A Hacker’s Travel Guide To Europe
This summer, I was pleasantly surprised when a friend of mine from Chicago turned up at one of the hacker camps I attended. A few days of hanging out in …read more Continue reading A Hacker’s Travel Guide To Europe
Author Archives: Jenny List
Winamp Taken Down: Too Good For This Open Source World
If you picked today in your hackerspace’s sweepstake on when Winamp would pull their code repository, congratulations! You’re a winner! The source for the Windows version of the venerable music …read more Continue reading Winamp Taken Down: Too Good For This Open Source World
An Arduino Triggers a Flash With Sound
To capture an instant on film or sensor with a camera, you usually need a fast shutter. But alternately a flash can be triggered with the scene in the dark …read more Continue reading An Arduino Triggers a Flash With Sound
Portable Pi Palmtop Provides Plenty
We’ve seen many portable laptops using the Raspberry Pi series of boards in the decade-plus since its launch. The appeal of a cheap board that can run a desktop Linux …read more Continue reading Portable Pi Palmtop Provides Plenty
Have You Heard Of The Liquid Powder Display?
Over the decades the technology behind flat panel displays has continuously evolved, and we’ve seen many of them come and go. Among the popular ones there are a few that …read more Continue reading Have You Heard Of The Liquid Powder Display?
PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Corporation Prolok
In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer or as-in-speech. This situation is a surprisingly new one, and in an earlier era of …read more Continue reading PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Corporation Prolok
A Flip Digit Clock, Binary Style
Flip digit clocks are a prized piece of consumer electrical ephemera, providing as they do a digital display without significant electronics. Making your own flip digit display involves some drudgery …read more Continue reading A Flip Digit Clock, Binary Style
Barbie’s Video Has Never Looked So Good
For those who missed it, there’s been something of a quiet revolution in the world of analogue video over the last year, due to the arrival of inexpensive “MiniDVR” devices. …read more Continue reading Barbie’s Video Has Never Looked So Good
The Piezoelectric Glitching Attack
Many readers will be familiar with the idea of a glitching attack, introducing electrical noise into a computer circuit in the hope of disrupting program flow and causing unexpected behaviour …read more Continue reading The Piezoelectric Glitching Attack
The Turing Machine Made Real, In LEGO
The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become …read more Continue reading The Turing Machine Made Real, In LEGO