#Reverse engineering

Author: Lewin Day / Source: Hackaday There’s nothing quite like waiting for something you’ve ordered online to arrive. In [Alex]’s case, he’d ordered a new Leica camera, only to find out there was a six month backlog in shipping. Wanting to whet his thirst regardless, he decided to investigate

Author: Orion Jones / Source: Big Think Steven Pinker is many things: linguist, psychologist, optimist, Harvard professor, and author. When it comes to writing, he’s a student and a teacher. Here’s are his 13 rules for writing better, more simply, and more clearly. 1. Reverse-engineer what

Author: Al Williams / Source: Hackaday ICs have certainly changed electronics, but how much do you really know about how they are built on the inside? While decapsulating and studying a modern CPU with 14 nanometer geometry is probably not a great first project, a simple 54HC00 logic gate is much

Author: Tom Nardi / Source: Hackaday Improvements in methodology have dramatically dropped the cost of DNA sequencing in the last decade. In 2007, it cost around $10 million dollars to sequence a single genome. Today, there are services which will do it for as little as $1,000. That’s not to bad

Author: Justin Pot / Source: howtogeek.com Feeling nostalgic? You can get AIM up and running right now, thanks to a reverse engineered server. AIM Pheonix is an unauthorized third party server that old school AIM clients can actually connect to. The ads and stock tickers won’t work, so this