Sipeed TANG Hex is a Low-Cost Xilinx Zynq-7020 Arm FPGA Board From www.cnx-software.com 2 weeks ago in News Last year, Sipeed launched a $5 FPGA board called Sipeed Tang and based on an entry-level Gowin GW1N-1-LV FPGA. But I had not noticed the company had also worked on a more powerful, yet still...
TETRA-Kit: A New Open Source TETRA Decoder From www.rtl-sdr.com 4 weeks ago in Blogs Thank you to Larry for submitting information about his latest project called TETRA-Kit. TETRA-Kit is an extensible open source TETRA downlink decoder for Linux that makes use of GNU Radio as the first stage, so it should be compatible with any...
OpenEar Updated to Version 1.6 From www.rtl-sdr.com 4 weeks ago in Blogs The RTL-SDR compatible multi-mode digital decoder OpenEar has recently been updated to version 1.6. The latest version currently supports the decoding of FM/AM, TETRA, DMR, Pocsag and ADS-B. New features include a zoomable waterfall and other GUI and functionality improvements....
New Charges, Sentencing in Satori IoT Botnet Conspiracy From krebsonsecurity.com 1 week ago in BlogsSecurity The U.S. Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build multiple botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale distributed...
Energy harvesting PMIC available as samples From www.electronics-lab.com 2 weeks ago in Blogs Nowi BV (Delft, The Netherlands) has samples available of its NH2 energy harvesting power management IC... The post Energy harvesting PMIC available as samples appeared first on Electronics-Lab.
Evaluation board implements a 5 V – 1.8 W isolated flyback converter From www.electronics-lab.com 3 weeks ago in Blogs The STEVAL-VP22201B evaluation board implements a 5 V – 1.8 W isolated flyback converter developed for general purpose applications operating... The post Evaluation board implements a 5 V – 1.8 W isolated flyback converter appeared first on Electronics-Lab.
PineTab 10.1″ Linux tablet Launched for $99.99 with UBPorts OS From www.cnx-software.com 4 weeks ago in News As expected, Pine64 PineTab Linux tablet with Allwinner A64 processor, 2GB RAM, and a 10.1″ touchscreen display has just launched for $99.99 or $119.98 with a detachable backlit keyboard on...
Smart Home Meets Dumb Terminal From hackaday.com 4 weeks ago in Blogs Most smart home products are designed to be controlled from a mobile device, which makes sense since that’s what the average consumer spends most of their day poking around on these days. But you aren’t the average consumer, are you?...
Making TinyML Easy: Who is Edge Impulse? From www.eetimes.com 2 days ago in News Quietly, but not secretly, building an end-to-end embedded developer platform for machine learning on microcontrollers The post Making TinyML Easy: Who is Edge Impulse? appeared first on EETimes.
Make Your Own Microdot From hackaday.com 3 days ago in Blogs If you spent your youth watching James Bond or similar movies on rainy Saturday afternoons, then you may be familiar with a microdot as a top-secret piece of spy equipment, usually revealed as having been found attached to a seemingly...
Easy, Secure HTTPS With an ESP8266 From hackaday.com 3 days ago in Blogs Security has always been an issue with IoT devices. Off the shelf devices often have terrible security while DIY solutions can be complicated, needing recompilation every time a website’s fingerprint changes. [Johannes] wrote in to let us know he’s been...
336: Common Sense Is Not Common Sense From embedded.fm 3 days ago in Podcasts Philana Benton (@TechnoPHILiANA) spoke with us about mentoring: how to be a good mentor, what to expect, and what not to do.If you’d like to try mentoring, sign up for Philana’s DivTekSpace (divtekspace.org). You can do a resume review, a...
Modified printer simplifies home PCB fabrication From blog.arduino.cc 3 days ago in PlatformsStores In many locations you can get PCBs made fast, cheap, and of very good quality. In Brazil, where Vítor Barbosa lives, this isn’t the case, so he built a “haxmark460” PCB printer to help manufacture circuits at home. The build modifies a...
Tech Minds: Testing the Mayhem Firmware on the HackRF Portapack From www.rtl-sdr.com 6 days ago in Blogs In a video uploaded to YouTube last week, Tech Minds explored the HackRF Portapack, which is an add on for the HackRF SDR that allows the HackRF to be used portably without a PC. In that video he demonstrated it running...
Upcoming RTD1619 Media Players – Dune HD Pro 4K II, Zidoo Z9X, and Zidoo X From www.cnx-software.com 7 days ago in News Realtek RTD1619 hexa-core Cortex-A55 media SoC was first spotted in 2018 in the Linux source code. Since no products had been launched based on RTD1619, I had mostly forgotten about the processor...
Tech Minds: Testing the OpenEar DMR TETRA ADSB POCSAG Decoder for RTL-SDR From www.rtl-sdr.com 2 weeks ago in Blogs Back in March we posted about the release of OpenEar, a standalone TETRA decoder for the RTL-SDR. Since then OpenEar has undergone massive developments, not only improving upon the TETRA decoder, but adding DMR, ADS-B and POCSAG decoders as well...
NanoVNA V2 Now Readily Available for $60 + US Stock Available at R&L From www.rtl-sdr.com 2 weeks ago in Blogs The much awaited NanoVNA V2 is now readily available for around $60 + shipping from the Tindie store. Shipping is noted to begin on June 30th due to a public holiday and you must agree to possible pandemic delays, although...
Premio Unveils Intel 9th Gen Industrial Motherboard for Advanced Embedded and IoT Solutions From www.electronics-lab.com 3 weeks ago in Blogs CT-MCL01 MicroATX motherboard Enhanced Power Drives Computing Performance, Reliability, and Security for Industry 4.0 Applications Premio... The post Premio Unveils Intel 9th Gen Industrial Motherboard for Advanced Embedded and IoT Solutions appeared first on Electronics-Lab.
A Self-Executable version of TempestSDR is now Available From www.rtl-sdr.com 4 weeks ago in Blogs TempestSDR is an open source tool made by Martin Marinov which allows you to use any SDR that has a supporting ExtIO (such as RTL-SDR, Airspy, SDRplay, HackRF) to receive the unintentional signals radiated from a screen, and turn that signal back...
Lemon Plum Jam Revisited From www.evilmadscientist.com 6 hours ago in BlogsPlatformsStores It has been a great season for plums, so I’ve updated the lemon plum jam recipe that I’ve been gradually refining over the years. The new basic recipe is below along with other tips I’ve gathered. Ingredients: 8 cups cut...
Salvaging USB Webcams from Old Laptops From blog.adafruit.com 10 hours ago in PlatformsStores On this episode of DIY Perks, Matt shows just how easy it is to repurpose a webcam from an old or dead laptop. Basically all you have to do is figure out which wires are which, hook it up to...
Bathymetric Map Uses Edge Lighting To Stunning Effect From hackaday.com 16 hours ago in Blogs A bathymetric map is one concerning the floor or bottom of a body of water. It’s the wet equivalent of a topographical map. Combine this with humanity’s inherent taste in seaside real estate, and they can be quite attractive when...
Upcoming SAVVY-V Open Source RISC-V Cluster Board Supports 10GbE via Microsemi PolarFire 64-bit RISC-V SoC From www.cnx-software.com 21 hours ago in News RISC-V based PolarFire SoC FPGA by Microsemi may be coming up in the third quarter of this year, but Ali Uzel has been sharing a few details about SAVVY-V advanced open-source RISC-V cluster board...
DIY Baby MIT Cheetah Robot From hackaday.com 22 hours ago in Blogs 3D printers have become a staple in most makerspaces these days, enabling hackers to rapidly produce simple mechanical prototypes without the need for a dedicated machine shop. We’ve seen many creative 3D designs here on Hackaday and [jegatheesan.soundarapandian’s] Baby MIT...
Finding a Secret Message From a Gaming Legend From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs Satoru Iwata is perhaps best remembered for leading Nintendo through the development of the DS and Wii, two wildly successful systems which undeniably helped bring gaming to a wider and more mainstream audience. But decades before becoming the company’s President...
Digi-Key Hacks UV Into Conveyor Line to Protect Warehouse Staff From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs No doubt that every hacker has already heard of Digi-Key, the electronic component distributor that makes it just as possible to order one of something as it is to order a thousand of it. As an essential business, Digi-Key has...
The Cheap Way to Glitch an STM8 Microcontroller From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs Reverse engineering or modifying a device often requires you to access the firmware stored on a microcontroller. Since companies are usually not fond of people who try to peek into their proprietary data, most commercial devices are readout protected. [rumpeltux]...
A Reason to Code From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs My son is just getting to the age that puts him in the crosshairs of all of the learn-to-code toys. And admittedly, we’ve been looking at some of those Logo-like toys where you can instruct a turtle-bot to make a...
This Iron Man Suit is a Hacker’s Dream Come True From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs [Techmaster], like probably a lot of us, was hugely inspired by the engineering wonder that is the Iron Man suit. So, like any good maker, he decided to build his own. [Techmaster’s] social media pages are filled with promotional videos...
NASA Shares ‘A Decade Of Sun’ #SpaceSaturday From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores NASA has released A Decade Of Sun, a 10-year time-lapse of the sun. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory created the video. Here’s more from Synthopia:With a triad of instruments, SDO captures an image of the Sun every 0.75 seconds. The Atmospheric...