Coin Cell Hacks That Won the Coin Cell Challenge

It’s amazing what creative projects show up if you give one simple constraint. In this case, we asked what cool things can be done if powered by one coin cell battery and we had about one hundred answers come back. Today we’re happy to announce the winners of the Coin Cell Challenge.

Supernova Award: Coin Cell Powered Railgun

A railgun powered by an LIR2032 cell wins the Supernova Award with a cash prize of $500.

This project by [consciousflesh] dumps about 500-750 Joules of energy into a set of electromagnets to launch a graphite projectile. It makes quite a flash …read more

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Horten Fyr is Norwegian for Blinkie

Our Norwegian is pretty weak, so we struggled a little bit with the documentation for a big public LED art project in the lighthouse (translated) in Horten, Norway. But we do speak the universal language of blinkies, and this project has got them: 3,008 WS2812b LEDs ring the windows at the top of the lighthouse and create reactive patterns depending on the wave height and proximity of the ferry that docks there.

This seems to be an evolving project, with more features being added slowly over time. We love the idea of searching for the WiFi access point on the …read more

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Horten Fyr is Norwegian for Blinkie

Our Norwegian is pretty weak, so we struggled a little bit with the documentation for a big public LED art project in the lighthouse (translated) in Horten, Norway. But we do speak the universal language of blinkies, and this project has got them: 3,008 WS2812b LEDs ring the windows at the top of the lighthouse and create reactive patterns depending on the wave height and proximity of the ferry that docks there.

This seems to be an evolving project, with more features being added slowly over time. We love the idea of searching for the WiFi access point on the …read more

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Startup Security Weekly #21 – News

DIY home security suites, a cybersecurity company’s biggest 2016 failure, and what should you expect as a tech startup in 2017? Full Show Notes Visit http://securityweekly.com/category/ssw/ for all the latest episodes! http://traffic.libsyn.com/sswaudio/Startup_Security_Weekly__21_-_News_converted.mp3 Continue reading Startup Security Weekly #21 – News

Google Patches Two High-Severity Flaws in Chrome

Chrome 51.0.2704.79 for Windows, Mac, and Linux was released Wednesday and patched 15 vulnerabilities, including two high-severity flaws eligible for bounties Continue reading Google Patches Two High-Severity Flaws in Chrome

Researcher Pockets $30,000 in Chrome Bounties

Mariusz Mlynski is having a May to remember, earning $30,000 in bounties from Google for vulnerabilities he discovered and disclosed, on top of another $15,500 earlier this month from the same program. Continue reading Researcher Pockets $30,000 in Chrome Bounties