According to [Venn Stone], technical producer over at LinuxGameCast, the Sony a5000 is still a solid option for those looking to shoot 1080p video despite being released back in 2014. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/25/telnet-gets-stubborn-sony-camera-under-control/)

Reinterpreting the Lua Interpreter
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/interpreting-the-lua-interpreter/

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/)