Collaborate Disseminate
Who’d have thought that $30 doorbell cameras would end up being security liabilities? That’s the somewhat obvious conclusion reached by Consumer Reports after looking at some entry-level doorbell cameras available …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 3, 2024
It’s a leap year, so Elliot and Dan put the extra day to good use tracking down all the hottest hacks from the past week and dorking out about them. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 260: KiCad 8, Two Weather Stations, and Multiple I2Cs
For all of the semiconductor industry’s legendary reputation for cleanliness, the actual processes that go into making chips use some of the nastiest stuff imaginable. Silicon oxide is nothing but …read more Continue reading Big Chemistry: Hydrofluoric Acid
For those of us who remember Radio Shack as more than just an overpriced cell phone store, a lot of the nostalgia for the retailer boils down to the brands …read more Continue reading A Deep Dive Into a 1980s Radio Shack Computer Trainer
When all else fails, blame it on the cloud? It seems like that’s the script for just about every outage that makes the news lately, like the Wyze camera outage …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 25, 2024
When it was first introduced in 1968, Fairchild’s 741 op-amp made quite a splash. And with good reason; it packed a bunch of components into a compact package, and the …read more Continue reading Op-Amp Drag Race Turns Out Poorly for 741
Here’s a warning we never thought we’d have to give: when you’re in an audio or video call on your phone, avoid the temptation to doomscroll or use an app …read more Continue reading Your Noisy Fingerprints Vulnerable to New Side-Channel Attack
We’ll be honest with you: we’re not sure if the use of “LED stud” in [mitxela]’s new project refers to the incomprehensibly tiny LED matrix earrings he made, or to …read more Continue reading LED Matrix Earrings Show Off SMD Skills
If you need a potentiometer for a project, chances are pretty good that you’re not going to pick up a pencil and draw one. Then again, if you’re teaching someone …read more Continue reading A Classroom-Ready Potentiometer From Pencil and 3D Prints
So it turns out that walking around with $4,000 worth of hardware on your head isn’t quite the peak technology experience that some people thought it would be. We’re talking …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 18, 2024