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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 2h

**TAKTO, Open Source Hand-Tracking Built Like LEGO** Hand tracking in VR/AR can add a substantial amount of immersion and added interactivity. Unfortunately, most camera based tracking suffers when fingers get covered, intertwined, or simply out of view of the […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 5h

**The Trials And Tribulations Of Your First Badge** On the face of it, making an event badge should be an easy process. After all, most of us can hand-assemble a microcontroller, some buttons, a battery, and a screen. But anyone who has been involved in […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 8h

**Simplifying Slide Rule Calculations with Trig** [Bob the Science Guy] remembers how to use a slide rule. Even after all these years, it is pretty easy to remember how to multiply and divide. If you can’t remember, you can usually work it out, as long as you […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 11h

**The 10€ Gamepad** We aren’t sure what [Lazy_Duck] is doing with video games, but it must require a lot of controllers. Dismayed at the cost and complexity of commercial gamepads, they started soldering and 3D printing to get a cheaper basic controller. The […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 13h

**Fairbuds 2 Teardown Shows Little Glue, Easy Battery Swap** In a world where wireless earbuds are increasingly seen as devices that you toss into the e-waste bin as soon as they stop working, it’s heartening to see companies take the opposite approach with […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 15h

**Hackaday Podcast Episode 391: Tuned in to ESP32 SDR, New Old Pagers, and Bugs on Mars** Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this episode off with a discussion about Philadelphia’s budding hacker conference and the imminent retirement […] [Audio] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 16h

**Braino! Takes the Cheap Yellow Display to School** These days, it’s common to give even very young children a mobile device loaded up with educational software that aims to improve everything from basic motor skills to reading and arithmetic. But even the […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 17h

**This Week in Security: Critical DNS Keys Rotated, Hacking Freezers Isn’t Cool, OpenAI Spies On Itself, and Advanced Hardware Wallet Hacks** Critical Internet keys changed this week. Did you notice? The keys behind DNSSEC, the system for cryptographically […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 20h

**Disposing of PLA and Why Composting is Not an Option** The ‘biofriendly’ nature of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) filament often gets touted as one of its main advantages over alternatives like PETG, but even a modicum of research ought to inform a person that the […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 23h

**Running DOOM (Sort Of) on a Sonoff Smart Switch** It’s often said in this community that _DOOM_ can be made to run on anything, and as time goes on, that’s becoming more and more accurate. We’re at the point now that every “normal” device seems to have some […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

**Another Wireless Chip has a Hidden SDR Revealed** The news of the past couple of weeks has seen the ESP32 turned into an software-defined radio (SDR) thanks to a hidden baseband mode, an exciting development by anyone’s standards. It seems unexpected SDRs […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

**Using Optical Waveguide Arrays to Make Sheets Sense Shapes** Determining the shape of an object which can change dynamically is a bit of a challenge, one that especially vexes those who are really into Virtual Reality. Sensing the orientation of various […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

**45 Years Later, The Sinclair ULA Design Documents Surface** In the 8-bit home computer boom of the early 1980s, Sir Clive Sinclair’s machines were always among the cheapest on the market, often packing a surprising level of sophistication in their limited […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

**Linux Kernel Drops AI Tag Requirement, Uses Meta AI For Code Reviews** Since we last covered the way that the Linux Kernel project has been dealing with the influx of code created using LLM-based coding assistants, all the way back in April, things have […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

**C64 Hardware Simulator Isn’t (Just) For Playing Around** If you want to play old Commodore games, there are C-64 emulators available for just about any platform– but most of them are so high level, they’re really meant for just that: playing games. [antirez] […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

**Hand-Machined Stake Sharpener Just in Time for Dracula Season** Vampires aren’t as common as they once were, but in most places they aren’t fully protected and it’s still possible to get a tag for legal hunting come October — at least if you’re using […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

**So You Want To Make Your SDR Work On Other Frequencies** Perhaps the most exciting news of the past few weeks in the world of hardware hacking has been the unlocking of hidden SDR functionality in the Wi-Fi radios found on Espressif ESP32 microcontrollers […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

A very simple Pi network low pass filter

The circuit of a simple unbalanced diode mixer with a bandpass filter on its output.

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

**A Thermal Camera That Uses WebUSB** When creating a peripheral for a mobile phone, an obvious path is to create a companion app with which to talk to it. But as we all know today’s app is tomorrow’s non-functional abandonware, so to give his infrared camera […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

**Building An M7 Pan Tilt Head Controller** The Soonpho M7 Pan Tilt Head is a useful photography tool for remotely aiming a decently-sized camera. Only, [Kyle Housley] wanted a little more control than was available out of the box. Hence, he built a custom […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

**Pager Converted to Meshtastic Node** Text messaging has been around on cellular networks en masse for around three decades now. It’s so common that it’s difficult to remember a time without it. Its two-way quick messaging is incredibly useful, but for even […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

**AI Controls iPhone Via ESP32** Do you want to get an AI agent to do something to an iPhone? You could try and jailbreak the device and do some heavy software hacking, or… you could grab a microcontroller off the shelf and have it do the hard work. [Henry […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

**Single Button, Handheld Gaming Console** Those of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s might be familiar with the Atari 2600 console and its now relatively unrecognizable (by modern standards) controller with only a single button and stiff whole-hand joystick […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

**Using an ESP32-C3’s RF Hardware for DVB-S2 Video Transmission** Generally the DVB-S and -S2 standards require a satellite somewhere in Earth orbit to provide a signal to receive, but you can also transmit your own DVB-S2 stream with any RF transmitter if […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

**Tiny e-Paper Display Delivers 30 FPS of Game Boy Fun** Slow refresh, ghosting and low-contrast — wait, are we talking about passive matrix LCDs, or e-paper displays? That might be why e-paper Game Boy emulators are a thing: the limitations of the […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

**2026 Hackaday Supercon: Workshops are Open!** Supercon is Hackaday’s annual gathering, and you absolutely need to be there. Today, we’re pleased to announce our lineup of workshops, and it’s more than we’ve ever offered, thanks to moving to a bigger venue […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

**DIY Force Sensing Joysticks are a Cheap Way To Go** Traditional joysticks typically use potentiometers or hall effect sensors to determine the displacement of the stick itself when moved by the operator. Force-sensing joysticks are considered more desirable […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

**What’s a Nonius?** If you already know what a nonius is, you can probably skip this post. But, if like us, you would have to look it up, we’ll tell you what we found out. It turns out, a translation mistake taught us a new word and some history we weren’t […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

**Testing Oneself for AI Slop** The feed of a Hackaday writer brings many surprises, some rubbish, and the occasional diamond which of course we bring to you. Sometimes a page catches the eye that’s not a Hackaday piece _per se**,**_ but makes for interesting […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

**Rendering 3D Prints From G-Code** Your CAD software generally has some rudimentary tools for rending images of your parts, from simply-textured models to more photo-realistic options. However, those renders are of the geometry you created—not how that […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

**Does It Run… Duke Nukem 3D?** When id Software released _DOOM_ back in 1993 it helped define the genre, but it was hardly the only hit first-person shooter of that decade. There was also 3D Realms’ 1996 _Duke Nukem 3D_ , a game which added some humor to the […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

**2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: USBSID-Pico has Two SIDs, Many Inputs** We’ll give you three guesses what the most important bits of silicon in [LouD]’s USBSID-Pico are, and two don’t count. Yes, there’s a Raspberry Pi Pico, and a pair of the unforgettable […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

**JawnCon 0x3 Kicks off in Philadelphia this Friday** Philadelphia’s homegrown hacker con returns this weekend, and this time it’s starting a day early to pack in even more talks, demos, and activities. Tickets are still available for anyone who can get […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

**ESP-SDR Can Now Transmit** Well, that was fast! Last week, we reported on two apparently simultaneous hacks using the 2.4 GHz radio inside many ESP32 variants that enabled raw access to the radio samples, turning it into a listen-only software defined radio […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

**Using a Waffle to Check the Health of your Wii U’s NAND Flash** Game consoles tend to have a weak spot or two that will take certain units out sooner than they would due to normal parts aging. In the case of the Wii U it’s the eMMC storage IC with the […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

**Counting the PET Bottles Needed to Make 1 Kg of Printer Filament** In countries where PET bottles do not get slapped with an additional fee that induces you to return it for recycling and said fee back, the resulting piles of discarded bottles have led many […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

The heat-smoothed water bottles, ready for cutting.

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

**The FPGA Chronicles: Ready to Probe** In the last few installments, we looked at using the Tang Nano 20K with both the GOWIN tools and some open-source tools. The open-source tools certainly had the advantage of letting you simulate and debug your design […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

**A Modern Browser for the PlayStation Portable** The Sony PlayStation Portable, better known as the PSP, is now over two decades old. In its day it was an impressive handheld gaming machine, not least because of the inclusion of wireless networking and a web […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

**Open Firmware Fixes Dead Onkyo AV Receivers** If you’ve been reading Hackaday for any length of time, you’ll know we love seeing hackers replacing the stock firmware on their devices with open source alternatives. Usually this is done because the open […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

**Emulating a Floppy Drive By Emulating The Drive Itself** The Commodore 1541 is famously the floppy drive for the Commodore 64 series of 8-bit computers, and can be found with relative ease. Not so well known is its 1551 sibling — the drive made for the […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

**Using Kirigami Techniques to Make Functional Designs** The variant of origami called kirigami (‘cut paper’ in Japanese) also starts off with a sheet of paper, but it allows for cutting the paper to increase the number of shapes that you can create. It is […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

**WiFi Router Does Software-Defined Radio** Perhaps the most famous of software-defined radios is the RTL-SDR, which is very cheap because it’s a digital TV receiver that’s been pressed into service delivering raw I and Q data streams. But the RTL-SDR is […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

**The Prusa Core One+ INDX, a Troubled Multi-Extruder Upgrade?** The Prusa Core One+ INDX is an interesting upgrade to the base FDM printer by Prusa, featuring eight independent extruders – hence the INDX – that in theory should allow for multi-material and […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

**The Hexa-Bouncer May Be The Most Overengineered Thing You See This Week** Sometimes, you want to build a simple project– the minimum viable product that solves your problem and nothing else. Other times you might be feeling a little extra, and want to use […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

**DARPA Lift Challenge Won by Helicopter** America’s mad scientists all have one dream: DARPA money. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, regularly throws round sweet, sweet tax dollars to push the envelope on any number of things, leading to […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

AVIDdrone's winning entry: a helicopter.

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

**Your Computer Memory is a Lie** When you first learn to program, memory seems pretty straightforward. You have a bunch of bytes, each with an address. If you want to read or write something, you specify the address, and the computer goes to that place and […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

**Backup Tapes Come Back to the Homelab** It’s one of the great mysteries of computing, how somehow in the Year Of OLlama 2026, tape remains the god of cheap storage. A while back [Ben Pettis] recounted his experience setting up an LTO-5 tape drive in his […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

**A Free Cloud AI** If you would like an AI “personal agent” but don’t want your data on some opaque cloud computer, there’s a new option that appears to be somewhat nicer: [rociiu] has talorys, an AI agent that runs in your Cloudflare account. True, it is […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

**DECing Out the Homelab with an AlphaServer 2100** Retrocomputer enthusiasts have a bad rap as nerds who just want to play old video games. There’s some truth in this, but the reality is that we’re nerds who want to do all sorts of things with old hardware — […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

**Taking A Nokia 3310 Game Jam To The N’th Degree** Game jams are a fun competition in which the aim is to write a game under a particular theme while under a time constraint, usually a weekend. [Hoani] entered one where the aim was to write a game within the […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare @cybersecurity.poliverso.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

**Hackaday Links: October 11, 2026** It probably goes without saying that if you send four humans to observe the Moon up close, they’ll see things that those of us stuck here on Earth have never noticed. Luckily for us, they took impeccable notes and brought […] [Original post on poliverso.org]

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