According to popular opinion a hacker is an evil person. It seems like there is a new story every day about a hacker breaking through some corporation’s security and stealing the private information of millions of people. With every new crime there is a wave of fresh hate towards hackers and their ilk. With all [...]
Connecting a Hard Drive to an MCU
I’ve got a few dozen old hard drives just sitting in my junk pile, so over the summer I decided to attempt to interface them with an 8 bit microcontroller. The board above is what I came up with. It has an Atmega32 microprocessor wired up to two headers, which allows it to be plugged [...]
Flash Game Experiment: Hackwire
Wireman, the most dangerous hacker in Robot World, has finally been caught. For the protection of robot society he is imprisoned in a complex within an asteroid floating far away in space, his mind transferred to a computer that has no connections to the outside world. A skeleton crew maintains the asteroid prison and makes [...]
Magnetic Actuator Table (M.A.T.) – Prototype
A rectangular slab rests on a table with a camera pointed at it from overhead. Two wires snake out of it, one plugging into the wall and the other into a computer. I walk up to the slab with my hand full of steel ball-bearings, and dump them on the middle of its surface. Instantly [...]
Applied to College
Yesterday I finished and submitted all of the rest of my college applications. It was an immensely stressful process and has been stealing most of my free time for the last few months. With it finally completed I have time to start working on my projects again.
Hardware Social Network
A very old idea of mine, but one that I was obsessed with for a very long time. The idea was to create cheap devices that could communicate over short distances wirelessly. People would wear them as necklaces or bracelets and go about their lives with them on. If two people wearing them were [...]