Hackers, Fingerprints, Laptops, and Stickers

From hackaday.com 4 months ago in Blogs

A discussion ensued about our crazy hacker ways the other night. I jokingly suggested that with as many stickers as we each had on our trusty companion machines, they might …read more

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Can You Hear Me Now? Lunar Edition

From hackaday.com 9 hours ago in Blogs

Despite what it looks like in the movies, it is hard to communicate with astronauts from Earth. There are delays, and space vehicles don’t usually have a lot of excess …read more

Network Time Protocol on the ESP32

From hackaday.com 12 hours ago in Blogs

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is one of the best ways to keep networked computers synchronized to the same time. It’s simple, lightweight, and not only allows computers to maintain a …read more

Gaming Mouse Becomes Digital Camera

From hackaday.com 15 hours ago in Blogs

Ever since the world decided to transition from mechanical ball mice to optical mice, we have been blessed with computer pointing devices that don’t need regular cleaning and have much …read more

Asahi GPU Hacking

From hackaday.com 17 hours ago in Blogs

[Alyssa Rosenzweig] has been tirelessly working on reverse engineering the GPU built into Apple’s M1 architecture as part of the Asahi Linux effort. If you’re not familiar, that’s the project …read more

Striping a Disk Drive the 1970 Way

From hackaday.com 18 hours ago in Blogs

These days, mass storage for computers is pretty simple. It either uses a rotating disk or else it is solid state. There are a few holdouts using tape, too, but …read more

The Hair Dryer Monitor Fix

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

[Johnny] had a monitor that he was particularly fond of. The whole monitor appeared dead, and he decided to open it up and find out what could be wrong. He …read more

Silence Of The iPods: Reflecting On The Ever-Shifting Landscape Of Personal Media Consumption

From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs

On October 23rd of 2001, the first Apple iPod was launched. It wasn’t the first Personal Media Player (PMP), but as with many things Apple the iPod would go on …read more

Lawn Mower Carburetor Improves Mileage on Old Sedan

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Before the Ford marketing department started slapping Maverick badges on pickup trucks, the name had been attached to compact cars from the 70s instead. These were cheap even by Ford …read more

3D Printing Hack Leverages Vase Mode Structurally

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Conceptually, FDM 3D printing is quite a simple process: you define a set of volumes in 3D space, then the slicing software takes a cut through the model at ever-increasing …read more

Light Whiskers from Soap Bubbles Is Real Science

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

You might think that anything to do with a soap bubble is for kids. But it turns out that observing light scattering through a soap bubble produces unexpected results that …read more