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Even though he’s a faithful DeWalt cordless tool guy, Richard Day admits to a wandering eye in the tool aisle, looking at the Ryobi offerings with impure thoughts. Could he stay true to his brand and stick with his huge stock of yellow tools and batteries, or would he succumb to temptation and add another set of batteries and chargers so he could have access to a few specialty lime green tools? Luckily, we live in the future, so there’s a third way — building that lets him power Ryobi tools with his DeWalt batteries. Richard’s solution is a pure hack, as in physically hacking battery packs and forcing them to work and play well together. Mechanically, this was pretty easy — a dead Ryobi pack from the recycling bin at Home Depot was stripped down for its case, which was glued to a Dewalt 20-v to 18-v battery adapter. The tricky part came from dealing with the battery control electronics. Luckily, the donor DeWalt line has that circuitry in the adapter, while Ryobi puts it in the battery.
That meant simply transplanting the PCB from the adapter to the Ryobi battery shell would be enough. The video below shows the process and the results — Ryobi tools happily clicking away on DeWalt batteries. While Richard took a somewhat brute-force approach here, we imagine 3D-printed parts might make for a more elegant solution and offer other brand permutations.
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I like the 20V better since they have the meter built into the battery. Dewalt has great customer service with the adapters also as I called in when one of mine stopped working within the warranty period and I wound up calling a couple months later because I was off the grid on the farm and on the road and they still mailed me a free replacement. This is interesting and neat. Great article and video. Now to look into Ryobi tools if need, as I was looking at Milwaukee at one time to hack an adapter and found the discrepancy between the battery logic circuit being internal versus external with the Dewalt and looks like Ryobi. Wound up working on the 120V 9A Portland Harbor Freight Electric Chainsaw portable inverter deep cycle battery pack.
Sweet and great find on the wife.
A British surgeon who helped carry out operations in Aleppo fears that the hacking of his computer led to a hospital being bombed by suspected Russian warplanes. In a world first, renowned consultant David Nott gave remote instructions via Skype and WhatsApp which allowed doctors to carry out surgery in an underground hospital. But, after footage was broadcast by the BBC, Mr Nott believes his computer was targeted, allowing hackers to gain the coordinates of the M10 hospital. Weeks later when warplanes, believed to be Russian, delivered a direct hit to the operating theatre, killing two patients and permanently closing the hospital. Mr Nott believes that the timing of the attack and the precise nature of the target could only have been gleaned from the coordinates on his computer. Whitehall sources told the Telegraph that technical experts believe that pinpointing a location by carrying out such a hack is plausible. Aid workers and international watch groups have warned that, with some estimates suggesting that there have been 450 attacks since 2011.
Priti Patel, the Tory MP and former Cabinet minister who sits on the Commons foreign affairs select committee, said: 'It's a huge, huge issue. We should all pay an enormous tribute to David Nott. He is an amazing individual who in the most difficult circumstances has been saving lives in Syria while the bombs of Assad have been falling down. 'It would hardly be surprising ifof this hospital. It speaks of the appalling regime and the lack of respect for human life.
We need to put pressure on Russia and ask what has happened here.' The operation carried out by Mr Nott was first broadcast by BBC Newsnight on Sept 13 2016, just days after it took place with Mr Nott watching the surgeons' every move on WhatsApp and Skype from his London office. A selfie stick was used to allow Mr Nott to watch closely as his former students carried out jaw reconstruction surgery on Mohammed, a father of three, and a shopkeeper alleged to have been hit by a Russian bomb in Aleppo. On Oct 3 the hospital was bombed, hitting the operating theatre first. Two patients were killed and several medical staff injured and the hospital could not be rebuilt. The hospital had been bombed at least 17 times, but Mr Nott believes that the only way that they could have got the precise co-ordinates of the operating theatre was through his method of directing the operation.
The consultant, who has received an OBE for his work in war zones, has changed his computer and his phone since, but does not feel it is safe to link up to operating theatres remotely. He would not speculate on who had targeted his computer, or dropped the bomb. Prof Alan Woodward, from the Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, said Mr Nott's computer or phone could have been hacked during the operation, but it would have been far easier to gain access at a later date to find out who he had been talking to. It is a method that has been used by governments and law enforcement agencies for a number of years, he said, adding: 'It is a fairly classic way of getting information. You don't need to do it at the time, you can break in at your leisure.' There have long been fears over the which has been hit by a number of hacks including those that allow accounts to be taken over remotely. He said: 'Hospitals are targeted so that people cannot live in that area as there is no health care, it is a tactic that the regime and Russia have been using since the beginning.
'The bunker-busting missile is so advanced that it is believed that the Syrian regime would not have them, that is why many people believe that it was the Russians who dropped that bomb.' The deliberate targeting of hospitals, doctors and even aid workers has become a major concern for global health security and is not confined to Syria. Earlier this year by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and aid workers delivering vaccines have been killed in Nigeria and Pakistan.
Such attacks aim to degrade essential local health infrastructure or prevent it from being established and can lead to disease epidemics. In Nigeria, for instance, the has contributed to a major epidemic of Lassa fever, and in Yeman, where health infrastructure has been destroyed, there is. Protect yourself and your family by learning more about.