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• Beautiful and Bouncy RGB LED Skirt Reacts to Movement

  3 days ago English hackaday 2

  Is there any garment so freeing to wear as a skirt, assuming it isn’t skin tight? (Well, unless that’s your thing — we won’t judge.) Skirts and...

• Nvidia announces official “anti-cryptomining” software drivers

  3 days ago English NakedSecurity 4

  "It's a DoS, Jim, but not as we know it."

• Hackaday Links: February 21, 2021

  3 days ago English hackaday 6

  Well, that was quite a show! The Perseverance rover arrived on Mars Thursday. Don’t tell the boss, but we spent the afternoon watching the...

• Python Settles Bet About Best Strategy in Children’s Board Game

  3 days ago English hackaday 6

  Simulating a tabletop game can be done for several reasons: to play the game digitally, to create computer opponent(s), or to prove someone...

• Inside an Oscillator with [Ken Shirriff]

  4 days ago English hackaday 3

  We are always glad to see [Ken Shirriff] tear into something new and this month he’s looking inside a quartz oscillator module . Offhand, you’d...

• Volumetric 3D Television Is Here!

  4 days ago English hackaday 3

  Volumetric 3D displays that allow the viewing of full 3D images without special glasses are not unknown in our community, usually taking the form...

• Apple II Talks to 3D Printer With a Little Modern help

  4 days ago English hackaday 6

  Controlling most desktop 3D printers is as easy as sending them G-code commands over a serial connection. As you might expect, it takes a...

• This Slimline Word Clock Uses Laser Etching to Keep Things Simple

  4 days ago English hackaday 7

  Judging by the tips we get, it seems like the popularity of word clocks has perhaps started falling off lately. But back at peak word clock, we...

• It’s Noodles All the Way Down: Ramen comes to 3D Printer Support

  4 days ago English hackaday 6

  While ramen support might sound like a help desk for soup, it is actually a technique [GeoDroidJohn] uses to get easy-to-remove support...

• How Did The Nintendo Virtual Boy Work?

  4 days ago English hackaday 9

  What do you know about the Nintendo Virtual Boy? Everybody knows that it was the console giant’s mid-90s foray into 3D graphics and VR, and...

• Vintage Calculator Design Shows Just How Much We Take for Granted Today

  4 days ago English hackaday 5

  [Amen]’s Rockwell 920 calculator from the 70s was a very impressive piece of hardware for its time. It sported a 16-digit display, a printer, and...

• A Look at The “Risky” Tech in NASA’s Martian Helicopter

  4 days ago English hackaday 6

  On February 18th, the Perseverance rover safely touched down on the Martian surface. In the coming days and weeks, the wide array of...

• Google-Inspired USB-PD Sniffer for the DIY Crowd

  4 days ago English hackaday 6

  If you want to hack around with the communication protocol that USB Power Delivery devices use to negotiate their power requirements with the...

• Privacy Bug in Brave Browser Exposes Dark-Web Browsing History of Its Users

  5 days ago English TheHackerNews 9

  Brave has fixed a privacy issue in its browser that sent queries for .onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers rather than routing them...

• It Ain’t Broke, But Should I Fix It?

  5 days ago English hackaday 2

  Five years ago, I wrote a series on getting started with your own MQTT-based home information/automation network . Five years is a long while in...