Linux for the Paranoid Does the Work for You

From hackaday.com 1 year ago in Blogs

We all know that our activity on the Internet is not that hard to track. It just annoys some people more than others. If you are really hardcore, you’ll learn …read more

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Kino Wheels Gives You a Hand Learning Camera Operation

From hackaday.com 2 hours ago in Blogs

Have you ever watched a movie or a video and really noticed the quality of the camera work? If you have, chances are the camera operator wasn’t very skilled, since …read more

History of the SPARC CPU Architecture

From hackaday.com 5 hours ago in Blogs

[RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of the SPARC processor architecture. SPARC, short for Scalable Processor Architecture, defined some of the most commercially successful RISC processors during the 1980s and …read more

A New Gaming Shell For a Mouse

From hackaday.com 8 hours ago in Blogs

For some gamers, having a light fast polling mouse is key. [Ali] of [Optimum Tech] loved his 23-gram mouse but disliked the cord. Not seeing any options for a comparable …read more

IOT Message Board Puts Fourteen-Segment Displays to Work

From hackaday.com 11 hours ago in Blogs

We’re not sure, but the number of recognizable alphanumeric characters that a seven-segment display can manage seems to have more to do with human pattern recognition than engineering. It takes …read more

Magic 8 Ball Provides Tech Support

From hackaday.com 12 hours ago in Blogs

ChatGPT might be making the news these days for being able to answer basically any question it’s asked, those of us who are a little older remember a much simpler …read more

The 2023 Hackaday Prize is Ten, First Challenge is Educational

From hackaday.com 14 hours ago in Blogs

If you were anywhere near Hackaday over the weekend, you certainly noticed that we launched the tenth annual Hackaday Prize! In celebration of the milestone, we picked from our favorite …read more

Debugging and Analyzing Real-Mode 16-Bit x86 Code With Fresh Bread

From hackaday.com 15 hours ago in Blogs

Running a debugger like gdb with real-mode 16-bit code on the x86 platform is not the easiest thing to do, but incredibly useful when it comes to analyzing BIOS firmware …read more

Hams Watch For Meteors

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

After passing an exam and obtaining a license, an amateur radio operator will typically pick up a VHF ratio and start talking to other hams in their local community. From …read more

It’s Difficult To Read An Audiophile Guide As An Analogue Engineer

From hackaday.com 23 hours ago in Blogs

Sitting on a train leaving the Hackaday Berlin conference, and Hacker News pops up Julian Shapiro with a guide to HiFi. What Hackaday scribe wouldn’t give it a click, to …read more

An Old Netbook Spills Its Secrets

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

For a brief moment in the late ’00s, netbooks dominated the low-cost mobile computing market. These were small, low-cost, low-power laptops, some tiny enough to only have a seven-inch display, …read more