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An age-old vulnerability of physical keypads is visibly worn keys. For example, a number pad with digits clearly worn from repeated use provides an attacker with a clear starting point. …read more Continue reading Thermal Camera Plus Machine Learning Reads Passwords Off Keyboard Keys
There is a lot to be learned from the experience of building something functional, and even better if doing so doesn’t break the bank. [Sergej Stoetzer]’s 20€ DIY-Eyetracker aims to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Eye Tracking On a Budget
[Christopher Helmke] is doing fantastic work in DIY systems for handling small hardware like fasteners, and that includes robotic placement of hardware into 3D prints. Usually this means dropping nuts …read more Continue reading Embed Hardware Into 3D Prints, But Not In The Way You’re Thinking
This clever research from the University of Chicago’s Human Computer Integration Lab demonstrates a fascinating way to let users “feel” objects in VR, without anything getting in the way of …read more Continue reading Tactile Feedback in VR, No Cumbersome Gloves Or Motors Required
Modern insulin pumps are self-contained devices that attach to a user’s skin via an adhesive patch, and are responsible for administering insulin as needed. Curious as to what was inside, …read more Continue reading Insulin Pump Teardown Shows One Motor Does Many Jobs
[mat kelcey] was so impressed and inspired by the concept of a very slow movie player (which is the playing of a movie at a slow rate on a kind …read more Continue reading Very Slow Movie Player Avoids E-Ink Ghosting With Machine Learning
80s-era electronic speech certainly has a certain retro appeal to it, but it can sometimes be a useful data output method since it can be implemented on very little hardware. …read more Continue reading Make Your ESP32 Talk Like It’s the 80s Again
If one is serious about testing the stiffness of materials or parts, there’s nothing quite like doing your own tests. And thanks to [JanTec]’s 3-Point Bending Test rig, there’s no …read more Continue reading Testing Part Stiffness? No Need To Re-invent the Bending Rig
Cassette players and tapes are fertile hacking ground. One reason is that their electromechanical and analog nature provides easy ways to fiddle with their operation. For example, slow down the …read more Continue reading Messing With a Cassette Player Never Sounded So Good
Large Language Models (LLM) are at the heart of natural-language AI tools like ChatGPT, and Web LLM shows it is now possible to run an LLM directly in a browser. …read more Continue reading Chatting With Local AI Moves Directly In-Browser, Thanks to Web LLM