Blinking an LED Passively
It is a pretty common first project to use an Arduino (or similar) to blink an LED. Which, of course, brings taunts of: you could have used a 555! You …read more Continue reading Blinking an LED Passively
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Mexico City Smart Home: Wi-Fi and Cement Don’t Mix (Premium)
Last month, I discussed my plans to bring an Eero 6E Pro mesh Wi-Fi router, two Echo Dot speakers, and a Blink Outdoor 4 camera to Mexico City. We’re here now, and I’ve wasted more time than I should have trying to set it all up. My success rate thus f… Continue reading Mexico City Smart Home: Wi-Fi and Cement Don’t Mix (Premium)
Blinky Project Is 6502s All The Way Down
Virtually any platform you might find yourself programming on has some simple method of running a delay. [Joey Shepard] got rather creative on a recent project, though, relying on a …read more Continue reading Blinky Project Is 6502s All The Way Down
Amazon’s Blink Smart Security Cameras Open to Hijack
Amazon is rolling out patches for the vulnerabilities and users are urged to confirm their device is updated to firmware version 2.13.11 or later. Continue reading Amazon’s Blink Smart Security Cameras Open to Hijack
Google warns of system-controlling Chrome bug
Google is patching a serious bug in the desktop version of its Chrome browser that could let an attacker take over a computer simply by luring them to a website. Continue reading Google warns of system-controlling Chrome bug
Coin Cell Hacks That Won the Coin Cell Challenge
It’s amazing what creative projects show up if you give one simple constraint. In this case, we asked what cool things can be done if powered by one coin cell battery and we had about one hundred answers come back. Today we’re happy to announce the winners of the Coin Cell Challenge.
Supernova Award: Coin Cell Powered Railgun
A railgun powered by an LIR2032 cell wins the Supernova Award with a cash prize of $500.
This project by [consciousflesh] dumps about 500-750 Joules of energy into a set of electromagnets to launch a graphite projectile. It makes quite a flash …read more
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Horten Fyr is Norwegian for Blinkie
Our Norwegian is pretty weak, so we struggled a little bit with the documentation for a big public LED art project in the lighthouse (translated) in Horten, Norway. But we do speak the universal language of blinkies, and this project has got them: 3,008 WS2812b LEDs ring the windows at the top of the lighthouse and create reactive patterns depending on the wave height and proximity of the ferry that docks there.
This seems to be an evolving project, with more features being added slowly over time. We love the idea of searching for the WiFi access point on the …read more
Horten Fyr is Norwegian for Blinkie
Our Norwegian is pretty weak, so we struggled a little bit with the documentation for a big public LED art project in the lighthouse (translated) in Horten, Norway. But we do speak the universal language of blinkies, and this project has got them: 3,008 WS2812b LEDs ring the windows at the top of the lighthouse and create reactive patterns depending on the wave height and proximity of the ferry that docks there.
This seems to be an evolving project, with more features being added slowly over time. We love the idea of searching for the WiFi access point on the …read more
Startup Security Weekly #21 – News
DIY home security suites, a cybersecurity company’s biggest 2016 failure, and what should you expect as a tech startup in 2017? Full Show Notes Visit http://securityweekly.com/category/ssw/ for all the latest episodes! http://traffic.libsyn.com/sswaudio/Startup_Security_Weekly__21_-_News_converted.mp3 Continue reading Startup Security Weekly #21 – News
Google Patches Two High-Severity Flaws in Chrome
Chrome 51.0.2704.79 for Windows, Mac, and Linux was released Wednesday and patched 15 vulnerabilities, including two high-severity flaws eligible for bounties Continue reading Google Patches Two High-Severity Flaws in Chrome