Heads up #AU #hardware #IoT hackers: soldering stations on sale under $50 at Rockby this week: https://www.rockby.com.au/Rockby/Mailer/WEEK3025_1.cfm
ETA: whoops, FHoDed the server
ETFA: Duct tape on sale too if that's your kink
Balancing #Innovation and #Energy to create a sustainable digital future
The increase in global electricity demand means we need to find more sustainable ways to harness digital innovation.
Lovely to catch up with @tamberg and B on their stop-off in Liverpool when heading south from Scotland.
Great to compare notes between the Liverpool and Zurich #IoT/#maker/hacker scenes and show him round @DoESLiverpool (inc. all the #IoT classics: @bubblino, the Ackers Bell, and the WhereDial 
)
2025-07-21 Inventor's Notebook
I'm making lightweight data loggers out of Raspberry Pi Pico W, ESP32, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W as MQTT broker, and almost every sensor I find in my lab sensor bin.
TIL that Last Will and Testament (LWT) is part of the MQTT protocol. It's so useful I think it must be a published design pattern for IoT. Anyone know?
#freelance #inventor #laboratory #iot #pubsub
UK public asked to shape rollout of self-driving cars https://iottechnews.com/news/uk-public-asked-shape-rollout-of-self-driving-cars/ #uk #government #politics #law #europe #cars #iot #transport #mobility #tech #news #technology
IoT : a field so entangled that even the best brains in the industry can't make a doorbell that works. #iot #notbestbrains #justavailablebrains
Alright, who'll be the first to extract Rest's firmware?
https://candidcruisetravel.com/travel-reporter-accuses-hyatt-of-500-smoking-fee-scam/
Anyone have an #IoT outlet power meter they like?
My goal is to just connect it to #HomeAssistant. There's plenty of options on Amazon, but it's hard to tell which ones "just work" with Home Assistant.
I have a few Govee IoT devices, and I really don't like that they "work with Google", but Home Assistant cannot directly connect to them.
Hundreds of Brother printers have critical security flaws 
letting attackers grab serial numbers & create admin passwords! Change default passwords, update firmware, or keep your device offline to stay safe. More on the risks and fixes: https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/oh-brother-printers/ #infosec #cybersecurity #IoT #oldnewz #reminder
I love watching Matt Brown's videos reverse engineering #iot products that have ...let's say "less than stellar" security implemented. He shows his hardwaer #reverseengineering and we get to follow along and learn with him.
This week on The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast (episode 698) I talked to Matt about his work and how we can implement some better security practices into our IoT devices.
https://theamphour.com/698-hardware-security-with-matt-brown/
#5G has come to the Internet of Things #IoT with new breakthroughs from scientists at MIT. This means faster connection and slower battery drain for your #smart devices. spectrum.ieee.org/internet-of-...
2025-07-17 Inventor's Notebook
I'm getting my feet under me with MQTT on micropython with Raspberry Pi Pico and ESP32 boards. I'm having fun with all the capabilities of the mosquitto MQTT broker. Coming up, authentication and TLS, then load testing. How many smart devices can a Raspberry Pi 3 handle?
We hope you can join us in Amsterdam 
in September (23-24th) for The Things Conference, where OpenCage co-founder @freyfogle will be speaking about "**Where? The gap between sensor data and human-centric geography in the AI age."**
Details: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/speaking-at-thethingsconference-in-amsterdam
Android users watch out: BADBOX variant BADBOX 2.0 found preinstalled on cheap Android IoT devices worldwide, forming a botnet across 222 countries for fraud and network abuse.
Read: https://hackread.com/badbox-2-0-preinstalled-android-iot-devices-worldwide/
Tomorrow 17 July at 4pm CET! Register to the @w3c @wot online meetup "An #OpenSource software stack for #IoT virtualization and convergence with #EdgeComputing technologies"
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/d5ca8089-230f-4126-9e95-5b7446784a6d/
The implementation of VOStack is aligned with the Web of Things specifications and is implemented in the framework of the NEPHELE Horizon EU project. #standardization
Planned obsolescence in full effect.
This is why you should never buy devices that depend on cloud services to be able to function.
In under 10 minutes, you can help shape how the global #IoT and #Embedded communities understand trends, challenges, and opportunities.
Take the 2025 Embedded, IoT & Edge Developer Survey now! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RYDFH5Z
We're launching the embedded-cal project: Providing access to hardware accelerated and formally proven cryptographic algorithms on #embedded systems in #RustLang. For this, I'm teaming up with @inria Paris and @cryspen, supported by the #EU funded @NGIZero.
Right now we're going through requirements. If you want to add hardware accelerated security to your #IoT project, chime in at our wishlist issue: <https://github.com/lake-rs/embedded-cal/issues/1>
eSIM vulnerability discovered. That's gonna be a rough one to fix if it is genuinely exploitable.
