Collaborate Disseminate
Back near the beginning of the current Solar Cycle 25, we penned an article on what the whole deal is with solar cycles, and what could potentially lie in store …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: December 24, 2023
Latest episode – check it out now! Continue reading S3 Ep144: When threat hunting goes down a rabbit hole
The first compromise didn’t get the crooks as far as they wanted, so they found a second one that did… Continue reading Microsoft hit by Storm season – a tale of two semi-zero days
The sun may be spotless, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t doing interesting things. A geomagnetic storm is predicted for this weekend, potentially giving those at latitudes where the Northern Lights are not common a chance to see a cosmic light show. According to SpaceWeather.com, a coronal hole, a gap …read more
Model rockets are a heck of a lot of fun, and not a few careers in science and engineering were jump-started by the thrilling woosh and rotten-egg stench of an Estes rocket launch. Adding simple instrumentation to the rocket doubles the fun by allowing telemetry to be sent back, or …read more
Continue reading Storm Chasers Score Bullseye On Tornado With Instrument-Packed Rocket
With a Category 5 intensity, Super Typhoon Yutu has hit the Northern Mariana Islands. It’s expected to devastate the remote region. Continue reading Super Typhoon Yutu, the Strongest Storm of 2018, Is Making Landfall on Pacific Islands
How quickly would you say yes to being granted the power to control lightning? Ok, since that has hitherto been impossible, what about the lesser power of detecting and tweeting any nearby lightning strikes?
Tingling at the possibility of connecting with lightning’s awesome power in one shape or another, [Hexalyse] combined AMS’s lightning sensor chip with a Raspberry Pi and a whipped up a spot of Python code to tweet the approach of a potential storm. Trusting the chip to correctly calculate strike data, [Hexalyse]’s detector only tweets at five minute intervals — because nobody likes a spambot — but …read more
The company will stop manufacturing the phones. Continue reading The BlackBerry, As We Know It, Is Over
