Nostalgic 30-in-ONE Electronics Badge for DEF CON 30

From hackaday.com 2 months ago in Blogs

[hamster] and the DC Zia crew offered up a throwback 30-in-ONE Learn Electronics indie badge for DEF CON 30. The badge is inspired by the Radio Shack “100-in-1” style project …read more

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Levitating Banana Is An Excellent Conversation Starter

From hackaday.com 2 hours ago in Blogs

“I really like your floating banana.” If that’s something you’ve always wanted your guests to say when visiting your living room, this levitating banana project from [ElectroBing] is for you. …read more

Dad Builds Frickin’ Tank For His Son

From hackaday.com 5 hours ago in Blogs

We gotta love hacker Dads and Moms for being so awesome. Sooner or later, their kids get to play with some amazing toy that every other kid on the block …read more

Building a Fake Printer to Grab Screenshots Off the Parallel Port

From hackaday.com 7 hours ago in Blogs

[Tom Verbeure] recently found himself lamenting the need to take screen grabs from an Advantest R3273 spectrum analyzer with a phone camera, as the older gear requires you to either …read more

Smart Ovens Are Doing Dumb Checks For Internet Connectivity

From hackaday.com 8 hours ago in Blogs

If you’ve ever worked in IT support, you’ll be familiar with users calling in to check if the Internet is up every few hours or so. Often a quick refresh …read more

Hackaday Podcast 204: Cesium, Colorful Cast Buttons, and CNC Pizza

From hackaday.com 9 hours ago in Blogs

This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos met up over thousands of miles to discuss the hottest hacks of the past seven days. There’s a whole lot …read more

MCP23017 Went Through Shortage Hell, Lost Two Inputs

From hackaday.com 10 hours ago in Blogs

The MCP23017, a 16-bit I2C GPIO expander, has always been a tasty chip. With 16 GPIOs addressable over I2C, proper push/pull outputs, software-enabled pull-ups, eight addresses, maskable interrupts for all …read more

This Week in Security: Github, Google, and Realtek

From hackaday.com 11 hours ago in Blogs

GitHub Desktop may have stopped working for you yesterday, Febuary 2nd. The reason was an unauthorized access to some decidedly non-public repositories. The most serious bit of information that escaped …read more

A Disposable Dumper For ROM Chips With A Pi Pico

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

ROM dumping is vital for preserving old hardware, and we’ve seen many hacks dedicated to letting someone dump a ROM and send its contents to some hacker stuck with a …read more

Brass Hardware Makes For Pretty Potentiometer Knobs

From hackaday.com 23 hours ago in Blogs

Knobs and switches can make or break the aesthetic and tactile appeal of a project. Fine hi-fi hardware goes hard on these details, while cheap knock-off guitar pedals often go …read more

Building An All-in-One Desktop Out Of Framework Parts

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

The Framework laptop prides itself on having reusable parts, and hackers all around routinely challenge the claims by building projects reusing them. Yet again, [whatthefilament] puts the Framework hardware to …read more