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WEB2 days ago · Polaris Dawn, And The Prudence Of A Short Spacewalk For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the Polaris Dawn mission would include the first-ever private ...
WiFi Penetration Testing With An ESP32 - Hackaday
WEBMay 27, 2021 · WiFi is one of those technologies that most of us would have trouble living without. Unfortunately, there are several vulnerabilities in the underlying 802.11 standards that could potentially be ex…
How To Choose The Right GPS Module For Your Project
WEBAug 14, 2020 · I also avoid using the chatty NMEA protocol and use u-Blox own binary UBX protocol. Disabling all messages and only enable the PVT message further reduces bandwidth.
Long-Distance Text Communication With LoRa | Hackaday
WEBMay 25, 2022 · There’s only so many ways you can make money out of tech. The competition tried to make the hardware open but the network closed, whereas LoRa makes the hardware closed but the network open.
Powering Up With USB: Untangling The USB Power Delivery …
WEBSep 16, 2021 · Powering external devices directly from a PC’s I/O ports has been a thing long before USB was even a twinkle in an engineer’s eye. Some of us may remember the all too common PS/2 pass-through ...
Automated Tools For WiFi Cracking - Hackaday
WEBSep 30, 2020 · Knowing how WiFi networks can be attacked is a big part of properly securing them, and the best way to learn about it is to (legally) run some attacks. [Matt Agius] has been going down the WiFi-cra…
A Beginner’s Guide To Lithium Rechargeable Batteries
WEBJun 11, 2020 · The trickle charge is you keeping a slight over-potential to stuff in current against the battery’s self-discharge. The fully charged cell voltage is slightly higher than required to break the ...
The Enigma Enigma: How The Enigma Machine Worked - Hackaday
WEBAug 22, 2017 · To many, the Enigma machine is an enigma. But it’s really quite simple. The following is a step-by-step explanation of how it works, from the basics to the full machine. Possibly the greatest ...
Review: Battery Spot Welders, Why You Should Buy A Proper
WEBJun 16, 2021 · Making battery packs is a common pursuit in our community, involving spot-welding nickel strips to the terminals on individual cells. Many a pack has been made in this way, using reclaimed 18650 ce…
Modern Radio Receiver Architecture: From Regenerative To
WEBJul 17, 2020 · Modern radio receivers have a distinct advantage over the common early designs which I covered in my previous article. Most of the receivers you will have worked with over the past couple decades a…