Collaborate Disseminate
Usually, when you hear about games being decompiled and rebuilt, the games are often decades-old relics, loving and saved from the ravages of time. [MattKC] recently set out to decompile …read more Continue reading Decompiling Sonic Runners
[Wentworthm] couldn’t say no to his son’s plea for a Sonic the Hedgehog costume for Halloween but also couldn’t resist sprucing it up with LEDs either. The end result is …read more Continue reading LEDs Put New Spin on a Sonic The Hedgehog Costume
It’s debatable just how useful Secure Boot is for end users, but now there’s yet another issue with Secure Boot, or more specifically, a trio of signed bootloaders. Researchers at …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Secure Boot Bypass, Attack on Titan M, KASLR Weakness
We hear fables of how to restore the crispness to your crisp and the crackle to your crackers, but they are more hot air than some of the methods. We found one solution that has some teeth though, and it doesn’t require any kitchen appliances, just a pair of headphones. …read more
Continue reading Don’t Trust Your Ears for the Freshest Chips
Watching a child learn to run is a joyous, but sometimes painful experience. It seems the same is true is for [James Bruton]’s impressive Sonic the Self-Balancing robot, even with bendable knees and force sensitive legs.
We covered the mechanical side of the project recently, and now [James] has added …read more
Building your own self-balancing robot is a rite of passage for anyone getting into the field of robotics. Master of robots, [James Bruton] has been there, done that, and collected a few T-shirts. Now he’s building a large Sonic the Hedgehog self balancing robot that can bend at the knees …read more
Continue reading Sonic The Hedgehog Self-Balancing Robot Can Bend At The Knees
In the leafy suburbs of northern Virginia, a place ruled by homeowner’s associations with tremendous power to dictate everything from the color of one’s front door to the length of grass in the lawn, something as heinous as garage doors suddenly failing to open on command is sure to cause …read more
Acoustic lenses are remarkable devices that just got cooler. A recent presentation at SIGGRAPH 2019 showed that with the help of 3D printing, it is possible to build the acoustic equivalent of optical devices. That is to say, configurations that redirect or focus sound waves. One fascinating demonstration worked like …read more
Continue reading Acoustic Lenses Show Sound Can Be Focused Like Light
Teasers for the film were reportedly shown at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday, and reactions were… mixed. Continue reading The First ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Trailer Sounds Absolutely Wild
The new Sonic the Hedgehog film, to be released in November 2019, has fans wondering why Paramount made some questionable design decisions. Continue reading I Asked Some Furries Whether the New ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Is Hot or Not