Collaborate Disseminate
Anyone who has done the slightest bit of programming knows about the “Hello, World!” program. It’s the archetypal program that one enters to get a feel for a new language or a new architecture; if you can get a machine to print “Hello, World!” back to you, the rest is …read more
As the name implies, the OSEP STEM board is an embedded project board primarily aimed at education. You use jumper wires to connect components and a visual block coding language to make it go.
I have fond memories of kits from companies like Radio Shack that had dozens of parts …read more
Continue reading Review: OSEPP STEM Kit 1, a Beginner’s All-in-One Board Found in the Discount Aisle
Join us on Wednesday, September 4th at noon Pacific for the Clean Water Technologies Hack Chat with Ryan Beltrán!
Access to clean water is something that’s all too easy to take for granted. When the tap is turned, delivering water that won’t sicken or kill you when you drink it,
Join us on Wednesday, August 28th at noon Pacific for the Parallax Update Hack Chat with Chip and Ken Gracey!
For a lot of us, our first exposure to the world of microcontrollers was through the offerings of Parallax, Inc. Perhaps you were interested in doing something small and light,
In case you were wondering, scientists really can change the world, and change it for the better, too. Continue reading Alan Turing chosen for the UK’s new £50 note – a cracking result!
The harassment campaign against one of the researchers who helped photograph a black hole isn’t just sexist, it’s technically simplistic and inaccurate. Continue reading The Sexist Trolls Doubting Black Hole Researcher Katie Bouman Need to Learn to Code
As a reminder, Lesson 1 was a primer on electronics and setting up your lab, and Lesson 2 was an introduction to classical hardware hacking. To get started with security-focused hardware hacking, let’s look at a pretty simple example: getting a root sh… Continue reading Hardware Hacking 101 – Lesson 3: Abusing UART (U Are RooT)
I was a little surprised to see a news report about Andreas Schleicher, the director of education and skills at OECD — the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Speaking at the World Innovation Summit for Education in Paris, Schleicher thinks that teaching kids to code is a waste of …read more
Welcome back to our ongoing series on hardware hacking and our second lesson. Last month we presented “Lesson 1: Beauty, Your Home Lab and Basic Electronics” with an appreciative nod to this fine art, the essential components needed to try … Continue reading Hardware Hacking 101 – Lesson 2: Classical Hardware Hacking
Hardware hacking is one of those subjects that a lot of hackers appear to have great interest, but most don’t act on that interest. There are a variety of reasons why this may be such as a perceived steep learning curve, financial barrier to entry, and… Continue reading Hardware Hacking 101 – Lesson 1: Beauty, Your Home Lab and Basic Electronics