Collaborate Disseminate
With our mass-produced butane lighters and matches made in the billions, fire is never more than a flick of the finger away these days. But starting a fire 200 years …read more Continue reading Lighting Up with Chemistry, 1823-Style
It sometimes seems like there are two kinds of cheap hardware devices: those dependent on proprietary software that is no longer available and those that are equally dependent but haven’t …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering Reveals Hidden API in Abandonware Trail Camera
There are two ways to recover data from an obsolete storage medium. One way is to pull out all the tools in the hacker’s kit — with logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, …read more Continue reading PCMCIA Flash Card Gives Up Its Secrets Thanks to Retro Gear
Last week, we noted an attempt to fix a hardware problem with software, which backfired pretty dramatically for Ford when they tried to counter the tendency for driveshafts to fall …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 16, 2023
You’ve got to love the aesthetics of dystopian cyberpunk video games, where all the technology looks like it’s cobbled together from cast-off bits of the old world’s remains. Kudos go …read more Continue reading Bringing a Baofeng into the Cyberpunk 2077 Universe
Over the last few years, we’ve all been given a valuable lesson in both the promise and limitations of advanced molecular biology methods for clinical diagnostics. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) …read more Continue reading Open-Source LAMP Instrument Aimed at Clinicians and Biohackers Alike
We’ve covered dozens of projects about getting images of Earth’s weather straight from the source. It’s not too much of a trick to download images straight from our constellation of …read more Continue reading Listening in on a Deep-Space Satellite as it Returns Home
[Scott M. Baker] wants a paper tape punch for his retrocomputer collection. That’s fine with us, we don’t judge. In fact, these electromechanical peripherals from the past have a lot …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering Helps Typesetting Machine Punch Paper Tape Again
Join us on Wednesday, July 12 at noon Pacific for the Software for Space Hack Chat with Jacob Killelea! In space, everything is harder. Hardware has to be built to …read more Continue reading Software for Satellites Hack Chat
Good news this week from Mars, where Ingenuity finally managed to check in with its controllers after a long silence. The plucky helicopter went silent just after nailing the landing …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 9, 2023