Monthly Archives: September 2016

Hacking a Volkswagen

Posted on September 2, 2016 by robertwilkie

Basically with an arduino and a RF shield, the author was able to intercept and clone the unique key used to unlock a car.  Not too surpising, but I am surpised since this goes back to 1995, no one else … Continue reading →

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Build a cheap kayak canopy

Posted on September 1, 2016 by robertwilkie

Really on a kayak kick today.  This looks like a nice simple hack for a top to a kayak to keep you out of the sun…well partly. http://www.instructables.com/id/Kayak-Canopy/

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Rent Amazon AWS desktops by the hour now

Posted on September 1, 2016 by robertwilkie

I could have used this 4 years ago.  I rented windows desktop for a month, this would have been a better solution for me. Amazon now lets you rent its virtual desktops, Amazon WorkSpaces, by the hour

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Need a command line password manager in linux?

Posted on September 1, 2016 by robertwilkie

Use pass.  Never heard of it myself til now.  NOTE It only works in linux as far as I can tell. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/use-pass-ultimate-open-source-password-manager/  

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Spaces win over Tabs

Posted on September 1, 2016 by robertwilkie

Some bored programmer in Google wrote a program(s) to see if tabs or spaces where more common in code.  Turns out the winner is spaces. http://gizmodo.com/google-coder-analyzes-a-billion-files-to-find-a-winner-1786016648

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Xerox can print on anything now

Posted on September 1, 2016 by robertwilkie

Sigh…like there wasn’t hobby projects doing this for a couple of years.  Anyways basically you have a jig that holds what you want to print on. And an inkjet prints. http://gizmodo.com/xerox-made-an-inkjet-that-can-print-on-anything-1786011057

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The new x-carve looks pretty interesting

Posted on September 1, 2016 by robertwilkie

Running around $1500 by time you are done shipping.  It looks pretty impressive for a small CNC.  Seems to run better than my homebuilt one.  Faster too. http://makezine.com/2016/08/31/new-x-carve-cnc-router/

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It was only a matter of time, Simple EMV card skimmer

Posted on September 1, 2016 by robertwilkie

Don’t know how “real” the skimmer is, but it looks pretty polished build.  The plus side is it ony works with static data based chips (think like barcode based).  Not dynamic where the code changes on each transaction.  But this … Continue reading →

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