The idea behind Lua is a beautiful one. A simple and concise syntax offers almost all of the niceties of a first-class language. Moreover, a naive implementation of an interpreter …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/interpreting-the-lua-interpreter/)

Defeating A Cryptoprocessor With Laser Beams
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/defeating-a-cryptoprocessor-with-laser-beams/

Cryptographic coprocessors are nice, for the most part. These are small chips you connect over I2C or One-Wire, with a whole bunch of cryptographic features implemented. They can hash data, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/defeating-a-cryptoprocessor-with-laser-beams/)

LEDs Put New Spin on a Sonic The Hedgehog Costume
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/leds-put-new-spin-on-a-sonic-the-hedgehog-costume/

[Wentworthm] couldn’t say no to his son’s plea for a Sonic the Hedgehog costume for Halloween but also couldn’t resist sprucing it up with LEDs either. The end result is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/leds-put-new-spin-on-a-sonic-the-hedgehog-costume/)

Tesla Coil Makes Sodium Plasma
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/tesla-coil-makes-sodium-plasma/

Looking for a neat trick to do with your Tesla coil? [The Action Lab] uses his coil to make a metal plasma — in particular, sodium. You can see the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/tesla-coil-makes-sodium-plasma/)

Magic Mirror – On A Low CPU Budget
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/magic-mirror-on-a-low-cpu-budget/

For quite a few hackers out there, it’s still hard to find a decently powerful Raspberry Pi for a non-eye-watering price. [Rupin Chheda] wanted to build a magic mirror with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/magic-mirror-on-a-low-cpu-budget/)

Turn Your Furniture into a Light Show with Hyelicht
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/turn-your-furniture-into-a-light-show-with-hyelicht/

There’s something about the regimented square shapes of the IKEA Kallax shelf that convinced [Eike Hein] it could benefit from some RGB LED lighting, and while he could have simply …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/turn-your-furniture-into-a-light-show-with-hyelicht/)

Blackout Logger Keeps Track of Power Outages
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/blackout-logger-keeps-track-of-power-outages/

[Dmytro Panin] lives in Kyiv, Ukraine where there have been rolling blackouts to stabilize the power grid. To help keep track of when the blackouts might happen, be they planned …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/blackout-logger-keeps-track-of-power-outages/)

Human vs. AI Drone Racing at the University of Zurich
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/human-vs-ai-drone-racing-at-the-university-of-zurich/