Wax Dipped Balloon Votive
What a lovely votive created by dipping a balloon in wax as shown by Wedding Belles.
Month: January 2012
MIDI Keyboard Teardown and Analysis
Here is a great article from Open Music Labs which details the teardown and design of an old-school MIDI keyboard.
How-To: Hem Your Own Yoga Pants
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.
Crochet Tusken Raider Hat
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 … […]
“Implementation of MITM Attack on HDCP-Secured Links”
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.
Hackerspace Happenings: The Mill Launches in Minneapolis
Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at @johnbaichtal and I’ll post it. Also feel free to subscribe to my hackerspaces Twitter list. Hackerspace Happenings runs weekly(ish) Tuesday(i)s(h). Opening Soon in Minneapolis: The Mill The Twin Cities has gained another makerspace option. The […]
Remembering Transistor Pioneer Norman Krim
Right before the Christmas holidays, Norm Krim, a pioneer of transistor technology and the father of the CK722 PNP Germanium Junction Transistor, died. He was 98 years old. IEEE Spectrum has a nice little “In Memoriam” piece which even includes a shout-out to MAKE (Krim was an early champion of DIY electronics and pushed to market the CK722 to hobbyists in the early 1950s)