Perhaps the simplest way to regulate a DC voltage is using a voltage divider and/or an active device like a Zener diode. Besides simplicity, they have the additional advantage of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/drop-in-switch-mode-regulators/)

ESP-Drone: Building an ESP32-Based Quadcopter For Not Much Cash
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/esp-drone-building-an-esp32-based-quadcopter-for-not-much-cash/

What’s the cheapest quadcopter you can build? As [Circuit Digest] demonstrates with their variant of the ESP-Drone project by Espressif, you only need a minimum of parts, with at the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/esp-drone-building-an-esp32-based-quadcopter-for-not-much-cash/)

Give Your Pi Pico Captouch Inputs For All Your Music Needs
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/give-your-pi-pico-captouch-inputs-for-all-your-music-needs/

Unlike many modern microcontrollers, RP2040 doesn’t come with a native capacitive touch peripheral. This doesn’t mean you can’t do it – the usual software-driven way works wonderfully, and only requires …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/give-your-pi-pico-captouch-inputs-for-all-your-music-needs/)

Hackaday Links: March 31, 2024
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/hackaday-links-march-31-2024/

Battlelines are being drawn in Canada over the lowly Flipper Zero, a device seen by some as an existential threat to motor vehicle owners across the Great White North. The …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/hackaday-links-march-31-2024/)

Exploit the Stressed-out Package Maintainer, Exploit the Software Package
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/exploit-the-stressed-out-package-maintainer-exploit-the-software-package/

A recent security vulnerability — a potential ssh backdoor via the liblzma library in the xz package — is having a lot of analysis done on how the vulnerability was …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/exploit-the-stressed-out-package-maintainer-exploit-the-software-package/)

3D Printing Computer Space
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/3d-printing-computer-space/

The first computer game available as a commercial arcade cabinet is unsurprisingly, a rare sight here in 2024. Nolan Bushnel and Ted Dabney’s 1971 Computer Space was a flowing fiberglass …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/3d-printing-computer-space/)

Cold Boot Attack You Can Do With A Pi
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/01/cold-boot-attack-you-can-do-with-a-pi/

A cold boot attack is a way to extract RAM contents from a running system by power cycling it and reading out RAM immediately after loading your own OS. How …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/01/cold-boot-attack-you-can-do-with-a-pi/)