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
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 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 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 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 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 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 image