Different Algorithms Sort Christmas Lights Sorting algorithms are a common exercise for new programmers, and for good reason: they introduce many programming fundamentals at once, including loops and conditionals, arrays and lists, comparisons, algorithmic complexity, …read more #hacking #projects
Hackaday
Different Algorithms Sort Christmas Lights
Sorting algorithms are a common exercise for new programmers, and for good reason: they introduce many programming fundamentals at once, including ...
 image
Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Keyboard-Mouse, Again The astute among you may remember an earlier version of this Russian beauty, the Lapa, which I featured last year around this time. Creator [lemosbor] claims that the worry was …read more #hacking #projects
Hackaday
Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Keyboard-Mouse, Again
The astute among you may remember an earlier version of this Russian beauty, the Lapa, which I featured last year around this time. Creator [lemosb...
 image
39C3: Hacking Washing Machines Many of us have them, few of us really hack on them: well, here we’re talking about large home appliances. [Severin von Wnuck-Lipinski] and [Hajo Noerenberg] were both working on …read more #hacking #projects
Hackaday
39C3: Hacking Washing Machines
Many of us have them, few of us really hack on them: well, here we’re talking about large home appliances. [Severin von Wnuck-Lipinski] and [...
 image
How Wind Nearly Took Down Boulder NTP NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all to forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate clock synchronization is required for everything ranging from cryptography to …read more #hacking #projects
Hackaday
How Wind Nearly Took Down Boulder NTP
NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all too forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate clock synchronization is ...
 image
Only Known Copy of UNIX V4 Recovered From Tape UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of PDP-11 ASM, but it was also considered to have been …read more #hacking #projects
Hackaday
Only Known Copy Of UNIX V4 Recovered From Tape
UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of PDP-11 ASM, but it was also considered to have bee...
 image
39C3: Hardware, and the Hard Bit The 39th annual Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) is underway, and it kicked off with a talk that will resonate deeply with folks in the Hackaday universe. [Kliment] gave an impassioned invitation …read more #hacking #projects
Hackaday
39C3: Hardware, And The Hard Bit
The 39th annual Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) is underway, and it kicked off with a talk that will resonate deeply with folks in the Hackaday...
 image
The Birotary Engine Explained Everyone generally knows about piston and rotary engines, with many a flamewar having been waged over the pros and cons of each design. The “correct” answer is thus to combine …read more #hacking #projects
Hackaday
The Birotary Engine Explained
Everyone generally knows about piston and rotary engines, with many a flamewar having been waged over the pros and cons of each design. The “...
 image
Streaming Music to Cassette In almost every measurable way, a lossless digital audio file is superior to any analog media. This doesn’t mean that analog audio isn’t valuable though; plenty of people appreciate the …read more #hacking #projects
Hackaday
Streaming Music To Cassette
In almost every measurable way, a lossless digital audio file is superior to any analog media. This doesn’t mean that analog audio isn’...
 image
Retro Semiconductors: The Silicon Controlled Rectifier Over on YouTube [Lockdown Electronics] reviews an old bit of kit known as the Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR). Invented in the 1950s the SCR is a type of thyristor and …read more #hacking #projects
Hackaday
Retro Semiconductors: The Silicon Controlled Rectifier
Over on YouTube [Lockdown Electronics] reviews an old bit of kit known as the Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR). Invented in the 1950s the SCR is ...
 image
Photographing Cosmic Rays with a Consumer Camera The reason photographic darkrooms are needed is because almost any amount of light can ruin the film or the photographic paper before they are fixed. Until then these things are …read more #hacking #projects
Hackaday
Photographing Cosmic Rays With A Consumer Camera
The reason photographic darkrooms are needed is because almost any amount of light can ruin the film or the photographic paper before they are fixe...
 image