BIOS Detectives Find Ghost Of Previously Unknown PC Old parts such as EPROMs will often find themselves for sale on sites such as eBay, where they are sometimes snapped up by retrocomputing enthusiasts in search of interesting code. …read more #hacking #projects image
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Using Inductors to Steal Power from Qi Wireless Charging Base Station Over on Hackaday.IO our hacker [bornach] has his entry into the Component Abuse Challenge: Inductors are Wireless Power Sources. Some time back [bornach] was gifted a Qi wireless charging base …read more #hacking #projects image
OldVersion.com Archive Facing Shutdown Due to Financing Issues Finding older versions of particular software can be a real chore, all too often only made possible by the sheer grace and benevolence of their creators. At the same time …read more #hacking #projects image
Screen-Accurate Lightsaber As a Practical Effect The lightsaber was one of the coolest and most iconic visual effects from the original Star Wars, and people have been trying to get that particular piece of movie magic …read more #hacking #projects image
Medium Format, 3 GigaPixel Camera Puts It All On the Line (Sensor) It’s a bit of a truism that bigger sensors lead to better pictures when it comes to photography. Of course everyone who isn’t a photographer knows that moar megapixles is …read more #hacking #projects image
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Pushing a 555 to the Limit The humble 555 timer has its origins back in the early 1970s as the NE555, a bipolar integrated circuit. Over the years it has spawned a range of derivatives, including …read more #hacking #projects image
Hackaday Podcast Episode 344: Board with Lasers, Op-Amp Torture, and Farewell Supercon 9 Hackaday Editors Tom Nardi and Al Williams spent the weekend at Supercon and had to catch up on all the great hacks. Listen in as they talk about their favorites. …read more #hacking #projects image
An LED Projector as a Lighting Effect If you had an array of high power addressable LEDs, how would you project them onto a wall? Perhaps you’d use a Fresnel lens, or maybe an individual lens on …read more #hacking #projects image
This Week in Security: Bogus Ransom, WordPress Plugins, and KASLR There’s another ransomware story this week, but this one comes with a special twist. If you’ve followed this column for long, you’re aware that ransomware has evolved beyond just encrypting …read more #hacking #projects image
Pi-Powered Camera Turns Heads and Lenses In Equal Measure Have you ever seen photos of retro movie sets where the cameras seem to be bedazzled with lenses? Of course you can only film via one lens at a time, …read more #hacking #projects image