Collaborate Disseminate
The first solar panels may have rolled out of Bell Labs in the 1950s, with major press around their inconsistent and patchy adoption in the decades that followed, but despite …read more Continue reading There’s Cash in Them Old Solar Panels
Join us on Wednesday, June 9 at noon Pacific for the LED Matrix Hack Chat with Garrett Mace! It’s pretty amazing how quickly light-emitting diodes went from physics lab curiosity …read more Continue reading LED Matrix Hack Chat
If playing with but a single laser pointer is fun, then playing with 500 laser pointers must be 500 times the fun, right? So by extension, training 500 laser pointers on a single point must be the pinnacle of pointless mirth. And indeed it is.
When we first spotted this …read more
Continue reading 500 Lasers Are Not Necessarily Better Than One, but They Look Great
Building cool things completely from scratch is undeniably satisfying and makes for excellent Hackaday posts, but usually involve a few unexpected speed humps, which often causes projects to be abandoned. If you just want to get something working, using off-the-shelf modules can drastically reduce frustration and increase the odds of …read more
Continue reading Electric Longboard Quick Build Using Off-The-Shelf components.
We know what it’s like to wait for newly released electronic parts. Clicking refresh every day at your favorite online retailers, reading reviews published by the press who got preview units, and maybe even daring to order implausibly cheap devices from foreign lands. The ESP32 has many of us playing the waiting game, and we’ll level with you — they’re out of stock most places. But, if you look hard enough you can find one. At least, you could find them before we wrote this quick roundup of ESP32 hardware. If hearing about parts that are just out of reach …read more
Continue reading ESP32 Modules Popping Up Everywhere, In Stock Almost Nowhere
Developers with the open source content management framework Drupal patched a series of highly critical remote code execution bugs in three separate modules today. If exploited, the bugs could let an attacker take over any site running the modules.
Continue reading Drupal Patches Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Three Modules