Collaborate Disseminate
[Electrosync] is the creator and driver of the world’s fastest robotic vaccum cleaner, the Vroomba. It’s a heavily modified roomba capable of speeds of around 60 kph, well beyond the …read more Continue reading Vroomba Gets Upgrades and a Spoiler
Sometimes a great hack is great for no other reason than that it’s fun, and [Michael Rechtin]’s DIY Active Aero Spoiler and Air Brake certainly qualifies as a fun hack. …read more Continue reading Arduino Activated Automotive Aerodynamic Apparatus is… (Spoiler Alert!)
The past few days have been busy if you’re trying to keep up with the pace of computer security news. Between a serious Chromium bug that’s actively being exploited on Windows 7 systems, the NSA releasing one of their tools as an open source project, and a new Spectre-like speculative …read more
Continue reading Spoiler, Use-After-Free, and Ghidra: This Week in Computer Security
Seeking immortality can lead to fates worse than death. Continue reading The Best ‘Westworld’ Episode Yet Explored the Dark Side of Transhumanism
[Big Fish Motorsports] has a vehicle with an adjustable rear spoiler system that broke in the lead up to a big race. The original builder had since gone AWOL so the considerable talents of [Quinn Dunki] were brought to bear in getting it working again.
Cracking open the black control box of mystery revealed an Arduino, a ProtoShield and the first major road block: the Arduino remained stubbornly incommunicado despite several different methods of trying to read the source code. Turns out the Arduino’s ATMega324 was configured to be unreadable or simply fried, but an ATMega128 [Quinn] had proved to …read more
Continue reading Spoiler Alert! Repairing A Race Car Can Get Complicated, Fast.