Andrey Mikhalchuk’s Blog

I just published a new video and a new article about “The most hacked router in the world ever” project. The idea behind this project is obviously to hack router to the extreme. I searched the Internet, found all known hacks about routers, added a few I never seen implemented in routers and built the device. The result appeared to be very useful and quite cool.

Recently I’ve got a worldlock cable lock for my bike. Skimming thru the guide pictures included with the lock I tried to understand how do I open it for the first time and didn’t find anything saying “default password” in big bold red font. Quick google search also gave nothing. Yeah, this is how this works with some customers like me - they better go search in web instead of carefully reading the manual. Anyway, looking at the pictures I started thinking about what could be a way to open the lock without knowing the password. A few moments later I came up with an idea …

Looking for routerbots and other robotics stuff? It’s not here anymore. I created a new web space 100% dedicated to robotics called RoboStuff.com. It’s better, cleaner, englisher and it’s for everyone. If you have your robotics project and looking for a please to publish it please contact me and get your personal project page on robostuff.com. Also new website is not only about DIY Projects, but also contains news, robopedia, catalog of robots and more robotics stuff. New information is being added almost every day.

If you’re flying beginners’ coax helicopters like Lama v4 you probably have heard about those undestructable Airy Harden Blades. Unfortunately all information about the blades in the internet is limited to a very impressive video and a review from a guy who seemed to be somewhat interested in positive test result. I have no interest in that so here is my quick review.

When I moved into a new house a few months ago I decided to start life in the new place with completely new energy saving policy and replaced 90% of bulbs in the house with those spiral energy saving light bulbs you see advertised on every corner in every supermarket. The energy saving commercials were extremely clear and promising - you pay just a little more for the bulbs but then you enjoy 5 years of reduced electricity bills and help conserving natural resources!! What could be better? One month later I replaced most of those energy saving bulbs with the traditional ones and here is why…