Collaborate Disseminate
In today’s “predictable things that happened before and definitely will happen again”, we have another company in the “smart device” business that has just shuttered their servers, leaving devices completely …read more Continue reading A Giga-Sunset For Gigaset IoT Devices
Open-source software has gone a long way into making modern technology the way it is today. The Linux kernel alone is almost single-handedly holding up the entire Internet, and various …read more Continue reading One Less Binary Blob
You’ve probably had a company not support one of your devices as long as you’d like, whether it was a smart speaker or a phone, but what happens if you …read more Continue reading What Happens when Implants Become Abandonware?
[Avian] has picked up a Miniware LA104 – a small battery-powered logic analyzer with builtin protocol decoders. Such analyzers are handy tools for when you quickly need to see what …read more Continue reading When Your Logic Analyzer Can’t Tell Good and Bad Signals Apart
It would appear that, sometimes, miracles happen. A few days ago, an update graced the website of Insteon, a company whose abrupt shuttering we covered in detail two months ago. …read more Continue reading Insteon Gets Another Chance
In today’s “predictable things that happened before and definitely will happen again”, Insteon, a smart home company boasting the Insteon ecosystem of devices built around their proprietary communication standards, has …read more Continue reading Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less
If you were blind, having an artificial retinal implant would mean the difference between seeing a few hundred pixels in greyscale and seeing all black, all the time. Imagine that …read more Continue reading Bionic Eyes Go Dark
The “razor and blades model” probably set a lot of young hackers on their current trajectory. If we buy a widget, we want to pick our widget refills instead of …read more Continue reading Clearing the Air about Proprietary Consumables with a Xiaomi Filter DRM Resetter
The ESP32 and ESP8266 spread like wildfire a few years ago due to their small form factor, low price, and wireless capability. They didn’t just take over the DIY scene, …read more Continue reading Modifying Lights for DIY Ambiance
[Dave Madison] came across some old digital photos, and in his quest to access them, he ran into quite a few challenges. The saga brings to mind both Murphy’s Law, and while [Dave] prevailed in the end, it required quite …read more
Continue reading Legacy Digital Photos, With a Side of Murphy’s Law