News and Updates about Hacks Mods & Circuitry

When Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold launches with its innovative three-battery design, most users will be content with the standard configuration. But for the truly adventurous DIY enthusiast, those three separate battery compartments present an irresistible opportunity for extreme modification. Imagine transforming Samsung's upcoming tri-fold device into a 9,600mAh powerhouse that could potentially run for days on a single charge.

The electric vehicle revolution promised a cleaner future, but what happens when the companies behind these high-tech machines disappear overnight? Across the country, a dedicated community of EV owners refuses to let their vehicles become expensive paperweights, even when official support vanishes. These tech-savvy drivers are taking matters into their own hands, creating an underground network of knowledge, parts, and expertise that challenges everything we thought we knew about vehicle...

The BackTrack anniversary mode is what everyone is talking about. It's not what you should care about most.

Firmware analysis published last week reveals that the Flipper One hacking tool is a pocketable Debian Linux workstation aimed at security professionals and network engineers a fundamentally different product category from the radio gadget that made Flipper famous. That distinction matters because the audience, the use cases, and the commercial risks are all different. So is the likelihood it ever ships.

The MacBook Neo's thermal pad modification has been making waves in the tech community, with users discovering they can significantly boost sustained performance through improved cooling. While the engineering behind this mod is genuinely impressive, the reality is more complex than the initial excitement suggests. This isn't just about squeezing extra performance from your laptop—it's about understanding the delicate balance between thermal management, safety, and long-term reliability that...

If you've been emulating Nintendo 3DS games on your Android device or PC, you've probably experienced that annoying stutter that pops up every time a new visual effect appears on screen. It's not your hardware—it's shader compilation happening in real-time. But here's the good news: recent developments in Nintendo 3DS emulation are tackling this problem head-on, with shader cache improvements delivering significantly smoother gameplay.

Let's face it – nobody enjoys that moment when your phone screen cracks or your battery starts draining faster than your patience. But here's the thing: you don't have to fork over $100+ to some repair shop every time your device throws a tantrum. With Black Friday rolling around, there's never been a better opportunity to build your own arsenal of professional-grade repair tools.

Social media is buzzing with a so-called revolutionary Hinge hack that claims to liberate attractive matches from "Rose Jail", but this viral trend might be costing users more than just money. A trending strategy promises women they can access higher-quality matches by manipulating the dating app's algorithm, according to Mashable. The technique has gained traction across platforms like TikTok, where creators promote a specific method involving account deletion and premium purchases. The...

Spoiler: it's not all bad news, but if you were counting on using your favorite travel dock or AR glasses with the Switch 2, you're about to be disappointed. Nintendo pulled a classic Nintendo move—they've essentially encrypted their way out of universal compatibility.

Oh, Mario. The guy that's been a part of our lives since as long as we can all remember. Well, Adam Ringwood and his friends did something pretty cool with one of Mario's most exciting games at the HackIllinois event in February 2016—they hacked a Chevrolet Volt's steering wheel into one big Nintendo 64 controller for Mario Kart.

Back in the '80s, I was just a kid with a LEGO hobby. I remember building castles and floating boats, spaceships and monster trucks, even a working LEGO train powered by battery, lights and all.

For the past couple of years, random internet dwellers have embarked on an ambitious quest to see just how useless a box can be in hopes of earning sweet, sweet internet points. Welcome to the world of useless machines.

This is a nice project that you can continue to work on and modify as you learn more Arduino projects. The Instructable linked below goes through the complete build for the Bluetooth-enabled robot seen in the first half of the video.

At first, it seemed like a clever art installation housed on the web, but now we're not so sure... the Newstweek hack may indeed be legit.

A FGPA is chip that is programmable with the computer to create circuit. It is a totally different type of programmable board compared to an Arduino for example. The Arduino will follow lines of codes to generate the necessary outputs. A FPGA won't however read lines of code, but it is a circuit itself. When the chip is programmed, a series of AND-ports, OR-ports and many others ports are linked together. The FGPA will increase the speed and the possibilities of your designs! I assume that by...

The first steps will always be a little difficult, but that is the way everyone has to live his life. The same is true, when you start programming FPGA-chips. It might be hard to get started, therefore a introduction may be useful. I will explain all the problems you might encounter when you first start. Also a simple first project is included as a guideline throughout the video!

At a certain moment in our lives all of us wanted to be a fire fighter. To simulate that effect, we created a super-awesome siren. With two 555-timer chips and lots of trail and error, we were able to create this awful noise.

make robots WALL.E with low cost. using materials from scrap

Thermistors are used in almost every single device. If you are planning to build a grand new project, let us explain why and how you should use a thermistor !

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In this episode we're using the Tibbo EM1000 to create our ownweb-serving-BPM-sensor!

This video covers the basics of the Arduino and the breadboard.For the code:http://www.mikepieters.com/codes/basicsI.ino

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use the Arduino to control lights with your own voice!

In this project, I'll show you how to control your projects using Twitter!

Robotic Rubik's Cube solvers are nothing new. We've seen ones that are run on Android, made of LEGO Mindstorms, and faster than the world record holder. The most recent Rubik's Cube robot making the news was made by high school student James Watson as a school project, but it's ended up getting a lot more attention than that.

You can use Twitter to print Instagram photos, track news and weather events, or even remotely shut down your computer, and if you're familiar with IFTTT, there's no shortage of ways your account can help automate your life.

Getting pulled over sucks, even when you're in a normal car. Just imagine how these teenagers felt when they were pulled over for driving their wooden car without a license! They also got a citation for not having a speedometer or side indicator lights, but if that's all that's keeping their DIY vehicle from being street legal, I'm already impressed.

Who needs to go to bartending school when you've got the Inebriator to mix your favorite drinks for you? Want a cosmopolitan? No problem. Press a button. Want a tequila sunrise? Sure thing. Press a button. As long as you've got a good supply of liquor and mixers, the Inebriator is at your command.

You've probably seen the classic fruit battery science experiment a thousand times, but I doubt you've ever seen it turned into an art project! Photographer Caleb Charland uses everyday objects like apples, coins and vinegar to create makeshift batteries, then takes these gorgeous long exposure photos.

Considering how often many of us fly on commercial airlines, the idea that a hacker could somehow interfere with the plane is a very scary thought. It doesn't help to learn that at Defcon, a researcher found that the Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B), transmissions that planes use to communicate with airport towers are both unencrypted and unauthenticated.

If you didn't think you could make a high speed photography trigger or hack together some creepy googly eyeballs for Halloween, then you've got another think coming, because learning how to use Arduino just got easier thanks to Jody Culkin and her wonderful comic book introduction to the Arduino platform (and electronics projects in general).

Sometimes an "analog" result is highly satisfying when the means for producing it is just the opposite. Enter Niklas Roy's "Electronic Instant Camera" project. The endeavor combines an analog black and white videocamera with a thermal receipt printer. The outcome is something in between a Polaroid camera and a digital camera. Like the olden days, the subject must sit still for a quite a while—3 full minutes—as their image is recorded and printed directly on a roll of receipt paper.

If you're lucky, your digital camera has a built-in intervalometer that lets you operate the shutter regularly at set intervals over a period of time. Why would you be lucky? Because you can create some very awesome time-lapse videos, like the horribly beautiful eruption of a volcano or vivid star trails in the night sky. You can capture the stunning display of the northern lights or even document the rotting of your favorite fruit.

Meet DareDroid: sexy nurse, geek couture and mobile bartender, engineered into an all-in-one technologically advanced garment. Created by fashion designer Anouk Wipprecht, hacker Marius Kintel, and sculptor Jane Tingley, the team calls themselves the Modern Nomads (MoNo), and their series of garments fall into Wipprecht's invented family of "Pseudomorphs". Pseudomorphs are  tech-couture pieces that transform into fluid displays—which is exactly what DareDroid does.

Looking to be the world's best violinist or fastest banjo player? If you didn't start practicing when you were a kid, learning a new stringed instrument is extremely challenging. But an upcoming device may change all of that, if you don't mind being shocked by 28 different electrodes.