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Smarter Serial Communications with WiSer

Smarter Serial Communications with WiSer

Surely you’ve been there: you need to capture serial output from a microcontroller or other device, so you reach for a PL2303 or CP210x or FT232RL-based USB-to-TTL serial cable (if you can remember where you put the damn thing after you last used it!) and…realize you don’t have the drivers installed on the computer you […]

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USB Webcams are Sold Out. Here Is How to Use Your iPhone Instead

USB Webcams are Sold Out. Here Is How to Use Your iPhone Instead

Pandemics apparently bring out some odd shopping tendencies and supply chain breakdowns. First the stores ran out of toilet paper. Then they ran out of yeast. And now, with everyone telecommuting to work and school, there’s a shortage of USB webcams, with many people doubling (or quadrupling) the price of what they still have in […]

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Turning an iPhone into a USB Flash Drive?

Turning an iPhone into a USB Flash Drive?

Watch an extended exercise in frustration eventually reveal the true rewards of hardware hacking.

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Looking Under the Hood of a Spy “Implant”

Looking Under the Hood of a Spy “Implant”

Taking apart a hidden USB spy device to see how it works and what it does.

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Makey Makey Go

Smaller, Slicker Makey Makey Go Launches For $19

Today, Makey Makey gets a smaller sibling called Makey Makey Go, the latest version of our favorite interface board designed to allow people to quickly take everyday objects and use them to control their computers. The thumb drive shaped device is the second product from Jay Silver and Joylabz, who introduced the first Makey Makey exactly three years […]

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