QUIC! Jump to User Space! Everyone knows that Weird Al lampooned computers in a famous parody song (It’s All About the Pentiums). But if you want more hardcore (including more hardcore language, so if you …read more #hacking #projects image
This Week in Security: ID Breaches, Code Smell, and Poetic Flows Discord had a data breach back on September 20th, via an outsourced support contractor. It seems it was a Zendesk instance that was accessed for 58 hours through a compromised …read more #hacking #projects image
BenchVolt PD: USB PD Meets Benchtop Precision USB power has become ubiquitous — everything from phones to laptops all use it  — so why not your lab bench? This is what [EEEngineer4Ever] set out to do with …read more #hacking #projects image
Inside a Germanium Transistor The first transistors were point contact devices, not far from the cats-whiskers of early radio receivers. They were fragile and expensive, and their performance was not very high. The transistor …read more #hacking #projects image
One ROM Gets a USB Stack Our hacker [Piers Finlayson] is at it again, and this time he has added USB support to One ROM. With this new connectivity you can attach your One ROM to …read more #hacking #projects image
The Fascinating Waveguide Technology Inside Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses Recently the avid teardown folk over at iFixit got their paws on Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses, for a literal in-depth look at these smart glasses. Along the way they came …read more #hacking #projects image
Motors Make the Best Knobs With SimpleFOC The worst thing about a volume knob is that, having connected it to a computer, it might be wrong: if you’ve manually altered the volume settings somewhere else, the knob’s …read more #hacking #projects image
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Sweet Sound of a Choking Transformer The Component Abuse Challenge is dragging all sorts of old, half-forgotten hacks out of the woodwork, but this has got to be the most vintage: [KenS] started using a transformer …read more #hacking #projects image
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Load Cell Anemometer When you think anemometer, you probably don’t think “load cell” — but (statistically speaking) you probably don’t live in Hurricane Country, which is hard on wind-speed-measuring-whirligigs. When [BLANCHARD Jordan] got …read more #hacking #projects image
Holy Parachute out of Kirigami If you have a fear of heights and find yourself falling out of an airplane, you probably don’t want to look up to find your parachute full of holes. However, …read more #hacking #projects image