A Month Without IPV4 is Like a Month Without…
?w=800" alt=""/>Recently, there was a Mastodon post from [nixCraft] challenging people to drop their NAT routers for the month of November and use only IPv6. What would it be like to https://hackaday.com/2024/12/03/a-month-without-ipv4-is-like-a-month-without/
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/03/a-month-without-ipv4-is-like-a-month-without/
Hack On Self: The Un-Crash Alarm
?w=800" alt=""/>Ever get home, tired after work, sit down on a couch, and spend an hour or two sitting down without even managing to change into your home clothes? It’s a https://hackaday.com/2024/11/22/hack-on-self-the-un-crash-alarm/
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/22/hack-on-self-the-un-crash-alarm/
Ruined 1993 ThinkPad Tablet Brought Back From The Brink
?w=800" alt=""/>Collecting retrocomputers is fun, especially when you find fully-functional examples that you can plug in, switch on, and start playing with. Meanwhile, others prefer to find the damaged examples and https://hackaday.com/2024/11/18/ruined-1993-thinkpad-tablet-brought-back-from-the-brink/
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/18/ruined-1993-thinkpad-tablet-brought-back-from-the-brink/
Winamp Taken Down: Too Good For This Open Source World
?w=800" alt=""/>If you picked today in your hackerspace’s sweepstake on when Winamp would pull their code repository, congratulations! You’re a winner! The source for the Windows version of the venerable music https://hackaday.com/2024/10/16/winamp-taken-down-too-good-for-this-open-source-world/
https://hackaday.com/2024/10/16/winamp-taken-down-too-good-for-this-open-source-world/
Xiaomi M365 Battery Fault? Just Remove A Capacitor
?w=800" alt=""/>Electric scooters have long been a hacker’s friend, Xiaomi ones in particular – starting with M365, the Xiaomi scooter family has expanded a fair bit. They do have a weak https://hackaday.com/2024/10/01/xiaomi-m365-battery-fault-just-remove-a-capacitor/
https://hackaday.com/2024/10/01/xiaomi-m365-battery-fault-just-remove-a-capacitor/
Building a 3D Printed Scanning Tunneling Microscope
?w=800" alt=""/>YouTuber [MechPanda] has recreated a DIY STM hack we covered about ten years ago, updating it to be primarily 3D-printed, using modern electronics, making it much more accessible to many https://hackaday.com/2024/09/30/building-a-3d-printed-scanning-tunneling-microscope/
https://hackaday.com/2024/09/30/building-a-3d-printed-scanning-tunneling-microscope/
Linux, Now In Real Time
?w=800" alt=""/>Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones, and a few writers’ ancient Macbooks, there’s one major weak point in the Linux world https://hackaday.com/2024/09/21/linux-now-in-real-time/
2024 Tiny Games Contest: Batch Craze Is Portable Charades, Kind Of
?w=800" alt="A small handheld word game called Batch Craze, where one player tries to get another to guess the word on the screen."/>So there’s this commercial electronic game out there called Catch Phrase, which, as the game’s own catch phrase explains, is the game that’s played one word at a time. See, https://hackaday.com/2024/09/03/2024-tiny-games-contest-batch-craze-is-portable-charades-kind-of/
https://hackaday.com/2024/09/03/2024-tiny-games-contest-batch-craze-is-portable-charades-kind-of/
Entangled Photons Maintained Using Existing Fiber Under NYC’s Streets
?w=800"/>Entangled photons are an ideal choice for large-scale networks employing quantum encryption or similar, as photons can use fiber-optical cables to transmit them. One issue with using existing commercial fiber-optic https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/entangled-photons-maintained-using-existing-fiber-under-nycs-streets/
Handsome Sim Racing Button Box Is A Super Easy Build
?w=800" alt=""/>Sim racing is a lot more complex than playing Need For Speed 3: Hot Pursuit. You need buttons for all kinds of stuff, from headlights to brake balance to traction control. If https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/handsome-sim-racing-button-box-is-a-super-easy-build/
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/handsome-sim-racing-button-box-is-a-super-easy-build/
Handheld Oscilloscope Meter Reviewed
?w=800" alt=""/>We live in a time where there’s virtually no excuse not to have some kind of oscilloscope. As [IMSAI Guy] shows in a recent video, for what you might expect https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/handheld-oscilloscope-meter-reviewed/
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/handheld-oscilloscope-meter-reviewed/
Pi 5 and SDR Team Up for a Digital Scanner You Can Actually Afford
?w=800" alt=""/>Listening to police and fire calls used to be a pretty simple proposition: buy a scanner, punch in some frequencies — or if you’re old enough, buy the right crystals https://hackaday.com/2024/02/10/pi-5-and-sdr-team-up-for-a-digital-scanner-you-can-actually-afford/
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/10/pi-5-and-sdr-team-up-for-a-digital-scanner-you-can-actually-afford/
How Does a Sewing Machine Sew?
?w=800" alt=""/>Like all Hackaday readers, we pride ourselves on having at least a passing acquaintance with how most things work. But we suspect to a lot of people, things we take https://hackaday.com/2023/12/24/how-does-a-sewing-machine-sew/
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/24/how-does-a-sewing-machine-sew/
It’s An Audio Distortion Analyzer, Just Not The One You Were Hoping For
?w=800" alt=""/>An audio distortion analyzer is a specialist piece of analogue test equipment that usually costs a lot of money and can be hard to track down on the second hand https://hackaday.com/2023/12/19/its-an-audio-distortion-analyzer-just-not-the-one-you-were-hoping-for/
Designing a Macintosh-to-VGA Adapter With an LM1881
?w=800" alt=""/>If you’re the happy owner of a vintage Apple system like a 1989 Macintosh IIci you may know the pain of keeping working monitors around. Unless it’s a genuine Apple-approved https://hackaday.com/2023/10/07/designing-a-macintosh-to-vga-adapter-with-an-lm1881/
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/07/designing-a-macintosh-to-vga-adapter-with-an-lm1881/
Autonomous Wheelchair Lets Jetson Do the Driving
?w=800" alt=""/>Compared to their manual counterparts, electric wheelchairs are far less demanding to operate, as the user doesn’t need to have upper body strength normally required to turn the wheels. But https://hackaday.com/2023/10/04/autonomous-wheelchair-lets-jetson-do-the-driving/
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/04/autonomous-wheelchair-lets-jetson-do-the-driving/
Hackaday Podcast 237: Dancing Raisins, Coding on Apples, and a Salad Spinner Mouse
?w=800" alt=""/>This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos gathered over the Internet and a couple cups of coffee to bring you the best hacks of the previous week. Well, the https://hackaday.com/2023/09/22/hackaday-podcast-237-dancing-raisins-coding-on-apples-and-a-salad-spinner-mouse/
Scaled-Up Matches Are Hilarious And Moderately Effective
?w=800" alt=""/>Regular matches are fine for lighting candles and the like, but they’re a bit small and fiddly to use. After seeing some giant prop matches used in a stage play, https://hackaday.com/2023/09/20/scaled-up-matches-are-hilarious-and-moderately-effective/
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/20/scaled-up-matches-are-hilarious-and-moderately-effective/
Preserving Floppy Disks
?w=800" alt=""/>Time is almost up for magnetic storage from the 80s and 90s. Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the data stored on https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/preserving-floppy-disks/
This Week in Security: Blastpass, MGM Heist, and Killer Themes
?w=800" alt=""/>There’s yet another 0-day exploit chain discovered as part of NSO Group’s Pegasus malware suite. This one is known as BLASTPASS, and it’s a nasty one. There’s no user interaction https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/this-week-in-security-blastpass-mgm-heist-and-killer-themes/
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/this-week-in-security-blastpass-mgm-heist-and-killer-themes/