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Home-Made Metal Brake

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Sometimes, the appropriate application of force is the necessary action to solve a problem. Inelegant, perhaps, but bending a piece of metal with precision is difficult without a tool for it. That said, where a maker faces a problem, building a solution swiftly follows; and — if you lack a metal brake like YouTuber [makjosher] — building one of your own can be accomplished in short order.

Drawing from numerous online sources, [makjosher]’s brake is built from 1/8″ steel bar, as well as 1/8″ steel angle. The angle is secured to a 3/4″ wood mounting plate. Displaying tenacity in cutting …read more

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SWIFT Confirms Banks Still Being Targeted, Announces Mitigation Tool

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SWIFT’s chief information security officer said Wednesday that the cooperative is still seeing cases in which its customers’ environments have been compromised. Continue reading SWIFT Confirms Banks Still Being Targeted, Announces Mitigation Tool→

Hands On – Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer

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If you regularly work with Microsoft’s Azure Storage and have always defaulted to using the web portal for Azure then this utility will give you an option to access and manage your storage on Azure without the web portal.

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KiCAD BOM Management

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KiCAD remains a popular tool for designing PCBs and other circuits, and with good reason: it’s versatile and it’s got pretty much everything needed to build any type of circuit board you’d want. It also comes with a pretty steep learning curve, though, and [Jeff] was especially frustrated with the bill of materials (BOM) features in KiCAD. After applying some Python and Kivy, [Jeff] now has a BOM manager that makes up for some of KiCAD’s shortcomings.

Currently, the tool handles schematic import, like-component consolidation, and a user-managed parts database that can be used to store and retrieve commonly used …read more

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