It seems that sous-vide cooking is becoming increasingly popular lately. [Meseta] caught the sous-vide bug and wanted to try his hand at it, though he did not have enough money for a premade sous-vide cooker. After seeing a good handful of lackluster DIY sous-vide rigs online, he decided that he would design and build a …
Peltier powered sous-vide rig gets it right every time
F-Secure Discover Twitter-Controlled Bitcoin Bot
Security firm F-Secure has discovered a bot that compromises Twitter accounts to help in the generation of Bitcoins.
Bitcoin is a decentralized virtual currency that was formed by programmers in 2009, and is generated by programming computers to calcul…
F-Secure Discover Twitter-Controlled Bitcoin Bot
Security firm F-Secure has discovered a bot that compromises Twitter accounts to help in the generation of Bitcoins.
Bitcoin is a decentralized virtual currency that was formed by programmers in 2009, and is generated by programming computers to calcul…
Automated water distiller gets an overhaul
One thing we love about the hacking community is the drive that most people have to revamp and rework their “finished” projects. A few weeks ago, we wrote about a water distilling rig that [Kyle] hacked together, which allowed him to automate his distillation process. He took his project back into the workshop and tweaked …
Arduino Powered 2.4 GHz Spectrum Analyzer
[Fred] dropped a note in our tip line to let us know about arduino forum user [bilbo]‘s latest project: A 3-in-one spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope, volt-meter combo. The build consists of an Arduino, radio board and Nokia 5110 LCD breakout board. The (thin) video after the jump shows the rig in action. Though soldered to a …
Tesla coil bullet-time photography
One thing we can all probably agree on is that Tesla coils are one part high-voltage electricity and two parts pure awesome. [Rob Flickenger] thinks so too, and he built a pretty nice one in his workshop some time ago. He took a bunch of pictures showing off the coil’s capabilities, but he thought that …
Solder paste dispenser hacked to run off compressed air cans
[John] got a shiny new solder paste dispenser for a steal, and before he hooked up the tool, he decided to take a look inside to make sure everything was on the up and up. Aside from a few questionable wiring practices he didn’t approve of, everything else looked to be in good working order. …
Automated scanning for a pile of documents
The Gado project is part of the Johns Hopkins University Center for African Studies. It has been tasked with archiving documents having to do with the East Baltimore Oral Histories Project. In short, they’ve got a pile of old pictures and documents that they want digitized but are not easily run through a page-fed scanner …
PVC boombox is not a potato cannon
After [Luke] built a suitcase mini-ITX rig for LAN parties he was left with one problem: he didn’t have any speakers and he didn’t want to use headphones. Not wanting to do something boring like a USB-powered speaker setup, he built a PVC Boombox. Built around 3 inch PVC pipe, the boombox houses an off …
Radio packets…from spaaaace!
[Bill Meara] was watching the International Space Station and the Shuttle Discovery pass overhead a few weeks ago, which rekindled an interest he gave up long ago – sending and receiving radio packets from space. Years ago, he used to send APRS packets into space with a small rig powered by a 286 computer and …
