Logic Sniffer
Logic Sniffers? Bus Pirates?? IR Toys???
Names can be deceiving. These little gizmos allow unfettered, real time access to the bits and bytes flying around us all day long. Now if only they had some wireless tools 
I saw this article on Global Guerrillas this morning and had to comment on it. Apparently Iraqi insurgents have been using OTS hardware and some cheap software to intercept live video feeds from Predator drones. OMFG I can only hope that the control and telemetry links are encrypted. Once again hats off to GG for another great story. If you like this blog you should add Global Guerrillas to your list of dailies.
I’m a big fan hardware projects and have recently been playing around with a couple of Digi XBee pro modules for a UAV controller. Anyway I came across Travis Goodspeed’s blog post explaining a method for extracting keys from certain ZigBee chipsets. I won’t ruin the surprise for everyone so go on over to and check it out.
Via Hack A Day
Strobit is a neat open source project from strobotics creating a small cheap Arduino based wireless widget. They are creating “personalities” which look like different sets of functionality. It looks like they are working on mesh networking and solar power which would make this a great candidate for the Short Hop Messenger project.
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I came across this article on The Firearm Blog and started thinking about how feasable it would be to build a system like this. I started a project stub on the project wiki. If anyone is interested in contributing please feel free to email me and I’ll add you to teh wiki etc.
This is one of those things that I find really cool at a number of levels. It is a project headed by the MIT FabLab to set up wireless internet in the stan. The technology is open source and pretty low tech but effective and affordable. Setting up and maintaining communication systems in a battle space is key to winning a fight and the techniques used here could easily be modified and turned into rapidly deployable mesh networks that could be used by civilians in disaster areas, ad-hoc events and local skirmishes. Check out their project page and if you liek what they are doing help them out with a little donation.
This library might be useful for rapidly developing and prototyping systems. It would be particularly useful for computer vision and UI design. It includes libraries for facial recognition, servo control etc. It’s written in C/C++ so its fast. I’d be interested to see how well it would run on an embedded system like gumstix.
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I’ve been tossing an idea I call DrumLine around in my head for a while now. The idea is to build a network of drums that, when within range of each other, will automatically start playing a beat dictated by a master drum or drums. I was looking around for an easly library to use to test some variations before buying the basic hardware and came across this page. http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/classes/MAS961/schedule.html I found the simpulator.py code particularly helpful.
I’ve been tossing around an idea I call DrumLine around in my head for a while now. The idea is to build a network of drums that, when within range of each other, will automatically start playing a beat dictated by a master drum or drums. I was looking around for an easly library to use to test some variations before buying the basic hardware and came across this page. http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/classes/MAS961/schedule.html I found the simpulator.py code particularly helpful.
I was checking out Freshmeat just now and I came across the OpenISIS project. I must say they could have picked a better name…or maybe I just have a juvinle sense of humor, but I digress. Apparently CAD is also an acronym for Computer Aided Dispatch. OpenISIS is meant to be used for emergency unit dispatch but I can see it being used as an quick to set up troop dispatch and communication tool. Kind of a poor man’s BFT (Blue Force Tracking)
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