With ready availability of single board computers, displays, keyboards, power packs, and other hardware, a home-made laptop is now a project within most people’s reach. Some laptop projects definitely veer …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/this-home-made-laptop-raises-the-bar/)

This QR Code Leads To Two Websites, But How?
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/this-qr-code-leads-to-two-websites-but-how/

QR codes are designed with alignment and scaling features, not to mention checksums and significant redundancy. They have to be, because you’re taking photos of them with your potato-camera while …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/this-qr-code-leads-to-two-websites-but-how/)

An Electric Converted Tractor CAN Farm!
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/an-electric-converted-tractor-can-farm/

Last October we showed you a video from [LiamTronix], in which he applied an electric conversion to a 1960s Massey-Ferguson 65 which had seen better days. It certainly seemed ready …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/an-electric-converted-tractor-can-farm/)

Trap Naughty Web Crawlers in Digestive Juices with Nepenthes
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/trap-naughty-web-crawlers-in-digestive-juices-with-nepenthes/

An Internet bot, also known as web robot, WWW robot or simply bot, is a software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone. The largest use of bots is in web spidering, in which an automated script fetches, analyses and files information from web servers at many times the speed of a human. Each server can have a file called robots.txt, containing rules for the spidering of that server that the bot is supposed to obey or be removed.Another, more malicious use of bots is the coordination and operation of an automated attack on networked computers, such as a denial-of-service attack by a botnet. Internet bots can also be used to commit click fraud and more recently have seen usage around MMORPG games as computer game bots. A spambot is an internet bot that attempts to spam large amounts of content on the Internet, usually adding advertising links.
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/botnet.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/botnet.jpg?w=800">In the olden days of the WWW you could just put a robots.txt file in the root of your website and crawling bots from search engines and kin would (generally) …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/trap-naughty-web-crawlers-in-digestive-juices-with-nepenthes/)

A Second Rare Atari Cabinet 3D Printed
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/a-second-rare-atari-cabinet-3d-printed/

Last year we covered the creation of a 3D-printed full-size replica of an original Computer Space arcade machine, the legendary first glimmer from what would become Atari, one of the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/a-second-rare-atari-cabinet-3d-printed/)

Laser-Cut Metal Endoskeleton Beefs Up 3D Prints
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/24/laser-cut-metal-endoskeleton-beefs-up-3d-prints/

There are limits to what you can do with an FDM printer to make your parts stronger. It really comes down to adding more plastic, like increasing wall thickness or …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/24/laser-cut-metal-endoskeleton-beefs-up-3d-prints/)

Setting the Stage for Open Source Sonar Development
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/24/setting-the-stage-for-open-source-sonar-development/

At Hackaday, we see community-driven open source development as the great equalizer. Whether it’s hardware or software —  if there’s some megacorp out there trying to sell you something, you …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/24/setting-the-stage-for-open-source-sonar-development/)

This Week in Security: ClamAV, The AMD Leak, and The Unencrypted Power Grid
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/24/this-week-in-security-clamav-the-amd-leak-and-the-unencrypted-power-grid/