Hackaday in Dallas — And What That Means For Your Weekend

From hackaday.com 7 years ago in Blogs

The Hackaday Prize meetup at the Dallas Makerspace is this weekend: Saturday March 19th. We will be kicking things off at 7pm with food and drinks followed by lightning talks. If you want to come but have yet to RSVP you can do that via Meetup, please do this so...

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Cheap Kitchen Scale Learns to Speak JSON With ESP32

From hackaday.com 4 hours ago in Blogs

Smart kitchen appliances are expensive, and more often than not, your usage data goes to whichever company operates the inevitable cloud service. Meanwhile the cheap ones contain substantially the same …read more

Copy and Paste Lithium Battery Protection

From hackaday.com 7 hours ago in Blogs

Lithium batteries have, nearly single-handedly, ushered in the era of the electric car, as well as battery energy storage of grid power and plenty of other technological advances not possible …read more

ChipWhisperer Adapter Helps Reverse-Engineer A Controversial Game Cartridge

From hackaday.com 10 hours ago in Blogs

The ChipWhisperer has been a breakthrough in hobbyist use of power analysis and glitching attacks on embedded hardware. If you own one, you surely have seen the IDC and SMA …read more

Not a Pot, Not an Encoder: Exploring Synchros for Rotational Sensing

From hackaday.com 13 hours ago in Blogs

We’re all familiar with getting feedback from a rotating shaft, for which we usually employ a potentiometer or encoder. But there’s another device that, while less well-known, has some advantages …read more

Want Better 0402 Reflow? Consider These Footprints!

From hackaday.com 16 hours ago in Blogs

Assembling with a stencil is just that much more convenient – it’s a huge timesaver, and your components no longer need to be individually touched with a soldering iron for …read more

Comparing Cheap Capacitative Soil Moisture Sensors With Commercial Sensors

From hackaday.com 19 hours ago in Blogs

When your residence has soil moisture sensors embedded that were dictated by your friendly neighborhood HoA, you may start asking questions about the system used. That’s what [Modest Maker] did …read more

Electron Microscope Conversion Hack

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

Some of you probably know this already, but there’s actually more than one kind of electron microscope. In electronics work, the scanning electron microscope (SEM) is the most common. You …read more

Electronic Shoe Explores Alleged Chess Misbehavior

From hackaday.com 23 hours ago in Blogs

A few months ago, a scandal erupted in the chess world which led to some pretty wild speculation around a specific chess player. We won’t go into any of the …read more

The Radioactive Source Missing in Australian Desert Has Been Found

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Nuclear material is relatively safe when used, stored, and managed properly. This generally applies to a broad range of situations, from nuclear medicine to nuclear power generation. Some may argue …read more

Counterfeit Cisco Hardware Bypasses Security Checks With Modchips

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Some pictures recently surfaced on social media, showing a small PCB tapped into four points on Cisco-branded boards. What is this about? A NSA backdoor so data can be exfiltrated …read more