Adventurist.me: Letters into the void

This weekend was the first 57N Stupid Shit No One Needs Hackathon .

Hibby and I were happy to announce the first 57N Stupid Shit No One Needs Hackathon this week.

Just before I left work yesterday I built one of the gimme boards I got earlier this week and connected it up to a goodfet .

My Yardstick One appeared yesterday, time to set up RFCat.

With the launch of the yardstick one I remembered the im-me I bought earlier this year.

My main laptop is a Lenovo x220 Tablet with an an awesome swivel screen.

There are a number of services out there that allow you to take a screenshot and upload it to a website.

The final set of videos from BSDCan 2015 have been released.

Planning a radio field day was all it took to ruin a week of perfect weather.

Paris loves the theatre, they have world renowned plays enjoyed by douchy teenage girls the world around.

The Mega Charity Mozilla keeps offices for their staff in many major cities.

The best way to get around Paris is to use the metro, if you are coming into CGD you can take the train to Gard du Nord then hop onto the metro from there.

Like last year , here are from BSDCan that have stood out to me.

I have a navspark gps microcontroller board I backed on indiegogo last year.

Using a TP-Link WR703N and a RTLSDR I decided to make a small dedicate SDR box.

It took me a while to find a screenshot tool as useful as the built in screenshotting tool in OS X.

I needed to add a .ttf font for a presentation I was working on, it turned out to be a lot more hassle than it needed to be. $ mkdir ~/.font $ cp font.ttf ~/.font/ $ mkfontdir ~/.font $ fc-cache I read a lot about editing xorg.conf to change font pat…

I have been working on stuff in latex recently and wanted something to trigger regeneration of pdfs without manual intervention.

I have just finished reading Cryptonomicon , without any spoilers I can say that at a certain point a character controls the led's on his keyboard.

As I write this there are not any packages available for FreeBSD arm.

I finally got all the components to use the bag of electret microphones I got last year.

The cool thing we get with the msp430 and the Launchpad is on chip debugging.

In Aberdeen we have digital displays mounted in most of the bus stops, in fact most major cities in the world probably have similar signs.

A couple of years ago the TI Launchpad made quite a splash when TI released the boards for just $5 each.

I have been working on applications using the SPI user space api.

Last year I started working on a project in the space that I thought would be pretty cool, a Mystery Box.

31c3 Finished 21 days, probably enough for me to get past the conference high, but also enough time for me to catch up on almost all of the talks.

Walking home from the hackerspace last night I came across this interesting mast behind a car parked on the pavement.

This weekend I got FreeBSD on my Chromebook Snow in a usable state.

I found it quite difficult to get GPGME working with Mutt in OS X, I was using Homebrew to install mutt.

I found a tool called pv via a Hacker News thread. pv or pipe viewer allows you to view data as it is pulled out of a Unix pipe.

One of the facilities at campGND is going to be a wireless network.

campGND is coming up and it is time to start talking about my projects for the weekend.

For my new business cards I wanted to impose data from an experiment onto the background of an image.

I have been building kernels on my imac in virtual machines.

Videos from BSDCan that have jumped out to me so far.

For campGND we need to extend a wireless network about 500m from the farm down to the site.

# /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxManage modifyhd YOUR_HARD_DISK.vdi --resize SIZE_IN_MB Where SIZE IN MB is the new size for the drive

Raspberry Pi becomes modularised Puzzle Box The Fall of Hacker Groups It took me ages to find Dan's box puzzle, the puzzle box was an awsome marketing tool that really shows how Nokia was.

For some reason we change the time zone throughout the year.

XKCD Style Charting Napkin UI Features I am an idiot

This webpage was lost in a harddrive storm crash You can really fuck up a game jam Intel unveils tiny $99 board, I have no idea what it is for Pokemon in Google maps UDP vs TCP for Game Servers This is the worst day of the year for the internet.

Creating layers with OpenStreetMap Apple's Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed Linux 3.14 out Maps are cool.

I need to read some complicated tcp code.

Stripe now takes bitcoins Tarsnap is taking bitcoins in stripes pilot I am a big fan of stripe, recently using them for 57north's MakeIt-Glo workshop .

Some of these guys are lucky to be able to walk Danny MacAskill is a Scottish Hero Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPU The decapping of the 3DS chip is the sort of reverse engineer that just amazes me.

Atari used to 'make' printers Apple will never make printers again Virtual Reality is going to change the world It is a rare day that I remember markdown link syntax.

by Tom Jones age 23 and 1/4 On Saturday the 8th march 2014 we did a run through of the MakeIt-Glo workshop.

Years ago I got a copy of Designing BSD RootKits by Joseph Kong.

Dealing with a horrible database this last week, I found the need to combine things in a reasonable way.