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MG @mg.lol · 31/08/2026

Oh now I remember why I didn’t post that update…

MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025

Here is a video of this bot in action. Notice how it is only kicking one of its legs? That’s a direct consequence of the Flashing LEDs hack & 20 years of time passing. (🧵)

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MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025

Here is the circuit design. Whichever “eye” generates more power will be the first to trigger the rest of the circuit, which dumps the entire main capacitor into the corresponding “leg”. And the whole process starts over. (🧵)

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MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025

The “brain” is as minimal as possible. A lot of people would use a microcontroller for this functionality (ESP32, RP2040, etc) which give you millions of transistors to work with. This little bot uses 4 transistors! 2 handle the left side of the body, 2 handle the right. (🧵)

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MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025

A fun hack is how it sees! The green “eyes” are Flashing LEDs. FLEDs have a quirk: they produce voltage when you shine light into them. Whichever eye is pointed more towards the sun will charge up those little blue “front hands” (capacitors) first, which tells the “brain” to where to steer. (🧵)

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MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025

This bot’s duty is to find its food & get as much of it as it can. aka: keep pointed at the sun & walk toward it. The design constraints: no PCB or structural components! The physical structure must come only from the functional components. That means lots of free form soldering. 😎 (🧵)

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MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025

I just found this little solar robot bug I made 20 years ago. It captures many qualities: - Art & Design Constraint - electrical hacks, using components “the wrong way” - extreme minimalism for max results Also, something interesting changed while it sat for 20 years! Let me explain… (🧵)

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MG @mg.lol · 13/11/2025

Holy shit they actually fixed the kerning. It got silently updated in the brand guide. www.war.gov/Brand-Guide/

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MG @mg.lol · 08/09/2025

We used to be a real country. We used to care about kerning.

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MG @mg.lol · 17/08/2025

Ok, this thing is pretty cool. Embedded Linux with 2.4ghz, 5ghz, & 6ghz radios. Easily replaceable battery. And most importantly, it feels solid in your hands. Well done Hak5 crew! Wifi Pineapple Pager is going to become a favorite for a lot of people when the preorders start shipping.

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MG @mg.lol · 09/06/2025

Every time I travel, I let people charge their devices. Totally harmless. They never know who I am or what I normally do with USB cables, but maybe one day… 😂 This lady’s phone died a few min into a 5hr flight. I just wanted her to enjoy her time.

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MG @mg.lol · 24/04/2025

OMG Cable - Woven Black Now available hak5.org/omg

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MG @mg.lol · 13/04/2025

Are you seeing posts about how the “real” factories in China are selling the products for cheap in response to the trade war / tariffs? That’s all fake. It’s mostly old videos that knockoff shops were making. Likely being pushed now to get in before $800 De Minimis exemption goes away + disinfo.

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MG @mg.lol · 08/04/2025

You might not like it, but this is what peak USA manufacturing looks like! (I was in the middle of live streaming firmware flashing & panel breaking of some PCBs. But then the house lizard decided to run through the middle of everything.)

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MG @mg.lol · 08/04/2025

If you think this is a lot of cables, you should see the list of things that cannot stop me.

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MG @mg.lol · 06/04/2025

A batch of PCBs for OMG Cables getting individually tested & graded. This is one of many steps where the results get saved into the cable’s storage. More on that later, but it lets me know the exact life of a cable across its entire creation process and ensure no steps are skipped.

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MG @mg.lol · 22/03/2025

And with a little work on the power steering, this car now has “self driving” performance quite a bit better than Tesla’s Autopilot. It’s similar to FSD from 2020. Never have to recharge it either 😎 This was a fun little project. I’m looking forward to using it on road trips.

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MG @mg.lol · 20/03/2025

Robert De Niro on a Netflix show (Zero Day) mentioning the O.MG Cable! 😎 Shoutout to whoever did the text, you got the silent punctuation perfectly.

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MG @mg.lol · 13/03/2025

Before making the OMG Cable, I was making malicious thumb drives… with a little extra 💥

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MG @mg.lol · 28/01/2025

Early access to ShawnRyanShow for his patrons. Otherwise, it’s coming soon to the public! I promised to start trying new things this year, and this was a huge one!

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MG @mg.lol · 14/11/2024

Just spent the afternoon with Jon Bruner of Lumafield talking about manufacturing & hardware security. We have a fun video or two coming!

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MG @mg.lol · 12/11/2024

Here is another sneak peak while I work on building a proper video. If you purchased an OMG Cable, you’ve held one of these. Notice anything hiding?

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