Unlock Any (Honda) Car
Honda cars have been found to be severely vulnerable to a newly published Rolling PWN attack, letting you remotely open the car doors or even start the engine. So far …read more Continue reading Unlock Any (Honda) Car
Author Archives: Arsenijs Picugins
LoRa Helps With Remote Water Tank Level Sensing
[Renzo Mischianti]’s friend has to keep a water tank topped up. Problem is, the tank itself is 1.5 km away, so its water level isn’t typically known. There’s no electricity …read more Continue reading LoRa Helps With Remote Water Tank Level Sensing
Headphone Cable Trouble Inspires Bluetooth Conversion
[adblu] encountered the ever-present headphone problem with their Sennheiser Urbanite headphones – the cable broke. These headphones are decent, and despite the cable troubles, worth giving a new life to. …read more Continue reading Headphone Cable Trouble Inspires Bluetooth Conversion
Companies Rumored To Harvest Washing Machines For ICs
Wired and SCMP are reporting on interesting trivia from the realm of chip shortages. Apparently, some large conglomerate out there is buying new washing machines and scavenging the chips they …read more Continue reading Companies Rumored To Harvest Washing Machines For ICs
MNT Reform Goodness, Now Even Smaller With Pocket Reform
You might have already seen the pretty pictures in pastel colors online — a small netbook-like computer with a full-size keyboard. This, while a render, is what the MNT Pocket …read more Continue reading MNT Reform Goodness, Now Even Smaller With Pocket Reform
Hackaday Prize 2022: A CM4 Upgrade For Your Old iPad
There’s no shortage of nicely built tablets out there, but unfortunately many of them are powered by what are by now severely outdated motherboards. Since manufacturers releasing replacement motherboards for …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: A CM4 Upgrade For Your Old iPad
Design Your CM4 Carrier With WiFi Performance In Mind
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 has a built-in WiFi antenna, but that doesn’t mean it will work well for you – the physical properties of the carrier board impact …read more Continue reading Design Your CM4 Carrier With WiFi Performance In Mind
Neural Network Identifies Bird Calls, Even On Your Pi
Recently, we’ve stumbled upon the extensive effort that is the BirdNET research platform. BirdNET uses a neural network to identify birds by the sounds they make, and is a joint …read more Continue reading Neural Network Identifies Bird Calls, Even On Your Pi
Breaking Google Nest Hub’s Secure Boot
[frederic] tells a story about their team’s hack of a Google Nest Hub (2nd generation) — running Ubuntu on it, through bypassing Google’s boot image signature checks. As with many …read more Continue reading Breaking Google Nest Hub’s Secure Boot
OpenAsar Tweaks Discord’s Frontend, Improves Performance And Privacy
Not all hacking happens on hardware — every now and then, we ought to hack our software-based tools, too. [Ducko] tells us about a partially open-source rewrite of Discord’s Electron-based …read more Continue reading OpenAsar Tweaks Discord’s Frontend, Improves Performance And Privacy