A Water Leak Detector That Listens Carefully

From hackaday.com 2 months ago in Blogs

Water leaks can be pernicious things. Even just a few drips per minute happening undetected inside a wall can cause major damage if left unrepaired for long enough. AquaPing is …read more

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What’s That Scope Trace Saying? UPD and Wireshark

From hackaday.com 12 hours ago in Blogs

[Matt Keeter], like many of us, has a lot of network-connected devices and an oscilloscope. He decided he wanted to look into what was on the network. While most of us …read more

Hackaday Links: August 14, 2022

From hackaday.com 15 hours ago in Blogs

What’s this? News about robot dogs comes out, and there’s no video of the bots busting a move on the dance floor? Nope — it looks like quadruped robots are …read more

Starlink Ground Stations Successfully Hacked

From hackaday.com 18 hours ago in Blogs

Belgian security researcher [Lennert Wouters] has gotten his own code running on the Starlink “Dishy McFlatface” satellite terminals, and you can too! The hack in question is a “modchip” with …read more

Hackaday Prize 2022: Solar-Harvesting ESP32 Camera Is Waterproof, Repeatable

From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs

[alberto nunez] shows off his sleek build of a solar-harvesting ESP32 camera – waterproof, somewhat energy-efficient, and able to be built by more-or-less anyone. For that, he’s chosen fairly jellybean …read more

This Snake Has Legs

From hackaday.com 24 hours ago in Blogs

[Allen Pan] loves snakes. He loves them so much that he’s decided to play god, throwing away millions of years of evolution — just to give snakes back the legs …read more

Hoverboard Go-Kart Build Is A Delight To Watch

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Hoverboards have been an indispensable material for hackers building their own vehicles in the last few years. [Mahmut Demir] shows how he’s built a hoverboard-powered go-kart for his son. Unable …read more

Just How Good is a Tape Measure Antenna Anyway?

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Amateur radio operators have played a longstanding game of “Will It Antenna?” If there’s something even marginally conductive and remotely resonant, a ham has probably tried to make an antenna …read more

Remember DAB Radio? The Psion WaveFinder Gets A Teardown

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

With digital music making a clean sweep in the 1990s over almost all listening media, it’s a surprise to find that there’s one area in which an analog hold-out is …read more

Testing a Laser Cut Wrench VS a Forged Wrench

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

It is easy to not think much about common tools like screwdrivers and wrenches. But not for [Torque Test Channel]. The channel does a lot of testing of tools and …read more

The 286 Gives Up One Of Its Final Secrets

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

Though it is largely forgotten today, the Intel 80286 was for a while in the 1980s the processor of choice and designated successor to the 8086 in the world of …read more