USB dongle generates and enters your passwords so you don’t have to
Like many businesses out there, [Joonas Pihlajamaa’s] employer requires him to change his password every few months. Instead of coming up with a complex, yet easy to remember password again and again,...
View ArticleTweet Messages from Punch Cards
It all started with a conversation about the early days of computing. The next thing he knew, [Tim Jagenberg’s] colleague gave him a stack of punch cards and a challenge. [Tim] attempted to read them...
View ArticleHackaday Prize Entry: Unlock Your PC The RFID Way
Sometimes we see projects whose name describes very well what is being achieved, without conveying the extra useful dimension they also deliver. So it is with [Prasanth KS]’s Windows PC Lock/Unlock...
View ArticleMIL-SPEC Keyboard Now Salutes USB
When [easyjo] picked up this late ’80s Marconi mil-spec keyboard for cheap, he knew it wouldn’t be easy to convert it to USB — just that it would be worth it. Spoiler alert: those LEDs aren’t a mod,...
View ArticleCustom Joystick Build Guide Should Point You in the Right Direction
Over the last two years, [benkster] has been perfecting their ideal flight controller. Like many people, they started out with a keyboard and mouse and eventually moved on to a joystick. While a HOTAS...
View ArticleHobnobbing with the Knob
The scroll wheel might be the best thing that happened to the computer mouse since, well, the computer mouse. But sometimes you want something a little more tangible. For example, with a...
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