Linux On A Floppy: Still (Just About) Possible Back in the early days of Linux, there were multiple floppy disk distributions. They made handy rescue or tinkering environments, and they packed in a surprising amount of useful stuff. …read more #hacking #projects image
Reverse-Engineering the Intel 8087 Stack Circuitry Although something that’s taken for granted these days, the ability to perform floating-point operations in hardware was, for the longest time, something reserved for people with big wallets. This began …read more #hacking #projects image
Improving the Cloud Chamber Want to visualize radioactive particles? You don’t need a boatload of lab equipment. Just a cloud chamber. And [Curious Scientist] is showing off an improved miniature cloud chamber that is easy …read more #hacking #projects image
915 MHz Forecast: Rolling Your Own Offline Weather Station There are a lot of options for local weather stations; most of them, however, are sensors tied to a base station, often requiring an internet connection to access all features. …read more #hacking #projects image
Cheap 3D Printer Becomes CNC Wood Engraver 3D printers are built for additive manufacturing. However, at heart, they are really just simple CNC motion platforms, and can be readily repurposed to other tasks. As [Arseniy] demonstrates, it’s …read more #hacking #projects image
Decapsulating a PIC12F683 to Examine Its CMOS Implementation In a recent video, [Andrew Zonenberg] takes us through the process of decapsulating a PIC12F683 to take a peak at its CMOS implementation. This is a multipart series with five …read more #hacking #projects image
Hackaday Podcast Episode 350: Damnation for Spreadsheets, Praise for Haiku, and Admiration for the Hacks In Between This week’s Hackaday Podcast sees Elliot Williams joined by Jenny List for an all-European take on the week, and have we got some hacks for you! In the news this …read more #hacking #projects image
Attach a Full Size Lens to a Tiny Camera The Kodak Charmera is a tiny keychain camera produced by licencing out the name of the famous film manufacturer, and it’s the current must-have cool trinket among photo nerds. Inside …read more #hacking #projects image
This Week in Security: PostHog, Project Zero Refresh, and Thanks For All the Fish There’s something immensely satisfying about taking a series of low impact CVEs, and stringing them together into a full exploit. That’s the story we have from [Mehmet Ince] of Prodraft, …read more #hacking #projects image
Surplus Industrial Robot Becomes two-ton 3D Printer As the saying goes — when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When life gives you a two-ton surplus industrial robot arm, if you’re [Brian Brocken], you apparently make …read more #hacking #projects image