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Building a Camping Battery or Make Powerbank Great Again

Reading time26 min
Reach and readers2.9K

We're building a portable 12V 110 Ah LiFePo4 battery for camping and household needs, and also making 12V USB charger modules deliver their full power.

This Powerbank will be useful at home, in the car, in a tent, outdoors, on a boat, at the beach, and where roads and power lines don't reach.

I have been into car tourism for a long time. These are trips by car, with overnight stays and day stops far from civilization. The duration of such trips can be up to two weeks, during which we set up camp in the most beautiful and hard-to-reach places.

While the car is running, it naturally takes care of all electricity needs. Everything that needs to work and charge does. But when it's turned off, the power consumption required by the camp will drain the under-hood battery quite quickly...

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EVSE Is Not Just Another Web Application: A Product Security Operating Model for Electric Mobility

Level of difficultyMedium
Reading time12 min
Reach and readers6K

A lot of security conversations still start with a familiar question:

EV charging platforms look familiar at first: APIs, cloud infrastructure, mobile apps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, telemetry, admin tools, and billing-adjacent logic. But the risk model is different. A weakness in authorization, release governance, device identity, or observability can affect not only data, but also charging sessions, stations, firmware, fleet operations, and recovery workflows.

This article explains how to approach EVSE as a Product Security problem, not just an AppSec problem.

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Harmful acceleration: Smart traffic lights at overloaded intersections

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time5 min
Reach and readers4.3K

This article is for the IT specialists working in regional road authorities. Since your recommendations influence the development of transport infrastructure, let us discuss what is happening on our roads in the field of high technology!

This topic has become a real headache. Whenever a region allocates funds for an ITS (Intelligent Transport System), everyone wants to install smart solutions at the busiest intersections in the city center. SpesLab constantly receives requests about this, and we are already tired of explaining that it is a bad idea.

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The concept of a car alarm remote for «ZAZ Zaporozhets»

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Reach and readers4.2K
Hello friends! My name is Ruslan Mazur, I am an industrial designer. In my free time I like to invent and visualize devices that are not designed for production, but allow you to do creativity. Regardless of the technical difficulties, the cost of the product and so on.

For three years now I have been working at Tabula Sense Company and most of the time I have been developing various furniture with built-in electronics.



Today I want to share with you the concept of a car alarm remote control for ZAZ Zaporozhets (or Fiat 600, whatever suits you best), as if the similar devices already existed in those days.
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Tesla Cybertruck copy was spotted in Moscow. This is a customized… Russian LADA Samara

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Reach and readers6.1K
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Hi Habr! Just noticed that this funny article exists only in Russian, so I’ve decided to translate it to English with some light modifications. Please enjoy!

Few days ago Tesla Cybertruck replica has been spotted on the roads of Moscow. The design of the electric pickup presented by Elon Musk can't be confused with anything else.