Active Probe Reaches 3 GHz When you think of a scope probe, you usually think of what is basically a wire with a spring hook and an attenuator. Those are passive probes. [Kerry Wong] shows …read more #hacking #projects image
Detecting Surveillance Cameras With The ESP32 These days, surveillance cameras are all around us, and they’re smarter than ever. In particular, many of them are running advanced algorithms to recognize faces and scan license plates, compiling …read more #hacking #projects image
Robot Bartender Is The Life of the Party As the old saying goes, when the only tool you have is a 6 DOF industrial robotic arm, every problem looks like an opportunity to make it serve up adult …read more #hacking #projects image
Hackaday Podcast Episode 339: The Vape Episode, a Flying DeLorean, and DIY Science Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this week’s episode off with an update on the rapidly approaching 2025 Supercon in Pasadena, California. From there they’ll talk about the …read more #hacking #projects image
Set Phone to… Hyperspectral While our eyes are miraculous little devices, they aren’t very sensitive outside of the normal old red, green, and blue spectra. The camera in your phone is far more sensitive, …read more #hacking #projects image
This Week in Security: Randomness is Hard, SNMP Shouldn’t Be Public, and GitHub Malware Delivery Randomness is hard. To be precise, without dedicated hardware, randomness is impossible for a computer. This is actually important to keep in mind when writing software. When there’s not hardware …read more #hacking #projects image
Steamboat Willie Still Tests Copyright If you know anything about Mickey Mouse, you’ll be able to tell us that his first outing was in 1928’s Steamboat Willie — an animated short that sees our hero …read more #hacking #projects image
A Ham-Adjacent Portable Radio Repeater Although ham radio offers a wide array of bands to transmit on, not to mention plenty of modes to communicate with, not everyone wants or needs to use all of …read more #hacking #projects image
The New Raspberry Pi 500+: Better Gaming with Less Soldering Required When Raspberry Pi released the Pi 500, as essentially an RPi 5 integrated into a chiclet keyboard, there were rumors based on the empty spots on the PCB that a …read more #hacking #projects image
Vertical Solar Panels are Out Standing If you’re mounting solar panels, everybody knows the drill, right? Point them south, angled according to latitude. It’s easy. In a video which demonstrates that [Everyday Dave] is truly out …read more #hacking #projects image