After about six weeks of testing [Yifanlu] has released a steady version of the Kindle 3 firmware for utilize with Kindle 2 hardware. whatever seems to be working just fine with the patched firmware. We promptly jumped to the final thought that the upgrade need to run quite sluggish on the older hardware. [Yifanlu] addresses […]
[Frank Buss] developed an electronic version of a sticky note: a WiFi enabled, solar-powered ePaper, with magnets embedded in the casing. It’s based on the new ESP32, and the idea is that you can update it through your smart-phone or over the Internet through a cloud app to show any message you want. Being an […]
In 1979, [Nolan Bushnell] released Asteroids to the world. Now, he’s playing the game again, only this time around with the assist of a laser projector as well as a Kinect that turns any individual sitting on a stool – in this situation [Nolan] himself – into everyone’s preferred vector spaceship. It’s a job for heavy steam […]
[tari] sent in a idea about a MAX5214 DAC examination board AVNET is providing away this summer. The MAX5214 / MAX5216 is a neat bit chip supplying a 14 or 16 bit DAC with a serial interface in a small 8-pin package. [tari] believes this eval board might be hacked into a function generator, as well […]
NASA spends a great deal of time researching the earth as well as its surrounding area environment. One specific function of rate of interest are the Van Allen belts, so much to ensure that NASA developed special probes to research study them! They’ve now found a protective bubble they believe has been produced by human transmissions in the VLF […]
After getting his hands on this relic [Gregory Charvat] handle to hack it, converting the receiver into a transceiver. It may be old, however the R-390A is nothing to scoff at. It’s capabilities include AM, code, as well as FSK operation from 500 kHz to 32 MHz. however it is a receiver with no method […]
[clarii_d] is currently completing up her thesis project on thermochromic pigment to silkscreen receipts. The idea behind it is that when a receipt is touched, part of it fades exposing a hidden message. As you can guess, thermochromic paint is a type of substance that changes color when introduced to heat — or in this […]
[Rich Olson] composed in to share his method for making dual-sided printed circuit boards utilizing a laser cutter. unfortunately this still depends upon etching copper clad boards with chemicals. but his process makes it truly easy to create well-defined and exactly aligned etch withstand on both sides of the board all at once. This can […]
There’s so much more to be discovered when your projects just don’t want to work. Grinding out the bugs, getting past roadblocks, and discovering gotchas is where real hacking know-how comes from. but most people aren’t motivated to document their failures. We want to change that. We want to roll out a new weekly feature […]