Hardware Hacking Stories

Coming Soon: an Open Source eBook Reader 46
'How I Compiled My Own SPARC CPU In a Cheap FPGA Board' 83
Biohackers Use a Raspberry Pi to Implant a Networked Hard Drive 118
'Mining Bitcoin On a 1983 Apple II: a Highly Impractical Guide' 42
Maker Faire and Make Magazine Have Laid Off All Staff and Paused All Operations 117
Rebuilding the PDP-11/70 with a Raspberry Pi 96
ESR's Newest Project: An Open Hardware/Open Source UPS 232
MakerBot Launches New 'MakerBot Labs' Platform 42
Open Source Car-Hacking Tool Successfully Crowdfunded 54
Reporter Pans Open Source Laptop Kit TERES-I 133
Own An Open Source RISC-V Microcontroller 101
Open-Source Hardware Makers Unite To Start Certifying Products 57
How I Freed My Android Tablet: A Journey in Reverse Engineering 79
The NES Classic is a $60 Single Board Computer Running Linux 121
You Can Legally Hack Your Own Car, Pacemaker, or Smartphone Now 106
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Build Your Own Vacuum Tubes? 275
The World's Most Secure Home Computer Reaches Crowdfunding Goal 126
Intel Demos A New Robotics Controller Running Ubuntu 21
Hacked Hobbit Pinball Machine Joins IoT, Broadcasts Itself Over Twitch 45
FCC Requires TP-Link To Support Open Source Router Firmware 52
PS Vita Jailbreak Finally Lets One Run Emulators and Homebrew Software 38
New Crowdfunding Campaign Offers Modular EOMA68 Computing Devices 122
How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law 189
'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' 771
Big Tech Squashes New York's 'Right To Repair' Bill 224
Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone 364
One Million School Children To Get Free BBC Micro:bit Computers 157
Raspberry Pi Gets Affordable, Power Efficient 314GB Hard Drive On Pi Day 144
Using Kexec Allows Starting Linux In PlayStation 4 70
Fingerprint-Protected Phones Vulnerable To Inkjet Attack 56
Hacking a Professional Drone 27
Microcasting Color TV By Abusing a Wi-Fi Chip 63
Raspberry Pi 3 Rolls Out With Faster CPU, On-Board Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 203
TP-Link Begins Lockdown of Firmware In Response To FCC 157
Apple vs. the Right To Repair 381
Push To Hack: Reverse Engineering an IP Camera 35
How the Raspberry Pi Can Automatically Tweet Complaints About Your Slow Internet 154
Let's Tear Down a Kiva Bot! 22
Jailbreak Turns Cheap Walkie-Talkie Into DMR Police Scanner 82
Collecting Private Flight Data On the World Economic Forum Attendees With RTL-SDR 88
OpenWrt Turns a $14 Card Reader Into the Smallest Wireless AP 43
To Solve a Rubik's Cube In 1 Second, It Takes a Robot 100
Atom-Based JaguarBoard To Take On Raspberry Pi 120
Sys-Admin Dispenses Passwords With a Banana 89
Building a Laptop Enclosure To Last 116
Cheap Web Cams Can Open Permanent, Difficult-To-Spot Backdoors Into Networks 77
Ask Slashdot: Cheap and Fun Audio Hacks? 135
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Adhesive Tape 119
Ask Slashdot: Any Dishwasher Hackers Out There? 481
Forrest Mimms On Modern Air Travel With a Bag Full of Electronics 169
Hacker Cracks Lumia Bootloader, Offers Tool For Root Access and Custom ROMs 72
Raspberry Pi Unveils New $5 Mini-computer 243
The Tamagochi Singularity Made Real: Infinite Tamagochi Living On the Internet 84
Hands-On With the Voltera V-One PCB Printer 37
Adding Eye Control To Wheelchairs for Quadriplegics 15
FCC Clarifies: It's Legal To Hack Your Router 85
Hacked Amazon Echo Controls a Wheelchair 23
Huge Mechanical Computers Used To Calculate Horse Racing Odds 63
Slashdot Asks: Notes For Next Hallowe'en? 151
Hacking Jules Coaxes Android Wear To Run Nintendo 64 and PSP Emulators 37
Hackers, Activists, Journos: How To Build a Secure Burner Laptop 139
MAME Emulating a Sonic the Hedgehog Popcorn Machine 33
Official, Customized Raspberry Pi Versions Coming Soon 93
Hands-On With the Fairphone 2 Modular Android Smartphone 107
'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar 621
New Plastic For Old Amigas and Commodores 128
Learning To Fly, With a Full-Size Cockpit Simulator 77
Point-And-Shoot Weapon Stops Drones Without Destroying Them 116
USB Killer 2.0: a Harmless-Looking USB Stick That Destroys Computers 229
Jamming Wi-Fi With a $15 Dongle 136
ARM Processor On a Breadboard 94
Making Your Graphing Calculator a Musical Instrument 55
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Awesome Hardware Hack? 251
Sensor Network Makes Life Easier For Japan's Aging Rice Farmers 91
Desktop Turing-Welchman Bombe Build 69
Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown 366
Ditch Linux For Windows 10 On Your Raspberry Pi With Microsoft's IoT Kit 308
Brain-Controlled (Inflatable) Shark Attack 17
1000-key Emoji Keyboard Is As Crazy As It Sounds 146
Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School 657
How To Build With Delrin and a Laser Cutter 28
New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification 242
'Gynepunks' DIY Gynecology For Underserved Women 59
You Can Have My TIPs When You Pry Them From My Cold, Dead Hands 170
Latest Samy Kamkar Hack Unlocks Most Cars 97
Leading the Computer Revolution In a Totalitarian State 75
Hacker's Device Can Intercept OnStar's Mobile App and Unlock, Start GM Cars 54
Hacking a 'Smart' Sniper Rifle 73
Hacker Set To Demonstrate 60 Second Brinks Safe Hack At DEFCON 147
You3dit is Working to Help Crowdsource 3D Design and Printing (Video) 12
"Ludicrous Speed" For Tesla's Model S Means 0-60 MPH In 2.8 Seconds 171
ProxyGambit Replaces Defunct ProxyHam 26
Keyboardio is a Hackable 'Artisanal Keyboard' That's Already Kickstarted (Video) 46
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? 210
Celebrating Workarounds, Kludges, and Hacks 145
UW Researchers Prototype Sonar-Based Contactless Sleep Monitoring 40
Pi Stays Sky High In 2015 Hacker SBC Survey 32
Ask Slashdot: If You Were Building a New Home, What Cool New Tech Would You Put In? 557
Ask Slashdot: Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? 258
1-Pixel Pac-Man 41
More About Dan Shapiro and the Glowforge CNC Laser Cutter (Video #2) 25
Glowforge is a CNC Laser Cutter, not a 3D Printer (Video) 45
Turning an Arduino Project Into a Prototype 107
Apple Watch's Hidden Diagnostic Port To Allow Battery Straps, Innovative Add-Ons 113
Meet the Firmware Lead For Google's Project Ara Modular Smartphone (Video) 25
Another 'Draw Your Own Circuits' System at SXSW (Video) 27
eBay Sales Patterns Show That the Maker Movement is Still Growing (Video) 24
Armstrap Claims to Make ARM Prototyping Easier (Video) 41
Radar That Sees Through Walls Built In Garage 63
Turning the Arduino Uno Into an Apple ][ 113
Building an NES Emulator 140
Hand-Drawn and Inkjet Printed Circuits for the Masses (Video) 33
Hack Air-Gapped Computers Using Heat 123
Maker Person Rich Olson Returns (Video) 42
Watch an Original NES Run Netflix 80
One Year of Data Shows the Hacker Community Is Tight-knit and Welcoming 42
Xenon Flashes Can Make New Raspberry Pi 2 Freeze and Reboot 192
You Can Now Clone Samsung's Gear VR and Test Your Virtual Reality Apps 32
New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches 355
Researchers Moot "Teleportation" Via Destructive 3D Printing 163
Librem: a Laptop Custom-Made For Free/Libre Software 229
NJ Museum Revives TIROS Satellite Dish After 40 Years 28
Insurance Company Dongles Don't Offer Much Assurance Against Hacking 199
Nintendo Power Glove Used To Create 'Robot Chicken' 40
Ask Slashdot: Can I Trust Android Rooting Tools? 186
Engineer Combines Xbox One, PS4 Into Epic 'PlayBox' Laptop 78
Wireless Keylogger Masquerades as USB Phone Charger 150
Ask Slashdot: Options For Cheap Home Automation? 189
Hackers Leak Xbox One SDK Claiming Advancement In Openness and Homebrew 86
Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It 304
Glowing Hobbit Sword Helps You Find Unsecured Wi-Fi 67
Quake On an Oscilloscope 71
Ask Slashdot: Best Wireless LED Light Setup for 2015? 68
How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us To Greater Harm 116
Many DDR3 Modules Vulnerable To Bit Rot By a Simple Program 138
Extracting Data From the Microsoft Band 51
The Personal Computer Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain 115
Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Hackable Car? 195
Raspberry Pi Founder Demos Touchscreen Display For DIY Kits 81
Reverse Engineering the Oculus Rift DK2's Positional Tracking Tech 26
The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine 651
Arducorder, Next Open Source Science Tricorder-like Device, Nears Completion 56
Marines Put Microsoft Kinect To Work For 3D Mapping 37
From the Maker of Arduboy: Tetris On a Bracelet 15
CPU's Heat Output to Amplify DNA Could Make Drastically Cheaper Tests 27
Update: Raspberry Pi-Compatible Development Board Cancelled 165
Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? 355
Interviews: Andrew "bunnie" Huang Answers Your Questions 32
Microsoft Research Brings Kinect-Style Depth Perception to Ordinary Cameras 31
Interviews: Ask Tim O'Reilly About a Life Steeped In Technology 39
Fooling a Mercedes Into Autonomous Driving With a Soda Can 163
Grad Student Rigs Cheap Alternative To $1,000 Air Purifiers In Smoggy China 182
Raspberry Pi-Compatible Development Board Released 47
Ask Slashdot: Open Hardware/Software-Based Security Token? 113
SRI/Cambridge Opens CHERI Secure Processor Design 59
Hacking a Tesla Model S Could Net $10,000 Prize 77
Intelligent Thimble Could Replace the Mouse In 3D Virtual Reality Worlds 65
New Single Board Computer Lets You Swap Out the CPU and Memory 122
3D Printed PiGRRL - Raspberry Pi Gameboy 49
Hacking Internet Connected Light Bulbs 63
2600 Distributor Withholds Money, Magazine's Future In Limbo 59
Civilians Try to Lure an Abandoned NASA Spacecraft Back to Earth 53
Ask Slashdot: PC-Based Oscilloscopes On a Microbudget? 172
Ellipto: a DIY Fitness Tracker and Dashboard In 70 Lines 32
Interviews: Ask Andrew "bunnie" Huang About Hardware and Hacking 58
$470 RepRap Derived 3D Printer Going Into Production 32
Replicating the NSA's Gadgets Using Open Source 47
Ask Slashdot: What Inspired You To Start Hacking? 153
Servo Stock 3D Printer Brings Closed-Loop Control To Reprap 56
LegoTechno -- Making Music With Lego Bricks, Python, OpenCV and a Groovebox 5
Unlock Your Android Phone With Open Source Wearable NFC 81
OpenRISC Gains Atomic Operations and Multicore Support 77
A 32-bit Development System For $2 138
Man Builds DIY Cellphone Using Raspberry Pi 83
DIY Wearable Pi With Near-Eye Video Glasses 59
Ask Slashdot: Which Router Firmware For Bandwidth Management? 104
Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton: How We're Turning Everyone Into DIY Hackers 90
Tesla Model S Has Hidden Ethernet Port, User Runs Firefox On the 17" Screen 208
Intel Upgrades MinnowBoard: Baytrail CPU, Nearly Halves Price To $99 92
Operation Wants To Mine 10% of All New Bitcoins 275
Fluke Donates Multimeters To SparkFun As Goodwill Gesture 250
Is DIY Brainhacking Safe? 183
Experimental Port of Debian To OpenRISC 56
Radar Expert Explains How To Cheaply Add Radar To Your Own Hardware Projects 69
12-Year-Old Builds Lego Braille Printer 49
How To Take Control of a Car's Electronics, Cheap 109
Fighting Gamer Rage With an Arduino Based Biometrics Headset 59
Building an Open Source Nest 195
New Home Automation? 336
Russian Startup Offers Wireless Remote Controller For Cars 65
Add USB LED Notifications To Your PC With Just a Bit of Soldering (Video) 129
Neo900 Hacker Phone Reaches Minimum Number of Pre-Orders For Production 109
Solar Pressure May Help Kepler Return To Planet-Hunting Duties 46
Dual-Core Allwinner A20 Powered EOMA-68 Engineering Card Available 98
Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Hardware Lab Bench? 215
Raspberry Pi Hits the 2 Million Mark 246
A Makerbot In Every Classroom 152
Ink-Jet Printing Custom-Designed Micro Circuits 37
Cold War Spoils: Amateur Builds Telescope With 70-Inch Lens 101
Chinese Professor Builds Li-Fi System With Retail Parts 155
Motorola's "Project Ara" Will Allow Users To Customize Their Smartphones 112
Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Project For a Router/Wi-Fi Access Point? 193
Tour Houston's Texas-Sized Hackerspace (Video 1 of 2) 57
Turning a Smart Phone Into a Microscope 43
Raspberry Pi As an Ad Blocking Access Point 82
Austrian Professor Creates Kindle E-Book Copier With Lego Mindstorms 61
New Keyboard Accessory Shocks Users When They Try To Go On Facebook 125
3D Printing In Gel Enables Freeform Design and an Undo Function 33
Google TV Hackers Open a Shell on the Chromecast; More Hacks To Follow 65
DIY Satellite Tracking 30
Adapteva Parallella Supercomputing Boards Start Shipping 98
Home Automation Kit Includes Arduino, RasPi Dev Boards 49
Eben Upton Muses on the Raspberry Pi, Scratch and, His Love For Parallela 71
How To Compete With NSA By Hacking a Verizon Network Extender 56
Progress On the Open Laptop 57
RepRap Morgan Receives $20,000 Gada Prize For Simplifying 3D-Printer 67
In Praise of Hackerspaces 68
Cray X-MP Simulator Resurrects Piece of Computer History 55
Whistled Platform Upgraded With Word Recognition 30
iFixit Giving Away 1,776 "iPhone Liberation Kits" 260
Helicopter Parts Make For Amazing DIY Camera Stabilization 78
Retro Gaming With Raspberry Pi 106
Wi-Fi Signals Allow Gesture Recognition All Through the Home 122
Pi to Go: Hot Raspberry Pi DIY Mini Desktop PC Project 134
Canon DSLR Hack Allows It To Shoot RAW Video 171
Vastly Improved Raspberry Pi Performance With Wayland 259
Google Releases Glass Factory System Image, Rooted Bootloader 74
Ask Slashdot: Wiring Home Furniture? 235
Arduino Branches Out, With a Plug-and-Program Robot 24
RPiCluster: Another Raspberry Pi Cluster, With Neat Tricks 79
New OpenWRT Drops Support For Linux 2.4, Low-Mem Devices 194
$5 Sensor Turns LCD Monitors Into Touchscreens 98
BeagleBone Black Released With 1GHz Cortex-A8 For Only $45 142
Happy Hardware Freedom Day 35
The Hacker Lifecycle 77
Adafruit Launches Educational Show Aimed At Kids 44
USC Launches 3-D Printed VR Headset Library 25
Ask Slashdot: How To Donate Older Computers to Charity? 260
Oculus-Alike: Build Your Own Virtual Reality Headset 23
Celebrate Hardware Freedom Day 2013 22
Ask Slashdot: Projects For a Heap of Tech Junk? 210
Quadrocopters Throwing and Catching an Inverted Pendulum 103
3-D Printing Pen Can Draw In the Air 85
The Patents That Threaten 3-D Printing 134
Turning a Kindle Fire HD Into a Power Tablet 81
Brookstone Rover 2.0 SpyTank Teardown 64
Public Domain Prosthetic Hand 31
Ask Slashdot: Best Electronics Prototyping Platform? 228
Old Inkjet Becomes New Bio-Materials Printer 39
Announcing Adafruit Gemma – Miniature Wearable Electronic Platform 44

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