Hacking Together an Expensive-Sounding Microphone At Home When it comes to microphones, [Roan] has expensive tastes. He fancies the famous Telefunken U-47, but doesn’t quite have the five-figure budget to afford a real one. Thus, he set …read more #hacking #projects image
PhantomRaven Attack Exploits NPM’s Unchecked HTTP URL Dependency Feature Having another security threat emanating from Node.js’ Node Package Manager (NPM) feels like a weekly event at this point, but this newly discovered one is among the more refined. It …read more #hacking #projects image
100-Year Old Wagon Wheel Becomes Dynamometer If you want to dyno test your tuner car, you can probably find a couple of good facilities in any  nearby major city. If you want to do similar testing …read more #hacking #projects image
Iconic Xbox Prototype Brought to Life When Microsoft decided they wanted to get into the game console market, they were faced with a problem. Everyone knew them as a company that developed computer software, and there …read more #hacking #projects image
Build Your Own Force-Feedback Joystick Force feedback joysticks are prized for creating a more realistic experience when used with software like flight sims. Sadly, you can’t say the same thing about using them with mech …read more #hacking #projects image
The Time Of Year For Things That Go Bump In The Night Each year around the end of October we feature plenty of Halloween-related projects, usually involving plastic skeletons and LED lights, or other fun tech for decorations to amuse kids. It’s …read more #hacking #projects image
Why You Shouldn’t Trade Walter Cronkite for an LLM Has anyone noticed that news stories have gotten shorter and pithier over the past few decades, sometimes seeming like summaries of what you used to peruse? In spite of that, …read more #hacking #projects image
Self-Driving Cars and the Fight Over the Necessity of Lidar If you haven’t lived underneath a rock for the past decade or so, you will have seen a lot of arguing in the media by prominent figures and their respective …read more #hacking #projects image
Why Sodium-Ion Batteries are Terrible for Solar Storage These days just about any battery storage solution connected to PV solar or similar uses LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries. The reason for this is obvious: they got a very practical charge …read more #hacking #projects image
How Simple Can A Superhet Be If you cultivate an interest in building radios it’s likely that you’ll at some point make a simple receiver. Perhaps a regenerative receiver, or maybe a direct conversion design, it’ll …read more #hacking #projects image