Collaborate Disseminate
The ongoing story of bogus analytical data being submitted to the public OctoPrint usage statistics has taken a surprising turn with the news that a second plugin was being artificially …read more Continue reading A Second OctoPrint Plugin Has been Falsifying Stats
We take easy communications for granted these days. It’s no bother to turn on a lightbulb remotely via a radio link or sense the water level in your petunias, but …read more Continue reading Bidirectional Data Transfer Through Mud?
Built at a cost of more than $150 billion over the last twenty-five years, the International Space Station is arguably one of humanity’s greatest engineering triumphs. Unfortunately, unlike Earthly construction …read more Continue reading ISS Mimic Brings Space Station Down to Earth
It’s not an overstatement to say that the International Space Station (ISS for short) is an amazing feat of engineering, especially considering that it has been going for over two …read more Continue reading This Model Mimics the International Space Station
With summer just underway here in North America, it may seem like a strange time to talk about snow. But when you live in North Idaho, winter is never very …read more Continue reading Know Snow: Monitoring Snowpack with the SNOTEL Network
If you’ve been looking for a practical example of using GNU Radio, you should check out [Daniel Estévez’s] work on decoding telemetry captured from the Lunar Flashlight cubesat. The cubesat …read more Continue reading Listening to a Flashlight — Lunar Flashlight
Lots of space news this week, with the big story being that Artemis I finally blasted off for its trip to the Moon. It was a spectacular night launch, with …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: November 20, 2022
Embedded engineer [Alberto Nunez] has put together a compact LoRa satellite telemetry ground station that fits in your hand and can be built for around $40 USD. The station receives …read more Continue reading DIY Low-Cost LoRa Satellite Ground Station
The Voyager 1 interplanetary probe was launched in 1977 and has now reached interstellar space where it is the furthest-traveled man-made object. It’s hugely exceeded its original mission and continues …read more Continue reading Voyager 1 Talks Some Nonsense, But Is Still Working
You no doubt recall the incredible Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) reverse engineering and restoration project featured on the CuriousMarc YouTube channel a few years ago. Well, [Marc] and the team …read more Continue reading Apollo Comms Flight Hardware Deep Dive