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machinehumon My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault

6x not 50x

I use 100k rounds instead of 600k https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Stor...

machinehumon Nordic Semiconductor Acquires Memfault

I actually disagree.

We have lower power bare metal systems, think AVR/STM stuff (in the 1Mhz to 50Mhz range with 128K or less of RAM) here FreeRTOS, no freeRTOS, custom driver code and some basic application code makes sense. For simple to very complex systems.

Then there's 1Ghz+ stuff with an MMU and 2GB+ RAM. Linux makes sense here.

Companies are now making chips 200Mhz+, 4MB RAM, with no MMU. This is precisely where Zephyr excels, you want a full networking stack? Switch that on. A file system, easy. Driver for some more complex thing? Maybe an SDIO radio? boomboom

machinehumon I Made a Secure USB Drive for Journalists and Hardware Hackers

Finally, it's finished! I want to give a huge thanks to the community for supporting the project over the past year! I'm excited to take this next step!

AMA!

machinehumon We Measured Mountain Bike Suspension with a Laser

Hey! Project I worked on with a buddy using the vl53l1x ToF range finder. Hope you like it :) !

machinehumon Electro Gyro-Cator

Thanks for the link to the paper, this was an insane amount of work.

machinehumon The modern trap of turning hobbies into hustles (2019)

Yup +1, I agree with you and the OP. If you work for a huge company your skill set may be extremely narrow. Buy having lots of side project will at the very least give you a talking point if you want to change to another company that might not have the exact position you were working at your current company

machinehumon I’m putting a WiFi router into a wall charger

This is a post documenting my adventures in fitting a WiFi router into a wall charger!