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 ArticleThe curious case of the Commodore TED machines
Dan Bowman kindly pointed out to me that former Commodore engineer Bil Herd wrapped up his discussion of the ill-fated Commodore TED machines on Hackaday this week. Here in the States, few remember 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 ArticleCheap, 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 ArticleCommodore Plus 4 and Commodore 16
Dan Bowman kindly pointed out to me that former Commodore engineer Bil Herd wrapped up his discussion of the ill-fated Commodore TED machines on Hackaday this week. Here in the States, few remember 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 ArticleCheap, 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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