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C64 Gets A Graphics Upgrade Courtesy Of Your Favorite Piano Manufacturer
The Commodore 64 was quite a machine in its time, though a modern assessment would say that it’s severely lacking in the graphical department. [Vossi] has whipped up a bit of an upgrade for the C64 and C128, in the form of a graphics expansion card running Yamaha hardware.
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The Piezoelectric Glitching Attack
Many readers will be familiar with the idea of a glitching attack, introducing electrical noise into a computer circuit in the hope of disrupting program flow and causing unexpected behaviour which might lead to hitherto unavailable access to memory or other system resources.
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Running Game Boy Games On STM32 MCUs Is Peanuts
Using a STM32F429 Discovery board [Jan Zwiener] put together a Game Boy-compatible system called STM32Boy. It is based around the Peanut-GB Game Boy emulator core, which is a pretty nifty and fast single-header GB emulator library in C99.
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3D Print A Stenciling Frame For Your PCB
For many a hacker, stenciling a board for the first time is a game-changing experience – the solder joints you get, sure do give your PCB the aura of a mass-manufactured device. Now, you might not get a perfect print – and neither did [Atul R].
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An ESP32 Delivers Perfect Slot Car Control
If your memory of slot cars as a childhood toy is of lightweight controllers with wire-wound rheostats inside, then you’re many years behind the state of the art when it comes to competitive slot car racing.
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Reverse Engineering The Web API Of An Akaso EK7000 Action Camera
Recently, [Richard Audette] bought an Akaso EK7000 action camera for his daughter’s no-smartphones-allowed summer camp, which meant that after his daughter returned from said camp, he was free to tinker with this new toy.
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The Waveguide Explanation You Wish You’d Had At School
Anyone who has done an electronic engineering qualification will at some point have had to get to grips with transmission lines, and then if they are really lucky, waveguides.
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Robot Arm Gives Kids The Roller Coaster Ride Of Their Lives
Unfortunately, [Dave Niewinski]’s kids are still too little to go on a real roller coaster. But they’re certainly big enough to be tossed around by this giant robot arm roller coaster simulator.
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Need A USB Sniffer? Use Your Pico!
Ever wanted to sniff USB device communications? The usual path was buying an expensive metal box with USB connectors, using logic analyzers, or wiring devboards together and hacking some software to make them forward USB data.
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