Failed 3D Printed Part Brings Down Small Plane Back in March, a small aircraft in the UK lost engine power while coming in for a landing and crashed. The aircraft was a total loss, but thankfully, the pilot …read more #hacking #projects

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Failed 3D Printed Part Brings Down Small Plane

Back in March, a small aircraft in the UK lost engine power while coming in for a landing and crashed. The aircraft was a total loss, but thankfull...

A Musically-Reactive LED Christmas Tree Regular Christmas trees don’t emit light, nor do they react to music. If you want both things in a holiday decoration, consider this build from [dbmaking].  An ESP32-D1 mini runs …read more #hacking #projects

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A Musically-Reactive LED Christmas Tree

Regular Christmas trees don’t emit light, nor do they react to music. If you want both things in a holiday decoration, consider this build fr...

Putting KDE On Raspberry Pi OS Simpler Than Expected Raspberry Pi boards are no longer constrained – these days, you can get a quad-core board with 8 or 16GB of RAM to go around, equip it with a heatsink, …read more #hacking #projects

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Putting KDE On Raspberry Pi OS Simpler Than Expected

Raspberry Pi boards are no longer constrained – these days, you can get a quad-core board with 8 or 16GB of RAM to go around, equip it with a...

MagQuest: Measuring Earth’s Magnetic Field with Space-Based Quantum Sensors Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in the final phase have now moved on to launching their satellites within …read more #hacking #projects

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MagQuest: Measuring Earth’s Magnetic Field With Space-Based Quantum Sensors

Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in the final phase ...

Making Glasses That Detect Smartglasses [NullPxl]’s Ban-Rays concept is a wearable that detects when one is in the presence of camera-bearing smartglasses, such as Meta’s line of Ray-Bans. A project in progress, it’s currently focused …read more #hacking #projects

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Making Glasses That Detect Smartglasses

[NullPxl]’s Ban-Rays concept is a wearable that detects when one is in the presence of camera-bearing smartglasses, such as Meta’s line...

G4 iMac Becomes a Monitor with a MagSafe Secret The G4 iMac is one of the more popular computers in the restomodding scene given its charm and unparalleled ergonomics. Most modern machines that people squeeze in don’t have a …read more #hacking #projects

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G4 IMac Becomes A Monitor With A MagSafe Secret

The G4 iMac is one of the more popular computers in the restomodding scene given its charm and unparalleled ergonomics. Most modern machines that p...

A Deep Drive Deep Dive Into a Twin-Rotor Motor Compromise is key to keeping a team humming along. Say one person wants an inrunner electric motor, and the other prefers outrunner. What to do? Well, if you work at …read more #hacking #projects

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A Deep Drive Deep Dive Into A Twin-Rotor Motor

Compromise is key to keeping a team humming along. Say one person wants an inrunner electric motor, and the other prefers outrunner. What to do? We...

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the C64 Keyboard [Jean] wrote into the tips line (the system works!) to let all of us know about his hacked and hand-wired C64 keyboard, a thing of beauty in its chocolate-brown and …read more #hacking #projects

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Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The C64 Keyboard

[Jean] wrote into the tips line (the system works!) to let all of us know about his hacked and hand-wired C64 keyboard, a thing of beauty in its ch...

Super Simple Deadbuggable Bluetooth Chip We’re all used to Bluetooth chips coming in QFN and BGA formats, at a minimum of 30-40 pins, sometimes even a hundred. What about ten pins, with 1.27 mm pitch? …read more #hacking #projects

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Super Simple Deadbuggable Bluetooth Chip

We’re all used to Bluetooth chips coming in QFN and BGA formats, at a minimum of 30-40 pins, sometimes even a hundred. What about ten pins, w...

PCB Design Review: TinySparrow, A Module For CAN Hacking, v2 A year ago, I’ve design reviewed an MCU module for CAN hacking, called TinySparrow. Modules are plenty cool, and even more so when they’re intended for remaking car ECUs. For …read more #hacking #projects

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PCB Design Review: TinySparrow, A Module For CAN Hacking, V2

A year ago, I’ve design reviewed an MCU module for CAN hacking, called TinySparrow. Modules are plenty cool, and even more so when they&#8217...