hackaday.comadded August 2026
Hackadayby Aaron Beckendorf17d ago
TEMPEST attacks are often the most effective way to break air-gapped security: rather than directly accessing a computer, the attacker records the system’s unintended radio emissions and uses them...
Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield18d ago
Getting rid of rodents like squirrels, mice, or groundhogs is a lot like digging a hole on the beach. No matter how much you remove, it’ll always fill back in.
Hackadayby Al Williams18d ago
When you think of wartime cryptography, you probably think of World War II and Enigma, although there were other famous codes used during that war.
Hackadayby Tyler August18d ago
There are lots of reasons to run LLMs locally, from privacy concerns to just wanting to futz about with the technology, but if you want to run the big models, the standard logic is that you need...
Hackadayby Maya Posch18d ago
Water timers are nifty devices that can water the lawn at set times or keep that vegetable garden from turning into a dustbowl.
Hackadayby Tyler August19d ago
This article is written on an open-source operating system, but not an open-source machine — the BIOS isn’t open-source, and even if it were supported by the coreboot project (formerly LinuxBIOS)...
Hackadayby Aaron Beckendorf19d ago
Although it wasn’t apparently designed with this in mind, it seems particularly fortuitous that this walking robotic hand was released in time for Halloween.
Hackadayby Elliot Williams19d ago
Using tools properly takes skill, and this goes for software tools as well as hardware. You don’t just buy a paintbrush and on day one paint the Mona Lisa.
Hackadayby Al Williams19d ago
There are so many things we approximate to make life simple. Wires, for example, have no resistance or other strange effects. Crystal oscillators output their exact frequency.
Hackadayby Al Williams19d ago
In 1982, desktop computers were coming into their own, and no clear leaders had emerged. But everyone knew they wanted a piece of the action.
Hackadayby Mike Kershaw20d ago
Leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets has released a dump of the filesystems of a Flock camera, and Micah Lee has published a dive into the contents.
Hackadayby Maya Posch21d ago
With the Earth’s atmosphere being effectively just a less dense fluid than the oceans around us, it’s reasonable to ask why we got wind turbines and wind mills quite literally everywhere across the...
Hackadayby Tom Nardi21d ago
Although everyone has their own reasons for exploring a new hobby, one of the driving factors behind the popularity of Meshtastic and MeshCore has been the incredible accessibility offered by...
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest21d ago
If you own a Jaguar XJ220 or the rarer XJR-15, you’re probably not short on money or real estate.
Hackadayby Maya Posch21d ago
Although things may seem simple on the North American grid as an end-user if you limit yourself to just 120 VAC and NEMA 1-15 and 5-15 connectors, there is a veritable zoo of different voltages and...
Hackadayby Maya Posch22d ago
One of the nice things about the weather is that even if it’s bad right now, it’ll definitely be changing soon and maybe even for the better.
Hackadayby Maya Posch23d ago
After previously adopting a big Sony Trinitron CRT TV that had been trying to hitch a ride along the side of a road in Italy for at least six years, [Happychoice] didn’t give up on trying to fix...
Hackadayby Maya Posch23d ago
The site of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) remains a unique location, as what’s left of the No.
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest23d ago
When we talk about programming in “bare metal,” it basically means writing software that runs right on the hardware with no operating system or abstraction layers in between.
Hackadayby Al Williams23d ago
Apparently, people hate typing. As every movie and TV show suggests, the future is talking to computers. There was a time when speech recognition was complex and not very good.
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