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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....

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B&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...

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Making 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...

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Kids 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...

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FTDI 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...

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Commodore 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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