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Lithium charging security

Don’t do this! (There’s a much safer way) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M88e1r8nvYk Big Clive discovered there’s a “thing” going around where people are charging lithium cells by attaching a stripped USB lead directly to them. Normally lithium cells are very safe if undamaged and correct charging procedures are used. But overcharging them like this can result in cell

Ethernet over coax – from UTP to coax

In this post I am talking about adapting 10 and 100 megabit twisted pair Ethernet to use coaxial cable instead of twisted pair wiring. Those 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX Ethernet st standards use two wire pairs for communications (one for TX and other for RX). In this article I am describing how to adapt them to

Atari at 50

Atari At 50: The Story Of Our Lives https://hackaday.com/2022/06/27/atari-at-50-the-story-of-our-lives/ It’s been a year of anniversaries, what with the 40th birthday of both the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. There has been 50 years since Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney incorporated Atari Inc, a name that will forever be synonymous with the development of

HDMI firewall

Any device sporting a chip and some form of communications protocol can be hacked – that’s almost as strong a law as those governing gravity. Besides audio and video data, there are a number of parallel protocols in HDMI that transmit more information than we’d expect. There is I2C configuration data, HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content

Friday Fun: The Mysterious Life of Developers

Kantega | The Mysterious Life of Developers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocwnns57cYQ Comments: Notice that none have created any documentation. Yep, this is accurate! This is fake I don’t see a guy browsing stack overflow and beating his head with a keyboard and regretting his life decisions. Next video should contain softwares testers as predators… lurking behind the curtain

Introduction to the STM32 Blue Pill (STM32duino) and other STM32 boards

STMicroelectronics STM32 32-Bit ARM® Cortex®-M MCUs are based on the Arm Cortex-M processor. The MCUs offer a 32-bit product range that combines very high performance, real-time capabilities, digital signal processing, and low-power, low-voltage operation. This is achieved while maintaining full integration and ease of development. There is a large range of STM32 devices, based on

HDMI power HDMI 2.1a Amendment 1

The HDMI Forum has published a supplement to the HDMI standard. The new version has made HDMI 2.1a Amendment 1. This new release brings with it only one new feature: support for more powerful power feed to HDMI cable. The only new feature in the standard is known as HDMI Cable Power. HDMI cable has