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Historically, there have been a few cases of useful wireless power transmission over great distances, like a team at MIT that was able to light up a 60 W bulb …read more Continue reading The Ease of Wireless Charging, Without the Wait
Electric vehicles (EVs) are something of a hot topic, and most of the hacks we’ve featured regarding them center on conversions from Internal Combustion to Electric. These are all fine, …read more Continue reading DIY Arduino Based EV Charger Saves Money, Looks Pro
At their best, laptops are a compromise design. Manufacturers go to great lengths to make the slimmest, lightest, whatever-est laptops possible, and the engineering that goes into doing so is …read more Continue reading Laptop USB-C Charging Hack Lets You Leave the Brick at Home
When you have a solar-powered web server, where do you go next for a source of power? Instead of lazily mooching off the sun, you can use your muscle with …read more Continue reading Pedal Powered Power
Why might Russian EV chargers be displaying an anti-Putin message? Why are Telegram groups sharing sharing explicit images of women without their consent? And who is watching you in the workplace?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest ed… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #264: Hacked car chargers, Telegram sextortionists, and secret bossware
Have you ever pulled a piece of electronics from the trash that looked like nothing was wrong with it, only to take it home and find out it really is dead? Since you’re reading Hackaday, we already know the answer. Trash picking is an honored hacker tradition, and we all …read more
Continue reading Trashed Tablet Lives Again Thanks to New Charger IC
Off-grid lighting innovator Deciwatt is back with a new manually powered light to illuminate unwired spaces, ranging from remote villages, to campsites, to backyards. The NowLight drops the weight of Deciwatt’s previous gravity-based design, leaving a … Continue reading NowLight illuminates off-grid darkness with handmade power
Known for small, powerful lighting solutions, Nitecore turns attention to a different breed of ultralight portable gadget. Billed as the world’s lightest, smallest 10,000-mAh mobile power solution, the new NB10000 charging brick keeps iPhones powered t… Continue reading Ultralight Nitecore carbon fiber charger keeps trail runners charged
In the video game Metro 2033 and its subsequent sequels, players fight their way through a post-apocalyptic version of Russia using improvised weapons and tools cobbled together from the sort of bits and bobs the survivors of a nuclear war might be able to scavenge from the rubble. One of …read more
Continue reading 3D Printed Metro Charger Ready for the Wasteland
You just can’t get a decent beard trimmer these days! At least that’s what [Peter Franck] found when his trusty Panasonic finally expired after a couple of decades and a few replacement batteries. The shaver’s PCB contained a mains-powered NiCd charger which had comprehensively released its magic smoke, and the …read more