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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] The Virtue Of Wires In The Age Of Wireless
Read: 10/4/2022 hackaday.com
We ran an article this week about RS-485, a noise resistant differential serial multidrop bus architecture. (Tell me where else you’re going to read articles like that!) I’ve had my fun with RS-485 in the past, and reading this piece reminded me of those days.
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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] 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] 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] 6 Crazy Google Sheets Formulas That Are Extremely Useful
Read: 16/11/2021 www.makeuseof.com
Creating a spreadsheet by entering a few columns of data and applying the basic functions of mathematics is simply the tip of the iceberg. More utility and automation lies under the ocean of things that you can do on Google Sheets.
[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] 5 Most Powerful One-Liners You Should Know in Python Programming
Read: 25/10/2021 towardsdatascience.com
Python offers a unique set of features! Python programmers use them to write code quickly and in a more Pythonic way.
[Link] 3 Not So Common Yet Functional Python Libraries for Data Science
Read: 25/10/2021 towardsdatascience.com
One of the reasons why Python dominates data science is the rich selection of libraries it offers to the users. The active Python community keeps maintaining and improving these libraries which helps Python to stay on top.
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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] 10 unmistakable habits of utterly authentic people
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theladders.com:443
Oscar Wilde said, “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” Wilde made it sound so simple, but living with authenticity is a real challenge. To live authentically, you must own your actions and ensure that they align with your beliefs and needs.
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[Link] Linux Fu: Globs Vs Regexp
Read: 10/10/2021 hackaday.com
I once asked a software developer at work how many times we called fork() in our code. I’ll admit, it was a very large project, but I expected the answer to be — at most — two digits. The developer came back and read off some number from a piece of paper that was in the millions.
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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] Two Pandas functions you must know for easy data manipulation in Python
Read: 9/8/2021 towardsdatascience.com
I do a lot of data work — some of it data science, some of it data visualisation, some of it data adjacent — like messing around with sports analytics. All of it is done in Python, and almost always Pandas is involved for data manipulation.
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[Link] Linux Fu: The Windows X11 Connection
Read: 7/8/2021 hackaday.com
The life of a Linux user can be a bit difficult. Sometimes you have to — or want to — run Windows. Why Windows? Sometimes you have a work computer or a laptop that Linux doesn’t support well. Or it might be software.