UPDATED: The Human Birdwings project is an elaborate hoax, the brainchild of possibly one Jarno Smeets, an alleged mechanical engineer from the Netherlands. His stated goal was to build a set of functional human birdwings similar to those conceived by Leonardo Davinci. Tinito was watching the above installment from the 14-video series and discovered that […]
Category Archives: wireless
Remote controlled balancing robot using mbed MCU
Kristian Lauszus updates us on this remote controllable balancing robot project. In development of this project, Kristian created the PS3 Bluetooth Library both for Arduino and the FEZ Devices. However, not content with the performance of the FEZ, an mbed microcontroller, which is an ARM Cortex-M3 running 96MHz, has been incorporated into the latest design. […]
LEGO NXT robot controlled with an eZ430 Chronos
Here is a video of a LEGO NXT robot controlled via TI’s eZ430 Chronos watch. Unfortunately no further information is available. Via 430h.
Wardriving for ZigBee
Travis Goodspeed has assembled this wardriving project covering the ZigBee wireless protocol. It is designed around the radio module from the TelosB, which is used to sniff for nearby ZigBee/802.15.4 transmissions. This module is connected via serial to a Roving Networks RN42 module which provides a Bluetooth connection to the Nokia N9. Travis’ GoodFET firmware […]
Transparency Grenade blows WiFi privacy out of water
Created in January, 2012, by Julian Oliver for the Studio Weise7 exhibition at Labor 8, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, the Transparency Grenade represents a more physical approach to fostering the process of corporate and government transparency than the slow, tedious process of policy reform. Equipped with a tiny computer, microphone and powerful wireless […]
TI’s CC110L RF Module BoosterPack
asdf informs us that TI has the CC110L RF Module BoosterPack now in stock and available for $19. According to TI: The CC110L RF BoosterPack is a low-power wireless transceiver extension kit for use with the Texas Instruments MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad development kit. Based on the CC110L device, the on-board Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) A110LR09A radio […]
28C3: Cellular protocol stacks for internet — demystified
Harald Welte presented this talk at the 28C3 Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. While we use packet oriented transmissions daily over cellular networks, unlike TCP/IP and Ethernet many even in the hacker community are not familiar with the actual protocol stacks for those cellular packet networks. The purpose of this talk is to give an […]
The phone box
Nerdindustries is a small innovations lab from Hamburg, Germany. They were looking for a novel way for members of their inner circle to be able to call them literally at the touch of a button. Their effort led them to disassemble a cellphone and rewire the components, adding an amplifier (3.5 watt), a delay controller […]
28C3: Dead drops
In this lightning talk from the recently concluded 28C3 Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, Aram Bartholl presents updated information on the topic of dead drops. Dead drops are a means of anonymously conveying data using USB drives physically embedded in public spaces. (See this post from 2010.) This talk also highlights the existence of WiFi […]
Review: 8devices Carambola
David has taken a closer look at the 8devices Carambola (which we posted about a couple of months ago) and posted this review on his Nut and Bolt website. Via the contact form.
28C3: Reverse engineering a Qualcomm baseband
At the recently concluded Chaos Communication Congress 28C3 “behind enemy lines” conference in Berlin, Germany, Guillaume Delugré presented this talk on reverse-engineering a Qualcomm baseband. Despite their wide presence in our lives, baseband chips are still nowadays poorly known and understood from a system point of view. Some presentations have highlighted vulnerabilities in GSM stacks […]
TiDiGino, the Arduino-based GSM remote control
Boris writes about a new open source Arduino-based GSM remote control module, the TiDiGino: Using an ATmega 2560 and therefore the heart of Arduino, we have developed a universal remote control with GSM. This allows to control 2IN/2OUT, DTMF key, gate control and GSM thermostat activated remotely. The remote control very simple to use, thanks […]
Atmega8 based thermometer build
Andrianakis Haris writes: This is a thermometer I designed for my room, built in a small pack and easy to control. Some basic components used: Atmega8, LM35 for inside temp sensing and DHT-11 for outside temp & humidity sensing. The hardware is designed on a way so that the PCB can be wall mounted. At […]
30-Meter Amateur Radio beacon using Parallax Propeller
Eldon Brown, WA0UWH, has been experimenting with a Parallax Propeller he received for Christmas. Being an avid amateur radio operator, Eldon decided to code up a low power radio beacon on the 30-Meter amateur radio band (10.10 to 10.15 MHz.) He wrote this simple program to generate very slow speed CW (Morse code) radio transmissions […]
Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker’s 1903 lulz
Fans of tech history may want to read Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker’s 1903 lulz. This article appears on the NewScientist website and reveals that wireless hacking dates back to the time of Marconi! Any you thought you were onto something new with a walkie talkie on the frequency of the drive-thru order window…
Defcon 19: Hacking over power lines
Dave Kennedy (ReL1K) presented this talk at last summer’s Defcon 19 conference demonstrating the relative insecurity of home automation devices, such as X10, HomePlug and ZWave modules, which communicate either locally over power lines or via RF in the ISM bands. The presentation covers usage of the Teensy Arduino-based device to emulate a keyboard when […]
8devices Wi-Fi 4 things
There is a new Wi Fi module around. It supports UART, I2C, SPI, and Ethernet interfaces. The board has a RT3050 320Mhz CPU with 8MB of flash memory and a 32MB onboard RAM chip. It is built to support Linux based embedded systems via the OpenWRT. Via the contact form.
TI Deals: eZ430-Chronos RF watch
TI Deals is again offering the eZ430-Chronos at half price. This deal lasts for two weeks or until the supply is exhausted. Check out the TI eZ430 Chronos page or their wiki for more tech details.
Nike+iPod reverse engineering (protocol too)
Dmitry Grinberg informs us of his latest project reverse engineering the Nike + iPod protocol. Basically this is a wireless protocol used by Nike to communicate data from certain shoe products to programs running on an iPod or iPhone. He says: “Nike+iPod is a very interesting piece of hardware for all kinds of reasons, not […]
How to find your location using GSM data
Boris Landoni writes to call attention to his interesting article in Open Electronics describing how to find your location using GSM Cell ID data: The radio mobile network is made up of a number of adjacent radio cells, each of which is characterized by an identifier consisting of four data: a progressive number (Cell ID), […]