The current Apple TV 4K has been around for a year or so but there could be a refreshed version announced before the end of the year. We’ve been hearing for the last few months that Apple is working on a new Apple TV, and there are a few things we can probably expect from…
In the last episode, I advocated a little bit for Forth on microcontrollers being a still-viable development platform, not just for industry where it’s normally seen these days, but also for hackers. I maybe even tricked you into getting a couple pieces of cheap hardware. this time around, we’re going to get the Forth system…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed via Twitter that the company’s first electric truck will begin deliveries to Pepsi on December 1, 2022. The Semi truck had originally been announced in 2017 and was supposed to begin production in 2019. That original delivery window came and went with Tesla later saying that it would begin…
Our wallets are filling up with SIM and RFID cards that contain hidden information. using our latest project, the Bus Pirate universal serial interface, we can dump the memory from many common smart cards. In today’s How-to, we show you how to interface common smart cards, and walk you through the data stored on a…
[Sam] submitted this fun project, a Punchout interface that you actually punch. If you recall, we’ve done a Punchout interface that you punch, but this one takes it a step further. instead of being a blob on a desk that you’re mashing around, the new one is a slam man boxing dummy. They’ve mounted the…
The 2013 Uzebox Coding Challenge is currently underway. This competition runs until June 1st, with registration open until April 1st. The Uzebox is an open source, 8 bit game console that uses only two chips: an ATmega644 microcontroller and a AD725 RGB to NTSC converter. We’ve featured it a few times in the past. The competition rules are pretty loose:…
The G1 ‘execute every command you type‘ bug naturally spawned ‘rm -rf /’ jokes. rm is the Linux command for deleting files. The -r as well as -f flags will cause it to eliminate data recursively as well as neglect confirmation. carried out as root it will annihilate the entire filesystem. Won’t it? [Jon Hohle]…
exciting times these are, don’t you think? factory images of Android Lollipop for existing Nexus devices are already out. users in some regions are still waiting for Google to roll out the OTA updates on their devices. Although it shouldn’t take long, most of us were too excited to have our Lollipops sooner rather than…
With Halloween only a month away you’ll want to begin rounding up materials to develop something such as this now. Nate took the time to make this job look right. He enlarged a picture to make sure the scale was correct for the claws. The claws are mounted securely to a drawer slider Taxi driver…
A great deal of the board homes available including Seeed as well as ITead studios have a fixed size for circuit boards before the cost goes up. A one-inch square board costs the exact same as a much larger 5cm x 5cm board, making panelized PCBs a fantastic method to get a lot more boards…