Mastodawn

#ToolOfTheDay or is it #HackOfTheDay. You have a brradboarded mashup and you want to add a logic probe or injector bit it’s already really skeevy. Make up some du-pont replicator adaptors which give you extra pins to attach grounds and probes.

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Rastal Mar 30

@MarketForcesA And as a result, Spain is allowed through the Strait of Hormuz.

#iran #iranwar #hackoftheday

Kit Bashir Sep 16, 2025

#HackOfTheDay I bet you have at least one cordless power tool with a dead battery. Cut it off at the pelvis, wire it for sound, and make a bench tool. Here an ancient cordless angle grinder becomes a diamond drill-bit sharpener.

Kit Bashir Jul 22, 2025

#HackOfTheDay: Friend of the Lab (I'm typing on his hand-me-down macbook pro!) Donald dropped by today with a problem dear to my heart. When speaking to an audience he struggles with time, going into terror induced tunnel vision. His idea: put an LED bar graph on top of his laptop screen where he CANNOT fail to see it.

Donald is a laser whiz and had already lasercut a bargraph holder that slots onto his laptop screen. With an ESP32 development board from the Wall o' Parts™️, and a knob/screen combo board he sourced from The Usual, we knocked up a micropython program which lets him set the talk duration hand have a progress display that has 50 LED pixels, that shade green, orange, yellow red as his speaking slot elapses.

I'm making one. Mine might need a hammer-servo too.

ETA: pic

Kit Bashir Jul 21, 2025

#HackOfTheDay Another circuit remix. I want to compare the efficiency of a few different solar charging controllers. My go-to for power measurement is the Adafruit INA219 current sensor breakout. This has two screw terminals for current in-out, but the ground connection is on the other side of the board, and does not have a screw terminal. But there's a ground plane, so when Lady Ada doesn't give you a through hole, you make your own. 🧵

Kit Bashir Jul 18, 2025

#HackOfTheDay is free-form circuit remixing. I’m installing some Meshtastic devices which use LoRa radio (low power long range wireless). I want to use solar power but need to know how much energy I use. To do this i’ll install an electric current sensor between the battery and the device. But this device has the battery soldered directly to the circuit board, I need to get creative. 🧵

Manuel Siebeneicher Dec 30, 2024

Man kann auch über einen Topf heißer Mohrrüben und Pellkartoffeln inhalieren.

#til #Hausrezept #HackOfTheDay #Gesundheit

Jonathan Kamens 86 47 Jan 3, 2024

I'm using five different meds to control my pinched nerve pain, because I'm experimenting to find what works best and I use different daytime and nighttime meds.
The meds last for different durations and conflict with each other in various combinations. I've found it challenging to keep track of what I can/should take when.
I ended up writing a short #Perl #CGI script backed by a CSV file to track what I've taken and tell me what I'm allowed to take when.
#HackOfTheDay

#WikiParty Oct 15, 2021

The "multiple steps" in question consist of (1) right-click on mouse/touchpad (2) in the resulting menu, select "view source."

That's it. #HackOfTheDay.
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RT @shepazu
I grew up in Missouri, in Jefferson City, whence Governor Mike Parson just called "viewing source" on a web page "hacking". I swear to y'all, most Missourians are moderately pragmatic and not this dumb. https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448697768311132160
https://twitter.com/shepazu/status/1448944460478418970

Governor Mike Parson on Twitter

“Through a multi-step process, an individual took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code, and viewed the SSN of those specific educators. We notified the Cole County prosecutor and the Highway Patrol’s Digital Forensic Unit will investigate.”

Twitter

Zapataz 🌚Jan 13, 2021

Important Update from Mimecast | Mimecast Blog
https://www.mimecast.com/blog/important-update-from-mimecast/
"a sophisticated threat actor" had compromised a digital certificate it provided to certain customers to securely connect products to Microsoft 365 (M365) Exchange
#hackoftheday