, he
built his own
for cheap, using inexpensive digital calipers purchased off eBay.
The DRO he created features a touch screen with a menu sys... | 22 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3619497",
"author": "tonygoacher",
"timestamp": "2017-05-26T09:34:41",
"content": "This is a great project and something I was considering for my mill. A casual search of Aliexpress though shows a 3 axis DRO accurate to 1um is less than $250 delivered.",
"parent_id": null,
"... | 1,760,374,814.428203 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/25/hack-your-hot-air-station/ | Hack Your Hot Air Station | Al Williams | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"858D",
"arduino",
"hot air soldering",
"soldering hack"
] | It used to be hot air soldering gear was exotic, but not anymore. There are plenty of relatively inexpensive choices. Many of these appear to be the same despite having different brand names and model numbers. One that is common and inexpensive is the 858D. These run about $50. [Gabse] has one and decided to upgrade it... | 32 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3619301",
"author": "Dovepistil",
"timestamp": "2017-05-26T05:48:58",
"content": "Thanks for a very useful overview of SMD hot air tooling. I was already thinking of controller upgrade, and here it is!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment... | 1,760,374,814.496823 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/25/ever-hear-of-the-ford-cylon/ | Ever Hear Of The Ford Cylon? | Jamie Navarro | [
"car hacks",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"bluetooth",
"cobra",
"cylon",
"ford",
"led",
"mustang"
] | OK, we haven’t heard of a Ford Cylon either. However, there is now a Mustang Cobra out there that has been given a famous Cylon characteristic. [Monta Elkins] picked himself up an aftermarket third brake light assembly,
hacked it, and installed it on said Mustang
.
The brake light assembly contains 12 LEDs, which unfor... | 42 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "3619145",
"author": "Anti-ricer",
"timestamp": "2017-05-26T02:48:53",
"content": "American Rice!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3619146",
"author": "Joe",
"timestamp": "2017-05-26T02:49:55",
"content": "Hope it’s le... | 1,760,374,814.370137 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/25/hacked-by-subtitles/ | Hacked By Subtitles | Pedro Umbelino | [
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"Kodi",
"popcorn-time",
"security",
"vlc",
"xmbc"
] | CheckPoint researchers
published in the company blog
a warning about a vulnerability affecting several video players. They found that VLC, Kodi (XBMC), Popcorn-Time and strem.io are all vulnerable to attack via malicious subtitle files. By carefully crafting a subtitles file they claim to have managed to take complete ... | 15 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3618984",
"author": "RicoElectrico",
"timestamp": "2017-05-25T23:10:38",
"content": "It’d be better if you didn’t rush to get page views and waited for actual details of the exploit. Without it, there can be no meaningful discussion.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"re... | 1,760,374,814.543604 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/24/radar-sensors-put-to-the-test/ | Radar Sensors Put To The Test | Al Williams | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"radar",
"radar sensor",
"sensor"
] | [Andreas Spiess] picked up a few inexpensive radar sensors. He decided to compare the devices and test them and–lucky for us–he collected his results in
a video
you can see below.
The questions he wanted to answer were:
Are they 3.3 V-compatible?
How much current do they draw?
How long to they show a detection?
How far... | 68 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "3618007",
"author": "neon22",
"timestamp": "2017-05-25T06:39:12",
"content": "Wonderfully in-depth and useful. Thanks very much.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3618018",
"author": "Jimmie Wong",
"timestamp": "2017-05-25... | 1,760,374,814.649535 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/24/what-lies-within-smt-inductor-teardown/ | What Lies Within: SMT Inductor Teardown | Dan Maloney | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Teardown"
] | [
"analysis",
"decapping",
"grinding",
"image analysis",
"inductor",
"lapping",
"smt",
"surface mount",
"teardown"
] | Ever wonder what’s inside a surface-mount inductor? Wonder no more as you watch
this SMT inductor teardown
video.
“Teardown” isn’t really accurate here, at least by the standard of [electronupdate]’s other component teardowns, like his looks inside
LED light bulbs
and
das blinkenlights
. “Rubdown” is more like it here,... | 10 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "3617754",
"author": "reggy",
"timestamp": "2017-05-25T02:32:17",
"content": "Interesting but I would have been more interested in seeing how the marked value compared to a measured value with a good LCR bridge. IMHO the entire video kind of fell apart at the end with what I would c... | 1,760,374,814.694943 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/24/only-90s-kids-will-appreciate-this-prototype/ | Only 90s Kids Will Appreciate This Prototype | Brian Benchoff | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"Autodesk ReMake",
"Floam",
"Photogrammetry",
"trackball"
] | [Madox] is a trackball user, which is fine; we at Hackaday respect and appreciate those who live alternative lifestyles. As you would expect, there aren’t many makes and models of trackballs being sold, and [Madox] wanted something ergonomic. A DIY solution was necessary, but how to you model something ‘ergonomic’ befo... | 34 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3617549",
"author": "Roger Vernon",
"timestamp": "2017-05-24T23:13:45",
"content": "I’m seeing a prototype that looks like something out of Existenz.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3617589",
"author": "Gravis",
... | 1,760,374,814.972565 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/24/fooling-samsung-galaxy-s8-iris-recognition/ | Fooling Samsung Galaxy S8 Iris Recognition | Elliot Williams | [
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"biometrics",
"fingerprint",
"galaxy s8",
"iris scan",
"samsung",
"spoofing"
] | We have a love-hate relationship with biometric ID. After all, it looks so cool when the hero in a sci-fi movie enters the restricted-access area after having his hand and iris scanned. But that’s about the best you can say about biometric security. It’s conceptually flawed in a bunch of ways, and nearly every implemen... | 34 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3617399",
"author": "Curmudgeon",
"timestamp": "2017-05-24T20:11:16",
"content": "Yeah, it’s all fun and games til the bad guy cuts off your hand and plucks out your eyeball so he can gain entry.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id":... | 1,760,374,814.899183 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/24/hackaday-prize-entry-underwater-glider-offers-low-power-exploration/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Underwater Glider Offers Low-Power Exploration | John Baichtal | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"glider",
"rov",
"submarine",
"uav"
] | [Alex Williams] created his
Open Source Underwater Glider
project as an entry to The Hackaday Prize, and now it’s one of our twenty finalists. This sweet drone uses motor-actuated syringes to serve as a ballast tank, which helps the glider move forward without the use of traditional propellers.
Unlike most UAVs, which ... | 29 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3617422",
"author": "bty",
"timestamp": "2017-05-24T20:35:20",
"content": "http://i.imgur.com/AOL6QLK.gif",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3617460",
"author": "James Mead",
"timestamp": "2017-05-24T21:18:41",
"content... | 1,760,374,814.830514 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/24/hackadays-bamf-meetup-spills-into-the-streets-of-san-mateo/ | Hackaday’s BAMF Meetup Spills Into The Streets Of San Mateo | Mike Szczys | [
"cons"
] | [
"bamf",
"Bay Area Maker Faire 2017",
"meetup",
"o'neil's irish pub",
"san mateo"
] | Saturday night marked the fourth annual Hackaday BAMF meetup. The night when weary exhibitors close up their booths at Bay Area Maker Faire and head over to O’Neil’s Irish Pub where the real fun starts. There are many drawbacks to having a booth; you’re on your feet all day repeating the same small snippet to everyone ... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3617292",
"author": "Anton Kovalenko",
"timestamp": "2017-05-24T18:12:44",
"content": "Whenever I see “BAMF”, I think “Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge”.Thanks for clarifying that it’s actually “Bay Area Maker Faire” right away =)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,374,814.7625 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/24/on-point-the-yagi-antenna/ | On Point: The Yagi Antenna | Dan Maloney | [
"Engineering",
"Featured",
"History",
"Original Art",
"Slider",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"antenna",
"design",
"history",
"yagi",
"yagi-uda"
] | If you happened to look up during a drive down a suburban street in the US anytime during the 60s or 70s, you’ll no doubt have noticed a forest of TV antennas. When over-the-air TV was the only option, people went to great lengths to haul in signals, with antennas of sometimes massive proportions flying over rooftops.
... | 86 | 31 | [
{
"comment_id": "3617244",
"author": "aaknitt",
"timestamp": "2017-05-24T17:18:03",
"content": "In the U.S. most TV antennas are log-periodic arrays, not Yagis. Log periodic antennas have a much wider bandwidth, which is desirable for receiving TV broadcasts, since the channels are spread out over ... | 1,760,374,815.102798 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/24/friday-hack-chat-antiquated-technologies-with-fran-blanche/ | Friday Hack Chat: Antiquated Technologies With Fran Blanche | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"antiquated technologies",
"fran",
"Hack Chat",
"hackchat"
] | Join us this Friday for a
Hack Chat
on antiquated technologies.
Every Friday, we round up someone from the hardware scene and sit them down in front of a keyboard to discuss what they’re working on. This week, we’re talking with [Fran Blanche] to discuss ancient technologies, weird electronics, and everything that goes... | 7 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "3617726",
"author": "richfiles",
"timestamp": "2017-05-25T02:23:59",
"content": "I’ve been following this since she started this a couple years ago. Really interesting to see what she turned up from her INCREDIBLE visits and teardowns! So many wish I were there moments!",
"paren... | 1,760,374,815.158502 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/24/bre-pettis-buys-other-machine-co/ | [Bre Pettis] Buys Other Machine Co. | Brian Benchoff | [
"News",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"bre pettis",
"Other Machine Co",
"othermill"
] | Other Machine Co., manufacturer of the very capable and very cool OtherMill Pro CNC machine,
has been acquired by [Bre Pettis]
, former CEO of MakerBot. Under the terms of the acquisition, current CEO of Other Machine Co, Dr. Danielle Applestone, will remain in charge of the company.
We have a love affair with the Othe... | 48 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "3617125",
"author": "steve",
"timestamp": "2017-05-24T15:05:04",
"content": "",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3617177",
"author": "JD",
"timestamp": "2017-05-24T16:02:43",
"content": "(Steve has no word... | 1,760,374,815.369917 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/24/first-look-at-abc-basic-connections/ | First Look At ABC: Basic Connections | Elliot Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Reviews",
"Slider"
] | [
"arduino",
"basic connections",
"beginner",
"fritzing",
"tutorial"
] | [Alberto Piganti], aka [pighixxx] has been making circuit diagram art for a few years now, and has just come out with
a book that’s available on Kickstarter
. He sent us a copy to review, and we spent an hour or so with a refreshing beverage and a binder full of beautiful circuit diagrams. It doesn’t get better than th... | 77 | 35 | [
{
"comment_id": "3617097",
"author": "Eric",
"timestamp": "2017-05-24T14:26:34",
"content": "This type of diagram is really nice for breadboarding circuits. I always confuse myself about which pins do what and have to check 4 different datasheets to make sure I have everything right if I don’t make ... | 1,760,374,815.486624 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/24/practical-enclosure-design-optimized-for-3d-printing/ | Practical Enclosure Design, Optimized For 3D Printing | Donald Papp | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"how-to"
] | [
"3d printed",
"3D printed enclosure",
"cad",
"diy",
"enclosure",
"enclosure design",
"Fusion 360"
] | [3D Hubs] have shared a handy guide on
designing practical and 3D printing-friendly enclosures
. The guide walks through the design of a two shell, two button remote control enclosure. It allows for a PCB mounted inside, exposes a USB port, and is optimized for 3D printing without painting itself into a corner in the p... | 36 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3616885",
"author": "djsmiley2k",
"timestamp": "2017-05-24T11:27:40",
"content": "Ok I don’t know 3D printing, so maybe that’s why, but this statement doesn’t make any sense to me:“2.4 mm wall thickness may sound a bit arbitrary at first, but it divides easily by the typical FDM noz... | 1,760,374,815.558507 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/24/tightwad-hacks-label-printer-beats-manufacturer-at-own-game/ | Tightwad Hacks Label Printer, Beats Manufacturer At Own Game | Dan Maloney | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"Brother QL-750",
"encoder",
"label printer",
"pos terminal",
"receipt printer",
"thermal paper"
] | Sometimes we hack for the thrill of making something new, and sometimes we hack to push back the dark veil of ignorance to shed fresh light on a problem. And sometimes, like when
turning a used label printer into a point-of-sale receipt printer
, we hack because we’re cheapskates.
We say that with the utmost respect an... | 30 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "3616763",
"author": "onebiozz",
"timestamp": "2017-05-24T08:49:04",
"content": "Great job! And very clever!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3616770",
"author": "jimmy",
"timestamp": "2017-05-24T09:05:20",
"content": ... | 1,760,374,815.623815 |
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