Valentine’s Day…Hacks?
How do you reconcile your love for hacking projects together with your love for that someone special? By making him or her a DIY masterpiece of blinking red LEDs, but …read more Continue reading Valentine’s Day…Hacks?
Author Archives: Elliot Williams
Google FindMy Tools, Run on an ESP32
As of about a day ago, Google’s reasonably new Find My network just got more useful. [Leon Böttger] released his re-implementation of the Android tracker network: GoogleFindMyTools. Most interestingly for …read more Continue reading Google FindMy Tools, Run on an ESP32
Hearing What the Bats Hear
[Iftah] has been exploring the sounds beyond what we can hear, recording ultrasound and pitching it down. He made a short video on the practice, and it’s like a whole …read more Continue reading Hearing What the Bats Hear
Matthias Wandel Hates CNC Machines in Person
Prolific woodworking YouTuber [Matthias Wandel] makes some awesome mechanical contraptions, and isn’t afraid of computers, but has never been a fan of CNC machines in the woodshop. He’s never had …read more Continue reading Matthias Wandel Hates CNC Machines in Person
Software in Progress
Open source software can be fantastic. I run almost exclusively open software, and have for longer than I care to admit. And although I’m not a serious coder by an …read more Continue reading Software in Progress
Time vs Money, 3D Printer Style
A few months ago, Hackaday’s own Al Williams convinced me to buy a couple of untested, returned-to-manufacturer 3D printers. Or rather, he convinced me to buy one, and the incredible …read more Continue reading Time vs Money, 3D Printer Style
Supercon 2024: Joshua Wise Hacks the Bambu X1 Carbon
Bambu Labs have been in the news lately. Not because of the machines themselves, but because they are proposing a firmware change that many in our community find restricts their …read more Continue reading Supercon 2024: Joshua Wise Hacks the Bambu X1 Carbon
Networking History Lessons
Do they teach networking history classes yet? Or is it still too soon? I was reading [Al]’s first installment of the Forgotten Internet series, on UUCP. The short summary is …read more Continue reading Networking History Lessons
This QR Code Leads To Two Websites, But How?
QR codes are designed with alignment and scaling features, not to mention checksums and significant redundancy. They have to be, because you’re taking photos of them with your potato-camera while …read more Continue reading This QR Code Leads To Two Websites, But How?
Shellcode over MIDI? Bad Apple on a PSR-E433, Kinda
If hacking on consumer hardware is about figuring out what it can do, and pushing it in directions that the manufacturer never dared to dream, then this is a very …read more Continue reading Shellcode over MIDI? Bad Apple on a PSR-E433, Kinda