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Telephreak Tactical Lunchbox

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One of the cooler swag I received @ Defcon this year was a lunchbox for the Telephreak party, filled with candy, gadgets, and toys from telephreakbadge. I do some ‘red teaming’ occasionally and always had my stuff all janky in my backpack with no way to really keep it all pretty and was a pain in the ass to go through everything to find what tools I needed. Plus stuffing them all in a box tends to get shit broken eventually. I was thinking I needed something like a pelican box but I didnt feel like spending a huge amount on something simple. So I was thinking one day that this lunchbox sitting on my desk would do the trick. I ended up getting a few pieces of Polyethylene off ebay for $9, They arrived pretty quick and i spent about an hour or so arranging some of my most used tools onto each layer and cutting out the foam to fit them all in. I used a small knife (the ones that have a knife/scissor/toothpick) and a razor blade to cut out the foam. Here’s all 3 layers that fit inside with descriptions of each tool’s usage.

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Raspberry Pi 3 Arrives

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Got my new RPi3 today , I was able to get it ordered early Monday morning by poking around Element14’s website. Even though they didn’t have it posted they did an available part number, 77Y6520, so I used that to place an order and I got notified on Tuesday that it was sent 🙂 The CPU is a little beefier and its 64bit and the board now has wifi and bluetooth onboard. So I’ll probably implement some bluetooth geo-fencing with IFTTT in my home automation project.

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Automated Signal Capture

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Using Flask and JQuery, a friend helped me out with automating capturing the 433mhz signal from remotes so you don’t have to manually add them in the code.

Basically the Flask starts a webserver when you click n the add button, the code executes the RFSniffer binary and receives the data when a signal is received, then displays it to the webpage. Still have to finish the code for adding the data to the MySQL db , but thats the easy part.

Raspberry Pi touch display

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So I received an official 7″ touch display for xmas. Even though it’s $60, it brings my total cost over 200$ for the project. But I thought it would be an awesome addition to the project because you don’t have to whip out your phone just to control everything. I’s a pretty sweet 800 x 480 10 point capacitive touchscreen display all you need to do is connect the DSI ribbon cable and feed ground/5v from the Pi’s GPIO pins. Im thinking starting the browser in kiosk mode should suffice once I finish the node.js interface. The only issue I havent resolved was to power down the screen fully when the Pi shutdowns. If anyone knows how to let me know.
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Pilybius

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Working on mini MAME arcade machine. It was designed in Solid Works 2015 then cut out of 1/4″ MDF on our Epilog laser cutter. Will be powered by a Raspberry Pi and a 9″ TFT screen. The software is MAME4ALL-Pi running the MAME 0.375b5 romsets. The joystick and buttons are connected directly to the GPIO pins and the 9” monitor is connected to the Video out port.

Pilybius is based off an arcade cabinet described in an urban legend about a game called Polybius, which is said to have induced various psychological effects on players. The story describes players suffering from amnesia, night terrors, and a tendency to stop playing all video games. Continue reading →