Daily Archives: March 30, 2015

$60 board to hack your car

Posted on March 30, 2015 by robertwilkie

OK estimated 60-80.  The author designed a board, called CANard, to help sniff and program on CAN bus on cars.  This would have been handy for me a few months back as I was struggling with figuring out how to program … Continue reading →

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Gawd…another bot I want

Posted on March 30, 2015 by robertwilkie

This looks like another nice kit, that goes for $200ish on kickstarter with plans to produce for $240/230ish.  It can make a wall drawing, desktop drawing, eggbot, or a car based drawing robot.  It uses an arduino and if you … Continue reading →

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New development tool for real dev’s for Arduino

Posted on March 30, 2015 by robertwilkie

A new tool came out for arduino called “Emrio“.  Which is an IDE for arduino.  It looks pretty powerful but its oriented toward more developer based folks than the average tinker.  Have I played with it?  Not yet but its … Continue reading →

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Build your own RPi portable game system

Posted on March 30, 2015 by robertwilkie

Neat built for a portable game system.  It actually uses an arduino with the Raspberry Pi.  The parts get a bit pricey (figure this could run 120 easy).  I think it could be dropped down by 30 with a few … Continue reading →

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Brute forcing iPhone PINS

Posted on March 30, 2015 by robertwilkie

Interesting, the authors found that if you time the power on the device right, you can have multiple chances of trying different PINs on an iPhone but cutting its power on each failure before it stores the failure. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/brute-forcing_i.html

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Build your own AVR Programmer (multiple types)

Posted on March 30, 2015 by robertwilkie

Nice build on how to use one setup to program multiple types of AVR chips.  Its a bit pricy on the build thought. www.instructables.com/id/All-In-One-AVR-Programmer/

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Make your own cord reel

Posted on March 30, 2015 by robertwilkie

Nice idea, the author took a 100 foot extension cord and make a reel with it.  Not so sure I would do the electric box bit.  I think I would just have the other end sticking out here. http://www.instructables.com/id/Extension-Cord-Reel/

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