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[Link] Hardware Store Chemicals Transform Sheets Into Waterproof Tarps
Read: 23/11/2022 hackaday.com
For hackers in the Northern Hemisphere, the seasons of wet and cold are upon us.
[Link] PlayStation 2 Gets A Seamless Media Center Makeover
Read: 4/7/2022 hackaday.com
We often see Raspberry Pi boards of various flavors stuck inside vintage computers and the like. [El Gato Guiri] has instead installed one inside a PlayStation 2 Slim, and rather artfully at that. The result is a tidy little media center device.
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[Link] 25 years later, this museum figured out how to stop screen cheating in GoldenEye
Read: 10/5/2022 www.pcgamer.com
Screen cheating has always been the bane of split screen gaming. There's nothing quite like sneakily creeping around corners only to find out your opponent has been right there waiting for you. Not out of any deduction or skill, just their ability to look at your portion of the screen. GG indeed.
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[Link] Coin Acceptors Are Higher-Tech Than You Think
Read: 13/4/2022 hackaday.com
Coin-operated machines have a longer history than you might think. Ancient temples used them to dispense, for example, holy water to the faithful in return for their coins. Old payphones rang a bell when you inserted a coin so the operator knew you paid.
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[Link] Soil Moisture Sensor Coating Lessons Learned The Hard Way
Read: 3/3/2022 hackaday.com
Ever wanted to measure soil moisture? Common “soil moisture meter module arduino raspberry compatible free shipping” PCBs might deceive you with their ascetic looks.
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[Link] Pump Up The Resin
Read: 13/2/2022 hackaday.com
Sometimes the best ideas are simple and seem obvious after you’ve heard them. [Danny] showed us a great idea that fits that description. He uses a peristaltic pump to move resin in and out of his print bed. (Video, embedded below.
[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] Long Range Burglar Alarm Relies On LoRa Modules
Read: 30/1/2022 hackaday.com
[Elite Worm] had a problem; there had been two minor burglaries from a storage unit. The unit had thick concrete walls, cellular signal was poor down there, and permanent wiring wasn’t possible. He thus set about working on a burglar alarm that would fit his unique requirements.
[Link] Blast Chips With This BBQ Lighter Fault Injection Tool
Read: 30/1/2022 hackaday.com
Looking to get into fault injection for your reverse engineering projects, but don’t have the cash to lay out for the necessary hardware? Fear not, for the tools to glitch a chip may be as close as the nearest barbecue grill.
[Link] Hack The Web Without A Browser
Read: 19/1/2022 hackaday.com
It is a classic problem. You want data for use in your program but it is on a webpage. Some websites have an API, of course, but usually, you are on your own. You can load the whole page via HTTP and parse it. Or you can use some tools to “scrape” the site.
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[Link] It’s Time to Admit the Theragun is a Sex Toy
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
The Theragun, a triangle-shaped personal massager by wellness company Therabody, is not, by any official account, a sex toy. The website explicitly says it’s not. The company warns against using it on your junk. Despite this, Theraguns have become a popular device for drilling one’s genitals.
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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] This Ham Radio Is Unsafe At Any Frequency
Read: 6/12/2021 hackaday.com
When we were kids we rode bicycles without pads and helmets. We drank sugary drinks. We played with chemistry sets and power tools. We also built things that directly used AC line current.
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[Link] Apple Will Tell You How to Fix iPhones, Sell Parts to the General Public
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Apple has announced plans to let customers repair their own phones in a monumental shift from its current repair policies. It is going to sell repair parts directly to the public, something that few phone manufacturers have done over the last decade.
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[Link] How to Build an E-Paper To-Do List with Raspberry Pi
Read: 15/11/2021 www.tomshardware.com
I’ve often struggled with procrastination, and to-do applications have been lifesaving. I sometimes find myself needing a reminder to just focus on getting the most important task done before working on anything else.
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[Link] Prototyping Your Way To Better Prototypes
Read: 14/11/2021 hackaday.com
If you’ve ever made a prototype of something before making the “real” one or even the final prototype, you probably already know that hands-on design time can’t be beat.
[Link] ‘Tiny Wake-Up Light Is Hugely Bright
Read: 6/11/2021 hackaday.com
Let’s face it — waking up is rough no matter what time of year it is. But the darkness of fall and winter makes it so much worse.
[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] ESP32-Cam Makes A Dandy Motion Detector
Read: 24/10/2021 hackaday.com
Halloween is right around the corner and just about every Halloween project needs some kind of motion sensor. Historically, we’ve used IR and ultrasonic sensors but [Makers Mashup] decided to use an ESP32-Cam as a motion sensor in his latest animatronic creation.
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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] 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] Turning Old Masks Into 3D Printer Filament
Read: 19/10/2021 hackaday.com
Disposable masks have been a necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic, but for all the good they’ve done, their disposal represents a monumental ecological challenge that has largely been ignored in favor of more immediate concerns.
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[Link] 3D Print A Custom T-Shirt Design, Step-by-Step
Read: 17/10/2021 hackaday.com
Want to make a t-shirt with a custom design printed on it? It’s possible to use a 3D printer, and Prusa Research have a well-documented blog post and video detailing two different ways to use 3D printing to create colorful t-shirt designs.
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[Link] BFree Brings Intermittent Computing To Python
Read: 29/9/2021 hackaday.com
Generally speaking, we like our computing devices to remain on and active the whole time we’re using them. But there are situations, such as off-grid devices that run on small solar cells, where constant power is by no means a guarantee.
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[Link] IC Shortage Keeps Linux Out Of Phone Charger, For Now
Read: 29/9/2021 hackaday.com
We’ve been eagerly following the development of the WiFiWart for some time now, as a quad-core Cortex-A7 USB phone charger with dual WiFi interfaces that runs OpenWrt sounds exactly like the sort of thing we need in our lives.
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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] He Built a Helicopter From Scratch... It Worked, Then It Killed Him.
Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com
Ismail Shaikh, a 28-year-old school dropout from the Indian state of Maharashtra, had a dream: to own a helicopter. After asking around, he soon realised that helicopters cost millions – money he didn’t have.
[Link] Wristwatch PCB Swaps Must Be In The Air
Read: 8/8/2021 hackaday.com
Are we seeing more wristwatch PCB swapping projects because more people are working on them, or because we saw one and they’re on our mind? The world may never know, but when it comes to design constraints, there’s a pretty fun challenge here both in fitting your electronic wizardry inside the c
[Link] A Robot To Top Up Your Tesla
Read: 2/7/2021 hackaday.com
The convenience of just plugging in your car in the evening and not going into a gas station is great as long as you remember to do the plugging. You really don’t want to get caught with an empty battery while you’re in a rush.