Collaborate Disseminate
Australian grids have long run a two-tiered pricing scheme for electricity. In many jurisdictions, regular electricity was charged at a certain rate. Meanwhile, you could get cheaper electricity for certain …read more Continue reading Austraila’s Controlled Loads Are In Hot Water
PiggyMeter is a wonderful example of a device that you never knew you needed – simple, elegant, easy to build, and accompanied by amazing documentation. It’s a snap-on interface for …read more Continue reading Simple Optical Meter Sets New Standards For Documentation
If you’re lucky, reverse engineering can be a messy business. Sure, there’s something to be said for attacking and characterizing an unknown system and leaving no trace of having been …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering Smart Meters, Now with More Fuming Nitric Acid
On the surface, the electric grid might seem like a solved piece of infrastructure. But there’s actually been a large amount of computerized modernization going in the background for the …read more Continue reading Monitoring Energy Use and Saving Money
In most places around the world, electricity is getting ever more expensive. Cutting back on your usage is one of the easier ways to escape this pain. This smart powermeter …read more Continue reading Smart Powermeter Uses E-Paper Display
Alright, we’re calling it — we need a pejorative equivalent to “script kiddie” to describe someone using a Flipper Zero for annoyingly malign purposes. If you need an example, check …read more Continue reading Flipper Zero “Smoking” a Smart Meter is a Bad Look for Hardware Hackers
When the widget you’re working on is powered by a battery or a USB charger, running it on the bench is probably pretty safe. But when the object of your …read more Continue reading Tricking a Smart Meter into Working on the Bench
There are a lot of good reasons to have a better understanding of one’s household power use, and that is especially true for those that do their own solar power …read more Continue reading Live Energy Monitor Helps Plan Power-Hungry Appliance Use
Just to intensify the feeling of impending zombie apocalypse of the COVID-19 lockdown in the British countryside where I live, we had a power cut. It’s not an uncommon occurrence here at the end of a long rural power distribution network, and being prepared for a power outage is something …read more
Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Is Our Power Grid Smart Enough to Know When There’s No Power?
Sentenced to a year in prison for disabling networks, he changed a password to “f***you.” Continue reading Some beers, anger at former employer, and root access add up to a year in prison