The pollux project has been a project I’ve worked on for two years with my friend and colleague Kasey. Today, that project has been released as FLOSS/OSHW with all sources on github. And it is also featured on hackaday. And that rocks!… ≫
Two years after the first try, I have worked on a few other electronic prototypes and now I think I have the experience I missed a few years back to put the prototype together.… ≫
I need to use the SL030 RFID reader on linux (on a beaglebone with i2c support enabled, of course). But when I tried to communicate with the device using i2cget, the device failed and disappeared from the detected devices… After the break, we’ll see why and how I solved it.… ≫
I got my hands on a msp430 launchpad to play around with it, and unluckily, the launchpad does not play nice with MacOSX 10.6. After the break, you’ll get my tutorial to make it work.… ≫
At Le Loop hackerspace, we often get broken, old or unwanted weird devices. Then recently we were given two Led Matrix displays with a technology from the 80s. First one was a one line with red led display and the second one was a green multiline display. So, here is a little story on how I managed to pwn them.… ≫
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Back in high school, I had the luck to get some experience and learn many things about stage lightnings. But, as I was already computer-litterate at that time I was amazed to discover that at the ethernet era, the protocol used for controlling lights was still DMX-512 based on RS485 serial line over a 3 points XLR. Because the DMX network configuration is a daisy chain, it looked to me a lot like BNC-based 10 base-T computer networks… with cable length, line terminals… being one’s worst nightmare.… ≫
After meeting Jimmie P Rodgers and Mitch Altman at the RMLL conference, I hacked Jimmie’s LoLShield to add dynamic characters support.… ≫
I just ended a proof of concept of door locking/unlocking system for our hackerspace.… ≫