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[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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] Department of Commerce Says We Need Fewer Repair Restrictions
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a federal agency that advises the president on telecom issues, has sent a letter to the Copyright office detailing a list of exemptions it believes should be made to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA).
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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] 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] 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] 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] 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.