We have been alerted to a fun tool, a DJI DroneID spoofer software for ESP8266/ESP32 and some other popular MCUs. Last year, we’ve told you about DJI DroneID — a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/cant-disable-dji-drone-id-spoof-it-with-an-esp/)
Avi Loeb and the Interstellar Lottery
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/avi-loeb-and-the-interstellar-lottery/
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/avi-loeb-and-the-interstellar-lottery/
Except for rare occasions, I don’t play the lottery. Like many of you, I consider state-run lotteries to be a tax paid only by people who can’t do math. That’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/avi-loeb-and-the-interstellar-lottery/)
Luggable Cyberdeck Can Still Be a Luggable PC
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/luggable-cyberdeck-can-still-be-a-luggable-pc/
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/luggable-cyberdeck-can-still-be-a-luggable-pc/
In the 80s and early 90s, there existed a class of personal computers that are no longer around today — the luggable. Planted firmly between a desktop and a laptop, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/luggable-cyberdeck-can-still-be-a-luggable-pc/)
Join us on Wednesday, March 6 at noon Pacific for the High Vacuum Hack Chat with Niklas from Advanced Tinkering! To the casual observer, there’s not much that goes on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/high-vacuum-hack-chat/)
Retrotechtacular: The Free Piston Engine
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/retrotechtacular-the-free-piston-engine/
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/retrotechtacular-the-free-piston-engine/
We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/retrotechtacular-the-free-piston-engine/)
Pager Lives Again Thanks to Python And Mastodon
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/pager-lives-again-thanks-to-python-and-mastodon/
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/pager-lives-again-thanks-to-python-and-mastodon/
Pagers were a big deal for a while there, even if they never quite made it into the pantheon of excellent sitcom plot devices like answering machines did. Anyway, [Finnley …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/pager-lives-again-thanks-to-python-and-mastodon/)
Optical Guitar Pickup Works With Nylon Strings
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/optical-guitar-pickup-works-with-nylon-strings/
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/optical-guitar-pickup-works-with-nylon-strings/
Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/optical-guitar-pickup-works-with-nylon-strings/)