November 26, 2020
audio fingerprinting, chapter skip, ffmpeg, fingerprinting, mkvmerge, Software Hacks, video, Video Hacks

Audio Fingerprinting Skips A Show’s Intro, Reliably

Lacking a DVD drive, [jg] was watching a TV series in the form of a bunch of .avi video files. Of course, when every episode contains a full intro, it is only a matter of time before that gets too annoying to sit through. Chapter breaks reliably inserted around the intro, even when it doesn’t […]

October 31, 2020
3d Printer hacks, MSLA, network control, Octoprint, Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi Zero, resin 3d printer, Software Hacks

Adding Remote Control To The Elegoo Mars Pro

Recent price drops put entry level masked stereolithography (MSLA) resin 3D printers at around $200 USD, making them a very compelling tool for makers and hackers. But as you might expect, getting the price this low often involves cutting several corners. One of the ways manufacturers have made their machines so cheap is by simplifying […]

October 25, 2020
Font, graphic lcd, Microcontrollers, oled, scaling, smoothing, Software Hacks

Smoothing Big Fonts On Graphic LCDs

Here’s a neat little trick: take the jaggies out of scaled fonts on the fly! This technique is for use on graphic displays where you might want to scale your fonts up. Normally you’d just write a 2×2 block of pixels for every area where there would have been one pixel and boom, larger font. […]

October 1, 2020
custom firmware, LA104, logic analyzer, multi-tool, Software Hacks, Tool Hacks

Teaching A Pocket Logic Analyzer (Many) New Tricks

A few years ago, low-cost pocket digital oscilloscopes aimed at the hacker and maker crowd started hitting the market and gained quite a following. While few would consider them to be a replacement for a proper bench scope, they’re cheap and convenient enough that it’s hard to complain. Manufacturers are apparently looking to expand on […]

Category: Software Hacks

Audio Fingerprinting Skips A Show’s Intro, Reliably

Adding Remote Control To The Elegoo Mars Pro

Smoothing Big Fonts On Graphic LCDs

Teaching A Pocket Logic Analyzer (Many) New Tricks

YouTube Now Has Dedicated Hashtag Landing Pages

Flex clip 2.0 review and feature update

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