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Hacking Your Mouse for Rapid Firing

“In this blog post, I will show you a simple hardware hack to make your mouse capable of rapid firing (or automatic continuous clicking). Of course you can always resort to software mods to achieve the same goal, but admittedly …

USB controlled SPÖKA night light

“This is an IKEA SPÖKA light. It is a small night light resembling a little ghost. Originally powered by an internal rechargable battery, the light is controlled by a single button. When pressing that button it starts cycling through various …

A amazing kitchen Hack │ Upgrading a vegetable chopper manual to automatic

“This time I bring something which you all go through in day to day life. yes a manual vegetable chopper. your or you mom those who use chopper got very frustrated by operating it manually so what i did, joint …

Reducing Arduino Power Consumption

“When it comes to portable electronics, one of the most important features is how to maximize the battery life. The ATmega328P, used on popular boards like the SparkFun RedBoard, Arduino Uno, and Pro Mini are actually quite power hungry. The …

Retrieving ST-Link/V2 Firmware from Update Utility

“The STM32F3DISCOVERY is a small circuit board with a great microcontroller. The ARM Cortex-M4 chip has 256 KB of flash memory, 48 KB of RAM, USB and more. The board has huge amounts of header pins connected to the microcontroller …

How to Run Your ESP8266 for Years on a Battery

“For most of the projects I am building with the ESP8266 WiFi chip, I usually don’t care too much about the power consumption aspect. I for example build data loggers that are constantly connected to the mains electricity, and …

Hacking the Lego Mindstorms RCX With an Arduino

“I recently found a few boxes of an old LEGO Mindstorms RCX set and then spent a frustrating 2 weeks trying to get all the software and hardware to work together. Main problem was that the USB IR tower that …

Wi-Fi jamming device based on ESP8266

“Before you make this jammer, take a look at the local law enforcement before use and also use this device at your own risk !!! After I did some research about the Espressif microcontroller ESP8266, I found that Espressif has written …

PoisonTap - siphons cookies, exposes internal router & installs web backdoor on locked computers

“PoisonTap is built for the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero without any additional components other than a micro-USB cable & microSD card, but can work on other devices that can emulate USB gadgets such as USB Armory and LAN Turtle.”

Controlling a Roomba Robot with Arduino and Android device

“As one of Instructables Robotics Contest 2016’s winners, I received as a prize an iRobot Roomba Create2. It is a great and very affordable platform for robotics development, costing around US$200. Create 2 allows for a variety of …