Any Old TV Can Be A Clock With Arduino If you’ve got an old black and white TV, it’s probably not useful for much. There are precious few analog broadcasters left in the world and black and white isn’t …read more #hacking #projects image
US Patent Changes Promise Severe Consequences When someone creates a US patent, they go through a review process to stop the most blatant copies from previous patents or pre-existing work. After this, you may still have …read more #hacking #projects image
Designing PLA to Hold Over a Metric Ton There’s never been such a thing as being “too competitive” when it comes to competition. This is something that [Tom Stanton] from Tim Stanton (wait, what now), [Tom]’s 2nd channel, …read more #hacking #projects image
Hydrofoil Bikes Are Harder To Build Than You Think Hydrofoils are perhaps best known for their application on boring ferries and scary boats that go too fast. However, as [RCLifeOn] demonstrates, you can also use them to build fun …read more #hacking #projects image
One-Way Data Extraction For Logging On Airgapped Systems If you want to protect a system from being hacked, a great way to do that is with an airgap. This term specifically refers to keeping a system off any …read more #hacking #projects image
Stack n’ Rack Your Hardware With the HomeRacker Project Things are cooler when rack-mounted, and [KellerLab] aims to make that all far more accessible with the HomeRacker, a modular and 3D-printable rack building system designed to let you rack-mount …read more #hacking #projects image
Google is Building a New OS Windows, macOS, and Linux are the three major desktop OSs in today’s world. However, there could soon be a new contender, with Google stepping up to the plate (via The …read more #hacking #projects image
This Bedtime Bot Enforces Better Sleep Hygiene [Will Dana] is engineering his way to better sleep hygiene. Not satisfied with a simple bedtime reminder notification — such things are easily dismissed, after all — [Will] is offloading …read more #hacking #projects image
KiDoom Brings Classic Shooter to KiCad As the saying goes: if it has a processor and a display, it can run DOOM. The corollary here is that if some software displays things, someone will figure out …read more #hacking #projects
A Friendly Reminder That Your Unpowered SSDs Are Probably Losing Data Save a bunch of files on a good ol’ magnetic hard drive, leave it in a box, and they’ll probably still be there a couple of decades later. The lubricants …read more #hacking #projects image