If you’ve been reading Hack a Day for long enough, you know about our infatuation with stepper motors. These precious little devices put the oomph into our CNC routers, 3D printers, robots, and other miscellaneous projects. Steppers aren’t your run-of-the-mill motors, though. [Steaky] posted a great introduction to stepper motors that lets you hit the …
An introduction to stepper motors
Why a disconnected society is far more dangerous than a connected one
Do we need a social media kill switch? I don’t think so, not judging by where I live.
Let me explain. I call home a fairly anonymous part of southwest London called Colliers Wood. Despite it turning into a nice place to live over the past 20 years, a w…
How Adobe is Improving Security
In recent years, Adobe applications including Adobe Reader and Flash Player have been aggressively attacked by those looking to exploit PC users. In response, Adobe has issued a long list of patches as zero-day exploits emerge. Adobe hasn’t just been r…
Malware activity hitting peaks of 10 million pieces per day
Virus and malware activity increased during the month of May, sporadically hitting peaks of more than 10 million pieces per day, according to AppRiver.
Major news events, once again, became fodder for malware campaigns while large companies continued …
A friendly spiderbot named Chopsticks
After seeing his fair share of hexapod-style bots on the Internet, [Russell] decided he wanted to build one of his own. One of the downsides to building these robots is the cost. He often saw them constructed from laser cut parts and very expensive servos. Rather than blow hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on the …
Mini quadrocopter is Crazy awesome
Quadrocopters are all the rage lately, and while we have seen our fair share of large devices, [Arnaud Taffanel, Tobias Antonsson, and Marcus Eliasson] have been dutifully working to buck that trend. Their CrazyFlie is a miniature quadrocopter that uses its PCB as the main structure of the device. Since the goal was to use …
Latest XBL Exploit Takes Aim at User’s Credit Cards
Microsoft has posted a Service Alert, warning Xbox Live users that they may be threatened by phishing attempts through a Modern Warfare 2 exploit.
Hackers may not have access to your credit card information or XBL account, but some XBL users have clai…
High voltage rig wipes CDs clean
Here at Hackaday, we’re not against showing videos of gratuitous destruction just for the sake of it, though we try not to make it a habit. In this case we just couldn’t help ourselves. However, this video technically constitutes a security hack, as it does involve erasing sensitive information from CDs… …with awesome! This may …
Buying a Laser Cutter From China
We here at Hackaday have been pining over these cheap laser cutters on the e-bay. They are, however, just outside of the price range to make them worth ponying up for. [Stephen Hobley] however seems to have taken one for the team in his three part series, and is allowing us to live vicariously through …
