Collaborate Disseminate
I love minimal hacks. Limitations are sometimes the spark for our greatest creativity, and seeing someone do something truly marvelous with the simplest of technological ingredients never fails to put …read more Continue reading It’s the Simple Things
While out swimming in the ocean on vacation, a big wave caught [QuadWorker], pushed him head first into the sand, and left him paralyzed from the neck down. This talk …read more Continue reading 37C3: The Tech Behind Life as a Quadraplegic
As we stand here looking at the brand-new year ahead, we find ourselves taking stock, and maybe thinking how we can all be better people in the next year. More …read more Continue reading New Year’s Resolutions
[Thomas Roth], aka [Ghidraninja], and author of the [Stacksmashing] YouTube channel, investigated Apple’s Lightning port and created a cool debugging tool that allowed one to get JTAG on the device. …read more Continue reading 37C3: When Apple Ditches Thuderbolt, Hack USB-C
Not every talk at the Chaos Communication Congress is about hacking computers. In this outstanding and educational talk, [Michael Büker] walks us through the history of our understanding of the …read more Continue reading 37C3: You Think It’s Bad With Pluto? A History of the Planets
I’m at Chaos Communication Congress this weekend, and it’s like being surrounded by the brightest, most creative, and being honest, nerdiest crowd imaginable. And that’s super invigorating. But because of …read more Continue reading Don’t Give Up
This week in the Podcast, Elliot Williams is off at Chaos Communication Congress, hearing tales of incredible reverse engineering that got locomotives back up and running, while Al Williams is …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 250: Trains, RC Planes, and EEPROMS in Flames
The first clue was that a number of locomotives started malfunctioning with exactly 1,000,000 km on the odometer. And when the company with the contract for servicing them couldn’t figure …read more Continue reading Unbricking Trains, Uncovering Shady Behavior
We had the opportunity to add a new feature to our lineup: the FLOSS Weekly podcast. It’s a very long running series that covers the goings on in the free, …read more Continue reading Hardware: It’s Made of Software!
What’s the most-used tool on your bench? For me, it’s probably a multimeter, although that’s maybe a tie with my oscilloscope. Maybe after that, the soldering iron and wire strippers, …read more Continue reading You Can’t Make What You Can’t Measure