It’s the Hack ‘O Lantern edition! First up, Slic3r is about to get awesome. Second, Halloween is just around the corner, and that means a few Hackaday-branded pumpkins are already carved. Here’s a few of them, from [Mike] and [yeltrow]:
The latest edition of PoC||GTFO has been released. Holds Stones From The Ivory Tower, But Only As Ballast (PDF and steganography warning). This edition has a reverse engineering of Atari’s Star Raiders, [Micah Elisabeth Scott]’s recent efforts on USB glitching and Wacom tablets, info on the LoRa PHY, and other good stuff. Thanks go to Pastor Manul Laphroaig.
Oh cool, we can be outraged about something. The Freetronics Experimenters Kit is a neat little Arduino-based ‘Getting Started In Microcontrollers’ kit. This kit was sold by Jaycar. Recently, Jaycar ripped off the kit and sold it under the Duiniotech name. The box was copied, the instruction manual was copied, and there’s a lot of IP being violated here. Can Freetronix do anything? Legally, yes, but it’s not worth it.
[Oscar] broke his phone, but it still works great as an SMD soldering camera/microscope thing.
Pobody’s Nerfect in Australia so here’s a 3D printed didgeridoo. What’s a didgeridoo? It’s an ancient instrument only slightly less annoying than bagpipes. It’s just a tube, really, and easily manufactured on any 3D printer. The real trick is the technique that requires circular breathing. That’s a little harder to master than throwing some Gcode at a printer.
[Chris Downing] is the master of mashed up, condensed, and handheld game consoles. His latest is another N64 portable, and it’s a masterpiece. It incorporates full multiplayer capability, uses an HDMI connector for charging and to connect the external breakout box/battery, and has RCA output for full-size TV gameplay. Of note is the breakout board for the custom N64 chip that puts pads for the memory card and a controller on a tiny board.
Can confirm Jaycar are gross in many different ways. Sadly very few alternatives in Australia; Aztronics are great but aren’t open long hours.
Seriously though, avoid them at all costs. Spent $6 on some TRS connectors to hook up to my UHF handheld. Very overpriced. Then one of them broke off inside my radio, causing me to have to attempt open heart surgery on the thing to push all the little broken parts out. Nearly bricked a $120 radio! Always, always avoid Jaycar.
Yep, I’ve given up on them. Once upon a time, they were good, but over the last 10 years they’ve gotten more and more distracted with the off-the-shelf Chinese junk the same way that Dick Smiths did.
It’ll only be a matter of time before they’ve forgotten about the parts business, moved into the shopping centres, and get crushed by the likes of JB Hi Fi and Harvey Normans.
Last thing I bought from Jaycar was some printed circuit board stock… if I want parts, it’s places like RS and Mouser these days.
Jaycar is really overpriced and Altronics is too far for me to go to pick up a couple of components, even though they have better rates than JayCrap. That being said, its really LOW to rip of a kit like that.
Just looked it up, JayCrap’s dooinotech kit is A$ 89.95 and the Freetronics kit is A$89
I’ve switched to just ordering everything online from electrical suppliers and eBay/aliexpress. Our component stores are all so expensive and far enough away that you might as well just buy from somewhere that’ll ship it to you overnight. A stunt like this just makes sure I’m never tempted to go back.
The digideroo seems pointless… and it is… but I think the intent is to show off that it’s printed with WOOD filament (?)
*didgeridoo
*didgeridon’t
Wow, maybe they’ll finally be able to print something useful, like a 2×4 ;-)
#costeffectiveuseoftechnologyforstupidpeople
BTW…
$ unzip -l pocorgtfo13.pdf
Archive: pocorgtfo13.pdf
Length Date Time Name
——– —- —- —-
5170872 08-13-16 19:04 AIM-239.pdf
42858 08-13-16 19:04 Atari6502Assembler.zip
413615 09-27-16 08:05 PE6-5000.m4a
1195 10-15-16 13:20 SerialDOS.java
95671 10-15-16 13:20 SerialDOS.jpeg
3798 10-15-16 13:20 SerialDOS.txt
0 08-19-16 14:54 StarRaiders/
0 08-19-16 14:54 StarRaiders/extras/
250327 08-19-16 14:54 StarRaiders/extras/ColorSheets.pdf
237177 08-19-16 14:54 StarRaiders/extras/DisplayListSheets.pdf
1409 08-19-16 14:54 StarRaiders/README.md
643687 08-19-16 14:54 StarRaiders/StarRaiders.source.asm.txt
825509 08-19-16 14:54 StarRaiders/StarRaiders.source.txt
776889 09-27-16 08:05 StarRaiders.zip
157840 09-27-16 08:05 StarRaiders_001-112.txt
234210 08-16-16 19:45 Sugihara.pdf
20843 06-27-16 12:34 WriteProcessMemory.txt
439765 08-15-16 07:44 aarch64shellcode.pdf
5268 10-04-16 07:33 aard.txt
766273 10-04-16 07:33 atrisk.pdf
207850 08-15-16 13:29 backyardwireantennaes.pdf
1093375 08-16-16 19:45 caninjection.pdf
1189077 10-03-16 08:38 cte450-homebrew.tar.bz2
0 08-05-16 14:29 da_667/
2106 08-05-16 14:29 da_667/Bohemian_hacksody.txt
1165 08-05-16 14:29 da_667/Cyberia.txt
3339 08-05-16 14:29 da_667/L0s3_Urs3lf.txt
3600 08-05-16 14:29 da_667/My_ident_is.txt
366017 10-03-16 08:38 facewhisperer.tar.bz2
1934 10-15-16 13:20 fingerprint.html
599345 10-04-16 07:33 freudenthal.pdf
97753 09-27-16 08:05 gr-lora.tar.bz2
28370 09-27-16 08:05 hamburgers.txt
2366 10-17-16 10:32 index.txt
34578 10-12-16 10:00 issues.bib
15785 10-12-16 09:58 issues.txt
4740 10-03-16 08:38 meat.txt
27898 08-13-16 19:04 mudge_buffer_overflow_tutorial.html
17239 09-27-16 08:05 object_manager_lookup_poc.cs
111739 08-16-16 19:45 scn-final.pdf
841 09-27-16 08:05 seafever.txt
769628 10-04-16 07:33 selfies.pdf
19490 10-15-16 13:42 spinlock.py
21831 10-15-16 13:31 spinlock.py~
245948 06-27-16 12:34 subversiveld.pdf
1817 10-15-16 13:42 trie.py~
5071447 09-27-16 08:05 wcc.tar.bz2
184470 10-04-16 10:47 wu-preparing-teachers.pdf
3718504 09-27-16 08:05 http://www.geoffchappell.com.tar.bz2
5632830 09-27-16 08:05 years.pdf
48 09-27-16 08:05 zllkey.txt
How much of that is a joke? ;)
appears to all be real? Might be a joke also, but…
Jaycar are now heading in the same direction as DSE in terms of pricing.
Which is a real shame.
Guess china gets my component orders now…
Yah the didg is annoying…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHZZuO2vY50 Don’t think so.
I dropped into Jaycar this morning, they are selling the Freetronics set for $139AUD and right next to it is their clone for $89AUD. I asked the guys behind the counter, their response was “we are not sure, the manager isn’t here right now”
Loving the latest pocorgtfo. Rename the file to a .ps and you get a unique maze, some extra bits and (if you’re lucky) apparently a copy of your /etc/passwd!
The Star Raiders disassembly was a great read. Can’t believe the guy a) wrote his own 6502 assembler for it, and 2) set up a toolchain to produce documentation (?!). It helps if you’ve played the game though. Really brilliant bit of work for an 8k cartridge.
For cute mini pumpkins just buy a mini pumpkin, carve it and stick an LED throwie up it’s butt.