Cheap, custom project enclosures
I found this papier mâché enclosure project on the always excellent Hackaday. I’ve gotten a bit… creative before with enclosures for my projects, but this takes things to a couple of different levels....
View ArticleB&N heats up the midrange Android tablet market
This week, Barnes & Noble answered Amazon’s Kindle Fire with its comparable Nook Tablet. Which should you buy? For $50 more, B&N gives you twice as much RAM (1 GB) and twice as much flash...
View ArticleMaking this WPS vulnerability even worse
If the vulnerability in WPS that I linked and talked about this week wasn’t bad enough, some of the commenters at the always excellent Hackaday found something terrible. Many vendors use a predictable...
View ArticleKids these days, not knowing the name Grace Hopper
The guys at Hackaday dug up a video of the late Commodore Grace Hopper (the rank is now called Rear Admiral, but the rank of Commodore just seems appropriate for a computer science pioneer) and the...
View ArticleFTDI needs to be charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
FTDI is a company that makes computer chips for USB peripherals. Their chips are frequently cloned, which is an issue they have a right to deal with. But they have to be careful. Breaking suspected...
View ArticleCommodore Plus 4 and Commodore 16
Dan Bowman kindly pointed me to former Commodore engineer Bil Herd’s discussion of the ill-fated Commodore TED machines on Hackaday. Here in the States, few remember the TED specifically, but some...
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