Category Archives: Tinkering

Looking to show off your tech skills

Posted on August 17, 2015 by robertwilkie

Hackatons seem to be the way to do this now.  Thought most of them are geared towards kids/college.  There still is some interesting stuff you can pull from the article.  I have not heard of hackaton.io for example.  or devpost.com.  … Continue reading →

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RPi ThinkClient

Posted on August 17, 2015 by robertwilkie

Just learning stuff left and right today.  There is a Raspberry Pi distro called RPiTC that is a thinclient for Windows (Microsoft Remote Desktop), Citrix, VMWare, etc etc.  Not a bad idea if you have one big box that you … Continue reading →

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Build a cheap windtunnel

Posted on August 17, 2015 by robertwilkie

Want to test out some of your 3D printed designs for a quadcopter?  Well build yourself a cheap windtunnel with a a box fan and some plexiglass.  Looks like it works OK too. http://makezine.com/projects/wind-tunnel/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=%24{feed}&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+%24{makezineonline}+%28%24{MAKE}%29&utm_content=%24{GoogleReader}

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Building a boat from plywood

Posted on August 17, 2015 by robertwilkie

Been thinking more and more about doing this.  Found a bunch more plans for doing so below: One Sheet Jon Boat (rowboat like) http://www.instructables.com/id/One-sheet-Jonboat/ One Sheet canoe like boat (Lots of work thought) http://www.instructables.com/id/Building-a-One-sheet-boat-Alternate-Building/ Another canoe like one here http://www.instructables.com/id/Building-a-One-sheet-boat/ … Continue reading →

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LED Tiki Torches

Posted on August 14, 2015 by robertwilkie

OK this was another neat build.  The author basically puts LED’s in a mason jar with glass beads and puts it ontop of a tiki torch.  Looks cool.  Oh its an Atiny that is controlling the LED’s. http://makezine.com/2015/08/11/mason-jar-led-tiki-torches-glow-any-color/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=%24{feed}&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+%24{makezineonline}+%28%24{MAKE}%29&utm_content=%24{GoogleReader}

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Use Blynk to controll your device via your phone

Posted on August 11, 2015 by robertwilkie

I haven’t heard of Blynk before, but it apparently is another way to controll IoT remotely from your phone.  It woks with arduino, RPi, ESP8266, Particle Core (No Idea on that one). and other stuff.  The article of course mentions … Continue reading →

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Can’t afford a gaming rig, use AWS

Posted on August 11, 2015 by robertwilkie

I have actually done something like this for running windows tools in Linux.  The author basically created an AWS instance with Windows 2012 server, added in the NVIDIA video card module, and streams the games from steam back to his … Continue reading →

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Hacking Twitter Contests

Posted on August 11, 2015 by robertwilkie

Why didn’t I think of this?  A software developer wrote a python script to search for contests that require him to retweet and follow something, and do that work.  He ended up winning alot of contests (of course the success … Continue reading →

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FruityWiFi

Posted on August 10, 2015 by robertwilkie

Looks like there is another addition to the RPi where you can get a distro that has a bunch of baked in wifi attack tools.  List below: Hostapd Karma URLsnarf DNSspoof Kismet Squid (code injection capabilities) SSLstrip (code injection capabilities) … Continue reading →

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The one sheet of plywood boat

Posted on August 10, 2015 by robertwilkie

A few years back I tried to get my kids to build one of these.  Its about $30 in materials and I got Home Depot to make all the cuts for me.  But…never got the kids interested.  Ended up using … Continue reading →

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