Hardware hacks

Are electronic locks safe?

Lock picking is the craft of unlocking a lock by analyzing and manipulating the components of the lock device without the original key. It has been done to many mechanical locks if you know what to do, but what about electronic locks? Are they safe from lock picking? Teardown: An Electronic Master Lock article presents

Uses for broken Android tablet

Modern smart phones and tables has big glass screens that broke easily. You might have some broken smart phones and/or tablets that might not be worth of screen repair. But would here be still some use for this kind of damaged device? And if there is, then how the tablet could be used when the

The UNO Overdrive

What do you do when your micro-controller project runs out of horsepower? Well you increase the power in a way or another, like increasing clock speed (maybe up to over-clocking) or change to a faster processor family. What to do when your Arduino Uno isn’t fast enough? The UNO Overdrive article shows The Uno/Dumilanove Overdrive,

RTL-SDR receives Bluetooth LE

  Sniffing and Decoding NRF24L01+ and Bluetooth LE Packets For Under $30 article points to an interesting hack: able to decode NRF24L01+ and Bluetooth Low Energy protocols using RTL-SDR (=a cheap USB digital TV tuner based digital radio). So cheap practicality anyone can obtain the equipment quickly. Some special hacking was needed because there are