July 2016

From charlesreid1

Priorities

Ranking of priorities. Order of importance:

Number 1 Priority: Teaching

Number 2 Priority: Ham Radio

Number 3 Priority: Personal Projects

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:

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