Collaborate Disseminate
While we are used to USB WiFi adapters, embedded devices typically use SDIO WiFi cards, and for good reasons – they’re way more low-power, don’t take up a USB port, …read more Continue reading ESP-Hosted Turns ESP32 Into Linux WiFi/BT Adapter
It’s a story we’ve heard many times before: if you want to get your data from the Domyos EL500 elliptical trainer, you need to use a proprietary smartphone application that …read more Continue reading Hacking BLE to Liberate Your Exercise Equipment
During [Matt]’s first year of college, he found in a roundabout way that he could avoid crowds in the dining hall by accessing publicly available occupancy data that the dining …read more Continue reading Bluetooth As Proxy for Occupancy
It sometimes seems like there are two kinds of cheap hardware devices: those dependent on proprietary software that is no longer available and those that are equally dependent but haven’t …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering Reveals Hidden API in Abandonware Trail Camera
You won’t need to pack a full set of dice for your next game with this DIY Multifunctional Eink Gadget. [Sasa Karanović] brings us a fun device that combines a …read more Continue reading What’s Black, White, and Red on 20 Sides?
Whether you’re making coffee or beer or complex chemicals, weighing your ingredients carefully and tracking them is key to getting good results. [Tech Dregs] decided to build a logging …read more Continue reading The BLE Datalogging Scale Of A Thousand Uses
As the saying goes, there’s no lock that can’t be picked, much like there’s no networked computer that can’t be accessed. It’s usually a continual arms race between attackers and …read more Continue reading Security Vulnerabilities In Modern Cars Somehow Not Surprising
It’s getting harder and harder to think of a modern premium-level appliance that doesn’t come with some level of Internet connectivity. These days it seems all but the cheapest refrigerators, …read more Continue reading Using GitHub Actions to Brew Coffee
There are plenty of problems that are easy for humans to solve, but are almost impossibly difficult for computers. Even though it seems that with modern computing power being what …read more Continue reading Wearable Sensor Trained to Count Coughs
[Daniel Dakhno] kept ending up in a situation where the ability to read the status of, or control a few digital IO pins with minimal effort, would be terribly useful. …read more Continue reading A Simple Web Configured BLE To GPIO Bridge