Category:Chronology

Here are projects listed by year, rather than by category.

2017

Model F USB interface for a classic mechanical keyboard
Ameublement, an artistic PCB
Penrose game, an abstract Carcasonne like game played with aperiodic tiles
PCB art created with the four colors available in standard PCB designs
Spacerocks2000, a first person Asteroids-like game (playable in browser!)
Dymaxion map project lasercut on an icosahedron
Fractal Puzzle made from a Gosper Curve and difficult to solve
Platonic Puzzle, a dodecahedron magnet puzzle that is near impossible to solve
Rotary cellphone, a recreation of the classic Sparkfun Port-O-Rotary
Dialup with an acoustic coupler 300 baud modem over cell phone
The Sonic Screwdriver malware
Bootguard notes

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2016

Unicode dots -- making art with Unicode Code Page U+2800
Polargraph portraits -- a collaborative entry in the 2016 Interactive Show
Polargraph -- a whiteboard drawing robot built from spare stepper motors
Trinket -- a USB IMU for kids
Heads -- thoughts on building secure hardware
ServoStep -- a closed-loop stepper motor controller
Snowdenize -- a userscript to replace all animated images with Edward Snowden
Vector display intro class -- at NYCR
Princeton CITP -- visiting with the faculty and students at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy
Mini Arcade -- a small vector display game cabinet built with a Vectrex CRT and Shopbot plywood.
Yoga 900 -- notes on running Linux on a Lenovo laptop
Markov Trek -- generating new Star Trek plot summaries
Rigid fabric -- building flexible shapes from rigid materials
Binarytree stool -- my first shopbot project was a footstool
Timesink -- a Userscript to auto-close imgur or reddit tabs

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2015

Vector games 32c3 -- slides from my talk on vector gaming at 32c3
32c3 -- Photos from the 32^nd Chaos Communication Congress (CCC)
Vectorscope clock -- a high resolution scopeclock
Tennis for Two -- recreating the very first video game on a vector display
Tek 1720 -- adapting a Tektronix 1720 vectorscope into a vector display
Silicon City -- dispaying a Model 15 teletype at the NY Historical Society
Voyager -- decoding the audio signals on the Golden Record
Tetrahedron -- five interlocked tetrahedra, part of an art project
Vector display class -- a workshop at NYC Resistor on building vector art
Wipeout -- building a PS1 game interface to play classic Wipeout XL
Sappho -- 3D printed wireframe of a classic sculpture
Vectrex -- turning a retro game console into an XY monitor
MAME -- patching the MAME arcade emulator to work with vector displays
Semaphore Hero -- NYCR's game/booth at 2015 MakerFaire
Defcon 23 -- trip report
Thunderstrike 2 -- presented at DEFCON and BlackHat (full details)
Blinky Hospital and the 2015 pendant
Saddle lamp -- a failed experiment with a free-form RGB LED shape
Catalan solids -- laser cut shapes
Christmas clock -- a red/green LED clock that uses .beats time
Laser projection -- rebraining a RGB laser projector
Minivac -- Claude Shannon's 1961 digital computer trainer.
NeXT -- putting an 1990s NeXTcube on the Internet.
slackwrap -- a way to make command line tool integrate with slack.
Kaypro -- setting up a Kaypro 2 computer.
Symbolics -- a USB interface for the Lisp Machine's keyboard
Firmware security -- a brief overview for some friends.
SparkSign -- an internet connected scrolling LED sign, built with a SparkCore.
Citibike unicycle -- a ridable April Fools prank.
SparkTime -- an internet connected alarm clock built with a SparkCore and the Spikenzie Lab SolderTime:DeskClock.
Corners -- 3D printable corners to create large files from STL inputs.
Taking things apart -- my talk on reverse engineering at HackRice in Texas.
Nail art -- decorative laser-etched transfers for fingernails.
Game programming -- helping women learn to write games for the Arduino.
Wireframe -- a tool to generate connector modules from STL files for large 3D prints.
HELEN, a GEMMA compatible pendant with 12 charlieplexed LEDs.
Laser cutting drywall, which works ok, but is very slow.
Infoscreen, a display terminal at NYCR
Thunderstrike FAQ -- everything you wanted to know about Thunderstrike
Unfolding STL to make papercraft models
Fuji X100 firmware reverse engineering
31C3, my trip report on visiting CCC and C-Base in Germany.

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2014

Thunderstrike 31c3, my presentation of Thunderstrike at CCC in Germany
Thunderstrike, a Mac EFI Firmware vulnerability
Yubikey -- Using a Yubikey Neo-N token as a hardware security module
Soft-circuit charliplexing with the Adafruit GEMMA and conductive thread.
Penrose -- laser cut tiles
Reverse engineering with Hopper -- a class at NYCR
Transcend JDL360 -- trying to drill a lanyard hole in this removable flash drive
HackHolyoke -- mentoring at a hackathon at Mt Holyoke and the Seven Sisters
Helios -- a large-scale art piece at Burning Man 2014
October First -- a committee to discuss electronic infrastructure for art projects
Archery -- a group outing to the range
Pendant -- a Blinky Hospital pendant
Solder paste -- under a microscope you can see it is tiny balls of solder
Microfiche -- attempting to read ancient source code from microscopic films.
Coffee button -- a way to let our facilities team know when the iced coffee keg is empty
Electric Sheep -- helping Scott Draves make physical art work
Advent -- transferring and compiling the original FORTRAN IV sources for Colossal Cave Adventure to our PDP-11
Unibus -- a BeagleBone Black to Unibus adapter board.
Fiberoptics -- making LED fascinators with fiberoptic lighting
FT-817 -- an initial attempt to reverse engineer the firmware on the Yaesu FT-817 radio
Flapple Bird -- we exhibited Dagen Brock's backport of the Flappy Bird game to the Apple //e at the Interactive Show.
Octoscroller class -- a workshop at NYCR on building the Octoscroller boards.
PDP-11/34 -- we're bringing a forty year old minicomputer back to life
VT100 -- as well as the video terminals to go with it.
Megascroller -- a cylindrical display with 64 RGB matrix panels.
Princeton USB HID class -- I taught a repeat of my USB workshop at Princeton.
Mini Pyramid -- a small version of the Disorient Pyramid, now hanging as an art piece at NYCR.
Novena -- beta instructions for getting started with bunnie's open source laptop
MTA Countdown Clock -- a pixel-accurate replica of the arrival displays in the NYC subway
SolderTime Desk Clock -- a timelapse and workshop to make these hackable desk clocks
Cubescroller -- a hanging six-sided art piece
Soft SSB -- software defined radio running inside a Teensy or BeagleBone Black
Mac-SE video -- a BeagleBone Black video card interface for classic Macintosh monitors.
ADB to USB -- an adapter from classic Apple Desktop Bus devices to USB HID using a Teensy

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2013

Classes

Projects

Helped build the Disorient Pyramid for Burning Man
Build Future Crew and exhbited it at MakerFaire
Started the LEDscape and Octoscroller projects
Wrote a bunch of watch faces for the Pebble watches
3D printed the Torus necklace
Build a USB Nixie tube driver
Wrote a vector display game, Space Rocks, and a vector Twitter oscilloscope

Retrocomputing

Started the 45baud.net retrocomputing site
Recovered several papertapes
Restored a Model 15 Teletype and Model ASR33 Teletype
Designed a new mother board for the TRS80 Model 100

Robots

Evaluated the Baxter robot from Rethink Robotics
Taught PUMA robot arms to play shuffleboard

Hobbies

CitiBike started in NYC
Ran in the Firefly Race

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2012

Classes

USB HID class on building custom USB input devices

Projects

AVR RFID -- cloning RFID with only a ATTiny85 and an inductor
Domestar -- LED firmware for LED strips
Robot arms -- inverse kinematics for PUMA arms
UV cured resin -- 3D printing with resin instead of filament

Laser cutting

Laser slicing -- making stackable laser cut things
Lasercut printing press -- using the laser cutter to engrave invitations
Voronoi boxes -- artistic boxes with math
Ada Initiative -- intaglio and letterpress printing of the Ada Initiative's logo

USB devices

Calipers -- making digital calipers into input devices
Analog gauge -- a USB analog output device
E-Stop -- a USB input device when you really want things to stop
Foot pedals -- repurposing MIDI pedals into a keyboard/mouse combo
Morse Code keyboard -- an iambic keyer for radio operators

Clocks

AlphaClock Five -- new firmware for the Evil Mad Scientists kit
Alphanumeric clock -- a backpack for these small LED displays
Supersized Seven Segment clock -- a giant version of the normal clock
Sunrise alarm clock -- gently wakeup with LEDs and a floor lamp

Hobbies

Nederlands -- we like to travel
Bikes -- we like to bike
Large format photography -- I like big cameras
Space shuttle Discovery -- I attended the handovers at the Air and Space museum
Space shuttle Enterprise -- I setup a timelapse of the demate operate at JFK airport
Transit of Venus -- we watched the once in a lifetime event

Retrocomputing

ROMs -- reading ancient PROMs, EEPROMs, etc
Mac-SE Easter Egg -- extracting images of the engineering team
IBM 129 Card data recorder
IBM 83 Card Sorter
Vector display

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2011

Blinky things

EL wire Nixie -- an attempt to recreate the classic Nixie tube with EL wire
Hexascroller LEDs -- adding a notification function to NYC Resistor's Hexascroller
LED ring light -- laser cut holder for illuminating photographic subjects

Laser cutting

Epilog driver -- command line laser cutting
Lasercut Halftone -- generating images by cutting lots of small holes
Settlers of Catan -- recreating the classic game with a variety of other techniques
Boxer -- an opensource tool to make laser cut boxes of various shapes
Living hinge -- experimenting with flexible laser cut wood

Projects

ATtiny10 -- programming these microscopic microcontrollers with an FTDI cable
Hackerspace Roadshow -- a segment on Make TV featuring NYC Resistor
InPulse watches -- building a new watch a day for a month
Keychain multitool -- reinventing the keychain in a streamlined multitool
Reverse engineering class -- learn to program ARM assembly by disassembling C programs
XY Table -- attempting to make a motion platform with 3D printed parts
Casting harddrives -- put it in a kiln and melt the drive. It's the only way to be sure.

Photography

STS-133 -- I attended the STS-133 launch of the space shuttle Discovery
Hackerspace Roadshow -- I helped film a piece about other people's projects at NYC Resistor

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2010

Espresso -- we restored a two group commercial espresso machine
Film projects -- we wrapped up a few film projects
Magic Lantern firmware -- I continued development on the Magic Lantern firmware, including porting it to the Canon T2i (550D)
QR codes were briefly a fad. We made edible ones.
Summits on the air -- we hiked up a mountain in upstate NYC to talk to other amateur radio operators

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Last update: November 8, 2020