Meshtastic, an open-source firmware for long-range mesh networking, offers an elegant solution. Using LoRa radios allows ...

The IBM PC spawned the basic architecture that grew into the dominant Wintel platform we know today. Once heavy, cumbersome and power thirsty, it’s a machine that you can now emulate on a single board ...

If you’re building a CNC or laser, there’s an excellent chance you’ll be using Grbl to get moving. It’s also a pretty safe bet you’d end up running it on some variation of the Arduino sitting in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A hot potato: The ESP32 chip, found in over a billion devices worldwide, contains undocumented vendor-specific commands that could potentially be misused to access device memory and manipulate ...

Have you ever imagined building a drone so small it could rest comfortably in the palm of your hand, yet powerful enough to soar through the air with precision, all controlled from your smartphone?