Christmas lightnings around houses are not my favorite, however I like the atmosphere of warm little candles put on the bottom borders of the windows . That’s the starting point of a long and lazy digression. Instead of burning continuously paraffin wax, could we make a reusable electronic one ? Of course, there is tons […]
When reading about cool projects and products, it’s common to see wiring plugs labelled “JST connector.” This looks fine until we start getting hands-on and begin hacking things together. Inevitably we find the JST connector from one part fails to fit in the JST connector of another. This is the moment we learn “JST” is […]
Well, as promised in my last CPC2 post, I finished the next build of the CPC2 board and learned a lot of things during the process. Somethings worked, some things didn’t, but every build is giving me a wealth of knowledge of product design, fault diagnosis and rectification work. Yes, de-solder braid really was my […]
Show of hands: how many of you have parked your car in the driveway, walked up to your house, and pressed your car’s key fob button thinking it would open the front door? We’ve probably all done it and felt a little dopey as a result, but when you think about it, it would be […]
via Samy Kamkar: Reverse Engineering for a Secure Future — Hackaday
For a while now I have been intrigued with Integrated Light Sources i.e. NeoPixels. I knew nothing about them and with the coming of Christmas, I was inspired to take a closer look. I knew I would not have anything in place before Christmas 2017. But there is always next year.
via A Look into Integrated Light Sources — Rebooting Electronics
https://www.meetup.com/Mountain-View-Reverse-Engineering-Meetup/events/xgzldpyxcbnb/
We have the side room (ie including TV) reserved for talks.
7:00-7:10: mingle
7:10-7:50: “Reverse Engineering Midway Zeus” by Philip B
7:50:-8:00: mingle
8:00-8:20: “Using open source tools to reverse engineer and modify UEFI bioses” by Matt M
8:20-9:00: mingle
This is it. This is the last weekend you’ll have to work on the most explosive battery-powered contest in recent memory. This is the Coin Cell Challenge, and it’s all ending this Monday. You have less than 48 hours to create the most amazing thing powered by a coin cell battery. Joseph Primmer slapped a coin…
via This Is The Last Weekend For The Coin Cell Challenge — Hackaday
Jens Hauke designed this charlieplexed 20 LED blinker controlled by an ATTiny45 for the Hackaday Coin Cell Challenge:
This is a small blinky with 20 LEDs powered by one CR2032 coin cell
and with an ATTiny45 brain. The firmware is written in plain C and
compiled with the avr-gcc toolchain. The PCB is a two layer design made
with KiCad.
Space efficient daisychained LED placing with shared anode/cathode soldering pads.
Firmware and gerbers are available on GitHub:
Jens has shared the board on OSH Park:
Here is a video of the LED in action:
Today you can buy flashing LEDs; a simple two-lead component that requires only a power supply to produce even flashes of light. They look for all the world like any other LED, though embedded in the plastic dome is an integrated circuit to do all that flashing work. There was a time though when a…
via There Once Was an IC Dedicated to Blinking an LED — Hackaday
The next Hardware Developers Didactic Galactic is on Thursday, January 11th, at SupplyFrame’s San Francisco office:
https://www.meetup.com/Hardware-Developers-Didactic-Galactic/events/246401401/
The presenters will be:
OSH Park 