THE CUBIC CYPHERCON BADGE
last week in Milwaukee was Cyphercon, Wisconsin’s premier hacker conference. You can’t do a hacker con without either an electronic conference badge or a 45 hanging off a lanyard, and the Cyphercon 2017 badge doesn’t disappoint. It’s an electronic cube, lovingly designed by the folks at tymkrs. It’s also a puzzle box with security holes and wireless…
FLOWCODE GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING
If you’ve ever been curious if there’s a way to program microcontrollers without actually writing software, you might be interested in FlowCode. It isn’t a free product, but there is a free demo available. [Web learning] did a demo of programming a Nucleo board using the system. You can check it out below. The product…
DIY $6 SERIAL cord FOR vintage APPLE QUICKTAKE CAMERAS
knowing he was a person who liked electronics and taking things apart, one of [Erik]’s friends sent him a vintage Apple QuickTake 100/150 digital cam as a bit of a joke. [Erik] took pleasure in the gift, but considering that his friend hadn’t sent the needed serial cord he really couldn’t do that much with…
RECURVE BOW MAKE FROM wood as well as SKIS
A bit deal with security is a fantastic concept when very first testing out your homemade bow. [Austin Karls] made this recurve bow during what he phone calls an engineer’s spring break. He settled on the concept after seeing a few other jobs like it on Reddit. After very first drawing up a plan he…
A smart switch BOARD FOR THE ESP8266
With a plethora of IoT projects and inexpensive commercial smart light fittings and mains switches appearing, you might be forgiven for thinking that another offering in this crowded marketplace would be superfluous. but there is always room for improvement in any field, and in this particular one [Xose Pérez] has done just that with his…
AVR HV RESCUE shield
While playing with an ATmega168, [Jeff] programmed the RSTDISBL fuse bit. This quite much makes the chip useless in a lot of cases. [Jeff] didn’t want to provide up on it though, so he built a system to program it utilizing the seldom utilized high voltage parallel programming mode. He utilized an Arduino, a few…
A genuine THERMAL IMAGING camera FOR $300
If you want to inspect your home for hot air leaks, take photos of the warm coming off a rack of equipment, or just chase the most dangerous animal, [Arnie], with the jungles of central america, a thermal imaging camera is your friend. These gadgets normally expense a few thousand dollars, however the team behind…
KEYBOARD pants
[Zach] sent us a link to his keyboard pants. Frankly, we were astonished, not only by his craftsmanship, however by the truth that we were working on a pair ourselves. Admittedly his are much much better looking as well as ours will most likely never be finished. The motivation for both his as well as…
25C3: NOKIA EXPLOIT stops ALL INBOUND SMS
[Tobias Engel] released a severe Nokia vulnerability today. By utilizing a specially crafted SMS message, you can block the recipient from getting any type of future SMS messages. The attacker modifications their Protocol Identifier to “Internet electronic Mail” as well as then utilizes any type of email address 32 characters or a lot more in…
AIRSOFT HACKING
[Barrett] sent in this hack he did to an airsoft pistol. He was using “tracer rounds” or glowing airsoft pellets as well as found that there was no commercially offered way of charging them up with uv light before they are shot. He cracked open his pistol, removed the safety mechanism, as well as placed…