In this video from the Oracle Learning Library, Vinicius Senger and Marcelo Quinta demonstrate how to repurpose old Java ME mobile devices in hardware hacking projects. This talk, which was originally presented at last October’s Oracle Open World conference in … Read more
DART is a new programming language for building structured web apps. DART is a new JavaScript replacement language. DART is a ground-up re-imagining of what JavaScript should be. It requires its own runtime environment (which Google makes available for free … Read more
If you’re interested in experimenting with a tiny CPU implemented in an FPGA, we found this interesting article on using the Zylin Tiny CPU. AMR wanted a really small CPU core to handle things like loading ROMs from SD card. … Read more
The GNU Radio project has announced their participation in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013 as an independent organization. GNU Radio is a free library for developing Software Defined Radio applications and is written mainly in C++ and Python. … Read more
Michael from AcidBourbon writes, “This project is about adding a MIDI output to a vintage organ, the Korg CX-3 (famous Hammond compact organ clone). My Korg was built in 1979, so before the introduction of the General Midi standard. But … Read more
Valentin Angelovski has developed Project Fleatiny, a 8051-based hobby board. “Project Fleatiny is a 100% open-source hobby-computer built around the 8051 micro controller. From a software point of view, Fleatiny consists of a sofware kernel (taking up from ~3K to … Read more
The ChameleonOS dev group has posted the latest version of their open source ROMS for Android devices. They describe: Chameleon OS (or ChaOS for short) is a custom Android ROM that gives the user more control than they can experience … Read more
The Phoronix website is reporting that AMD will be publishing open-source driver code that exposes their Unified Video Decoder (UVD) engine on modern Radeon HD graphics cards, which will allow open-source graphics drivers to take advantage of hardware-accelerated video decoding. … Read more
Google engineers J.J Barrons and Joe Fernandez have developed this lawn irrigation system. Dubbed Irrduino it uses Android, Ardiuno, Python, Dart and the Google App Engine. The project hardware details can be found on JoesHacks blog. The source code can … Read more
Dilshan Jayakody presents an alternative design for LS7220 base code locking systems: LS7220 is a “hard-wired” code-locking system, but this simulated system provides both “hard-wired” and customizable (re-programmable) code locking options. This re-programmable feature provides some higher degree of protection … Read more
Al from Ear to Ear Oak has released this open source cross platform Python frequency scanning GUI for the OsmoSDR rtl-sdr library. The software scans a range of frequencies and plots the result, allowing you to find signals to investigate. … Read more
OpenSecurityTraining has released a series of over 100 videos covering Introductory Intel x86: Architecture, Assembly, Applications, & Alliteration. The full YouTube playlist of the series can be found here. Trainer Xeno Kovah describes the course’s focus: “Intel processors have been … Read more
matthewg42 has released this library for using V3B-K magstripe readers with Arduinos on Gitub. He describes, “This is more or less a wrapper around Stephan King’s code which has been floating around the nets for a while. I fixed a … Read more
If you have an old Nokia phone and want to hack it to send SMS messages, this tutorial by Alex at InsideGadgets should prove interesting. He’s produced a detailed tutorial showing the hardware and code needed to interface a Nokia … Read more
Viswa found this online video course, “Embedded C Programming with ARM Cortex-M.” The series of videos from Modern Embedded Programming is designed to acquaint beginners with C programming with modern MCUs such as the ARM Cortex-M. The examples use the … Read more
Here’s a project for remote monitoring of heart rate (and potentially other medical/sensor info) using Propeller chips and XBee modules. Nick Ernst has published his plans and code for the Corpsman Up Vitals Monitoring System on the Parallax website. The … Read more
At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Ford announced their OpenXC project, a combination of open source hardware and software that lets you extend your vehicle with custom applications and pluggable modules. It uses standard, well-known tools to open up … Read more
Brian writes: I made a single circuit board version of Arduiniana’s famous “Reverse Geocache” box lately. It is based off a PIC instead of an Arduino and incorporates all of the required electronics into one package, saving money and packaging … Read more
jokkebk over at Code and Life has developed a simple “HDMI server” for the Raspberry Pi that uses pyserial to receive commands over Pi’s serial interface, and pygame to display graphics primitives according to those commands. An Arduino client was … Read more
Last October the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) AppSecUSA 2012 conference was held in Austin, Texas. In this conference video Jon McCoy presents the practical information on reverse engineering .NET Framework Desktop Software. The presentation goes beyond basics to … Read more
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