Do You Trust Your Cheap Fuses?
When a fuse is fitted in a power rail, it gives the peace of mind that the circuit is protected. But in the case of some cheap unbranded fuses of …read more Continue reading Do You Trust Your Cheap Fuses?
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Resistor Swap Gives Honda Insights More Power
A common complaint around modern passenger vehicles is that they are over-reliant on electronics, from overly complex infotainment systems to engines that can’t be fixed on one’s own due to …read more Continue reading Resistor Swap Gives Honda Insights More Power
A ZX Spectrum Raytracer, in BASIC
[Gabriel Gambetta] knows a few things about ray tracers, being the author of Tiny Raytracer, a raytracer written in just 912 bytes of JavaScript. As a long-time fellow sufferer of …read more Continue reading A ZX Spectrum Raytracer, in BASIC
Just How Dodgy Are Cheap USB Chargers Anyway?
Aside from apparently having both the ability to reproduce on their own and simultaneously never being around when you need one, USB chargers seem innocuous enough. The specs are simple: …read more Continue reading Just How Dodgy Are Cheap USB Chargers Anyway?
Bypassing Bitlocker with a Logic Analzyer
Security Engineer [Guillaume Quéré] spends the day penetration testing systems for their employer and has pointed out and successfully exploited a rather obvious weakness in the BitLocker full volume encryption …read more Continue reading Bypassing Bitlocker with a Logic Analzyer
A Fuse is Just a Fuse, Right?
We like to think that most common electronic components are essentially commodity items. We don´t buy premium wire or resistors. You just assume these electronic components are more or less …read more Continue reading A Fuse is Just a Fuse, Right?
Retrotechtacular: A Closer Look at the VT Proximity Fuze
Here at Hackaday, our aim is to bring you only the freshest of hacks, which carries the burden of being Johnny-on-the-spot with our source material. So if something of obvious …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: A Closer Look at the VT Proximity Fuze
Linux Fu: Fusing Hackaday
Unix and, by extension, Linux, has a mantra to make everything possible look like a file. Files, of course, look like files. But also devices, network sockets, and even system …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Fusing Hackaday
Linux Fu: User Space File Systems — Now for Windows, Too!
One of the nice things about the Unix philosophy that Linux inherited is that the filesystem is very modular. That’s good, too, because a typical system might want a choice …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: User Space File Systems — Now for Windows, Too!
Medical supply marketplace startup bttn. sews up additional $5M seed
Founders JT Garwood and Jack Miller started Bttn after seeing the challenges medical organizations had during the global pandemic to not only find supplies, but also get fair prices for them. Continue reading Medical supply marketplace startup bttn. sews up additional $5M seed