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Last month, [Vinod] bought a pair of hobby servos on a whim. These servos sat on the shelf for a while until [Vinod] asked his friend what he should use them for. [Achu] suggested using the servos for a walking robot, so after checking out a few YouTube videos of some servo-powered walkers, [Vinod] built his own. The robot is built around a TI Launchpad housing an MSP430 microcontroller. An … [Read more...]
In the days when computers took up an entire room, a CRT monitor was a luxury. Most of the time, input and output was handled with a teletype - a typewriter connected directly to the computer. [Josh] wanted his own typewriter terminal, so he took apart an IBM Selectric II and got to work. Instead of an electronic keyboard, the IBM Selectric II uses and electromechanical keyboard to tilt and … [Read more...]
Sometimes when you're working on a problem, a solution is thrown right at your face. We found ourselves in this exact situation a few days ago while putting together Hackaday's new retro edition; a way to select a random Hackaday article was needed and [Alexander van Teijlingen] of codepanel.net just handed us the solution. To grab every Hackaday URL ever, [Alex] wrote a small Python script … [Read more...]
While at work one day, [Marco] was approached by a colleague holding a portable USB hard drive. This hard drive - a Freecom ToughDrive - has a built-in security system requiring a password every time the drive is mounted. Somewhat predictably, the password on this hard drive had been lost, so [Marco] brute forced the password out of this drive. The Freecom ToughDrive requires a password … [Read more...]
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