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3D Printed Tool Tips to Straighten DIP Chips and Unstraighten Resistors

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Steven Dufresne

Watching someone assemble a kit is a great way to see some tools you may have not encountered before and maybe learn some new tricks. During [Marco Reps’] recent build of a GPS synchronized Nixie clock kit we spied a couple of handy tools that you can 3D print for your own bench.

Fresh from the factory Dual Inline Package (DIP) chips come with their legs splayed every so slightly apart — enough to not fit into the carefully designed footprints on a circuit board. You may be used to imprecisely bending them by hand on the surface of the …read more

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Printed It: Toolbag Essentials

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Tom Nardi

While complex devices assembled from 3D printed components are certainly impressive, it’s the simple prints that have always held the most appeal to me personally. Being able to pick an object up off the bed of your printer and immediately put it to use with little to no additional work is about as close as we can get to Star Trek style replicators. It’s a great demonstration to show off the utility of your 3D printer, but more importantly, having immediate access to some of these tools and gadgets might get you out of a jam one day.

With that …read more

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install error autoconf

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Mg Sein

I am using Kali Linux and try to install autoconf. When I run the code

apt-get install autoconf

I get the following error:

Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with –fix-missing?

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Loading Kernel Shellcode

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Nick Harbour

In the wake of recent hacking tool dumps, the FLARE team saw a spike
in malware samples detonating kernel shellcode. Although most samples
can be analyzed statically, the FLARE team sometimes debugs these
samples to confirm specific functionality… Continue reading Loading Kernel Shellcode→

Dispensing Solder Paste Automatically

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Brian Benchoff

Through-hole chips are slowly falling by the wayside, and if you want to build something with new parts you will be using surface mount components. This means spreading paste and throwing it in the toaster oven. Of course, if you don’t want to take the time to get a stencil for your solder paste, you can always lay it down by hand. For that, [owhite] has created a tiny, handheld, robotic solder paste dispenser. It’s a robotic pen that dispenses just the right amount of solder paste on your pads.

The design of this solder paste dispenser is basically a …read more

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Creating portable bash terminal & cmd to USB

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Simonhawk

Developing my toolkit and I want to have a safe edition of cmd.exe and bash on a usb. Why? These can be tampered with by attackers and I want a version I know is safe from manipulation. Any suggestions? Is this even possible … Continue reading Creating portable bash terminal & cmd to USB→

Your new friend, KLara

Posted on March 28, 2018 by GReAT

In R&D we use a lot of open-source projects and we believe giving back to the community is our way of saying ‘Thank you’. More and more security companies are releasing their open-source projects and we would like to contribute with our distributed YARA scanner. Continue reading Your new friend, KLara→

The Obscure Electronics Tools You Didn’t Know You Needed

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Lewin Day

The right tool for the job can turn a total headache into a 30-second operation. This is all the more important when you’re trying to streamline an assembly process, and the reason why you’ll find so many strange and wonderful purpose-built tools on any production line. With a nod to that old adage, [EvilMadScientist] have collected the tools you didn’t know you needed – until now.

If you’re wiring big through-hole boards all day, you’ve probably bemoaned the uneven bends on all your resistors. How did the big companies get it right way back when? They used a tool to …read more

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Drill Bit Gauge Is Interdenominational Black Magic

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Lewin Day

Oh, sure – when you buy a new set of drill bits from the store, they come in a handy holder that demarcates all the different sizes neatly. But after a few years when they’ve ended up scattered in the bottom of your toolbox for a while, it becomes useful to have some sort of gauge to measure them. [Caspar] has the solution, and all you need is an old steel rule.

The trick is to get a ruler with gradations for inches and tenths of inches. After cutting the ruler off just after the 6″ point, the two halves …read more

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Precision DIY Calipers? That’s a Moiré!

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Lara Grant

Moiré patterns are a thing of art, physics, and now tool design! [Julldozer] from Mojoptix creatively uses a moiré pattern to achieve a 0.05 mm precision goal for his custom designed 3D printed calipers. His calipers are designed to validate a 3D print against the original 3D model. When choosing which calipers are best for a job, he points out two critical features to measure them up against, accuracy and precision which he explains the definition of in his informative video. The accuracy and precision values he sets as constraints for his own design are 0.5 mm and 0.05 mm …read more

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