You understand you can make your own lock picks out of cheapo carbon steel hacksaw blades, right? So what if you’ve tripped over this hack on every website that likewise tells you to checked out as well as worship the MIT guide to Lock Picking; ’tis the season to pick up a new pastime now […]

The Espressif ESP8266 chipset makes three-dollar ‘Internet of Things’ development boards an economic reality. According to the popular automatic firmware-building site nodeMCU-builds, in the last 60 days there have been 13,341 custom firmware builds for that platform. Of those, only 19% have SSL support, and 10% include the cryptography module. We’re often critical of the […]

Ah nuts, I lost my automobile jack again. What will I do? Well, why not 3D print a new one? Uploaded to Thingiverse earlier this week, this design allows you to 3D print a fully functional automobile jack — provided your build platform is large enough. It’s actually a bit of a promo for the […]

using a toaster oven to reflow solder isn’t a new idea. but [Sukasa] wanted something that had much more features and improved appearace. So he married a Netduino, a toaster oven, and some solid state relays to made a clean-looking reflow oven. His goal was to have nothing look like an overt modification to a casual […]

While many of you reading this have broadband in your home, there are still large areas with bit gain access to to the Internet. Ham radio operator [emmynet] discovered himself in just such a circumstance recently, as well as needed to get a wireless connection over 1 km from his home. WiFi wouldn’t get the […]

A few months ago we reported on a case coming before the united states supreme Court that concerned recycled printer cartridges. battling it out were impression Products, a printer cartridge recycling company, and Lexmark, the printer manufacturer. At issue was a shrinkwrap licence on inkjet cartridges — a legal agreement deemed to have been activated […]