DIY Underwater ROV Project


“I thought this was interesting. Up till now, ZigBee was only available as a chipset or some rudimentary modules. Now regular schmucks like me that don’t want to mess with a soldering iron can use ZigBee and see if it sucks or not. These radios have a range of almost a mile and cost less than $100. Not bad since nobody else seems to offer anything like this (yet). Now I can get my laptop to communicate with some of my robotics projects without an RS-232 umbilical cord.” (WikiPedia’s page on ZigBee a is a good way to figure out whether this is interesting to you; in short, a low-power, medium-range radio spec for all sorts of interesting uses.) Link.
The final issue of Phrack has been released- For 20 years PHRACK magazine has been the most technical, most original, the most Hacker magazine in the world. The last five of those years have been under the guidance of the current editorial team. Over that time, many new techniques, new bugs and new attacks have been published in PHRACK. We enojoyed every single moment working on the magazine. Link.
We now conclude the MAKE Magazine DEFCON coverage. We have a special spot on MAKE with all the enhanced audio podcasts, images, posts and more. It was a logistically challenging event to cover, but it worked out and best of all we met so many MAKERs, new friends, old friends and had a wonderful time- see you there next year! Link.


MAKE pal Jason Striegel has a great interview and HOW TO from DEFCON on picking a dead-bolt…Here’s a quick and dirty deadbolt lock picking howto that’ll give you and your friends some cheap entertainment on a slow weekend afternoon. Link.