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Morse Code Catches Google Swiping Lyrics

Posted on June 18, 2019 by Fernando Gomes

We think of Morse code in terms of dots and dashes, but really it’s a kind of binary code. Those symbols might as well be 0s and 1s or any other pair of characters. That attribute is exactly what led to a sting operation a music lyric site called Genius.com …read more

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Bringing Pneumatics To The Masses With Open Source Soft Robotics

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Fernando Gomes

Soft robotics is an exciting field. Mastering the pneumatic control of pliable materials has enormous potential, from the handling of delicate objects to creating movement with no moving parts. However, pneumatics has long been overlooked by the hacker community as a mode of actuation. There are thousands of tutorials, tools …read more

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The Day Hackaday’s Theme Was Broken

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Fernando Gomes

Today at about 10:00 AM Pacific time, Hackaday’s site host had an outage. All websites on the WordPress VIP Go platform were down, and that includes Hackaday. For about 45 minutes you couldn’t load any content, and for a bit more than two hours after that all we could display …read more

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GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights

Posted on June 9, 2019 by Fernando Gomes

Something strange has been going on in the friendly skies over the last day or so. Flights are being canceled. Aircraft are grounded. Passengers are understandably upset. The core of the issue is GPS and ADS-B systems. The ADS-B system depends on GPS data to function properly, but over this …read more

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Infineon Buys Cypress For $10B

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Fernando Gomes

Infineon will acquire Cypress Semiconductors for nearly $10 Billion dollars. This is the latest merger or acquisition in the semiconductor industry, and these mergers and acquisitions show no sign of stopping anytime soon.

Infineon’s market currently consists mostly of products aimed at the automotive market and power management and control. …read more

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The UK Drone Community Fights Back, Gains FOI Admission Of No Tangible Drone Evidence

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Fernando Gomes

Regular Hackaday readers will have noted a succession of stories following the reports of drones in the air over British airports and in proximity to aircraft. We’ve consistently asked for a better quality of investigation and reporting into these cases, because so far the absence of reported tangible evidence of …read more

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Please Meet ‘Capability Inquiry’, Part Of The MIDI 2.0 Standard

Posted on May 29, 2019 by Fernando Gomes

It may have passed you by in the news, but the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) has recently unveiled more details about the upcoming MIDI 2.0 standard. Previously we covered the prototyping phase start of this new standard. The original Musical Instrument Digital Interface standard was revealed all the way back …read more

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Student Rocket Makes It To Space

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Fernando Gomes

Where does the Earth’s atmosphere stop and space begin? It is tempting to take the approach Justice Potter Stewart did for pornography when judging a 1964 obscenity case and say “I know it when I see it.” That’s not good enough for scientists, though. The Kármán line is what the …read more

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Wolfram Engine Now Free… Sort Of

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Fernando Gomes

You’ve probably used Wolfram Alpha and maybe even used the company’s desktop software for high-powered math such as Mathematica. One of the interesting things about all of Wolfram’s mathematics software is that it shares a common core engine — the Wolfram Engine. As of this month, the company is allowing …read more

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Drone Registration Tax Sought by UK’s CAA

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Fernando Gomes

As the UK’s aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority is tasked with “making aviation better for those who choose to fly and those who do not”. Their latest plan to further this mission comes in the form of a drone registration tax. The proposal, which is open to online responses …read more

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