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Hardware Hacks

Various things hacked together for some purpose or nothing!

Aurora: Ambient Lighting
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Aurora: Ambient Lighting

If you just want to build, there is a build guide here there is also a Slack for a more interactive discussion if you just want to peak the code its on github. Ambient lighting has always been something I have been interested in, from early days when I was watching *cough* videos that I…

Aurora: How to build
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Aurora: How to build

This blog post will cover the build process for Aurora up, if you want to find out about how it was built you can read about it here, If you’d like to look at the code you can see the github It’s often easier to ask something that can be answered quickly than spend hours…

Compliment Printer!
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Compliment Printer!

Many years ago someone told me this interesting fact about how people receive compliments and it went something like this: “If a person receives a compliment, even if they know it is disingenuous, they still feel better about themselves.” What? This made no sense to me, how would that even be possible. If I was…

Halloween: How to over engineer a mask
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Halloween: How to over engineer a mask

Over the years, halloween has always been fun for me, I basically wish I was American so that I could dress up excessively every year! This year I decided that I would like to build my own costume. Naturally I wanted all the blinken lights, but without all the hard work of having to build…

How to train wreck a POV fan
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How to train wreck a POV fan

Usually I have a blog post about building/breaking something with the intention of actually building or breaking it. This one however is not like the others. It started about 2 years ago, I got a POV fan from the Lockheed Martin booth at Blackhat, it looked as follows: This is how I destroyed that fan….