July 2016

Teaching

Teaching preparation:

• Engineering
• Programming

Notes:

• Books
• Basic lecture concepts
• Resources and concepts
• Topic lists

UGR Project:

• Prepare introduction to Linux
• Come prepared for various problems
• USB jump drives, ISOs, toolkit of hacking - get these people set up.

Projects

physical world/sensors/making

Microcontrollers/Arduino/Raspberry Pi/Linux/Networking

3D printing/soldering/makerspace

Defcon

• Preparation
• Badges? Notebooks? Hardware?

ham radio

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

Andy's Ham Radio Linux

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

software

Github (Main page: July 2016/Github)

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

GIS data and mapping

• more data analysis
• more python

Backups (See Category:Bug-Out)

• 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 at best.
• Packages and software offline - see the bug-out pages.
• PHP, necessary extensions/software/configurations
• Backups to iso files
• Backups to thumb drive

More Projects

Emergency Preparedness

Emergency Kit

Supplies - what is necessary to prepare for 1 month

Ham Radio

Ham radio go-bag

Backup power systems

Batteries for electronics

Basic communications gear

Connect with local ARES/RACES radio groups

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

Circuits and hardware

• Connecting sensor arrays to the Pi
• Connecting Arduinos to create sensor sub-circuits, enabling more complex sensor placement/analysis/online calculations
• Hook up the GPIO to circuits
• FOCUS ON RETROFITTING EXISTING HARDWARE

Internet of Things

• Massive numbers of distributed sensors
• More complicated than a single node with a single data stream
• Github implementations of more complicated data streams, large number of Raspberry Pis connecting to a central server

South Seattle Ham Radio

Figure out what's going on with Seattle Colleges emergency coordination group

Get some students their ham licenses, get some faculty their ham licenses

Do something with the station on campus - VHF/UHF, use it to experiment with HackRF? Set up a beacon?

Programming

Python

What to do about my Python. Write up some notes for basic Python programming class. Python 3, here we come.

Bots

Apollo Space Junk

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

Charlesreid1.com Content

Screencast Videos

Screencast topics:

• The Apollo dialogue extractor - and the actual building of an Apollo bot
• 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. And wade into the YouTube accounts mess.)

Articles, How-Tos, Instructional Highlights on Main Page

Revamp the main page to showcase some of my skills and my work.

Photography

Figure something permanent and/or self-hosted OUT.

Reading and Books

Notes on reading and books: Retaining Books

My reading list: My Reading List

Task list with reading list: