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38C3: Save Your Satellite with These Three Simple Tricks

Posted on December 30, 2024 by Elliot Williams

BEESAT-1 is a 1U cubesat launched in 2009 by the Technical University of Berlin. Like all good satellites, it has redundant computers onboard, so when the first one failed in …read more Continue reading 38C3: Save Your Satellite with These Three Simple Tricks→

Posted in 38C3, 38th Chaos Communication Congress, cubesat, rescue, Software, software hacks, Space | Tagged Satellite

38C3: Lawsuits are Temporary; Glory is Forever

Posted on December 30, 2024 by Elliot Williams

One of the blockbuster talks at last year’s Chaos Communications Congress covered how a group of hackers discovered code that allegedly bricked public trains in Poland when they went into …read more Continue reading 38C3: Lawsuits are Temporary; Glory is Forever→

Posted in Corruption, Justice, legal system, News, Poland, Reverse-engineering, transportation hacks | Tagged Trains

38C3: Xobs on Hardware Debuggers

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Elliot Williams

If you just want to use a debugger for your microcontroller project, you buy some hardware device, download the relevant driver software, and fire up GDB. But if you want …read more Continue reading 38C3: Xobs on Hardware Debuggers→

Posted in debugger, Hardware, microcontroller, Microcontrollers, protocol

38C3: Towards an Open WiFi MAC Stack on ESP32

Posted on December 28, 2024 by Elliot Williams

At the 38th Chaos Communications Congress, [Frostie314159] and [Jasper Devreker] gave us a nice update on their project to write an open-source WiFi stack for the ESP32. If you’re interested …read more Continue reading 38C3: Towards an Open WiFi MAC Stack on ESP32→

Posted in ESP32, Mac, Microcontrollers, open-source, rust, wifi, Wireless, wireless hacks

Taking “Movies” of Light in Flight

Posted on December 26, 2024 by Elliot Williams

This one isn’t clickbait, but it is cheating. [Brian Haidet], the guy behind Alpha Phoenix, has managed to assemble movie footage of a laser beam crossing his garage, using a …read more Continue reading Taking “Movies” of Light in Flight→

Posted in laser, laser hacks, photomultiplier tube, pulse, Science, speed of light

A Twenty-Segment Display, Artistically

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Elliot Williams

We all know and love the humble seven-segment display, right? And if you want to make characters as well as numbers, you can do an okay job with sixteen segments …read more Continue reading A Twenty-Segment Display, Artistically→

Posted in 3D Printing, 7-segment display, classic hacks, led, led hacks, seven segmemt

The Mystery of the Messed-Up Hammond X5

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Elliot Williams

[Filip] got his hands on a sweet old Hammond X5 organ, but it had one crucial problem: only half of the keys worked. Each and every C#, D, D#, E, …read more Continue reading The Mystery of the Messed-Up Hammond X5→

Posted in musical hacks, organ, repair hacks, top octave generator | Tagged Repair, Synthesizer

Watch Any Video on Your Game Boy, Via Link Cable

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Elliot Williams

Game Boys have a link cable that lets two of them play together. You know, to battle with a friend’s Pokemon and stuff like that. But who says that it …read more Continue reading Watch Any Video on Your Game Boy, Via Link Cable→

Posted in game boy, game boy color, handhelds hacks, Nintendo Game Boy Hacks, video

Hacker Tools, Hacked Tools

Posted on December 14, 2024 by Elliot Williams

We just love a good DIY tool project, and more so when it’s something that we can actually use cobbled together from stuff in our closet, or hacked out of …read more Continue reading Hacker Tools, Hacked Tools→

Posted in diy, Hackaday Columns, logic analyzer, newsletter, rants, RTL-SDR, tool hacks, tools

2025 Hackaday Europe CFP: We Want You!

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Elliot Williams

Hackaday’s Supercon is still warm in our hearts, and the snow is just now starting to fall, but we’re already looking forward to Spring. Or at least to Hackaday Europe, …read more Continue reading 2025 Hackaday Europe CFP: We Want You!→

Posted in 2025 Hackaday Europe, berlin, cons, Hackaday Columns, hackaday europe, News

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