Smart Bulbs Are Turning Into Motion Sensors If you’ve got an existing smart home rig, motion sensors can be a useful addition to your setup. You can use them for all kinds of things, from turning on …read more #hacking #projects image
A Childhood Dream, Created and Open Sourced Some kids dream about getting a pony, others dream about a small form factor violin-style MIDI controller. [Brady Y. Lin] was one of the latter, and now, with the skills …read more #hacking #projects image
A Lorenz Teletype Shows Us Its Secrets When we use the command line on Linux, we often refer to it as a terminal. It’s a word with a past invoking images of serial terminals, rows of green-screened …read more #hacking #projects image
A New Cartridge for an Old Computer Although largely recognizable to anyone who had a video game console in the 80s or 90s, cartridges have long since disappeared from the computing world. These squares of plastic with …read more #hacking #projects image
Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration After the news cycle recently exploded with the announcement that Google would require every single Android app to be from a registered and verified developer, while killing third-party app stores …read more #hacking #projects image
Finding Simpler Schlieren Imaging Systems Perhaps the most surprising thing about shadowgraphs is how simple they are: you simply take a point source of light, pass the light through a the volume of air to …read more #hacking #projects image
2G Gone? Bring It Back Yourself! Some parts of the world still have ample 2G coverage; for those of in North America, 2G is long gone and 3G has either faded into dusk or beginning its …read more #hacking #projects image
Logitech POP Buttons are About to go Pop For those who missed out on the past few years of ‘smart home’ gadgets, the Logitech POP buttons were introduced in 2018 as a way to control smart home devices …read more #hacking #projects image
Know Audio: Distortion Part Two It’s been a while since the last installment in our Know Audio series, in which we investigated distortion as it applies to Hi-Fi audio. Now it’s time to return with part …read more #hacking #projects image
Weaving Circuits from Electronic Threads Though threading is a old concept in computer science, and fabric computing has been a term for about thirty years, the terminology has so far been more metaphorical than strictly …read more #hacking #projects