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Git Your PCBs Online

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Arya Voronova

Last time, I’ve shown you how to create a local Git repository around your PCB project. That alone provides you with local backups, helping you never lose the changes you …read more Continue reading Git Your PCBs Online→

2022 Cyberdeck Contest: IP00-Minus, a Daring Wearable

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Arya Voronova

Watch on the wrist, with all the sensors facing the camera. There's a lot of them, and a lot of wires of all kinds tying everything together.

[Rob]’s IP00-Minus watch stands out on the Cyberdeck Contest project list page; it’s clear he decided to go a different path than most other hackers, and we can certainly see …read more Continue reading 2022 Cyberdeck Contest: IP00-Minus, a Daring Wearable→

TTP223 Brings Simple Touch Controls to a LED Lamp

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Arya Voronova

The assembled switch PCB in the palm of its creator's hand

You can buy small modules with capacitive touch detection ICs — most often it’s the TTP223, a single-button capacitive model with configurable output modes. These are designed to pair with …read more Continue reading TTP223 Brings Simple Touch Controls to a LED Lamp→

Nintendo Switch Stock Dock Imperfect? Mill Your Own!

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Arya Voronova

Back of the dock shown. You can see that the dock is milled out of a massive chunk of aluminium, and you can see the charging, HDMI and Ethernet ports being accessible on the back.

Despite the seat of honor it enjoys in literally millions of households, the official Nintendo Switch Dock is certainly far from perfect. For one, it’s not milled out of a …read more Continue reading Nintendo Switch Stock Dock Imperfect? Mill Your Own!→

Subverting PS4 And PS5 Through The PS2 Emulator

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Arya Voronova

Screenshot of the PS4 screen, showing a "Waiting to receive disc image file..." notification on the left, and a Windows commandline window with nc running on the right, sending an .iso file to some IP address - presumably the PS4

Game console hacking remains a fascinating area, and we’re glad when someone brings the spoils of exploration for us to marvel at. This time, we’re looking at the [mast1c0re] hack …read more Continue reading Subverting PS4 And PS5 Through The PS2 Emulator→

Hackaday Prize 2022: An Easy-To-Build Fermenter For Tempeh

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Arya Voronova

Fermenter on the desk, with the front door opened and some tempeh disks visible inside of it

[Maud Bausier] and [Antoine Jaunard] believe we should all know about tempeh — a traditional Indonesian food made out of legumes fermented with fungi. To simplify the process a bit: …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: An Easy-To-Build Fermenter For Tempeh→

Lithium-Ion Batteries Are Easy To Find

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Arya Voronova

In the first article, I’ve given you an overview of Lithium-Ion batteries and cells as building blocks for our projects, and described how hackers should treat their Lithium-Ion cells. But …read more Continue reading Lithium-Ion Batteries Are Easy To Find→

Making a Handheld NES By Turning DIP Chips into…QFN?

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Arya Voronova

Picture showing the way the cut-down piece of chip is soldered onto the mainboard - looking, indeed, like a QFN package.

You can achieve a lot with a Dremel. For instance, apparently you can slim the original NES down into the hand-held form-factor. Both the CPU and the PPU (Picture Processing …read more Continue reading Making a Handheld NES By Turning DIP Chips into…QFN?→

ConnectedNES Brings Twitter Into Super Mario Bros World

Posted on October 2, 2022 by Arya Voronova

CRT TV screen showing a Super Mario Bros main screen with "Social Media Bros" written on the title screen instead. There's a NES console to the right of it, with a perfboard on top of it, wires going into the console port.

Back in 2016, artist and video game historian [Rachel Weil (HXLNT)] was hanging out with her friend and hacking on console stuff, as friends do. [Rachel] was galvanized by the …read more Continue reading ConnectedNES Brings Twitter Into Super Mario Bros World→

DREEMWORK Lets You Code Morse From Inside Your Dream

Posted on October 2, 2022 by Arya Voronova

EEG graph with activity sections highlighted, one part highlighted as "F" and other as "6"

Lucid dreaming fascinates hackers. Every few years for over a decade now, we’ve seen a serious project dedicated to studying or taking advantage of this phenomenon, and the interest in …read more Continue reading DREEMWORK Lets You Code Morse From Inside Your Dream→