Nintendo Power Glove Achieves Its Promise As Vive Controller
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/14/nintendo-power-glove-achieves-its-promise-as-vive-controller/
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Nintendo Power Glove Achieves Its Promise As Vive Controller
You have to hand it to Nintendo, for blazing the virtual reality trail in consumer products a couple of decades before everyone else, even if the best that can be said for their efforts in that dir…
Opening the Door to Functional Prints
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/14/opening-the-door-to-functional-prints/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/14/opening-the-door-to-functional-prints/
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Opening the Door to Functional Prints
If you are going to do something as a joke, there is nothing to say that you can’t do a nice job of it. If you’re like [Michael], a whimsical statement like “Wouldn’t it be …
Hackaday Prize Entry: An Open Radiation Detector
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/14/hackaday-prize-entry-an-open-radiation-detector/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/14/hackaday-prize-entry-an-open-radiation-detector/
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Hackaday Prize Entry: An Open Radiation Detector
For his Hackaday Prize entry, [Carlos] is pushing the boundaries of what can be built with PCBs. He’s designed a very low-cost radiation detector that leverages pick and place machines, off-t…
3D-Printed Kwikset Keys Parametrically
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/14/3d-printed-kwikset-keys-parametrically/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/14/3d-printed-kwikset-keys-parametrically/
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3D-Printed Kwikset Keys Parametrically
Good ol’ Kwikset-standard locks were introduced in 1946 and enjoyed a decades-long security by obscurity. The technology still stands today as a ubiquitous and fairly minimal level of security. It’…
Semi-Automatic Rail Gun is a Laptop Killer
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/14/semi-automatic-rail-gun-is-a-laptop-killer/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/14/semi-automatic-rail-gun-is-a-laptop-killer/
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Semi-Automatic Rail Gun is a Laptop Killer
It’s huge, it’s unwieldy, and it takes 45 seconds to shoot all three rounds in its magazine. But it’s a legitimate semi-automatic railgun, and it’s pretty awesome. Yes, it h…
Space Technology and Audio Tape to Store Art
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/14/space-technology-and-audio-tape-to-store-art/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/14/space-technology-and-audio-tape-to-store-art/
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Space Technology and Audio Tape to Store Art
[Blaine Murphy] has set out to store an archive of visual art on cassette tape. To do so he encodes images via Slow-Scan Television (SSTV), an analogue technology from the late 50s which encodes im…
MIDI And A Real Vox Humana Come To A Century-Old Melodeon
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/15/midi-and-a-real-vox-humana-come-to-a-century-old-melodeon/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/15/midi-and-a-real-vox-humana-come-to-a-century-old-melodeon/
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MIDI And A Real Vox Humana Come To A Century-Old Melodeon
A hundred years or more of consumer-level recorded music have moved us to a position in which most of us unconsciously consider music to be a recorded rather than live experience. Over a century ag…
Get Down to the Die Level with this Internal Chip Repair
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/15/get-down-to-the-die-level-with-this-internal-chip-repair/
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Get Down to the Die Level with this Internal Chip Repair
Usually, repairing a device entails replacing a defective IC with a new one. But if you’ve got young eyes and haven’t had caffeine in a week, you can also repair a defective chip packag…
Encryption For The Most Meager Of Devices
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/15/encryption-for-the-most-meager-of-devices/
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Encryption For The Most Meager Of Devices
It seems that new stories of insecure-by-design IoT devices surface weekly, as the uneasy boundary is explored between the appliance and the Internet-connected computer. Manufacturers like shifting…
One More Day for Hackaday Prize Glory
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/15/one-more-day-for-hackaday-prize-glory/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/15/one-more-day-for-hackaday-prize-glory/
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One More Day for Hackaday Prize Glory
This is your last day to enter the 2017 Hackaday Prize. The theme is to Build Something that Matters, so don’t sit on the sidelines. You have great power to make a change in the world. Put yo…
Hackaday Prize Entry: Modular, Rapid Deployment Power Station
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/15/hackaday-prize-entry-modular-rapid-deployment-power-station/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/15/hackaday-prize-entry-modular-rapid-deployment-power-station/
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Hackaday Prize Entry: Modular, Rapid Deployment Power Station
After a disaster hits, one obvious concern is getting everyone’s power restored. Even if the power plants are operational after something like a hurricane or earthquake, often the power lines…
Hackaday Links: October 15, 2017
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/15/hackaday-links-october-15-2017/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/15/hackaday-links-october-15-2017/
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Hackaday Links: October 15, 2017
For the last few months we’ve been running The Hackaday Prize, a challenge for you to build the best bit of hardware. Right now — I mean right now — you should be finishing up you…
Xero Alto CRTs Needed a Tiny Lightbulb to Function
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/15/xero-alto-crts-needed-a-tiny-lightbulb-to-function/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/15/xero-alto-crts-needed-a-tiny-lightbulb-to-function/
LEGO Row Boat Is The Poolside Companion You Didn’t Know You Needed
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/15/lego-row-boat-is-the-poolside-companion-you-didnt-know-you-needed/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/15/lego-row-boat-is-the-poolside-companion-you-didnt-know-you-needed/
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LEGO Row Boat Is The Poolside Companion You Didn’t Know You Needed
Maybe it’s the upbeat music, or the views of a placid lake at sunset, or perhaps it’s just seeing those little plastic rods pumping away with all their might. Whatever the reason may be…
Why Not Expose Your PCBs Through An LCD?
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/16/why-not-expose-your-pcbs-through-an-lcd/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/16/why-not-expose-your-pcbs-through-an-lcd/
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Why Not Expose Your PCBs Through An LCD?
Most people who have dabbled in the world of electronic construction will be familiar in some form with the process of producing a printed circuit board by exposing a UV sensitive coating through a…
Oh Great, WPA2 Is Broken
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/16/oh-great-wpa2-is-broken/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/16/oh-great-wpa2-is-broken/
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Oh Great, WPA2 Is Broken
WPA2, the standard security for Wi-Fi networks these days, has been cracked due to a flaw in the protocol. Implications stemming from this crack range from decrypting Wi-Fi, hijacking connections, …
Inside Two-Factor Authentication Apps
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/16/inside-two-factor-authentication-apps/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/16/inside-two-factor-authentication-apps/
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Inside Two-Factor Authentication Apps
Passwords are in a pretty broken state of implementation for authentication. People pick horrible passwords and use the same password all over the place, firms fail to store them correctly and then…
The Fine Art of Heating And Cooling Your Beans
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/16/the-fine-art-of-heating-and-cooling-your-beans/
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The Fine Art of Heating And Cooling Your Beans
They say that if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing right. Those are good words to live by, but here at Hackaday we occasionally like to adhere to a slight variation of that saying: &…
Active Discussion About Passive Components
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/16/active-discussion-about-passive-components/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/16/active-discussion-about-passive-components/
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Active Discussion About Passive Components
People talk about active and passive components like they are two distinct classes of electronic parts. When sourcing components on a BOM, you have the passives, which are the little things that ar…
Hackaday Prize Entry: Giving Phones Their Tactile Buttons Back
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/16/hackaday-prize-entry-giving-phackaday-prize-entry-giving-phones-their-tactile-buttons-backhones-tactile-buttons-again/
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Hackaday Prize Entry: Giving Phones Their Tactile Buttons Back
In the before-times, we could send text messages without looking at our phones. It was glorious, and something 90s Kids™ wish we could bring to our gigantic glowing rectangles stuck in our pocket. …