This Week In Security: Flock Cameras Are Old, Microsoft Patches Patches, And Researchers Attack SSH
Hackadayby Mike Kershaw·23d ago
Leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets has released a dump of the filesystems of a Flock camera, and Micah Lee has published a dive into the contents.
Why Wave Energy Is The Final Frontier Of Renewable Energy
Hackadayby Maya Posch·24d ago
With the Earth’s atmosphere being effectively just a less dense fluid than the oceans around us, it’s reasonable to ask why we got wind turbines and wind mills quite literally everywhere across the...
FCC ISM Rules May Shatter Lora Mesh Communities
Hackadayby Tom Nardi·24d ago
Although everyone has their own reasons for exploring a new hobby, one of the driving factors behind the popularity of Meshtastic and MeshCore has been the incredible accessibility offered by...
Recreating Unobtainable Diagnostic Tools For The Jaguar XJ220
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest·25d ago
If you own a Jaguar XJ220 or the rarer XJR-15, you’re probably not short on money or real estate.
Introducing The Periodic Table Of US Electrical Receptacles
Hackadayby Maya Posch·25d ago
Although things may seem simple on the North American grid as an end-user if you limit yourself to just 120 VAC and NEMA 1-15 and 5-15 connectors, there is a veritable zoo of different voltages and...
Heat Domes: Meet The Quiet And Oppressive Take On The Thunderdome
Hackadayby Maya Posch·25d ago
One of the nice things about the weather is that even if it’s bad right now, it’ll definitely be changing soon and maybe even for the better.
After 6 Years As Road Ornament A Widescreen Sony Trinitron Lives Again
Hackadayby Maya Posch·26d ago
After previously adopting a big Sony Trinitron CRT TV that had been trying to hitch a ride along the side of a road in Italy for at least six years, [Happychoice] didn’t give up on trying to fix...
Sampling The Elephant’s Foot And Chornobyl’s Tedious Corium Clean-up
Hackadayby Maya Posch·26d ago
The site of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) remains a unique location, as what’s left of the No.
Hackaday Europe 2026: Bare Metal Made Easy
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest·26d ago
When we talk about programming in “bare metal,” it basically means writing software that runs right on the hardware with no operating system or abstraction layers in between.
Linux Fu: Speak Up!
Hackadayby Al Williams·26d ago
Apparently, people hate typing. As every movie and TV show suggests, the future is talking to computers. There was a time when speech recognition was complex and not very good.
Writing An ESP32 Bluetooth Printer Driver In Two Acts
Hackadayby Tom Nardi·27d ago
[Bas BotBerg] wanted to use a portable Bluetooth thermal printer to run off reports on sensor data collected by an ESP32-C3 microcontroller.
Hackaday Europe 2026: Space Oddities
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest·27d ago
If you’re in motorsport, or maritime, or mining fields, you can always call on a technician to come down and fix something when it’s broken.
Rosy Retrocomputing
Hackadayby Al Williams·27d ago
Most of us are guilty of romanticizing the past. Do you long to be the captain of a tall ship? Just as long as you don’t mind weevils in your food, vitamin deficiencies, and death from an infection...
CircuitPython Goes Turbo With Precompiled Functions
Hackadayby Tyler August·28d ago
It would not be at all original to declare that Python is the new BASIC. Like BASIC, it has been the first programming language for a whole generation of coders, and its main advantage is that it’s...
Dramatically Increasing Usable Closet Space
Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield·28d ago
As any science YouTuber or first-year physics student is quick to point out, the universe is mostly empty space.
Hackaday Links: September 13, 2026
Hackadayby Tom Nardi·28d ago
We try to steer clear of politics and societal issues here at Hackaday, so a protest is not usually the sort of thing we’d cover.
Making An Air-Powered Circular Saw With LEGO
Hackadayby Maya Posch·29d ago
Although building a table saw out of LEGO is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you look at those colorful bits of plastic, [Jamie] has been on a bit of a search for more...
How To Fold Curved Lines In Metal Without Fancy Tools
Hackadayby Donald Papp·12 Sept 2026
Folding a sheet of metal in a straight line is one thing, but how does one fold multiple curved lines into a sheet of aluminum without fancy machines?
Making A Neo Nuvistor Project In 2026
Hackadayby Maya Posch·11 Sept 2026
For a little while vacuum tubes and semiconductors were fighting a heated battle for dominance, with bipolar junction transistors and 1959’s RCA Nuvistor both allowing you to build a compact...
This Week In Security: It’s Patch Tuesday Again, TVs Spying, Supply Chain Worms Return, Prolonged Hack Impacts, Stolen IDs
Hackadayby Mike Kershaw·11 Sept 2026
Several times this summer, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, the monthly roundup of major security patches for Microsoft products, has included record-breaking numbers of security fixes.
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