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- Because it's a solvable problem.
There seem to be a couple of problems inherent in the tech field of prosthetic design. First and foremost of them is that comparatively few people need artificial limbs, s
- Birthday weekend wrap up.
Rather than stay home for my birthday (which I've done for the past few years) I decided to make things interesting this time 'round the sun. Sitwon and Haxwithaxe had sec
- Project Byzantium called to assist relief efforts in New York.
As a result of the damage done to New York City by Hurricane Sandy the week before last, Project Byzantium was contacted by representatives of several NGOs and non-profit
- I can't think of a suitably funny or ironic title for this post.
I've been struggling to come up with a suitable title for this post but I gave up on the effort in favor of writing about what's actually been going on in my life lately.
- Not dead, only busy.
For everything going on right now, I've had surprisingly little time to work on much of it. In my last post I mentioned some of the things I've got going on right now, all
- Not even time to breathe.
Most of my posts lately have been terse, to say the least. When I've had time to sit and write it's been in fits and spurts over a period of hours or days when I've felt u
- Project Byzantium presentation at NOVALUG - 14 May 2011!
On 14 May 2011, Ben Mendis and I will be presenting on Project Byzantium at NOVALUG . We'll be talking about what Byzantium is and why we're building it , and we want more
- "Open?"
The other day I'd gotten sufficiently comfortable with my cellphone (an HTC Hero ) to take the next step and root it (which is to say, I used the z4root exploit to get adm
- Project Byzantium: Development Sprint #2.
During the last weekend of March in 2011, a few dedicated hackers met at HacDC for the second development sprint of Project Byzantium . Our goal this time was to improvise
- Project Byzantium: Sprint #1.
EDITED: 20110318 @ 0955 EST5EDT. See end of article. A few weekends ago at HacDC a small team of highly skilled hackers gathered to work on practical solutions to a proble
- Spaceblimp test launch writeup, part one.
A couple of months back I mentioned that HacDC had thrown its hat into the ring of the Hackerspaces In Space competition held by Workshop88. The past few months have been
- Better late than never: The Next HOPE
I got home from work early last Thursday afternoon after putting in a couple of hours at work to wrap things up and ensure that nothing would crash, blow up, or spontaneou
- The Next HOPE keynote speech online!
Due to the Department of Homeland Security sending some operatives to The Next HOPE to question Julian Assange of Wikileaks about the release of a certain piece of video f
- Photo album: DC Robotfest 2010
Here is the photo album from the DC Robotfest last weekend. Enjoy!
- Misadventures in microcontrollers.
I've spent my free time over the past couple of days hacking away on my current project-slash-obsession and thus I've been doing a lot of reading up on microcontrollers, o
- You're probably wondering where I've been lately.
By and large, work has been, well, work. Lots of hours at the office, lots of hours stuck in traffic sweating like Kevin Mitnick during a traffic stop. When I haven't be
- Arduino cross-development kit on Gentoo.
While I’m sitting here hacking around, here’s the exact command that I needed to run to get the Arduino development kit to install properly on Windbringer: It should be no
- OCZ NIA hacking, now with Python!
Disclaimer the first: I don't know a whole lot about USB or device drivers. Those of you who do will no doubt point and laugh. Disclaimer the second: Where applicable, I'v
- OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator notes and roll-up post.
While reading the files in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/ I got it in my head to see if anyone else had spent any time reverse engineering the OCZ NIA , or at least had
- The OCZ NIA and Linux.
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago I recieved as a Yule gift an OCZ NIA , a hardware device aimed at gamers which acts as one part EEG and one part biofeedback monitor.
- RepRap build-a-thon photo album.
I've finally gotten around to putting the pictures from the RepRap build-a-thon online. If you want more information, I also have a writeup here .
- The RepRap build-a-thon in review.
The weekend of the RepRap build-a-thon at HacDC started off simply: Lyssa and I went to dinner at Konami. We haven't been out for sushi for a number of months, due to my g
- 'tis the season once again...
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, sapient lifeforms of all ages: welcome to the holiday season. I just wish that it didn't involve so much road rage in the DC metrople
- Slight change of plans this weekend.
Last weekend wound up a bit in the air due to an emergency at the last minute - one of Lyssa's relatives died unexpectedly and the family was hastily reconvened for her fu
- Post-reboot memory dumping software released.
Last week, a group of information security researchers released a whitepaper detailing a practical data extraction attack on DRAM after the power's been cut . Unfortunatel
- Unauthorized use of communications satellites for propaganda bombing.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam , also known as the Tamil Tigers, is a group of rebels active in the country of Sri Lanka who demand the formation of a separate state
- "Here's the secret of the signal, Mal - you can't stop the signal."
He might not be Mr. Universe but Ken Jones, a volunteer at UHF television station 45 South in New Zealand is just as determined to make sure that an uplink signal hits the
- Systems cracker stalks pedophiles.
Brad Willman, known to the underground as Omni-Potent, has stepped forward after three years of secretly stalking online pedophiles and tipping off law enforcement . His p
- How the mighty have fallen!
The encryption algorithms for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD content have been cracked ! The processing key is one of the keys used in the process of generating the media key, the uni
- This isn't quite Nikola Tesla's "Free electricity for everyone" but I'll take it.
Wireless net.access is not yet ubiquitous, but it's pretty common and becoming moreso every day for a variety of reasons. Net.access is definitely in enough demand that a
- I think we should call this the Sam Beckett attack.
Just when you thought attacks couldn't get any more oblique, along come Sebastian Krahmer and George Ou, who figured out how to use Vista's audio playback and voice recogn
- Windows Vista DRM cracked!
Technically, Microsoft Windows Vista hasn't even been released yet and the DRM system has been cracked . DRM, the so-called Digital Rights Management system that the MPAA
- It's now 41 degrees Farenheit, and trying to rain. What gives?!
This morning, after arriving at the Metro station closest to my office and climbing the escalator (I need exercise, what can I say?) to the platform closest the street, I
- Doesn't anyone sell flippin' bookcases anymore?!
It's been an interesting weekend, to be sure.. Lyssa and I have been in the market for a couple of things lately, namely a bookcase or media shelf of some kind that we can
- They figured out who Captain Midnight was.
Captain Midnight unmasked!
- A new world record!
The hacker spirit perseveres in all things, especially when it comes to squeezing every last compute cycle out of one's hardware. OC Team Italy set a new world record rece
- Interview with Muslix64.
More from the front lines of the DVD content protection war - slyck.com has posted an interview with Muslix64 , who cracked the copy protection of both HD DVD and Blu-Ray
- Random knowledge II.
If you turn on the Xscreensaver module called Sonar while you're running a packet monitoring application (such as TCPdump ), people are less likely to think you're doing a
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