This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney review the literature on a hack-packed week of action. We’ll find a Linux machine inside just about anything, including curb-side TVs and surprisingly secure EV chargers. No Internet? No problem — just tunnel IP through WhatsApp! We’ll see that 3D printers can be repurposed for lab automation of the cheap, build the worst — but coolest — 2FA dongle of all time, and see how a teetering tower of cards can make your old motherboard think any ISA card is plugged into it. Worried that driving an EV is going to be a boring experience? Don’t be — maybe you’ll still get to jam through the gears. But if you do, rest assured there’ll be plenty of careful engineering done to see if it’s safe. Err, at least we hope so…
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Episode 193 Show Notes:
News:
- Artemis 1 success makes SLS most powerful rocket ever to fly
- electronica (where Elliot has been hanging out)
What’s that Sound?
- Congrats to [Leon E] for guessing that I was torturing a hobby servo.
- [Elliot]’s random image hash script
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Dial-Up Internet Over WhatsApp
- Generating Two-Factor Authentication Codes With A Commodore 64
- Emulate Any ISA Card With A Raspberry Pi And An FPGA
- Reverse Engineering Reveals EV Charger Has A Sense Of Security
- A Single Board Computer From A TV
- 3D Printer Repurposed For Light-Duty Lab Automation Tasks
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Dan’s Picks:
left wondering what the incorrect response to the mystery sound was. was it something un-podcast-able? couldn’t you use a euphemism?
Going through the results, looks like the odd one out was “A pull-back car” which to be fair, isn’t a bad guess sound-wise.
I didn’t transmit my guess, but I would’ve guessed a handcranked phone charger/radio/flashlight.
It consicts of almost exactly the same mechanical components of a servo (lever, gears with high ratio, tiny motor)
Not only Linux is common, but ITRON is also a common system found in many devices (although it is rare to be able to easily find this in the documentation, but I have sometimes been able to find it with some difficulty).