Collaborate Disseminate
Even though we somewhat uncharacteristically don’t have a cyberdeck contest currently underway, there’s never a bad time to get your [Gibson] on. That’s especially true when fate hands you an …read more Continue reading Kali Cyberdeck Looks the Business
There was even a day not too long ago when printers appeared to be going the way of the dodo; remember the “paperless office” craze? But then, printer manufacturers invented …read more Continue reading A Look Inside the Space Shuttle’s First Printer
To the extent that you have an opinion on something like high-frequency (HF) radio, you probably associate it with amateur radio operators, hunched over their gear late at night as …read more Continue reading Radio Apocalypse: HFGCS, The Backup Plan for Doomsday
Good news, bad news for Sun watchers this week, as our star launched a solar flare even bigger than the one back in May that gave us an amazing display …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 4, 2024
What is this dystopia coming to when one of the world’s largest tech companies can’t find a way to sufficiently monetize a nearly endless stream of personal data coming from …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 28, 2024
Hacking — at least the kind where you’re breaking into stuff — is very much a learn-by-doing skill. There’s simply no substitute for getting your hands dirty and just trying …read more Continue reading Hacking an IoT Camera Reveals Hard-Coded Root Password
Sometimes, all it takes is a change in perspective to take something boring and make it fun. That’s true about 16×2 LCD; in its usual landscape format, it’s a quick …read more Continue reading Tiny Games Challenge: A Retro Racing Game on a 16×2 LCD
We’ve all heard about the perils of counterfeit chips, and more than a few of us have probably been bitten by those scruple-free types who run random chips through a …read more Continue reading Exploring Cheap Tantalum Caps of Mysterious Provenance
Unless you hold a First Degree RF Wizard rating, chances are good that coax stubs seem a bit baffling to you. They look for all the world like short circuits …read more Continue reading Coax Stub Filters Demystified
When monitors around the world display a “Blue Screen of Death” and you know it’s probably your fault, it’s got to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 21, 2024