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HackSpace Magazine: Issue 65
With enough inspiration, the world is your playground - that's why this issue we're bringing you 16 of the best DIY toys and games to keep boredom at bay. - Get started with surface mount soldering - Make Islamic-inspired geometric LED patterns - Building an aeroplane powered by the super duper supercapacitor - Drool over the finest 3D printed guitar we've ever seen ...
With enough inspiration, the world is your playground - that's why this issue we're bringing you 16 of the best DIY toys and games to keep boredom at bay. - Get started with surface mount soldering - Make Islamic-inspired geometric LED patterns - Building an aeroplane powered by the super duper supercapacitor - Drool over the finest 3D printed guitar we've ever seen ...
HackSpace Magazine: Issue 63
Flying machines: humans have always dreamed about flight, but with our puny arms and lack of feathers it's something we've struggled with. No more! Join us as we explore the best, cleverest and most innovative home-made flying machines. Icarus would have been proud! - Behold: the world's first articulated print-in-place chocolate fish! - When 3D goes so wrong, it's actually kind of right - Build your own trombone-style games controller - Learn to solder - ... and loads more! ...
Flying machines: humans have always dreamed about flight, but with our puny arms and lack of feathers it's something we've struggled with. No more! Join us as we explore the best, cleverest and most innovative home-made flying machines. Icarus would have been proud! - Behold: the world's first articulated print-in-place chocolate fish! - When 3D goes so wrong, it's actually kind of right - Build your own trombone-style games controller - Learn to solder - ... and loads more! ...
HackSpace Magazine: Issue 62
It's not yet Christmas, but we come bearing glad tidings: the supply of Raspberry Pis available to hobbyists is starting to come back to normal. To celebrate, we're exploring 20 of the best hardware projects you can build with a Raspberry Pi - whether that's large or small, simple or complex, useful or not-so-useful. - Keep your posterior warm with a home-built heated seat - Build custom electronics enclosures out of 3D printed parts and M3 bolts - Communicate with Mastodon using a Raspberry Pi Pico W - Power many, many LEDs ...
It's not yet Christmas, but we come bearing glad tidings: the supply of Raspberry Pis available to hobbyists is starting to come back to normal. To celebrate, we're exploring 20 of the best hardware projects you can build with a Raspberry Pi - whether that's large or small, simple or complex, useful or not-so-useful. - Keep your posterior warm with a home-built heated seat - Build custom electronics enclosures out of 3D printed parts and M3 bolts - Communicate with Mastodon using a Raspberry Pi Pico W - Power many, many LEDs ...
HackSpace Magazine: Issue 61
With a little bit of coding, you can breathe life into anything. Discover the building blocks of programming that will take your creations to the next level - whether that's motors, servos, sensors or just adding blinkenlights. Coding is a superpower! - How to build an elite-level hot air balloon - Get ready for Christmas with flashy festive PCBs ... - ... and mince pies! - Weave fabric on a tiny loom - Get a taste of what's coming next in the world of 3D printing ...
With a little bit of coding, you can breathe life into anything. Discover the building blocks of programming that will take your creations to the next level - whether that's motors, servos, sensors or just adding blinkenlights. Coding is a superpower! - How to build an elite-level hot air balloon - Get ready for Christmas with flashy festive PCBs ... - ... and mince pies! - Weave fabric on a tiny loom - Get a taste of what's coming next in the world of 3D printing ...
HackSpace Magazine: Issue 60
The Internet of Things is playground for makers. From practical projects such as pet feeders and automatic blind, to silly things like a texting pot plant, there are as many ways of connecting ordinary object to the internet as you can imagine. Let's explore! - Meet the mom behind Geek Mom Projects - Build a flatpack rocket - Turn 3D printing filament into compost - Trap a fairy in a lamp (well, a GIF of a fairy) ...
The Internet of Things is playground for makers. From practical projects such as pet feeders and automatic blind, to silly things like a texting pot plant, there are as many ways of connecting ordinary object to the internet as you can imagine. Let's explore! - Meet the mom behind Geek Mom Projects - Build a flatpack rocket - Turn 3D printing filament into compost - Trap a fairy in a lamp (well, a GIF of a fairy) ...
Practical Social Engineering
Even the most advanced security teams can do little to defend against an employee clicking a malicious link, opening an email attachment, or revealing sensitive information in a phone call. Practical Social Engineering will help you better understand the techniques behind these social engineering attacks and how to thwart cyber criminals and malicious actors who use them to take advantage of human nature. Joe Gray, an award-winning expert on social engineering, shares case studies, best practices, open source intelligence (OSINT) tools, and templates for orchestrating and reporting attacks so companies can better protect themselves. He outlines creative techniques to trick users out of their credentials, such as leveraging Python scripts and editing HTML files to clone a legitimate website. Once you've succeeded in harvesting information about your targets with advanced OSINT methods, you'll discover how to defend your own organization from similar threats. Fast-paced, hands-on, ...
Even the most advanced security teams can do little to defend against an employee clicking a malicious link, opening an email attachment, or revealing sensitive information in a phone call. Practical Social Engineering will help you better understand the techniques behind these social engineering attacks and how to thwart cyber criminals and malicious actors who use them to take advantage of human nature. Joe Gray, an award-winning expert on social engineering, shares case studies, best practices, open source intelligence (OSINT) tools, and templates for orchestrating and reporting attacks so companies can better protect themselves. He outlines creative techniques to trick users out of their credentials, such as leveraging Python scripts and editing HTML files to clone a legitimate website. Once you've succeeded in harvesting information about your targets with advanced OSINT methods, you'll discover how to defend your own organization from similar threats. Fast-paced, hands-on, ...
Hacking APIs
An Application Programming Interface (API) is a software connection that allows applications to communicate and share services. Hacking APIs will teach you how to test web APIs for security vulnerabilities. You'll learn how the common API types, REST, SOAP, and GraphQL, work in the wild. Then you'll set up a streamlined API testing lab and perform common attacks, like those targeting an API's authentication mechanisms, and the injection vulnerabilities commonly found in web applications. In the book's guided labs, which target intentionally vulnerable APIs. By the end of the book, you'll be prepared to uncover those high-payout API bugs that other hackers aren't finding, and improve the security of applications on the web. ...
An Application Programming Interface (API) is a software connection that allows applications to communicate and share services. Hacking APIs will teach you how to test web APIs for security vulnerabilities. You'll learn how the common API types, REST, SOAP, and GraphQL, work in the wild. Then you'll set up a streamlined API testing lab and perform common attacks, like those targeting an API's authentication mechanisms, and the injection vulnerabilities commonly found in web applications. In the book's guided labs, which target intentionally vulnerable APIs. By the end of the book, you'll be prepared to uncover those high-payout API bugs that other hackers aren't finding, and improve the security of applications on the web. ...
HackSpace Magazine: Issue 58
As children we were told not to play with our food. As adults, we can do whatever the heck we like. Join us this month to celebrate the joy of messing around with food, whether that's grilling cheese, making coffee, or automating the construction of tacos. - Find things to make and do with polystyrene - Drool over a 3D printed chocolate Jean-Luc Picard - Make magical curiosities with double hinges - Keep food fresh with 3D printed teeth ...
As children we were told not to play with our food. As adults, we can do whatever the heck we like. Join us this month to celebrate the joy of messing around with food, whether that's grilling cheese, making coffee, or automating the construction of tacos. - Find things to make and do with polystyrene - Drool over a 3D printed chocolate Jean-Luc Picard - Make magical curiosities with double hinges - Keep food fresh with 3D printed teeth ...
HackSpace Magazine: Issue 57
The Raspberry Pi Pico: it's tiny, it's fast, it's versatile, and even more impressively these days it's available. And now it's got even better, with the introduction of the new internet-enabled Raspberry Pi Pico W. We'll run through the capabilities of this little board, and get you started on the road to victory with a couple of choice projects. - Turn an old beer keg into a device for cooking meat - Harvest the sun's rays to power a free-form soldered robotic sculpture - Visit a field full of geeks in Herefordshire (EMF Camp - it's back!) - Program a thermal printing camera using Python ...
The Raspberry Pi Pico: it's tiny, it's fast, it's versatile, and even more impressively these days it's available. And now it's got even better, with the introduction of the new internet-enabled Raspberry Pi Pico W. We'll run through the capabilities of this little board, and get you started on the road to victory with a couple of choice projects. - Turn an old beer keg into a device for cooking meat - Harvest the sun's rays to power a free-form soldered robotic sculpture - Visit a field full of geeks in Herefordshire (EMF Camp - it's back!) - Program a thermal printing camera using Python ...
HackSpace Magazine: Issue 56
From component choice, to packaging, to marketing, to the million other things that you need to do when you scale up production, we'll help you turn your project into a product - and along the way it'll help you be a better maker. - Build a rocket-powered wing-wing glider out of balsa wood and 3D printed parts (it's like the space shuttle, but smaller and cheaper, and dare we say it, better); - Discover new things to do with concrete, if you're lucky enough to have a bag of cement to spare; - Control the brightness of addressable LEDs with the magic of dithering; - Make hobby electronics projects without feeling like you're ruining the planet. ...
From component choice, to packaging, to marketing, to the million other things that you need to do when you scale up production, we'll help you turn your project into a product - and along the way it'll help you be a better maker. - Build a rocket-powered wing-wing glider out of balsa wood and 3D printed parts (it's like the space shuttle, but smaller and cheaper, and dare we say it, better); - Discover new things to do with concrete, if you're lucky enough to have a bag of cement to spare; - Control the brightness of addressable LEDs with the magic of dithering; - Make hobby electronics projects without feeling like you're ruining the planet. ...
HackSpace Magazine: Issue 55
There's a huge range of computer-controlled machines used by makers - 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC mills and more - but the plotter is the easiest to make. This makes it a great build for getting started in the world of computer-controlled machines. For around $15 you can create your own drawing machine with our guide. - Learn how hydraulics work - All you need to know about lubrication - Make your own Guitar-Hero style controller - And much more ...
There's a huge range of computer-controlled machines used by makers - 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC mills and more - but the plotter is the easiest to make. This makes it a great build for getting started in the world of computer-controlled machines. For around $15 you can create your own drawing machine with our guide. - Learn how hydraulics work - All you need to know about lubrication - Make your own Guitar-Hero style controller - And much more ...