July 2016

Priorities

Ranking of priorities. Order of importance:

Number 1 Priority: Teaching

• Teaching responsibilities - July 2016/Teaching Preparation
• UGR project - July 2016/UGR Project

Number 2 Priority: Ham Radio

• General license - General

Number 3 Priority: Personal Projects

• HIGH - Pi internet thing monitor station - July 2016/Pi Thing
  • DEP - Ham vhf antenna - July 2016/VHF Antenna
• MED - Ham monitor station - July 2016/Ham Station
• MED - Local network sandbox - July 2016/Home Network
• MED - GIS/Geo data and mapping
  • 3D printing
  • Javascript mapping/sites

Teaching

Teaching preparation: July 2016/Teaching Preparation

• Course Outlines
• Lecture Notes

UGR Project: July 2016/UGR Project

• Github repositories
• Notes and curriculum plan
• Outline of concepts to cover and maps/guides for learning
• Resources and facilities and meeting plan
• Toolkit of hacking: USB drives, isos, tarballs, links, distros, things

Ham Radio

Ham Projects

Ham radio: General

• General license prep
• VHF station
• HF antenna

General Class Ham Radio License

• Defcon - August

Radio-Computer interface

• HackRF hook up to a VHF/UHF antenna
• Receive and decode digital modes using computer
• Transmit digital modes using computer
• HackRF

Andys Ham Radio Linux

large area networks for sensor data: Radio/Large Area Networks

Emergency Preparedness

Ham radio go-bag

Backup power systems

Batteries for electronics

Basic communications gear

Connect with local ARES/RACES radio groups

Ham Radio UGR Project

SC emergency coordination group

Ham licenses

On campus VHF station - beacon? packet node or tcp/ip via AX.2500?

Disaster communications.

Micro/Electronics

Arduino

Zigbee project - Zigbee

• Working with Ardunio and computer/Arduino and Raspberry Pi
• Getting the basics of the Zigbee communications protocol figured out
• Currently everything is fine with two mini usb to serial converters, but Arduino-XBee shield is not working
• Still not sure how to work out the specific channels

HackRF

Zigbee + HackRF project

• get two talking together, and then add the HackRF into the mix.

HackRF antennas

• Receive/transmit digital modes via VHF/UHF (packet)
• SSTV/Satellites

Raspberry Pi

Internet of things

• Large nmber of sensors
• Implementation of more complex data streams, larger number of Pis
• Currently stuck with ESP8266 chips, no luck, hopelessly broken

Street sensor

• Cameras to timelapse
• Car counting
• Weather and light sensor
• Wifi traffic sensor

Holdups:

• USB camera/cameras
• Waterproof container
• Sensors

Defcon

Preparation

• Notebooks (computer and physical)
• Badges
• Hardware and software
• Focus
• Ham license exam preparation

Making

3D laser cutting, acrylic, printing, etc.

• http://setosa.io/blog/2014/08/10/woodcut-data-visualization/
• Laser cutters and etchers work well with SVG (scalable vector graphics)
• Shapefile -> ogr2ogr -> GeoJSON (format that Javascript can read) (link for more info: [1])
• Now GeoJSON -> SVG file via d3.geo.mercator (lat/long -> x,y pixels)
• SVG crowbar to open the file
• Adobe illustrator to cut some things out

Programming

Home network

VPN:

• Setting up VPN locally and routing all traffic through vpn was a fail
• Not a fail. Case in point, Wikipedia - if we had gone through the trouble of routing all traffic through gateway machine, and all gateway machine traffic through server, would now be stuck with a system without the ability to edit Wikipedia. Problem!

Arrangement:

• everyone connects through home router
• each individual uses OpenVPN as needed to connect to proxy server

Document how the network works using Kali

Kali

• Pick up where I left off with Kali notes
• Use Kali to document how the network works
• Revisit old instructions
• New instructions: dsniff and sqlmap
• Need to have a project focus. Prior experience was, everything was scattered, so just got taste of things, most did not work out.

Github

Github (Main page: July 2016/Github)

Hello world

• Add some basic scripts for each language
• Expand offerings
• More functions
• Input, output, some math, some iteration, some looping, some recursion
• More of the math
• Web server
• Lisp/other languages?

Wifi data

• data analysis, uncertainty, wifi data
• how to make data analysis simpler? more universal?
• not just preparing for classes, preparing for UGR project

Graphene

• Need to start this back up
• Lots of unanswered questions
• Lots of unwieldy problems

Backups

Backups (See Category:Bug-Out)

• Hard drive space
• Wikipedia
• Gutenberg
• Update computers - this is taking a little longer than I expected. Sound is a problem on rolling kali apt-get dist-upgrade
• Wiki offline - okay so far. tenuous. Charlesreid1.com clone
• Packages and software offline - see the bug-out pages.
• PHP, necessary extensions/software/configurations
• Backups to iso files
• Backups to thumb drive

Bots

Apollo Space Junk

• Extend these Apollo bots to include everybody.
• Incorporate some sort of inclusion of photos, sound, something.
• Screencast

charlesreid1.com content

Ideas:

• Screencasts
• Featured pages on Main Page or on Wordpress
• Photography - ???

Screencasts:

• Spreadsheets with numerical methods - in the same spirit, other things
• web.geogebra.org, with equations and explanation of the tangent plane equation, 3D Taylor Series, showing how to use Geogebra to plot 3D surfaces.
• Add to YouTube. (Ugh. Wade into the YouTube accounts mess.)

Reading and Books

Notes on reading and books: Retaining Books

My reading list: My Reading List

Task list with reading list: