ESP32 Sets Sail as a Modern Bus Pirate Powerhouse
Bus Pirate is nearly a household name in the hardware hacking world. The first version came out way back in 2008, and there have been several revisions since then. You can buy pre-built Bus Pirate devices, but there’s also the option now to build our own. The ESP32 Bus Pirate project has everything you need to turn an ESP32 device into a protocol sniffing/decoding powerhouse—all on a board you may have sitting around from another project.
There are a ton of solutions when it comes to talking to different buses —I2C, UART, JTAG, you name it, there’s a purpose-built device for it. Over a decade ago, Dangerous Prototypes released the Bus Pirate, offering a Swiss Army knife of a tool to interface with this ever-expanding list of communications standards. The ESP32 Bus Pirate project is open-source firmware for ESP32s that gives them the ability to be the multi-tool that lets us communicate with a long list of protocols.
It supports a wide variety of devices, from the straightforward ESP32 S3 Dev Kit available from a long list of suppliers to the more specialized M5 Cardputer equipped with its own keyboard. The original Bus Pirate required plugging the board into a PC to use it; with this being ESP32-based, that’s no longer a limitation. So long as you can supply power to the ESP32, you can connect and control it via WiFi and a web browser. In addition to the Bus Pirate protocols, the project allows us to directly control the pins on the ESP32 board, should you want to do more with it besides interfacing with one of the supported protocols. Be sure to check out some of our other articles about Bus Pirate, as it’s been a fantastic tool for the hacker community over the years.
Le bugie di #Trump sul #Venezuela
Le bugie di Trump sul Venezuela
Una flotta militare statunitense, troppo piccola per una invasione ma sufficiente per una procazione, si dirige verso il Mar dei Caraibi con un evidente intento minaccioso verso il Venezuela.www.altrenotizie.org
Wire Photo Fax Teardown
Fax machines had a moment in the sun, but they are actually much older than you might expect. Before the consumer-grade fax machines arrived, there was a thriving market for “wire photos” used by, for example, news organizations and the weather service. In the United States, the WEFax from Western Electric was fairly common and shows up on the surplus market. [Thomas] has an English unit, a Muirhead K-570B, that is very clearly not a consumer-oriented machine. His unit dates back to 1983, but it reminds us of many older designs. Check out his teardown in the video below.
The phone line connection on this device is a pair of banana jacks! There are even jacks for an external meter. Inside, the device is about what you’d expect for a 1983 build. PCBs with bare tinned conductors and lots of through-hole parts.
While not a universally well-known name, Muirhead was a pioneering Scottish inventor. He recorded the first human electrocardiogram and collaborated with Sir Oliver Lodge on wireless telegraph patents. While another Scotsman, Alexander Bain, worked out how to chemically print on paper and Arthur Korn built the first machines that optically scanned the page, it was Murihead, in 1947, that worked out using a drum as the scanner, just as this machine does.
Think this is among the oldest fax machines ever? No way. Remember, though, in 1983, the consumer fax machines were just about to appear. Ask FedEx, we are sure they remember.
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Zelensky ricatta apertamente l’Ungheria
Oggi il presidente ucraino ha commentato pubblicamente gli attacchi condotti dal suo esercito contro il nodo dell’oleodotto “Druzhba” (sul confine tra Russia e Bielorussia) attraverso il quale il petrolio russo raggiunge l’Ungheria.
Un giornalista ha chiesto a Zelensky se questi attacchi hanno aumentato le possibilità della revoca del veto sull'adesione dell'Ucraina all'Unione Europea posto da Orban. Il presidente ucraino ha risposto con un gioco di parole:
«Abbiamo sempre mantenuto l'amicizia tra Ucraina e Ungheria, ora l'esistenza di questa «Druzhba» (in ucraino “druzhba” significa amicizia), dipende dall'Ungheria», ha detto Zelensky.
L’ex comico non perde l’umorismo, ma c’è ben poco da ridere. Oltre agli attacchi agli interessi strategici dell’Ungheria (Paese NATO) criticati anche da Trump, recentemente, in seguito all’arresto dello 007 ucraino Kuznetsov in Italia, si è tornati a parlare anche del sabotaggio dei gasdotti Nord Stream, ossia all’attacco degli interessi della Germania. Ma nessuno ha osato fare domande in merito a ciò.
Ultimamente non si fa altro che parlare delle garanzie di sicurezza per l’Ucraina e della necessità di armare l’Europa in caso di attacco di Putin che, fino a prova contraria, non ha mai dimostrato di voler attaccare l’Occidente. Cosa che invece ha fatto Kiev.
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Ambidextrous Robot Hand Speaks in Signs
As difficult as it is for a human to learn ambidexterity, it’s quite easy to program into a humanoid robot. After all, a robot doesn’t need to overcome years of muscle memory. Giving a one-handed robot ambidexterity, however, takes some more creativity. [Kelvin Gonzales Amador] managed to do this with his ambidextrous robot hand, capable of signing in either left- or right-handed American Sign Language (ASL).
The essential ingredient is a separate servo motor for each joint in the hand, which allows each joint to bend equally well backward and forward. Nothing physically marks one side as the palm or the back of the hand. To change between left and right-handedness, a servo in the wrist simply turns the hand 180 degrees, the fingers flex in the other direction, and the transformation is complete. [Kelvin] demonstrates this in the video below by having the hand sign out the full ASL alphabet in both the right and left-handed configurations.
The tradeoff of a fully direct drive is that this takes 23 servo motors in the hand itself, plus a much larger servo for the wrist joint. Twenty small servo motors articulate the fingers, and three larger servos control joints within the hand. An Arduino Mega controls the hand with the aid of two PCA9685 PWM drivers. The physical hand itself is made out of 3D-printed PLA and nylon, painted gold for a more striking appearance.
This isn’t the first language-signing robot hand we’ve seen, though it does forgo the second hand. To make this perhaps one of the least efficient machine-to-machine communication protocols, you could also equip it with a sign language translation glove.
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Pong Cloned by Neural Network
Although not the first video game ever produced, Pong was the first to achieve commercial success and has had a tremendous influence on our culture as a whole. In Pong’s time, its popularity ushered in the arcade era that would last for more than two decades. Today, it retains a similar popularity partially for approachability: gameplay is relatively simple, has hardwired logic, and provides insights about the state of computer science at the time. For these reasons, [Nick Bild] has decided to recreate this arcade classic, but not in a traditional way. He’s trained a neural network to become the game instead.
To train this neural network, [Nick] used hundreds of thousands of images of gameplay. Much of it was real, but he had to generate synthetic data for rare events like paddle misses. The system is a transformer-based network with separate branches for predicting the movements of the ball, taking user input, and predicting paddle motion. A final branch is used to integrate all of these processes. To play the game, the network receives four initial frames and predicts everything from there.
From the short video linked below, the game appears to behave indistinguishably from a traditionally coded game. Even more impressive is that, due to [Nick]’s lack of a GPU, the neural network itself was trained using only a pair of old Xeon processors. He’s pretty familiar with functionally useful AI as well. He recently built a project that uses generative AI running on an 80s-era Commodore to generate images in a similar way to modern versions, just with slightly fewer pixels.
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The 32 Bit 6502 You Never Had
In the beginning was the MOS6502, an 8-bit microprocessor that found its way into many famous machines. Some of you will know that a CMOS 6502 was created by the Western Design Center, and in turn, WDC produced the 65C816, a 16-bit version that was used in the Apple IIgs as well as the Super Nintendo. It was news to us that they had a 32-bit version in their sights, but after producing a datasheet, they never brought it to market. Last October, [Mike Kohn] produced a Verilog version of this W65C832 processor, so it can be experienced via an FPGA.
The description dives into the differences between the 32, 16, and 8-bit variants of the 6502, and we can see some of the same hurdles that must have faced designers of other chips in that era as they moved their architectures with the times while maintaining backwards compatibility. From our (admittedly basic) understanding it appears to retain that 6502 simplicity in the way that Intel architectures did not, so it’s tempting to imagine what future might have happened had this chip made it to market. We’re guessing that you would still be reading through an Intel or ARM, but perhaps we might have seen a different path taken by 1990s game consoles.
If you’d like to dive deeper into 6502 history, the chip recently turned 50.
Thanks [Liam Proven] for the tip.
Antignano, vandalizzata la giostra per disabili al parco inclusivo Lenci. Bartoli: "Mancanza di rispetto trasmessa dalla povertà di questa società"
È successo nel parco che ospita la statua della canina Kyra dall'alto valore simbolico: "Ragazzi incuranti di quanto significhi questo spazio, colpa della...Redazione (LivornoToday)
Una vignetta e una nota a margine sul prompt: "un personaggio con una moralità molto diversa dalla mia"
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Riflessione sulla mobilità, l’ambiente urbano e la qualità della vita a Lugano
Negli ultimi anni, osservando le strade e i quartieri di Lugano, ho percepito una certa rassegnazione nelle abitudini quotidiane: traffico, rumore e inquinamento vengono spesso accettati come inevitabili. La cultura della mobilità resta fortemente centrata sull’automobile, una vera e propria motonormatività, che condiziona le scelte urbane e rallenta la diffusione di alternative più sostenibili, come la mobilità lenta o la micromobilità.
Ciò che colpisce è la difficoltà delle istituzioni nel favorire un cambiamento reale: interventi per ridurre il traffico, migliorare la sicurezza o rafforzare la sensibilità ecologica sono spesso limitati o tardivi. Al contempo, parte della popolazione ha adottato stili di vita rumorosi e motorizzati, poco integrati nelle abitudini locali, generando comportamenti che non rispecchiano la tradizione ticinese di rispetto dell’ambiente urbano e della quiete.
Un altro problema importante riguarda la presa di decisioni basata su statistiche e misurazioni obsolete o incomplete. Ad esempio, la misurazione del rumore urbano spesso considera solo medie generali e due fasce orarie, senza valutare i picchi né le condizioni reali dei quartieri. Questo approccio può portare a interventi inefficaci o mal calibrati. Inoltre, raramente vengono adottati criteri chiari per verificare a posteriori il successo delle misure implementate: diventa quindi difficile capire se le politiche adottate migliorino davvero la qualità della vita.
Accanto a questi aspetti, ritengo fondamentale la presenza della polizia nei quartieri e la qualità dello spazio urbano. Studi sul community policing in Svizzera evidenziano che una presenza stabile e visibile delle forze dell’ordine può rafforzare la percezione di sicurezza. Insieme a una progettazione urbana attenta — con riduzione del rumore, spazi verdi e percorsi per la mobilità lenta — questi elementi contribuiscono in modo significativo al benessere dei residenti.
Mi chiedo quindi se il problema non sia solo culturale, legato alla motonormatività o alla scarsa sensibilità ecologica, ma anche organizzativo e strutturale: senza interventi mirati, basati su dati aggiornati e criteri verificabili, la città rischia di restare ostaggio di abitudini consolidate, senza migliorare realmente la vita dei suoi abitanti.
È necessario un approccio integrato: ridurre il traffico motorizzato, promuovere una cultura più consapevole, garantire la sicurezza e valorizzare gli spazi urbani. Solo così Lugano potrà diventare una città in cui la vita quotidiana non sia solo tollerabile, ma davvero piacevole e sicura per tutti.
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Il Massacro dei Cinesi in Perù
Introduzione La Guerra del Pacifico (1879-1884) è ricordata soprattutto come il conflitto che oppose Cile, Perù e Bolivia per il controllo delle ricchissime province di Antofagasta e Tarapacá, fonte di nitrati e guano, risorse strategicheContinue reading
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Il Massacro dei Cinesi in Perù
Introduzione La Guerra del Pacifico (1879-1884) è ricordata soprattutto come il conflitto che oppose Cile, Perù e Bolivia per il controllo delle ricchissime province di Antofagasta e Tarapacá, fonte di nitrati e guano, risorse strategicheContinue reading
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Tiranni e dinastie in America Latina
Tiranni e dinastie in America Latina
Dittatori, tiranni e dinastie oligarchiche fanno parte della storia dei Paesi latinoamericani. Ma tra essi ci sono dittatori e tiranni più rilevanti di altri: nel XIX secolo, per esempio: José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia (Paraguay, 1814–1840), Juan M…www.altrenotizie.org
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Un fantasma si aggira per le Americhe
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Bluesky ha bloccato l'accesso nel Mississippi dopo l'entrata in vigore della legge statale HB 1126, che richiede la verifica dell'età per tutti gli utenti dei social media, con multe fino a 10.000 dollari per violazione.
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#Bluesky ha sottolineato che la sicurezza dei bambini è una priorità, ma ha sostenuto che la legge svantaggia le piattaforme più piccole; la sua decisione si applica solo all'app Bluesky sul protocollo AT, non ad altre app sulla rete.
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Bluesky blocks Mississippi users over new age verification law
Bluesky has blocked access in Mississippi, citing privacy and free speech concerns over a new law requiring all social media users to undergo age verification with fines of up to $10,000 per violation.Matthew Keys (TheDesk.net)
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New strategies to help journalists in Gaza
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
For 150 days, Rümeysa Öztürk has faced deportation by the United States government for writing an op-ed it didn’t like, and for 69 days, Mario Guevara has been imprisoned for covering a protest. Read on for more, and click here to subscribe to our other newsletters.
New strategies to help journalists in Gaza
Letters and condemnations have their place in press freedom advocacy, especially when dealing with a persuadable audience. But that playbook isn’t working for journalists in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his arms supplier, President Donald Trump, don’t care about journalists’ lives, let alone their freedoms.
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) board member and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Azmat Khan and her colleagues, Meghnad Bose and Lauren Watson, spoke to over 20 journalists and activists, including FPF Executive Director Trevor Timm, in search of novel ideas to stop Israel’s slaughter of journalists and concealment of war crimes. Read more in Columbia Journalism Review.
FPF complaint opposes U.S. attorney’s retaliation against press
It’d be journalistic malpractice for reporters to ignore a prominent public official listing a boarded-up house as his residence to claim eligibility for his position. But that’s not how John Sarcone III, acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, sees it.
He was reportedly “incensed” by reporting from the Times Union of Albany and ordered the paper removed from his office’s media list. In response, FPF, Demand Progress Education Fund, and Reinvent Albany filed a complaint with New York’s Attorney Grievance Committee. Read more here.
Oregon cops cosplay as journalists
Eugene police threatened documentary filmmaker Tim Lewis with arrest if he didn’t back up while filming them. But Lewis noticed another reporter wearing a vest marked “PRESS” filming without police harassment.
Turns out he wasn’t a reporter at all — he was a police public information program coordinator. As FPF Advocacy Director Seth Stern told Double Sided Media, “Police officers obstructing lawful journalism and giving their own publicly funded propagandists the exclusive right to record them up close is unconstitutional, un-American, and absurd.”
Eugene police have reportedly said they will replace the word “press” with “videographer.” Read more here.
Kansas school district fails to censor student journalists
A group of students sued Lawrence Public Schools in Kansas over the district’s use of surveillance software against students, including student journalists. Naturally, the student newspaper wanted to report on the case. But the principal ordered them not to, and the students believed their faculty adviser would be fired if they disobeyed.
Major news conglomerates have caved to official pressure, but not these kids. They sought a court order prohibiting the school from censoring them, leading the principal to drop his censorial directive and a judge to remind the district that the adviser was legally protected from retaliation. Then they published their story. Read it here.
Puerto Rico’s fake news law is unconstitutional
A district court rightly struck down Puerto Rico’s “fake news” law, which criminalized raising “false alarms” about public emergencies. Now, FPF and other rights organizations are urging an appellate court to affirm the ruling in a legal brief authored by the University of Georgia School of Law’s First Amendment Clinic.
The brief explained how the law could be selectively enforced to chill reporting that officials dislike. Read more here.
What we’re reading
Pritzker signs bill to protect freedom of press, Illinois journalists (WCIA). A nonsensical court ruling excluded news reporting from the protection of Illinois’ law against strategic lawsuits against public participation. FPF worked with local organizations and lawyers to help fix the mess.
Human rights groups to university administrators: Dismantle surveillance to defend free speech now (Fight for the Future). Surveillance technology has no place on college campuses and especially in student newsrooms. We joined a letter calling on universities to dismantle these dangerous tools.
Lawyers ask judge to order ICE to free Spanish-language journalist from immigration detention (Associated Press). Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s targeting of Mario Guevara — a lawful U.S. resident — based on his journalism is a flagrant First Amendment violation. He must be released.
US: Excessive force against LA protesters (Human Rights Watch). HRW usually focuses on wars and atrocities. Now, they’re investigating LA cops’ violence against protesters and journalists. It’s not because it’s a slow atrocity news week — it’s because the situation in LA really is that bad.
Israel says it killed a Hamas commander. It killed a Pulitzer-winning journalist (The New York Times). “The military made no attempt to obscure this brazen strike on civilians, which is a war crime.” And as +972 Magazine explained, it’s far from the first time Israel smeared journalists as terrorists to justify killing them. Its army has a unit tasked with linking journalists to Hamas.
Watchdog or ‘witch hunt’? Highland releases final review of town clerk’s office (River Reporter). Good for the upper Delaware region’s River Reporter for not letting an embattled town supervisor’s veiled threat of a SLAPP stop it from doing its job.
Journalists planning to cover McCormick, Perry event in Pennsylvania must prove their US citizenship (Penn Live). “Journalists who are citizens should decline to attend if their peers are excluded. They should spend their Tuesday investigating politicians and arms manufacturers rather than covering their photo ops,” Stern said.
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