Remember Dazzle, the method of complex geometric camouflage painting introduced in WWI (designed to disguise the direction, size, and types of ships at sea)? Last year, New York University’s ITP student Adam Harveyโs Dazzle CV project brought a similar technology to modern facial recognition software.
Calling all audiophiles: looking for a quality amp kit made in the U.S. by fellow makers? Look no further than OddWatt Audio‘s line of amp and pre-amp kits. Our own Jake Spurlock gave their PoddWatt Series 1 Amp kit a raving review in our special Make: Ultimate Kits Guide
What a lovely votive created by dipping a balloon in wax as shown by Wedding Belles.
Here is a great article from Open Music Labs which details the teardown and design of an old-school MIDI keyboard.
If you’ve made a resolution to hit the gym this year, then you need to read The Scientific Seamstress’ post on hemming your own yoga pants. Carla even has a downloadable hem guide to make sure your new gym clothes fit just right.
As a kid (and frankly, still as an adult) the Tusken Raiders were some of the scariest things I could imagine. I have mixed reactions to this crochet Tusken Raider hat from Etsy seller BeeBeeKins. It’s beyond amazing, well-made and darn practical with it’s included scarf, but I’m still a little terrified by it … […]
A man-in-the-middle attack on HDCP-secured video links is demonstrated. The attack is implemented on an embedded Linux platform, with the help of a Spartan-6 FPGA, and is capable of operating real-time on HD video links. It utilizes the HDCP master key to derive the corresponding private keys of the video source and sink through observation and computation upon the exchanged public keys. The man-in-the-middle then genlocks its raster and cipher state to the incoming video stream, enabling it to do pixel by pixel swapping of encrypted data. Since the link does no CRC or hash verification of the data, one is able to forge video using this method.
