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It is that time of the year again! Layer one, the annual security conference is just around the corner. They've issued their call for papers so if you have something interesting, you'll want to get a hold of them. If you haven't heard of the conference before, take a few seconds to just stroll back in time and see some of the cool stuff they've shown off. We love seeing their cool hackable … [Read more...]
Midwesterner's should take note -- here's an event that's happening somewhere other than New York or California! We jest, of course there are great events in the Midwestern states every year, like the Kanasas City or Detroit Maker Faires. This event puts focus on 3D printing. The Midwest RepRap Festival will be held in Elkhart, Indian March 15-17, 2013. Despite the name, the event is meant to … [Read more...]
Let's face it, we all love DEFCON. Even if you've never been there before, we think it would be a huge struggle to find a reader who hadn't been enchanted by at least one of the many hacks and talks that come out of the conference every year. We'll prove it to you in a second, but first let's get to the business at hand. Internet historian and all around good-guy [Jason Scott] has set his … [Read more...]
Head to head video game action can't even compare to this use of a coin-op Sega Rally game to race actual RC vehicles. Take a close look at those screens and you'll see there are no computer graphics, just a feed for a camera on each of the toy cars. The project was conceived for the Sapo Codebits VI conference in Portugal. The arcade cabinets had their controls connected to an Arduino, but … [Read more...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-ViXluO9b4 This year for Halloween, The Geek Group, decided to take a very different approach to outreach. Instead of making animatronics, or converting their giant (seriously HUGE) space into a haunted house, they held an event called "Computers Not Candy" where they teamed up with a large local company to bring 100 tablet computers to 100 youths. If you're … [Read more...]
We discussed [Rob]'s Tesla Gun in the past. At that time, the build looked very impressive, but had not been fired yet. Fortunately, [Rob] got the device working and brought it to Toorcamp. He took the gun out every night and demoed the handheld Tesla Coil by having volunteers catch the streamers with a knife. The gun uses a cordless drill battery for power, and a flyback transformer to … [Read more...]
The hardware hacking village at Toorcamp provided space and tools to work on hardware. It was interesting to see what hardware hacks people had brought to work on. One example is [Owen]'s Nibble Node.js Widget. The widget combines the popular node.js platform and custom hardware to create a node for the "internet of things." The hardware consists of a Arduino Pro Micro, a bluetooth module, a LCD … [Read more...]
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