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Let Twitch Chat Control Your LED Strings
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (37+ words) Once upon a time, someone set up a livestream wherein the messages from Twitch chat could control a game of Pokemon. Since then, we've seen Twitch control all sorts of things. If you'd like to have th. .....
Compact Calendar Display Reduces Phone Dependency
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (35+ words) Phones can be distracting objects if you're not an enlightened master of the mental arts. Even just reading an email or glancing at your calendar can get you caught up checking other apps and notifica. .....
What Happened To WWW. ?
11+ mon, 4+ week ago (1615+ words) Once upon a time, typing "www" at the start of a URL was as automatic as breathing. And yet, these days, most of us go straight to "hackaday. com" without bothering with those three letters that once defined the internet....
How TTY Opened Up The Phones For The Hard Of Hearing
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (35+ words) The telephone was an invention that revolutionized human communication. No more did you have to physically courier a letter from one place to another, or send a telegram, or have a runner carry the me. .....
Command and Control " Hackaday
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (567+ words) Something rather significant happened on the Internet back in May, and it seems that someone only noticed it on September 3rd. [Youfu Zhang] dropped a note on one of the Mozilla security mailing lists. .. Something rather significant happened on the Internet…...
Payphone Tag Is Australia's New National Sport
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (36+ words) Australia's payphones are an iconic part of the national landscape, even if they're not as important as they once used to be. However, they're having a resurgence of late, in part thanks to a new nati. .....
Encrypting Encrypted Traffic To Get Around VPN Bans
1+ week, 1+ day ago (322+ words) VPNs, Virtual Private Networks, aren't just a good idea to keep your data secure: for millions of people living under restrictive regimes they're the only way to ensure full access to the internet. What do you do when your government…...
Flipper Zero Transmits APRS With No Extra Parts
1+ week, 4+ day ago (221+ words) APRs is an amateur radio protocol allowing the exchange of short packets of data. It's commonly used to transmit a GPS position, though it can find other applications. The Flipper Zero RF hacker's mul. .. APRs is an amateur radio protocol…...
Don't Trust Password Managers? HIPPO May Be The Answer!
2+ week, 3+ day ago (440+ words) The modern web is a major pain to use without a password manager app. However, using such a service requires you to entrust your precious secrets to a third party. They could also be compromised, then. .....
2025 One Hertz Challenge: Learn Morse Code One Second At A Time
9+ mon, 4+ hour ago (521+ words) Learning Morse Code is no longer a requirement for HAMs in many jurisdictions, but it's still a nice skill to have. [I_void(warranties)] wanted to learn, but couldn't find a trainer that fit his style. What to do but build it…...