Vice of Old Brought to the Modern Age People say they don’t make em’ like they used to, and while this isn’t always the case, it’s certainly true that old vices rarely die with time. This doesn’t mean …read more #hacking #projects image
Linux Fu: Compose Yourself! Our computers can display an astonishing range of symbols. Unicode alone defines more than 150,000 characters, covering everything from mathematical operators and phonetic alphabets to emoji and obscure historical scripts. …read more #hacking #projects image
The Confusing World Of Bus Mice The USB port which first appeared on our computers some time in the mid-1990s has made interfacing peripherals an easy task, save for the occasional upside down connector. But in …read more #hacking #projects image
Know Audio: Microphone Basics A friend of mine is producing a series of HOWTO videos for an open source project, and discovered that he needed a better microphone than the one built into his …read more #hacking #projects image
Microsoft’s WebTV is Being Revived by Fans During the 1990s, everyone wanted to surf the information super-highway — also known as the World Wide Web or just ‘Internet’ — but not everyone was interested in getting one …read more #hacking #projects image
39C3: Liberating ESP32 Bluetooth Bluetooth is everywhere, but it’s hard to inspect. Most of the magic is done inside a Bluetooth controller chip, accessed only through a controller-specific Host-Controller Interface (HCI) protocol, and almost …read more #hacking #projects image
Playing a Game of Linux on your Sony Playstation 2 Until the 2000s, game consoles existed primarily to bring a bit of the gaming arcade experience to homes, providing graphical feats that the average home computer would struggle to emulate. …read more #hacking #projects image
The Rise of Fake Casio Scientific Calculators Scientific calculators are an amazing invention that take pocket calculators from being merely basic arithmetic machines to being pocket computers that can handle everything from statistics to algebra. That said, …read more #hacking #projects image
3D Printing a Telescope is Rewarding, Even if Not Always Cheaper What can one expect from 3D printing an 8″ Newtonian telescope? [Molly Wakeling] shares her thoughts after doing exactly that. The performance was on par with any solid 8″ telescope, …read more #hacking #projects image
39C3: Recreating Sandstorm Some synthesizer sounds are just catchy, but some of them are genre-defining. We think you could make that case for the Roland JP-8000 patch “Sandstorm”, which you’ve heard if you …read more #hacking #projects image