There are two ways to recover data from an obsolete storage medium. One way is to pull out all the tools in the hacker’s kit — with logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/18/pcmcia-flash-card-gives-up-its-secrets-thanks-to-retro-gear/)

Conductive Gel Has Potential
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/18/conductive-gel-has-potential/

There are some technologies first imagined in the Star Trek universe have already come to exist in the modern day. Communicators, tablet computers, and computer voice recognition are nearly as …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/18/conductive-gel-has-potential/)

Sniffing Passwords, Rickrolling Toothbrushes
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/18/sniffing-passwords-rickrolling-toothbrushes/

If you could dump the flash from your smart toothbrush and reverse engineer it, enabling you to play whatever you wanted on the vibrating motor, what would you do? Of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/18/sniffing-passwords-rickrolling-toothbrushes/)

Modern Software Brings Back the Timex Datalink
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/18/modern-software-brings-back-the-timex-datalink/

As much as some people on the Internet might like to think — no, Apple did not come up with the idea of the smart watch. Even if you ignore …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/18/modern-software-brings-back-the-timex-datalink/)

Reverse Engineering Reveals Hidden API in Abandonware Trail Camera
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/18/reverse-engineering-reveals-hidden-api-in-abandonware-trail-camera/

It sometimes seems like there are two kinds of cheap hardware devices: those dependent on proprietary software that is no longer available and those that are equally dependent but haven’t …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/18/reverse-engineering-reveals-hidden-api-in-abandonware-trail-camera/)

Digital Microscope With An On-Screen Multimeter
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/19/digital-microscope-with-an-on-screen-multimeter/

Some things go together, like chocolate and peanut butter. Others are more odd pairings, like bananas and bacon. We aren’t sure which category to put [IMSAI Guy]’s latest find in. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/19/digital-microscope-with-an-on-screen-multimeter/)

Lighting Up with Chemistry, 1823-Style
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/19/lighting-up-with-chemistry-1823-style/

With our mass-produced butane lighters and matches made in the billions, fire is never more than a flick of the finger away these days. But starting a fire 200 years …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/19/lighting-up-with-chemistry-1823-style/)