July 2016

Teaching

Teaching preparation: July 2016/Teaching Preparation

Class Notes and Outlines

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

Andy's 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

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. Set up a long range TCP/IP over radio network.

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

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

Defcon

Notebooks, preparation

• badges
• hardware
• software
• notebooks

Programming

Github

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

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

Bots

Apollo Space Junk

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

Charlesreid1.com Content

List of ideas/things to contemplate:

• Screencasts
• Article/howto instructional highlights on main page or via Wordpress
• Photography

Screencast Videos

Screencast topics:

• 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: