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[Link] This TikTok-Viral WFH Mouse Jiggler Will Make Your Boss Think You're Online
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
A fair point.
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[Link] People Are Selling AirTags with Disabled Speakers that Are Totally Not for Stalking
Read: 6/2/2022 www.extremetech.com
Apple released AirTags last year, giving iOS users a better way to track and find their belongings. However, the tracking capabilities of AirTags were so good that many expressed concerns about privacy and safety.
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[Link] Meta's Oculus Quest rebrand is off to a disastrous start
Read: 6/2/2022 www.creativebloq.com
It's going to take us a while to get used to calling Facebook Meta, but spare a thought for Oculus Quest users, who are also being asked to call their VR headset by a new name.
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[Link] Rainbow DIP Switch Is The Coolest Way To Configure Your Project
Read: 2/2/2022 hackaday.com
Oftentimes, when programming, we’ll put configuration switches into a config file in order to control the behaviour of our code. However, having to regularly open a text editor to make changes can be a pain.
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[Link] Picoclick C3T Is the World's Smallest IoT Button and It Has a RISC-V Processor
Read: 19/1/2022 www.hackster.io
WiFi-enabled buttons send an MQTT message or REST call from a single button push. This simple action enables a wide range of automation activities. For example, at one point, online retailers gave them to customers to quickly purchase replacement products.
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[Link] ESP8266 Based WiFi Game Boy Cartridge Browses WikiPedia
Read: 19/12/2021 hackaday.com
[Sebastian Staacks] came across his old Game Boy and was wondering (as you do) what happened to recent attempts at getting a WiFi interface wedged into a standard cartridge. After a while the conclusion was that people had been scuppered by approaching the problem in a way that made it too hard.
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[Link] Bridging Game Worlds With The ‘Impossible’ Pokémon Trade
Read: 8/12/2021 hackaday.com
Transferring hard-earned Pokémon out of the second generation GameBoy game worlds into the ‘Advance Era’ cartridges (and vice versa) has never been officially supported by Nintendo, however [Goppier] has made these illicit trades slightly easier for budding Pokémon trainers by way of a custom
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[Link] Why the chip shortage drags on and on… and on
Read: 30/11/2021 arstechnica.com
The semiconductor industry lives at the cutting edge of technological progress. So why can’t it churn out enough chips to keep the world moving?
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[Link] The latest Surface is a $250 laptop that takes a swing at cheap Chromebooks
Read: 10/11/2021 arstechnica.com
Microsoft's next Surface device is the company's latest and most direct attempt to compete with Chromebooks in schools. The $250 Surface Laptop SE is a low-end, 11.6-inch laptop made for basic browsing, document editing, and remote learning.
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[Link] Inkplate Comes Full Circle, Becomes True Open Reader
Read: 4/11/2021 hackaday.com
Regular readers will likely remember the Inkplate, an open hardware electronic paper development board that combines an ESP32 with a recycled Kindle screen.
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[Link] Nvidia RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards Stolen in Truck Heist
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Someone has stolen a shipment of GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards from a truck in Southern California. According to a post on the EVGA forums, someone lifted the graphics cards on October 29 as they were en-route to a distribution center.
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[Link] Modded GBA SP Does Its Best Switch Impression
Read: 2/11/2021 hackaday.com
The whole idea behind the Nintendo Switch is that the system isn’t just a handheld, but can be converted into a more traditional home game console when placed into its dock.
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[Link] Hacking An Obsolete Yet Modern Calculator
Read: 1/11/2021 hackaday.com
The gold standard for graphing calculators, at least in the US, are the Texas Instruments TI-84 series. Some black sheep may have other types, but largely due to standardized testing these calculators dominate the market.
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[Link] The Pi Zero 2 W Is The Most Efficient Pi
Read: 1/11/2021 hackaday.com
Last week we saw the announcement of the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, which is basically an improved quad-core version of the Pi Zero — more comparable in speed to the Pi 3B+, but in the smaller Zero form factor.
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[Link] Extracting Data From Smart Scale Gives Rube Goldberg A Run For His Money
Read: 31/10/2021 hackaday.com
[Kevin Norman] got himself a smart body scale with the intention of logging data for his own analysis, but discovered that extracting data from the device was anything but easy. It turns out that the only way to access data from his scale is by viewing it in a mobile app.
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[Link] ESP32 Internet Radio Is No Game
Read: 31/10/2021 hackaday.com
More than once, we’ve looked at a cool board like the TTGO T-Display and thought, “What can we build with this?” If you are [Volos Projects], the answer is a tiny Internet radio. He’s done a lot of other projects with the board including some games and a weather station.
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[Link] Speaker ‘Stun Gun’ Aims To Combat China’s Dancing Grannies
Read: 28/10/2021 hackaday.com
One of the more popular social activities in China is group dancing in public squares. Often the pastime of many middle-aged and older women, participants are colloquially referred to as “dancing grannies.
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[Link] The Chip Shortage Is So Bad Even the Raspberry Pi Is More Expensive Now
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
This chip shortage crisis has spilled over to other industries and products, including auto manufacturers, who have had to let their factories sit idle in some cases while they wait for the precious transistors they need to come through.
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[Link] Tesla Drivers Say They Can Easily Cheat Tesla's Safety Score
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Data from when something bad happens can be erased, and the score itself can be reset by Moveable explores the future of transportation, infrastructure, energy, and cities.
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[Link] Overclocker doubles Raspberry Pi's clock speed to an incredible 3GHz
Read: 20/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
The Raspberry Pi is hardly what you'd call a performance machine. Even so, with each iteration, it has been getting faster and more capable—to the point where you can now use the Raspberry Pi 4 Model 4 as a desktop PC.
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[Link] Custom PS5 Plate Company Dares Sony to Sue It, Gets Sued, Trolls Sony Again
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
The PlayStation 5 is an ugly machine. Thankfully, the hideous white plates flanking either side of the gaming console come off and there are several companies that sell variations on Sony’s white, default theme.
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[Link] ESP32 Clock Pushes Outrun Graphics Over Composite
Read: 19/10/2021 hackaday.com
We’ve covered plenty of clocks powered by the ESP32, but this one from [Marcio Teixeira] is really something special. Rather than driving a traditional physical display, the microcontroller is instead generating a composite video signal of an animated digital clock.
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[Link] Apple launches new AirPods and revamped MacBook Pro laptops
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Apple has announced new third-generation AirPods and its much-anticipated new MacBook Pro laptops, with new screens and high-end M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.
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[Link] PineTime Smartwatch And Good Code Play Bad Apple
Read: 17/10/2021 hackaday.com
PineTime is the open smartwatch from our friends at Pine64. [TT-392] wanted to prove the hardware can play a full-motion music video, and they are correct, to a point.
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[Link] Electronic Covid Test Tear Down Shows Frustrating Example Of 1-Time-Use Waste
Read: 17/10/2021 hackaday.com
The latest video from [TheSignalPath] is a result of his purchase of a home COVID-19 test. He found an electronic version that connects to your cell phone and displays the results on the phone.
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[Link] Intel CEO says AMD's CPU dominance is 'over with Alder Lake'
Read: 10/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
In a recent interview, Pat Gelsinger, Intel's CEO, states that AMD's dominance of the performance CPU market will be over with the release of Alder Lake.
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[Link] Valve's Index successor rumoured to be a standalone VR headset
Read: 10/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Valve may have another VR headset design in the works to follow up the excellent Index, but this time it could be completely standalone.
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[Link] Valve Says Opening a Steam Deck Could Kill You
Read: 7/10/2021 www.vice.com
Valve even goes so far as to say that opening a Steam Deck could lead to your death. “Opening up [the Steam Deck] and replacing parts might mess things up, like, profoundly.
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[Link] Firmware Find Hints At Subscription Plan For ReMarkable Tablet
Read: 22/9/2021 hackaday.com
We’ve been keeping a close eye on the development of electronic paper tablets such as the reMarkable for a while now. These large-format devices would be a great way to view schematics and datasheets, and with the right software, could easily become an invaluable digital sidekick.
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[Link] Chinese chipmaker says it's inching closer to producing a GTX 1080 grade GPU
Read: 16/9/2021 www.pcgamer.com
It's not just Intel that's looking to get into the graphics card game alongside Nvidia and AMD: China, too, has been keenly developing its own domestic GPUs to end its reliance on US tech as the two countries wrestle over trade.
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[Link] The Coltan in Your Smartphone is Financing Colombian Guerrilla Armies
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
MEDELLIN, Colombia–Authorities in southern Colombia pulled over a cargo truck looking for drugs in early August. But instead of finding a pile of cocaine bricks, the truck was loaded with a sandy, blue-ish black rock called coltan.
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[Link] School Surplus Laptop BIOS Hacked To Remove Hardware Restrictions
Read: 23/8/2021 hackaday.com
Why did [Hale] end up hacking the BIOS on a 10 year old laptop left over from an Australian education program? When your BIOS starts telling you you’re not allowed to use a particular type of hardware, you don’t have much of a choice.
[Link] Take Note: An E-Ink Tablet From Pine64
Read: 17/8/2021 hackaday.com
Over the years we’ve seen a variety of interesting pieces of hardware emerging from the folks at Pine64, so it’s always worth a second look when they announce a new product.
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[Link] Who Needs Pin Headers?
Read: 13/8/2021 hackaday.com
[Martin] sent this query, along with the lead photo, into the tip line, and he makes a good point. Most development and evaluation boards have multiple rows of pin headers, often arriving loose in the package — soldering is left to the user.
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[Link] I can't stop laughing at how small Nvidia's new graphics card is
Read: 13/8/2021 www.pcgamer.com
It's not often nowadays that we end up with a GPU that's comically small, but here we are: the Nvidia RTX A2000.
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[Link] Is Your Crummy Router Giving Away Your Location?
Read: 8/8/2021 au.pcmag.com
Security researchers at Black Hat showed a new way to discern street-level location data. The key? Crummy routers often provided by internet service providers.
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[Link] Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply
Read: 8/8/2021 getpocket.com
By chopping up large numbers into smaller ones, researchers have rewritten a fundamental mathematical speed limit.
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[Link] Hands On: DEF CON 29 Badge Embraces The New Normal
Read: 5/8/2021 hackaday.com
To say that 2020 was a transformative year would be something of an understatement. The COVID-19 pandemic completely changed the way we worked, learned, and lived.
[Link] The Register just found 300-odd Itanium CPUs on eBay
Read: 3/8/2021 www.theregister.com
Intel has stopped shipping the Itanium CPU. In January 2019 the company issued an advisory [PDF] warning that last orders for the CPU must be lodged by January 30th, 2020, and that final shipments would head out the door on July 29th, 2021.
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[Link] Newegg Thanks Kid For Finding Graphics Card Lottery Loophole, Closes It
Read: 29/7/2021 kotaku.com
Buying high-end gaming hardware is a pain in the ass at the moment. New Xbox Series X/S stock sells out fast. Early access to PS5 orders are pay-gated at places like Amazon and GameStop. And the graphics card market is, well, you know how it is.
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[Link] Vilo’s mesh Wi-Fi router is dirt cheap ($20) and stupidly simple
Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com
Routers are pretty boring to write about, but every once in a while I’ll make an exception, as is the case with the new Vilo mesh Wi-Fi system. Why? Because it’s dirt cheap and stupidly simple to set up — and I mean that in the best way possible.
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[Link] Lynx R1: XR2 AR-VR Hybrid Ships 2022 For ‘A Few Hundred Dollars’
Read: 14/7/2021 uploadvr.com
French startup Lynx is shifting strategy for its upcoming AR-VR hybrid headset, dramatically lowering the price to target consumers too. Lynx R1 was initially announced in February 2020 as a $1500 product focused on businesses & professionals.
[Link] Apple founder Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement
Read: 14/7/2021 www.bbc.com
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has issued a passionate endorsement of the right-to-repair movement, despite the company's opposition. The movement wants laws passed to guarantee users access to information and parts to repair their own devices.
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[Link] Morphing computer chip repels hundreds of professional DARPA hackers
Read: 29/5/2021 newatlas.com
Engineers have designed a computer processor that thwarts hackers by randomly changing its microarchitecture every few milliseconds. Known as Morpheus, the puzzling processor has now aced its first major tests, repelling hundreds of professional hackers in a DARPA security challenge.
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[Link] Goodbye and good riddance to the 16:9 aspect ratio
Read: 24/1/2021 www.theverge.com
One of the biggest trends coming out of this year’s CES wasn’t something people will necessarily notice at first glance unless they look closely. After enduring years of cramped, “widescreen” laptop displays, it looks like we’re finally starting to say goodbye to the 16:9 aspect ratio.