hackaday links

Links

good morning hackaday readers. it’s time for some fresh links to soften the blow of last night’s hurrah of binge drinking. so let’s continue shall we? I’m hittin you up with some goodies today.

yeah it’s old, but it’s still cool right? [musschrot]
…but goddamn. this blows it and anything else away. [usergentoo]

[cyber spider tech] made us … Read the rest

Lava Lamp Random Number Generator

lava lamp

That title is really misleading; this hack doesn’t require a lava lamp… anymore. I initially went googling for a 1996 project at SGI that generated random numbers by taking photos of a lava lamp. The lava lamp was chosen because of its chaotic nature. I was suprised to find that SGI had patented/trademarked the lavarandtm technology. The system … Read the rest