Mating Cycles: Engineering Connectors to Last If you take a look around you, chances are pretty good that within a few seconds, your eyes will fall on some kind of electrical connector. In this day and …read more #hacking #projects image
Diskette Game Floppy Flopper is Certainly no Flop There’s a tactile joy to the humble 3.5″ floppy that no USB stick will ever match. It’s not just the way they thunk into place in a well-made drive, the …read more #hacking #projects image
Pong Gets the Boot You might be surprised to find out that [Akshat Joshi’s] Pong game that fits in a 512-byte boot sector isn’t the first of its kind. But that doesn’t mean it …read more #hacking #projects image
Amiga? Arduino? AMeagerBall Gets the Uno Bouncing When the iconic “Boing Ball” first debuted 40 years ago, it was a wonder to behold. There was nothing like it in the home compuing world upto that time, and …read more #hacking #projects image
Browser Fingerprinting and Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous Amidst the glossy marketing for VPN services, it can be tempting to believe that the moment you flick on the VPN connection you can browse the internet with full privacy. …read more #hacking #projects image
Possibly-Smallest ESP32 Board Uses Smallest-Footprint Parts Whenever there’s a superlative involved, you know that degree of optimization has to leave something else on the table. In the case of [PegorK]’s f32, the smallest ESP32 dev board …read more #hacking #projects image
Build a Stranger Things Wall You Can Freak Out At In Your Own Home When Stranger Things premiered in 2016, it was a cultural force. Foreign DJs gushed over the lush 80s soundtrack, fashionistas loved the clothing, and the world became obsessed with the …read more #hacking #projects image
FLOSS Weekly Episode 855: Get in the Minecart, Loser! This week Jonathan chats with Kevin, Colin, and Curtis about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead! It’s a rogue-like post-apocalyptic survival game that you can play in the terminal, over SSH if …read more #hacking #projects image
Hackers Can’t Spend a Penny We aren’t here to praise the penny, but rather, to bury it. The penny, and its counterparts, have been vanishing all around the world as the cost of minting one …read more #hacking #projects image
Damn Fine (Solar Powered) Coffee The folks at Low Tech Magazine are here again, this time with a solar powered coffee maker. Lest you think of a large parabolic mirror with a pot at its …read more #hacking #projects image