22C3 Day 00 and 01 Round Up

Today and yesterday's 22C3 included tons of fun hacker stuff. Highlights from day 00 and 01 included a slew of topics from politics to hardcore geekery. We toured the CCC's annual hackfest to bring you the best of the new hacks. We commence our tour with Hack-A-Day's friend Dan "I Like Big Graphs and I Cannot Lie" Kaminsky. Dan presented yummy OpenGL graphics and DNS cache proof of the Sony … [Read more...]

Chaos Computer Club’s 22C3 Congress

Hack-A-Day is here at 22C3: Private Investigations, the Chaos Computer Club's annual hacker conference in snow covered Berlin, Germany. The CCC's annual Congress is the European answer to Las Vegas located DEFCON. This 22nd annual conference has been lengthened from three days to four to be able to accommodate more talks. We'll be here all week reporting on the coolest hardware hack topics at the … [Read more...]

Open source motor controller

  The OSMC project was started in 1998 to provide a high quality H-bridge speed control to hobbyists and professionals. The original design was intended to be used by people who were building Battle Bots and other competition robots, but the line has expanded since then. The project embraces the open source spirit by making the plans freely available and encouraging modification. This is the … [Read more...]