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Many of us hacker types with some hardware knowledge and a smattering of embedded experience would like to get into home automation, but there can be quite a learning curve. …read more Continue reading This Pico-W IoT Starter Project Gets You Into Home Assistant Quick As A Flash
Homebrew HVAC systems are one of those projects that take such a big investment of time, effort and money that you’ve got to be a really dedicated (ideally home-owning) hacker …read more Continue reading Is This The Oldest Open Source HVAC Project In Existence?
Have you ever found that, despite having a central heating and air conditioning system, that not all the rooms in your home end up being the temperature you want them …read more Continue reading ESP8266 Smart Vents Keep Tabs On Home Temps
Over the years we’ve covered many projects aimed at detecting elevated radiation levels, and a fair number of them have been Internet connected in some way. But as they are …read more Continue reading ESP32 Powers Fresh Take On An IoT Geiger Counter
Setting up a wireless sensor network over a wide area can quickly become costly, and making everything communicate smoothly can be a massive headache, especially when you’re combining short range …read more Continue reading Farm Data Relay System: Combine LoRa and 2.4 Ghz Networks Without WiFi Routers And Cloud Dependence
I have a client which connects to a server securely on multiple protocols, namely MQTT and HTTPS.
Because of the following CVE, CVE-2009-3555, we decided to disable all client-initiated session renegotiation. We also decided to keep server… Continue reading Disable client-initiated session renegotiation from the client side
The inconvenience of having to walk to your mailbox to check for mail has inspired many hackers to install automated systems that let them know when the mail has been …read more Continue reading Using a LIDAR Sensor to Monitor Your Mailbox
First of all, there are definitely simpler ways to monitor remote temperatures, but [Mike]’s remote MQTT temperature sensor and display project is useful in a few ways. Not only does …read more Continue reading Remote MQTT Temperature Sensor Shows How It’s Done
This report contains statistics and observations on vulnerabilities, phishing schemes and malware related to telehealth. Continue reading Telehealth: A New Frontier in Medicine—and Security
They say time is money, but if that’s true, money must also be time. It’s all figurative, of course, but in the case of this NTP server heater powered by …read more Continue reading Bitcoin Mining ASICs Repurposed to Keep NTP Server on Track