F1 Light Box Helps You Know the Current Race Status
[joppedc] wrote in to let us know that the Formula 1® season is coming to an end, and that the final race should be bangin’. To get ready, he built this ultra-sleek logo light box last week that does more than just sit there looking good, although it does that pretty well. This light box reacts to live race events, flashing yellow for safety cars, red for red flags, and green for, well, green flags.
The excellent light box itself was modeled in Fusion 360, and the files are available on MakerWorld. The design is split into four parts — the main body, a backplate to mount the LEDs, the translucent front plate, and an enclosure for an ESP32.
Doing it this way allowed [joppedc] to not only print in manageable pieces, it also allowed him to use different materials. Getting the front panel to diffuse light correctly took some experimenting to find the right thickness. Eventually, [joppedc] landed on 0.4 mm (two layers) of matte white PLA.
There isn’t much in the way of brains behind this beauty, just an ESP32, a strip of WS2812B addressable LEDs, and a USB-C port for power. But it’s the software stack that ties everything together. The ESP32 has WLED, Home Assistant runs the show, and of course, there is the F1 sensor integration to get live race data.
If you’re looking for more of an F1 dashboard, then we’ve got you covered.
Standalone USB-PD Stack For All Your Sink Needs
USB PD is a fun protocol to explore, but it can be a bit complex to fully implement. It makes sense we’re seeing new stacks pop up all the time, and today’s stack is a cool one as far as code reusability goes. [Vitaly] over on Hackaday.io brings us pdsink – a C++ based PD stack with no platform dependencies, and fully-featured sink capabilities.
This stack can do SPR (5/9/15/20V) just like you’d expect, but it also does PPS without breaking a sweat – perfect for your Lithium Ion battery charging or any other current-limited shenanigans. What’s more, it can do EPR (28V and up) – for all your high-power needs. For reference, the SPR/PPS/EPR combination is all you could need from a PD stack intended for fully taking advantage of any USB-PD charger’s capabilities. The stack is currently tailored to the classic FUSB302, but [Vitaly] says it wouldn’t be hard to add support for a PD PHY chip of your choice.
It’s nice to have a choice in how you want your PD interactions to go – we’ve covered a few stacks before, and each of them has strong and weak sides. Now, if you have the CPU bandwidth, you could go seriously low-tech and talk PD with just a few resistors, transistors, and GPIOs! Need to debug a particular USB-C edge case? Don’t forget a logger.
Lessons Learned After Trying MeshCore for Off-grid Text Messaging
[Michael Lynch] recently decided to delve into the world of off-grid, decentralized communications with MeshCore, because being able to communicate wirelessly with others in a way that does not depend on traditional communication infrastructure is pretty compelling. After getting his hands on a variety of hardware and trying things out, he wrote up his thoughts from the perspective of a hardware-curious software developer.
He ends up testing a variety of things: MeshCore firmware installed on a Heltec V3 board (used via an app over Bluetooth), a similar standalone device with antenna and battery built in (SenseCAP T-1000e, left in the header image), and a Lilygo T-Deck+ (right in the header image above). These all use MeshCore, which is built on and reportedly compatible with Meshtastic, a framework we have featured in the past.
The cheapest way to get started is with a board like the Heltec v3, pictured here. It handles the LoRa wireless communications part, and one interfaces to it over Bluetooth.
The first two devices are essentially MeshCore gateways, to which the user connects over Bluetooth. The T-Deck is a standalone device that resembles a Blackberry, complete with screen and keypad. [Michael] dove into what it was like to get them up and running.
Probably his most significant takeaway was that the whole process of onboarding seemed a lot more difficult and much less clear than it could be. This is an experience many of us can relate to: the fragmented documentation that exists seems written both by and for people who are already intimately familiar with the project in its entirety.
Another thing he learned was that while LoRa is a fantastic technology capable of communicating wirelessly over great distances with low power, those results require good antennas and line of sight. In a typical urban-ish environment, range is going to be much more limited. [Michael] was able to get a maximum range of about five blocks between two devices. Range could be improved by purchasing and installing repeaters or by having more devices online and in range of one another, but that’s where [Michael] drew the line. He felt he had gotten a pretty good idea of the state of things by then, and not being a radio expert, he declined to purchase repeater hardware without any real sense of where he should put them, or what performance gains he could expect by doing so.
Probably the most surprising discovery was that MeshCore is not entirely open source, which seems odd for an off-grid decentralized communications framework. Some parts are open, but the official clients (the mobile apps, web app, and T-Deck firmware) are not. [Michael] found this out when, being primarily a software developer, he took a look at the code to see if there was anything he could do to improve the poor user experience on the T-Deck and found that the firmware was proprietary.
[Michael]’s big takeaway as a hardware-curious software developer is that the concept is great and accessible (hardware is not expensive and there is no licensing requirement for LoRa), but it’s not really there yet in terms of whether it’s practical for someone to buy a few to distribute among friends for use in an emergency. Not without getting into setting up enough repeaters to ensure connectivity, anyway.
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La rivoluzione culturale della cybersecurity
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A valle dello splendido DigEat Festival, organizzato dalla Digitalaw Srl a Lecce nei giorni 27-29 novembre, si ritiene utile approfondire alcuni temi dibattuti durante l’evento. L’idea che la cybersecurity sia […]
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Bridging RTL-433 To Home Assistant
If you’ve got an RTL-SDR compatible receiver, you’ve probably used it for picking up signals from all kinds of weird things. Now, [Jaron McDaniel] has built a tool to integrate many such devices into the world of Home Assistant.
It’s called RTL-HAOS, and it’s intended to act as a bridge. Whatever you can pick up using the RTL_433 tool, you can set up with Home Assistant using RTL-HAOS. If you’re unfamiliar with RTL_433, it’s a multitalented data receiver for picking up all sorts of stuff on a range of bands using RTL-SDR receivers, as well as a range of other hardware. While it’s most closely associated with products that communicate in the 433 MHz band, it can also work with products that talk in 868 MHz, 315 MHz, 345 MHz, and 915 MHz, assuming your hardware supports it. Out of the box, it’s capable of working with everything from keyless entry systems to thermostats, weather stations, and energy monitors. You can even use it to listen to the tire pressure monitors in your Fiat Abarth 124 Spider, if you’re so inclined.
[Jaron’s] tool integrates these devices nicely into Home Assistant, where they’ll appear automatically thanks to MQTT discovery. It also offers nice signal metrics like RSSI and SNR, so you can determine whether a given link is stable. You can even use multiple RTL-SDR dongles if you’re so inclined. If you’re eager to pull some existing environmental sensors into your smart home, this may prove a very easy way to do it.
The cool thing about Home Assistant is that hackers are always working to integrate more gear into the ecosystem. Oftentimes, they’re far faster and more efficient at doing this than big-name corporations. Meanwhile, if you’re working on your own hacks for this popular smart home platform, we’d probably like to know about it. Be sure to hit up the tips line in due time.
Scientists found sugars that are essential for life on asteroid Bennu, which has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting Earth in 2182.#TheAbstract
L’Europa è diventata esperta nel minimizzare le critiche di Trump
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Carino... allora io posso invocare lo scioglimento della Polizia Municipale? Pure loro, certe multe...
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Informazione precaria nell’Ue, ora scatta l’allarme rosso. Il nuovo rapporto pubblicato dall’Efj
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Il Comitato economico e sociale europeo (CESE) ha appena inviato un forte segnale ai decisori
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Non spegnere i riflettori su Alberto Trentini, tre appuntamenti con Articolo 21
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Lunedì mattina dalle ore 8,30 sui nostri canali social torneremo a parlare di Alberto Trentini. Da oltre un anno Alberto, cooperante
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Trump , Meloni e l’Europa
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C’è una sincronia interessante fra due iniziative politiche: il documento strategico dell’amministrazione Trump sull’Europa e l ‘iniziativa di un gruppo di paesi europei, fra cui l’Italia, critici sulla linea delle politiche economiche dell’Unione europea. Proprio mentre l’amministrazione Trump sparava
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Lo scudo protettivo del reattore di Chernobyl non blocca più le radiazioni
L'agenzia dell'ONU per l'energia atomica l'ha detto dopo un'ispezione del danno causato da un drone lo scorso febbraioIl Post
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"Gli USA vogliono “coltivare la resistenza” al declino dell’Europa. Da Bruxelles no comment"
questa affermazione se detta da un capo di stato è "surreale"....
una guerra civile anche in europa? no grazie... l'onore agli usa. chissà s e il problema di trump è il cibo magari intossicato.
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Congo-Ruanda, infuriano i combattimenti. Ennesimo accordo inutile targato Trump
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«Stiamo risolvendo una guerra che dura da decenni», si è vantato Donald Trump dopo la firma dell'ennesimo accordo. Ma in Congo infuriano i combattimenti tra l'esercito e le milizie sostenute dal Ruanda
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CISGIORDANIA. Israele pone condizioni irrealizzabili per il ritorno dei palestinesi nel campo di Jenin
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Tra queste non sarà permesso l’ingresso nei campi delle organizzazioni umanitarie internazionali. Ieri l'esercito israeliano ha ucciso un palestinese a Awarta
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PPI board meeting on 09.12.2025, 20:00 UTC
Ahoy Pirates,
Our next PPI board meeting will take place on 09.12.2025, 20:00 UTC.
All official PPI proceedings, Board meetings included, are open to the public. Feel free to stop by. We’ll be happy to have you.
Where:jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board
Agenda: Pad: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-board-meeting-2025-08-05-vnly0cj
All of our meetings are posted to our calendar: pp-international.net/calendar/
We look forward to seeing visitors.
Thank you for your support,
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Questa intervista ha come focus la proposta del Comune di Rozzano di candidare la città capitale della cultura 2028. Ne abbiamo parlato con Valter Boscarello, autore del libro “Le panchine di Rozzano – 7 dicembre 1976, la contestazione giovanile dalle periferie all’assalto della Prima della Scala” (Prospero Editore). Collaboratore per molti anni dell’Associazione Italiana Editori […]
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Caving is out, suing is in
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
Rümeysa Öztürk has been facing deportation for 255 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like, and journalist Ya’akub Vijandre remains locked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over social media posts about issues he reported on. Read on for more ongoing battles against government suppression of the free press.
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New York Times fights back against Pentagon prior restraint
The newspaper President Donald Trump likes to call “the failing New York Times” somehow managed to scrounge up enough pocket change to take his administration to court. The Times and its Pentagon reporter, Julian Barnes, are suing the Pentagon over its censorial policy restricting journalists from publishing unauthorized information.
As Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Executive Director Trevor Timm said, “The Pentagon’s absurd access pledge has been an affront to the First Amendment since the first day they proposed it. And we look forward to a federal judge throwing it out with the trash, where it belongs.”
FPF demands court lift secrecy in Catherine Herridge’s privilege case
A federal appellate court got it wrong by requiring journalist Catherine Herridge to disclose the sources for her reporting on scientist Yangping Chen’s alleged ties to the Chinese military while an online college Chen founded received federal funds. She’s rightly seeking a rehearing.
Worse yet, the misguided ruling was informed by documents about the FBI’s investigation of Chen that were improperly filed under seal, and which the appellate court considered in a closed hearing. FPF, represented by Schaerr | Jaffe LLP, filed a motion to intervene and unseal the documents and hearing transcript.
Reckless federal agents are the threat, not cameras
The right to record law enforcement operations is well established. But immigration officers have repeatedly chased, assaulted, and even arrested people for recording them. This isn’t just unconstitutional. It’s dangerous.
FPF Senior Adviser Caitlin Vogus wrote for NC Newsline that “Federal agents don’t want cameras pointed at them because it can force accountability. When they lash out at people who record them, it’s not just those targeted who are in danger; everyone around them is at risk too.”
U.S. journalists abducted by Israel describe abuse and U.S. indifference
FPF Deputy Director of Audience Ahmed Zidan wrote for Jacobin about the online event we hosted with Defending Rights & Dissent last month featuring three U.S. journalists who were nabbed by Israel in international waters while on aid flotillas headed to Gaza.
It should’ve been an international scandal, but the administration hardly lifted a finger. As Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder said, “The abuses against us demonstrate how far [the Israeli] regime will go, how emboldened it’s been, and the absolute impunity they have to act this way.”
White House media bias tracker: Another tired gimmick
The White House launched a media bias tracker to catalog instances of supposedly distorted coverage. Predictably, the site is long on hyperbole and short on substance.
FPF Advocacy Director Seth Stern said, “If Trump thinks the media is getting stories wrong or being unfair to him, he should release the public records, correspondence, and legal memoranda that prove it, instead of wasting time and taxpayer money on silly websites. … The gimmick is wearing thin.” Media columnist Margaret Sullivan agrees.
Sen. Kelly: Read the boat strike memo into the Congressional Record
Sen. Mark Kelly told CNN that he has read the Justice Department’s classified legal rationale for destroying alleged drug boats and that it should be released.
Not only is the senator right, he has the power to make the document public himself, and he should do so without delay. FPF’s Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy, Lauren Harper, has more.
Censorship by invoice
Michigan’s Grand Blanc Township thinks it has discovered a trick to weasel out of accountability: charging a reporter more for records about a tragic church shooting than most people earn in two years.
FPF’s Stern wrote about why these tactics can’t be allowed to continue and why, rather than being deterred, reporters should take governmental evasiveness as a sign that they’re onto something.
What We're Reading
Photojournalist arrested at Miami immigration protest, gear seized
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Freelance photojournalist Dave Decker was unlawfully arrested by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies while documenting anti-deportation protests. Read the objection letter we joined with Florida’s First Amendment Foundation and the National Press Photographers Association.
In ‘Cover-Up,’ Laura Poitras investigates Seymour Hersh
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The filmmaker and FPF’s founding board member discussed her 20-year project, the “crisis” in investigative journalism, and how truth-telling can still change the world.
How the feds used propaganda to frame their ‘war’ on Chicago: ‘They’re lying constantly’
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As Stern explained, propaganda doesn’t work when there’s a strong local media. “People know their local reporters. They see them on the street. They rely on them. That makes it harder for the administration to control the narrative.”
The SLAPP problem is worse than we thought
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CJR features our friends at First Amendment Watch’s new “SLAPP Back Initiative” to track strategic lawsuits against public participation.
This year, we’ve trained over 3,000 journalists in essential digital security skills, documented 240 press freedom violations, and filed over 250 Freedom of Information Act requests and 6 FOIA lawsuits. We can’t keep this up without your help. Donate online, via DAFpay, or our other ways to give. All donations are matched, up to $75,000.
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Aperto il bando della 15′ edizione del Premio Roberto Morrione
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E’ aperto il bando della 15′ edizione del Premio Roberto Morrione per il giornalismo investigativo e della 3′ edizione del Premio Riccardo Laganà Biodiversity, Sustainability, Animal
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“Un semplice incidente”, di Jafar Panahi, Iran-Fra-Luss., 2025
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Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten. Panahi giunge con questa opera alla classicità, intesa come sommatoria di tutto il suo cinema, cui aggiunge uno sguardo sempre nuovo e
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esattamente quello che pensavo. è tutto collegato al sole e alle sue paturnie stagionali undecennali. e rinnovo il mio dubbio. ma se invece di questi fenomeni che a noi paiono estremi ma che alla fine provocano autore boreali a basse latitudini e blackout comunicazioni radio, fosse un fenomeno dell'ìntensità di quello di Carrington o peggio come quelli che capitano ogni 20'000 anni? la verità è che siamo vulnerabili a molte cose e la tecnologia ci ha resi più forti per certi aspetti ma più deboli per altri.
Migliaia di aerei A320 a terra. Perché è una buona notizia
Lampi di Cassandra/ Un problema software ha costretto a terra 6000 Airbus A320, l’aereo più venduto al mondo.ZEUS News
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
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GERMANIA. Studenti in piazza contro il ritorno della leva e il riarmo
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Studenti e insegnanti in piazza, oggi in Germania, al grido di "Non vogliamo diventare carne da cannone", contro la legge votata dal Bundestag che ripristina la leva militare, per ora volontaria
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Roma chiama, Berlino risponde. Il Gcap allargato fa felici tutti (o quasi)
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Nel suo intervento alla Commissione Difesa, Guido Crosetto ha dichiarato che “è fallito il programma franco-tedesco” Fcas e che “probabilmente la Germania potrebbe entrare” nel progetto Gcap, aggiungendo che sono giunte manifestazioni d’interesse da Canada, Arabia Saudita e, potenzialmente, Australia. L’affermazione
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Il costituzionalista Salvatore Curreri a TPI: “I Cpr non sono una soluzione neppure in Albania”
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Edi Rama, il premier dell’Albania, ogni volta che vede Giorgia Meloni si inginocchia pubblicamente. E a ben vedere tutta la storia dei centri per migranti (ora Centri di Permanenza per il Rimpatrio, Cpr) al di là dell’Adriatico, non è
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Spunti attuali e inattuali sul ruolo del comportamentismo nell’evoluzione del capitalismo digitale
Articolo pubblicato in origine il 26/11/2025 su Transform Italia. di P. Nicolosi (Rattus) Negli ultimi dieci anni, quell’area di pensiero critico che si occupa, in modo più o meno sistematico, di tecnologie digitali, ha iniziato a prendere sul serio il … Continua a leggere→
La nuova National security strategy Usa tra sovranità, deterrenza e ristrutturazione delle alleanze
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Confini ripristinati, cartelli designati come Foreign Terrorist Organizations, mille miliardi di dollari nel riarmo, impegni Nato portati al 5% del Pil, otto conflitti risolti attraverso diplomazia presidenziale diretta. Nel preambolo
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Somebody Tried To Sell Me A Bridge segna un ritorno sicuro ai suoni e alle tradizioni che hanno plasmato gran parte dell’identità musicale di Van Morrison, rendendo omaggio alle leggende che hanno definito il genere blues con nuove interpretazioni di classici resi famosi da B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Leadbelly e altri. Morrison è affiancato da […]
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GAZA. Ucciso Yasser Abu Shabab, capo di una milizia filo-israeliana
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Nel corso di uno scontro a fuoco è morto Yasser Abu Shabab, il leader delle "Forze Popolari", una milizia sostenuta da Israele in funzione anti Hamas
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Le 10 regole del digitale responsabile a partire dalla carta
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Giovedì 4 dicembre 2025, ore 17:30 presso La Nuova – Sala Vega, Viale Asia 40/44 – Roma Interverranno Andrea Cangini, Direttore dell’Osservatorio Carta Penna & Digitale Maria Luisa Iavarone, Pedagogista e docente universitaria, Presidente nazionale CirPed, autrice del libro (Franco
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ANALISI. Libano: Hezbollah ferito, ma non sconfitto
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Hezbollah per decenni si è mosso entro un equilibrio consolidato con Israele basato sulla reciproca deterrenza. Tutto ciò è saltato e il movimento sciita è anche sotto pressione in Libano. La compattezza interna però non è scalfita
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25 Aprile 1945 – 2025: Ottant’anni di Italia antifascista. Memoria, Valori, Cittadinanza
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5 dicembre 2025, ore 10:30 – Aula Malagodi, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi – Roma Introduce Renata Gravina, Ricercatrice Fondazione Luigi Einaudi Interverranno Memoria storica Luca Tedesco (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre) l’Italia della
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La prima volta. Certo, ma di cosa? Di quello che infiamma la passione di milioni di italiani da 127 anni, il campionato di calcio. Il primo campionato di calcio in Italia sì è svolto in una sola giornata. Quattro squadre si sono sfidate in una domenica di maggio: semifinali al mattino, finale al pomeriggio. Ma […]
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