Collaborate Disseminate
Recently, the Ukrainian government has published a database of Western components being used in recently produced Russian armaments, and it’s a fascinating scroll. Just how much does Russia rely on …read more Continue reading How Many Western ICs Are There In Russia’s Weapons?
[sdz] of Vogons forum brings us an unexpected device for the 21st century – a 3dfx Voodoo 4 card in MXM format, equipped with 64MB of RAM. This isn’t just …read more Continue reading An MXM Take On The 3dfx Voodoo
You know the feeling of having just created a perfect setup for your hacker lab? Sometimes, there’s just this missing piece in the puzzle that requires you to do a …read more Continue reading Interfacing a Cheap HDMI Switch With Home Assistant
I don’t like HDMI. Despite it being a pretty popular interface, I find crucial parts of it to be alien to what hackers stand for. The way I see it, …read more Continue reading Displays We Like Hacking: HDMI
Did you know just how easily you can glitch microcontrollers? It’s so easy, you really have no excuse for not having tried it out yet. Look, [lord feistel] is doing …read more Continue reading Glitching An ATMega328P Has Never Been Simpler
Our PCBs greatly benefit from cases – what’s with all the pins that can be accidentally shorted, connectors that stick out of the outline, and cables pulling the board into …read more Continue reading Turbocase Generates A PCB Shell For You
MicroPython is a wonderful Python interpreter that runs on many higher-end microcontrollers, from ESP8266 to STM32 to the RP2040. MicroPython lets you build devices quickly, and its latest release, 1.23, …read more Continue reading MicroPython 1.23 Brings Custom USB Devices, OpenAMP, Much More
How hard could it be to add an extra USB port inside your laptop? As [Joshua Stein] shows, it can be decently hard, but you will have fun along the …read more Continue reading Give Your Thinkpad X1 Nano An Internal USB Port
There’s a good few options for exporting data out of FPGAs, like Ethernet, USB2, or USB3. Many FPGAs have a HDMI (or rather, sparkling DVI) port as well, and [Steve …read more Continue reading Use That One Port For High-Speed FPGA Data Export
[befi] brings us a project as impressive as it is reminiscent of older times, a Blu-Ray mini disk player. Easily fitting inside a pocket like a 8 cm CD player …read more Continue reading An Ingenious Blu-Ray Mini-Disk Player