According to the most recent data from the World Bank, 15 percent of the world’s population—approximately 1.1 billion people—lacked access to electricity in 2014. In 1994, approximately 27 percent of ...

A few years ago, [Lukas Fässler] needed a solar charge controller and made his own, which he has been improving ever since. The design is now mature, and the High Efficiency MPPT Solar Charger is full ...

The US Department of Homeland Security is warning of critical vulnerabilities in a computerized control system that attackers could exploit to sabotage or steal sensitive data from operators of the ...

Intended use of control system stuff, as evident by their design: "To be installed on a totally isolated network with no communication to anything else." Actual use case: "Connected to the internet or ...

[Frits] has been working on an solar panel heliostat (in Dutch, check out the translated page here). The heliostat uses a small PICAXE to control the motor, along with an DS1307 real-time clock to ...