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[jasonwinfieldnz] uses twelve small powerbanks day to day – powering LED strips around his trampoline, presumably, to avoid the mess of wires and make the assembly easily portable. However, if …read more Continue reading A Simple Charging Station For Twelve Powerbanks
The convenience of just plugging in your car in the evening and not going into a gas station is great as long as you remember to do the plugging. You …read more Continue reading A Robot To Top Up Your Tesla
Flaws could allow an attacker to stop or start a home charging station, or even change the current in order to start a fire. Continue reading Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Open to IoT Attacks
The HTC Vive’s Lighthouse localization system is one of the cleverest things we’ve seen in a while. It uses a synchronization flash followed by a swept beam to tell any device that can see the lights exactly where it is in space. Of course, the device has to understand the signals to figure it out.
[Alex Shtuchkin] built a very well documented device that can use these signals to localize itself in your room. For now, the Lighthouse stations are still fairly expensive, but the per-device hardware requirements are quite reasonable. [Alex] has the costs down around ten dollars plus …read more
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