There were so many amazing unofficial badges at DEF CON this year that I can’t possibly cover them all in one shot. I tried to see every badge and speak with every badge maker — like a hardware safari.

via All the Badges of DEF CON 26 (vol 2) — Hackaday

When you have a complex task that would sap the time and energy of your microprocessor, it makes sense to offload it to another piece of hardware. We are all used to this in the form of the graphics chipsets our computers use — specialised processors whose computing power in that specific task easily outshines…

via A Motion Coprocessor Without The Proprietary Layer — Hackaday

Last time on Circuit VR, we looked at creating a very simple common emitter amplifier, but we didn’t talk about how to select the capacitor values, or much about why we wanted them.

via Circuit VR: A Tale Of Two Transistors — Hackaday

Every year we host Breakfast at DEF CON on the Sunday morning of the largest hacker conference in the United States. I think it’s a brilliant time to have a meetup — almost nobody is out partying on Sunday morning, and coffee and donuts is a perfect way to get your system running again after…

via Breakfast at DEF CON — The Greatest Illicit Meetup of All — Hackaday

Two or three years back you would see a handful of really interesting unofficial badges at DEF CON. Now, there’s a deluge of clever, beautiful, and well executed badges. Last weekend I tried to see every badge and meet every badge maker. Normally, I would publish one megapost to show off everything I had seen,…

via All the Badges of DEF CON 26 (vol 1) — Hackaday

Want to play a game? Your challenge is to do something incredible with a printed circuit board that measures no more than one inch by one inch. It’s The Return of the One Square Inch Project and it’s going to be amazing! We can’t believe that it’s been three years! The original One Square Inch Project was […]

via The Square-Inch Project Rides Again! — Hackaday