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/
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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. …
Aussies Propose Crackdown On Insecure IoT Devices
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/16/aussies-propose-crackdown-on-insecure-iot-devices/
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Aussies Propose Crackdown On Insecure IoT Devices
We’ve all seen the stories about IoT devices with laughably poor security. Both within our community as fresh vulnerabilities are exposed and ridiculed, and more recently in the wider world a…
Echo Dot Finds Swanky New Home In Art Deco Speaker
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/16/echo-dot-finds-swanky-new-home-in-art-deco-speaker/
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Echo Dot Finds Swanky New Home In Art Deco Speaker
The phrase “They don’t make them like they used to” is perhaps best exemplified by two types of products: cars and consumer electronics. Sure, the vehicles and gadgets we have now…
Dubai Police Test Quadcopter Motorcycle
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/16/dubai-police-test-quadcopter-motorcycle/
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Dubai Police Test Quadcopter Motorcycle
If you ever wish you could be on your quadcopter when you fly it, you will really want to see the video showing the Dubai police department testing the Hoverbike. The Russian company Hoversurf that…
TeensyStep – Fast Stepper Library for Teensy
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/17/teensystep-fast-stepper-library-for-teensy/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/17/teensystep-fast-stepper-library-for-teensy/
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TeensyStep – Fast Stepper Library for Teensy
The Teensy platform is very popular with hackers — and rightly so. Teensys are available in 8-bit and 32-bit versions, the hardware has a bread-board friendly footprint, there are a ton of Te…
Stripping 3D Printed Gears for Science
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/17/stripping-3d-printed-gears-for-science/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/17/stripping-3d-printed-gears-for-science/
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Stripping 3D Printed Gears for Science
While 3D printing is now well on its way to becoming “boring” in the same way that a table saw or lathe is, there was a time when the media and even some early adopters would have told …
Bad RSA Library Leaves Millions of Keys Vulnerable
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/17/bad-rsa-library-leaves-millions-of-keys-vulnerable/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/17/bad-rsa-library-leaves-millions-of-keys-vulnerable/
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Bad RSA Library Leaves Millions of Keys Vulnerable
So, erm… good news everyone! A vulnerability has been found in a software library responsible for generating RSA key pairs used in hardware chips manufactured by Infineon Technologies AG. The…
Hackaday Prize Entry: Playing With USB Power Delivery
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/17/hackaday-prize-entry-playing-with-usb-power-delivery/
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Hackaday Prize Entry: Playing With USB Power Delivery
USB Power Delivery is the technology that’s able to pump 100 Watts down a USB cable. It’s been around for half a decade now, but only in the last few years have devices and power suppli…
Spare RPi? You Have a Currency Trading Platform
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/17/spare-rpi-you-have-a-currency-trading-platform/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/17/spare-rpi-you-have-a-currency-trading-platform/
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Spare RPi? You Have a Currency Trading Platform
While Bitcoin and other altcoins are all the rage these days, there is still a lot of activity in the traditional currency exchanges. Believe it or not, there’s money to be made there as well…
Click Your Heels Thrice, Hail a Cab Home
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/17/click-your-heels-thrice-hail-a-cab-home/
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Click Your Heels Thrice, Hail a Cab Home
If Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz were to wake up in 2017, with her magic Ruby Slippers on her feet, she’d probably believe she had woken up in a magical world. But modern folks will need a li…
Sacrificial Bridge Avoids 3D Printed Supports
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/17/sacrificial-bridge-avoids-3d-printed-supports/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/17/sacrificial-bridge-avoids-3d-printed-supports/
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Sacrificial Bridge Avoids 3D Printed Supports
[Tommy] shares a simple 3D printing design tip that will be self-evident to some, but a bit of a revelation to others: the concept of a sacrificial bridge to avoid awkward support structures. In th…
Control System Fundamentals by Video
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/17/control-system-fundamentals-by-video/
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/17/control-system-fundamentals-by-video/
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Control System Fundamentals by Video
If you’ve had the classic engineering education, you probably have a hazy recollection of someone talking about control theory. If you haven’t, you’ve probably at least heard of P…