Plug Into USB, Read Hostname and IP Address
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Plug Into USB, Read Hostname And IP Address
Ever wanted to just plug something in and conveniently read the hostname and IP addresses of a headless board like a Raspberry Pi?Β Chances are, a ...
Giant Neopixel Is Just Like The Regular Kind, Only Bigger
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Giant Neopixel Is Just Like The Regular Kind, Only Bigger
Neopixels and other forms of addressable LEDs have taken the maker world by storm. They make it trivial to add a ton of controllable, glowing LEDs ...
3D Printing and Metal Casting are a Great Match
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3D Printing And Metal Casting Are A Great Match
[Chris Borge] has made (and revised) many of his own tools using a combination of 3D printing and common hardware, and recently decided to try meta...
Pufferfish Venom Can Kill, Or It Can Relieve Pain
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Pufferfish Venom Can Kill, Or It Can Relieve Pain
Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is best known as the neurotoxin of the puffer fish, though it also appears in a range of other marine species. You might remembe...
Tearing Down Walmart’s $12 Keychain Camera
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Tearing Down Walmart’s $12 Keychain Camera
Keychain cameras are rarely good. However, in the case of Walmart’s current offering, it might be worse than it’s supposed to be. [FoxT...
A Brief History of the Spreadsheet
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A Brief History Of The Spreadsheet
We noted that Excel turned 40 this year. That makes it seem old, and today, if you say “spreadsheet,” there’s a good chance you a...
Mass Spectrometer Tear Down
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Mass Spectrometer Tear Down
If you have ever thought, “I wish I could have a mass spectrometer at home,” then we aren’t very surprised you are reading Hackad...
Fun fact: Microsoft only put the Xbox 360 into series production 69 days before the September 14, 2005 launch date. This, combined with the high initial failure rate due to the red ring of death (RROD), was a major cause of initial supply shortages in the console's first year on sale. image
Ever wondered how The Simpsons was apparently broadcast in surround sound on regular free-to-air TV? Lewin Day explains...
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Analog Surround Sound Was Everywhere, But You Probably Didn’t Notice
These days, most of the media we consume is digital. We still watch movies and TV shows, but they’re all packaged in digital files that cram ...