Collaborate Disseminate
Although much of the software that runs on the ESP32 microcontroller is open source, the Wi-Fi driver is not. Instead, it uses a proprietary binary blob. This was no problem …read more Continue reading The Long Road Towards Reverse Engineering The ESP32 Wi-Fi Driver
Some of us may have recently stumbled over these mysterious ‘Mini 560’ synchronous buck converter modules at various e-shopping websites. These little modules claim to take in 7-20 VDC and …read more Continue reading Hunting For Part Numbers: Analyzing The Buck Converter On Mini 560 Modules
In many ways, ICQ has always been a bit of a curiosity. It was one of the first major instant messenger clients of the 1990s. It saw broad uptake alongside …read more Continue reading ICQ Will Shut Down On June 26 This Year
Amidst the push for more low-carbon energy, we see the demolishing of one of the pillars of electric grids: that of a careful balancing between supply and demand. This is …read more Continue reading Germany’s Solar Expansion and the Negative Effects of Electricity Overproduction
In the eternal quest to find more things to do with 3D printers, shoes have been in the spotlight for a while now. But how practical is additive manufacturing in …read more Continue reading A Look At 3D Printed Shoes: Hybrid, Fully Printed and Plain Weird
In order to understand something, it helps to observe it up close and study its inner workings. This is no less true for the brain, whether it is the brain …read more Continue reading Mapping the Human Brain and Where This May Lead Us
To those who have kept tabs on nuclear fusion research the past decades beyond the articles and soundbites in news outlets, it’s probably clear just how much progress has been …read more Continue reading Nuclear Fusion R&D In 2024: Getting Down To the Gritty Details
When [Daniel Eichhorn] designed the Pendrive S3 project, he wanted to use an off-the-shelf USB enclosure but also add a button for the user to start certain actions. Drilling a …read more Continue reading Using a Spring As a Capacitive Touch Button
Over the past few years a number of teams have been putting a lot of effort into taking beloved Nintendo 64 games, decompiling them, and lovingly crafting them into highly …read more Continue reading Static Recompilation Brings New Life to N64 Games
Back in the innocent days of the late 1980s the Internet as we know it today did not exist yet, but there were still plenty of FTP servers. Since manually …read more Continue reading Finding and Resurrecting Archie: the Internet’s First Search Engine