Dan Learns Stuff

So there we were: driving from Portland to San Diego, car full of apartment supplies and heading into the desert south of Eugene, OR on a 95...

Quick post to note how I got my Anycubic Kossel Pulley basically working.  It took me forever to find how to do some of this, and I know I w...

The Aviary, Pg 404 One of the cocktails hailing from The Office , a speakeasy basement bar underneath The Aviary, this seemed simple to as...

A friend returned from San Diego Comic Con 2018 with an RFID bracelet used to track users in the Amazon Fire TV experience (on Twitter, #Fir...

Above is Dan Kaminsky's keynote at the inaugural DEF CON China.  It was nominally about Spectre and Meltdown, and I thought it was im...

The AC on my land yacht (2009 Mercury Grand Marquis) has been in the fritz for a while. Last winter, it gradually stopped switching from ma...

I took Ethan to the event run in parallel with DEF CON, R00tz Asylum .  I think he had a blast as they covered a lot of traditional hack...

I modified the Pololu RGB LED Strip drivers from version 1.2.0 to support Radio Shack's behind the times model that is 30 LEDs control...

This post is part of a series about building electro-mechnical PIN-cracking robots,  R2B2 and C3BO . This is a proof of concept for @Jus...

Note: This is part of the  Project Write-up  for OFBC: One Fluorescent Beer Coaster After months of effort, we had a circuit, PCB and shel...

A friend has a few Elo Touchscreens from a past venture, and I have racked my brain trying to figure out a use for them. After giving up on ...

Note: This is part of the Project Write-up for OFBC: One Fluorescent Beer Coaster The Idea As night descended at Toxic Barbecue at DE...

I built a copy of Justin Engler's Delta Bot R2B2 .  Here's how I did it with a revised parts list. Inspiration Justin Engle...

Miscellaneous electronics and microcontroller projects: Make and RadioShack's Drawdio : Initial test of this 20x4 character screen...

Video of the laser+servosx2 test rig.  Not enough granularity for the contest, but it's a start.

Security Researcher gets hacked and details how he investigated, mitigated, and responded to it.  Enjoyable 'mea culpa.' https://...

NSA and Government Shame on Feinstein: There is a cost to surveillance. http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2013/12/shame_on_f...

Thanks to SYN Shop , the Las Vegas Hackerspace, I completed a bench top power supply.  I took a class that helped me build one from a kit.  ...