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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] Researchers Made a Camera That’s the Size of a Grain of Salt
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
It can take images that are better than existing tech. A newly-developed camera the size of a grain of salt can take clear, full-color images—at the level of cameras that are 500,000 times larger.
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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] 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 iPhone 13 Screen Is a Repair Nightmare That Could Destroy Repair Shops Forever
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
A tweak to the iPhone’s repairability that has been long prophesied and feared has finally come to pass, giving staggering new urgency for legislation that makes repair more accessible: The iPhone 13’s screen cannot be replaced without special software controlled by Apple.
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[Link] iPhone With Common Sense USB-C Mod Currently Going for $100,000 on eBay
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
Engineering student Ken Pillonel modded an iPhone with a custom USB-C port in October. Now he’s selling the phone on eBay where its current bid is $100,100. The initial listing was for $1.
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[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] 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 Sincerest Form Of Flattery: Cloning Open-Source Hardware
Read: 31/10/2021 hackaday.com
We’re great proponents (and beneficiaries) of open-source hardware here at Hackaday. It’s impossible to overstate the impact that the free sharing of ideas has had on the hacker hardware scene.
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