Obsolete hardware is all around us, and some of it has some pretty interesting tech buried within. One such device is an old ...

Despite the name, a BadUSB isn't necessarily a bad thing. All it does is identify itself as a keyboard to your computer, and ...

Smartphones may be pocket-sized computers that can do thousands of different things… but sometimes that’s as much a weakness as it is a strength. I can’t count the number of times I pulled my phone ...

[Stephen Carey] wanted to spruce up his car with sound reactive LEDs but couldn’t quite find the right project online. Instead, he wound up assembling a custom bass reactive LED display using an ESP32 ...

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...