Collaborate Disseminate
Want to do a bit of good this holiday season without leaving your couch or battle station? Well step right up and try your hand at Santa Claws, the charitable claw machine created by UK-based firm Liberty Games. For every toy you can maneuver to the chute, Liberty Games will …read more
Continue reading Santa Claws: Sharpen Your Skills For a Good Cause
Prolific maker [Jeremy Cook] recently put the finishing touches (at least, for now) on his impressive ClearCrawler remote controlled Strandbeest, which includes among other things a surprisingly expressive “head” complete with LED matrix eyes. For anyone in the audience who was only mildly terrified of these multi-legged robotic beasties before, …read more
Trivial-to-exploit authentication flaws can give an unsophisticated remote attacker ‘omnipotent’ control over a server and its contents. Continue reading ‘USBAnywhere’ Bugs Open Supermicro Servers to Remote Attackers
The OmniFob is designed to be the last fob you’ll ever need. A universal remote of sorts for your keychain. This teachable, versatile device is more than just a key-tracker that can open your garage door or send an SOS, it can integrate with … Continue reading OmniFob is designed to eliminate the need for other fobs, including your car keys
Among other things, trained dogs are capable of sniffing out bombs, locating buried survivors at disaster sites, assisting the physically challenged, and performing other important duties. They can’t, however, always see or hear their handler… Continue reading Haptic vest guides working dogs by remote control
Amongst many other things, aerial drones are now being used to inspect high-voltage power transmission lines. Canada’s Hydro-Quebec public utility company, however, has developed what could be a better alternative … the LineRanger robo… Continue reading Power line-crawling robot may give drones a run for their money
What do you get when you combine an old optical drive, some empty soda bottles, and a microcontroller? Well…nothing, really. That’s still just a pile of rubbish. But if you add in a battery, an RC receiver, and some motors, you’re getting dangerously close to a fun little toy to …read more
While we’ve come a long way in terms of opening up the world of radio control to open source software, a good deal of the hardware itself is still closed up. You can flash a cheap RC transmitter with a community developed firmware, in fact there’s a decent chance that’s …read more
Continue reading Developing The Ultimate Open Source Radio Control Transmitter
If you have a small logistics problem, we have the solution for you. [Leon] built a tiny little forklift with LED lighting, working forks, and remote control using a combination of 3D printing tech, some CNC work, and fine soldering skills.
The electronics for this build are based around a …read more
Continue reading Miniature 3D Printed Forklift is quite pallet-able
Hackers up to 100 meters away could take over Xiaomi M365 scooters to brake or accelerate them. Continue reading Xiaomi M365 Electric Scooter Hacked and Remotely Controlled