Collaborate Disseminate
Everyone knows that the perfect capacitor to decouple the power rails around ICs is a 100 nF ceramic capacitor or equivalent, yet where does this ‘fact’ come from and is …read more Continue reading Capacitor Decoupling Chaos, and Why You Should Abandon 100 nF
With the slow demise of physical media the past years, companies are gradually closing shop on producing everything from the physical media itself to their players and recorders. For Sony …read more Continue reading Sony Ends Blu-Ray, MD and MiniDV Media Production
In the olden days of the WWW you could just put a robots.txt file in the root of your website and crawling bots from search engines and kin would (generally) …read more Continue reading Trap Naughty Web Crawlers in Digestive Juices with Nepenthes
In lieu of high-explosives, an exploding wire circuit can make for an interesting substitute. As [Hyperspace Pirate] demonstrates in a recent video, the act of pumping a lot of current …read more Continue reading Making Wire Explode With 4,000 Joules of Energy
Perhaps one of the most fascinating aspects of any developing tech scandal is the way that the target company handles criticism and feedback from the community. After announcing a new …read more Continue reading Bambu Lab Tries to Clarify Its New “Beta” Authentication Scheme
Hot on the heels of Bambu Lab’s announcement that it would be locking down all network access to its X1-series 3D printers with new firmware, the X.509 certificate and private …read more Continue reading Bambu Connect’s Authentication X.509 Certificate and Private Key Extracted
Recently a video surfaced from someone claiming that certain USB-to-Ethernet dongles contained ‘malware’ among other big claims. Basically these dongles were said to be designed by China (and Russia) to …read more Continue reading Investigating USB-to-Ethernet Dongles With “Malware” Claims
As per a recent Bambu Lab blog post, its FDM printers in the X1 series will soon receive a firmware update that adds mandatory authentication for certain operations, starting with …read more Continue reading New Bambu Lab Firmware Update Adds Mandatory Authorization Control System
Dumpster diving is one of those experiences that can net you some pretty cool gear for a reasonable price. Case in point the 24″ Samsung S24E650XW LCD monitor that [MisterHW] …read more Continue reading Repairing a Samsung 24″ LCD Monitor With Funky Color Issues
Throughout evolution, the concept of powered flight has evolved and refined itself multiple times across both dinosaurs (birds), mammals (bats) and insects. So why is it that our human-made flying …read more Continue reading Avian-Inspired Drones: How Studying Birds of Prey Brings More Efficient Drones Closer