How Far Can An EULA Go?
We read this news with mixed glee and horror: a company called Telly is giving TVs away, for the low price of having to live with an always-on advertisement bar …read more Continue reading How Far Can An EULA Go?
Author Archives: Elliot Williams
Two Factor Authentication Apps: Mistakes to Malware
Everyone in security will tell you need two-factor authentication (2FA), and we agree. End of article? Nope. The devil, as always with security, is in the details. Case in point: …read more Continue reading Two Factor Authentication Apps: Mistakes to Malware
Tools of the Trade: Dirt Cheap or Too Dirty?
We’ve recently seen a couple reviews of a particularly cheap oscilloscope that, among other things, doesn’t meet its advertised specs. Actually, it’s not even close. It claims to be a …read more Continue reading Tools of the Trade: Dirt Cheap or Too Dirty?
Supercon 2023 is On, We Want You!
We’re absolutely excited to be able to announce that the Hackaday Supercon is on for 2023, and will be taking place Nov 3 – Nov 5 in sunny Pasadena CA. …read more Continue reading Supercon 2023 is On, We Want You!
The New Hotness
If there’s one good thing to be said about the chip shortage of 2020-2023 (and counting!) it’s that a number of us were forced out of our ruts, and pushed …read more Continue reading The New Hotness
Thinking Inside the Box
Last week, I wrote about NASA’s technology demonstrator projects, and how they’ve been runaway successes – both the Mars rovers and the current copter came from such experimental beginnings. I …read more Continue reading Thinking Inside the Box
Hackaday Podcast 216: FETs, Fax, and Electrochemical Fab
In this week’s podcast, non-brothers Elliot Williams and Al Williams talk about our favorite hacks of the week. Elliot’s got analog on the brain, courtesy of the ongoing Op Amp …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast 216: FETs, Fax, and Electrochemical Fab
The Freedom to Fail
When you think of NASA, you think of high-stakes, high-cost, high-pressure engineering, and maybe the accompanying red tape. In comparison, the hobby hacker has a tremendous latitude to mess up, …read more Continue reading The Freedom to Fail
VCF East 2023: Andy Geppert Talks Core Memory
Do you know core memory? Our prehistoric predecessors would store data in the magnetic fields of ferrite rings, reading out the ones and zeroes by setting the magnetic field and …read more Continue reading VCF East 2023: Andy Geppert Talks Core Memory
Last Chance to Re-engineer Education for the 2023 Hackaday Prize
The first round of the 2023 Hackaday Prize closes next Tuesday, March 25th. If you’ve got an educational project – whether that’s a robot technique you just need to share, …read more Continue reading Last Chance to Re-engineer Education for the 2023 Hackaday Prize