Collaborate Disseminate
Skills challenges have become a fun way to facilitate friendly competition amongst anyone who appreciates a fine solder joint. If you’ve seen any Supercon / Remoticon coverage there’s surely been a mention of the infamous soldering skills challenge, where competitors test their mettle against surface mount components sized to be …read more
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The internet is full of self-proclaimed challenges, ranging from some absolutely pointless fads to well-intended tasks with an actual purpose. In times of TikTok, the latter is of course becoming rarer, as a quick, effortless jump on the bandwagon is just easier for raising your internet points. Cyclists on the …read more
Continue reading Climbing Everest One Hill At A Time – And Keeping Track Of It
Join us on Wednesday, May 27 at noon Pacific for the 2020 Hackaday Prize Hack Chat with Majenta Strongheart!
It hardly seems possible, but the Hackaday Prize, the world’s greatest hardware design contest, is once more at hand. But the world of 2020 is vastly different than it was last …read more
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A year ago, we wrote about the discovery of treasure trove of original documentation from the development of the MOS 6502 by Jennifer Holdt-Winograd, daughter of the late Terry Holdt, the original program manager on the project. Now, Ms. Winograd has created a website to celebrate the 6502 and the …read more
Whether it comes to rescuing people from a cave system or the underground maze of sewers, tunnels and the like that exist underneath any major city, having accurate maps of the area is always crucial to know what the optimal routes are, and what the expected dangers are. The same …read more
Let’s talk about it October brought Social-Engineer to the SEVillage at DerbyCon 8.0 – Evolution, SEORG’s final SEVillage for the year, and WOW, was it an AMAZING DerbyCon. Ryan and Colin arrived Tuesday to set up shop and stuff many … Continue reading The SEVillage at DerbyCon was…. AH-MAZING
Let’s talk about it October brought Social-Engineer to the SEVillage at DerbyCon 8.0 – Evolution, SEORG’s final SEVillage for the year, and WOW, was it an AMAZING DerbyCon. Ryan and Colin arrived Tuesday to set up shop and stuff many … Continue reading The SEVillage at DerbyCon was…. AH-MAZING
Bromium is announcing a Capture the Flag Bring Your Own Malware (BYOM) competition To win a $30,000 cash prize, you have to submit a sample of malware that successfully breaks out from our hardware-enforced containment and gains access to the flag file… Continue reading Bromium Announces Capture the Flag BYOM Challenge
Wow, 10 years already! In a few weeks, this is the 10th edition of BruCON or the “0x0A edition“. If you know me or follow me, you probably know that I’m part of this wonderful experience since the first edition. I’m also sponsoring the conference through my company with a
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[Josh] posed an interesting challenge. Create a boost converter that can light a blue LED using a nearly dead battery and one part. Well, we were skeptical until we saw he wasn’t counting an ATtiny processor as a part. You can see a video of the challenge, below.
The challenge has already been solved, so if you view the link, you might want to avoid the comments until you’ve had time to think about your own solution. We’ll confess, the first one we thought of was probably not workable for reasons [Josh] explains. The final answer neatly fits the criteria …read more
Continue reading Single Part Boost Converter Challenge (Completed)