AppSec USA has announced a call for papers and trainers for their upcoming conference in NYC in November, 2013. AppSec USA is a software security conference for technologists, auditors, risk managers, and entrepreneurs. They invite all practitioners of application security and those who work or interact with all facets of application security to submit speaker […]
Category Archives: open source
Bartendro serves up cocktails using open source
Bartendro is a robotic cocktail dispensing machine controlled by a Raspberry Pi. Dispensing of drink components is via peristaltic pumps which dispense a known volume with every revolution of the motor to precisely meter drinks. The Party Robotics developers explain, “Each pump combined with our custom electronics is called a “dispenser.” The dispenser boards use […]
Madparts, the functional footprint editor
Here’s an open source functional footprint editor the Madparts by Andete, that is available at github: Being somewhat annoyed with the cumbersome task of creating footprints for ICs I decided to make my own program for it two months ago. Last Friday I finally released version 1.0 as fully open source software Via the forum.
Authoritative GNU Radio training videos
Want free, in depth training on GNU Radio from an authoritative source? Then you’ll want to spend four hours viewing this series of videos by Tom Rondeau, KB3UKZ, the GNU Radio project manager since 2009. Tom provides a detailed, in-depth study of this Software Defined Radio experimental and development system. These videos are taken from […]
Door security logger with A13-OLinuXino-WIFI + OpenCV
Tsvetan and his crew at Olimex designed this simple project with A13-OLinuXino and OpenCV. “Now everytime somebody enter our lab A13-OLinuXino takes picture with timestamp and store on the SD-card, later we can view the captured images via the web on OLinuXino IP address.” The project sources are on GitHub. Via the contact form.
Lira, an Arduino-compatible microcontroller
Lira is an open source Arduino-compatible microcontroller designed by Lyratron: What I came up with is the Lira. It is, as you will see, little more than a breakout board for the ATmega328, but it provides all the bare necessities like voltage regulation, basic power conditioning and an FTDI programming interface. It’s the smallest, simplest, cheapest design […]
E-book: Hacking Politics details efforts to defeat SOPA/PIPA
Hacking Politics is a soon to be released book documenting the unlikely coalition which worked to defeat the SOPA and PIPA legislation in the United States. Edited by David Moon, Patrick Ruffini and David Segal, Hacking Politics is set to be released in April by OR Books in both e-book and paperback format. It is […]
RTL-SDR monitors ADS-B with ADSB# and adsbScope
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is a radio communications system used by aircraft worldwide to transmit position and identification information. It uses a frequency of 1090 MHz, sending data using a modulation scheme called Pulse Position Modulation (PPM). To monitor this system you could purchase a dedicated ADS-B receiver for several hundred dollars, or design your […]
Introduction to home automation
Introduction to home automation: We have all see some complex home automation systems, this video made by Jeremy from The Custom Geek gives a good overview of what is involved behind the scenes. This system lives in the garage and interfaces audio, video, phone, intercom, lighting and alarm system. Since the system is all connected […]
Google guys develop lawn irrigation system with Android and Arduino
Google engineers J.J Barrons and Joe Fernandez have developed this lawn irrigation system. Dubbed Irrduino it uses Android, Ardiuno, Python, Dart and the Google App Engine. The project hardware details can be found on JoesHacks blog. The source code can be downloaded from Google code. The files include an Arduino based controller using an Android […]
FreeDV open source digital radio protocol
Interested in new open source digital radio protocols? Check out FreeDV. FreeDV is a GUI application for Windows and Linux (MacOS and BSD are in testing) that allows any SSB radio to be used for low bit rate digital voice. Speech is compressed down to 1400 bit/s then modulated onto a 1100 Hz wide QPSK […]
Chip Hack FPGA event set for London April 20-21, 2013
Hardware freedom day is coming up and Embecosm is arranging a workshop around FPGA and OpenRISC in London. The event is scheduled for Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2013 at The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG. Chip Hack is a two day workshop that provides an introduction to programming […]
ChronIC RF hacking tool for TI Chronos watch
Adam Laurie (a/k/a/ Major Malfunction) is a white hat hacker from London, UK, who has presented at a number of conferences worldwide. He’s also the Director at Aperature Labs, Ltd. His latest explorations involve the world of RF remote control systems operating in the unlicensed ISM bands. He used the FunCube dongle to monitor the […]
Myriad-RF open source wireless platform
Myriad-RF is an open-source project for the prototyping and creation of fully configurable wireless platforms that run on almost any communication standard and frequency. Its based on the multi standard LMS6002DFN transceiver and Altera FPGA module, allowing for the creation of applications that run on any commercial or whitespace frequency band between 260MHz and 3.8GHz […]
Graphics LCD 2-wire serial interface
In this video Debraj demonstrates his 2-wire serial interface for use with a 128×64 graphics LCD. This design reduces the pin requirement from 14 to 2. Check in at hobbydebraj for schematic and source code links. Via the contact form.
OpenduinoGSM
Emanuele has informed us of a new open source project known as OpenduinoGSM. This is a standalone wireless remote control board which communicates via GSM. With OpenduinoGSM you have the option of using the Arduino development environment, so anyone, even those who are unfamiliar electronics and circuits, can try to realize the automation they want […]
PixelController software update
Michu updates us on his PixelController project, an OpenSource LED matrix controller software: This “Rough Cut” video shows new features of the upcoming 1.31 release. New features: -Wireless PixelInvaders Panels -OSC Generator: use Processing (or any tool you like) to send images to PixelController. I included some nice Processing code examples, like using your Android […]
mbed SDK is now open source
The mbed MCU platform’s SDK is now open source. The mbed crew reports, The mbed Software Development Kit (SDK) is a C/C++ microcontroller software platform already relied upon by tens of thousands of developers to write code for ARM microcontrollers. It has always been free for commercial and noncommercial use, but this latest release under […]
HexBugs dissected and modded
HexBugs are a product of Innovation Labs First, Inc. which retail for about $11 pretty much everywhere electronic gadgets are sold. They are a tiny robotic crawling device with a minimal ability to sense sound and proximity and react in a simplistic preprogrammed manner to avoid obstructions. As purchased, they have no provision for modding […]
RTL-SDR scanner
Al from Ear to Ear Oak has released this open source cross platform Python frequency scanning GUI for the OsmoSDR rtl-sdr library. The software scans a range of frequencies and plots the result, allowing you to find signals to investigate. The RTL dongle has a maximum bandwith of about 2.8MHz but with this you can […]