If [Fluke]’s comment is correct, then the Sony PSP 2.01 firmware is already in the wild. here is a helpful Hack-A-Day guide so you can tell at a glance whether you should upgrade your firmware. All you have to do is compare the firmware version number to the previous release: If the first digit has […]
If you measure a DC voltage, and want to get some idea of how “big” it is over time, it’s pretty easy: just take a number of measurements and take the average. If you’re interested in the average power over the same timeframe, it’s likely to be pretty close (though not identical) to the same […]
check out this robot arm capable of handwriting which is orders of magnitude clearer than our own. It was built by [Patrick Barnes] as contract work for a campaign to raise funding for research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Don’t miss the video after the break which starts off with the satisfying whine of some major stepper motors. […]
This job is in one of our preferred categories; the kind where asking “why?” is the wrong question. [Berto A.] developed the gadget after observing some power generation by putting a big magnet next to a mechanical relay coil as well as swiftly clicking the relay’s lever. From this humble beginning he developed up the […]
The normal way of adding GPS capabilities to a project is grabbing an off-the-shelf GPS module, plugging it into a UART, and reading the stream of NMEA sentences coming out of a serial port. depending on how much you spend on a GPS module, this is fine: the best modules out there start up quickly, and […]
Researchers from the Argus research team found a way to hack into the Bosch Drivelog ODB-II dongle and inject any kind of malicious packets into the CAN bus. This allowed them to, among other things, stop the engine of a moving automobile by connecting to the dongle by means of Bluetooth. Drivelog is Bosch’s smart device for collecting […]
These are the golden Years of electronics hacking. The house diy hacker can get their hands on virtually any type of part that he or she might desire, as well as for not much money. two economic factors underlie this garden of electronic Eden that we’re living in. Economies of scale make the parts cheap: […]
[Alex] tiped us off about the evil sounding noises coming from http://www.thedarkknightrises.com/. when you go there your quite much greeted with a wav data as well as if you have a quick eye on the condition bar its quite simple to get the direct link to the data as well as download it. Thats all great, […]
heat pipes are used to passively transfer heat from one area to another. On pcs they’re usually found moving heat from the processor to large heatsinks on the case exterior. heat pipes contain liquids that vaporize when heated. The vapor moves up the pipe and is cooled by the external heatsink. This transfer of heat […]
Hands up if you feel your spiritual home is in front of a terminal with a “DIGITAL” logo on it. It’s a name that has long ago been subsumed into first Compaq and then by extension HP, but it’s one with a lot of history when it comes to computing. From the start of the electronic […]