This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney review the literature on a hack-packed week of action. We’ll find a Linux machine inside just about anything, including curb-side TVs and surprisingly secure EV chargers. No Internet? No problem — just tunnel IP through WhatsApp! We’ll see that 3D printers can be repurposed for lab automation of the cheap, build the worst — but coolest — 2FA dongle of all time, and see how a teetering tower of cards can make your old motherboard think any ISA card is plugged into it. Worried that driving an EV is going to be a boring experience? Don’t be — maybe you’ll still get to jam through the gears. But if you do, rest assured there’ll be plenty of careful engineering done to see if it’s safe. Err, at least we hope so…
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Artemis 1 success makes SLS most powerful rocket ever to fly
electronica (where Elliot has been hanging out)
Congrats to [Leon E] for guessing that I was torturing a hobby servo.
[Elliot]’s random image hash script
Dial-Up Internet Over WhatsApp
GitHub – adiwajshing/Baileys: Lightweight full-featured WhatsApp Web + Multi-Device API
DNS Tunneling With An ESP8266
DNS Tunneling: Getting The Data Out Over Other Peoples’ WiFi
Tunneling IP Traffic Over ICMP
Generating Two-Factor Authentication Codes With A Commodore 64
TOTP Algorithm Explained – Protectimus Solutions
Inside Two-Factor Authentication Apps
Emulate Any ISA Card With A Raspberry Pi And An FPGA
Pi Pico W Does PCMCIA, Gets This IBM PC110 Online
Reverse Engineering Reveals EV Charger Has A Sense Of Security
Tricking A Smart Meter Into Working On The Bench
A Single Board Computer From A TV
chip_scavenger/src/scavenge at main · ninakali/chip_scavenger · GitHub
Thin Client And Smartphone Step In For 3D Printer’s Raspberry Pi And Touchscreen
3D Printer Repurposed For Light-Duty Lab Automation Tasks
Elliot’s Picks:
Bike-Riding Skeleton Stalks The Streets On Halloween
Pretty Petite Picolibc Powers Processors
Wearable Sensor Trained To Count Coughs
Rapid Prototyping To Measure Turbidity In Rapids
Dan’s Picks:
A DIY Equatorial Mount Using Harmonic Drives
Power Up Vintage Electronics Less Unsafely With A Dim-Bulb Tester
Getting To The Heart Of A Baofeng
Automatic Lens Cover Helps Cameras Cover Space Launches
EV Sales Sticking Point: People Still Want Manual Transmissions
The Importance Of Physical Models: How Not To Shoot Yourself In The Foot Or Anywhere Else
