In an attempt to a productive member of a technology community, I shifted all my focus from being a complacent Sys Admin to an area I have always been an outsider looking in on. Information Security. I am no stranger to technology, and have had a strong passion for anything related to it for as long as I can remember. I just lacked focus…
LadyAda sells a pretty neat kit to allow you to give your USB gadgets power from 2 AA batteries. To create the “Boost” (save for batteries) The capacitors, IC Socket, schottky diode, etc.. took roughly 10 minutes to solder onto the PCB using these instructions, and another 15 minutes and 2 Altoids gum tins to give it the “Minty” part. Note: I spent the better part of 2 days locating these gum tins in the midwest. Eventually I found them at CVS of all places.
Recently I decided to give a talk to my office titled “Security Awareness”. I wrote it maybe 3 months ago, in a ’stream of conscious’ style. After review, I realized it may not only need fact checking, but input from the community. I have yet to deliver it and need some help.
Our son wanted to be an Imagination Mover for Halloween. He actually wanted to be all of them, but we chose “Mover Scott“. To re-create mover Scott, we need his famous “Wobble Goggles”. They are $20 from Disney, AND they don’t have lights and music. Crazy talk. I decided to make my own. Additionally, we needed a costume. Finding a “decent” one was tough. So my wife decided to make her own.
Howdy FaceBook, I’m back.I recently re-established my Facebook page to reconnect with friends and stay in contact with family. I didn’t have the account open for 2 weeks when I constantly saw posts about “Hackers will break into your account” or ” A hacker named Christopher Rosenqueist ate my Monitor”, and other nonsensical items that seemed to be scaring people into commenting or sharing it.
A neighbor gave us a Harley Cruiser power wheels. The only thing wrong with it? Battery fail. Well, technically that was the only thing wrong with it. In my opinion it was missing a few things. Time to mod this hog.
ax0n over at h-i-r.net inspired me to attempt and successfully build this project . His 3 part series (part 1, part 2, part 3) is Awesome (capital A), and he certainly deserves the all the credit for doing the heavy lifting and providing an excellent write up. I used it as my template throughout the entire process.
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Here is a “BristleBot” created for my Son. This was about the easiest project of all time.
625 LEDs? 156 Giant RGBW Pixels? 1500+ solder points? Arduino programming? Check, Check, Check and Check. Sounds awesome doesn’t it? It sure does, but WHAT does this thing do? What are the applications? Why would someone want to build this? Keep on reading.
