FAMiLab

We have 9 days left until the end of our KickStarter project, and we have a very impressive $1299, which is 65% of our goal!

Now we only need to get that remaining $700.

Here’s the flyer Patrick made up for us:

FAMiLab Laser Cutter Flyer.pdf

Donate your $10, print 100 sheets out at Kinko’s ($9), and distribute them to people — make extra sure to remind them that you donated $10 and they should too! Then point them here to print more flyers .

I made awesome flyers for the DefCon407 meeting we held at CloudSpace but I never handed them out to anyone. I gave some to people to hand out at SCC and Valencia, but psh those people never came. We did get some of TC’s awesome yellow FAMiLab Laser flyers passed out.

Long Story Short, the event was a blast and we are awesome. The f00bard has some photos, but we should mask faces with laughing men for those who’s identities have not be released to public. (and fyi, FaceMan is now property of the state so we don’t have to cover him up at all)

Text files, as promised:

simple_wep_cracking
attack5
arppoisoning
msf10046

Just got accepted as a project on KickStarter to help us get a LaserCutter (engraver)!

I set the goal for $2000, and I know there are several laser engravers for under that amount ($1600 or so). As the KickStarter project page also says, there is a company in Lake Mary called Laser Photonics that does this stuff. I shot them an email. Any advice, donations, suggestions, ideas, practical uses are appreciated!

I mentioned a few posts ago about Riggins’ neat hack of an OpenCV face recognizer with our fugin sweet ptzcam. We said for months that we should set it up on a server at the lab, set the tune of a cronjob.

Well, we grew some balls and spent tonight installing dependencies, compiling OpenCV from SVN , getting Riggins’ imgur fork to work right, and setting up the rest of the python stuff.

CONGRATULATE US.

(Soon to come: temperature, light, pressure, and gas sensors with the Arduino analog inputs)

Riggins, Jeff, and I unexpectedly had a very productive night.

Jeff spent his time bashing some arsenugget who stole his iphone hack code to display 5 icons horizontally instead of 4.

Riggins was dead-set on getting his exploitable VMs set up on the ESXi server he made for us .

And I got all my Ruby on Rails tests passing in Cucumber with Culerity!

Wow. Go us. *back to coding*

Afterthought: Familab’s gotten a real loungy atmosphere lately. Is nice.

Abyss surprised us all by connecting to our new fancy high-def PTZ IP camera (hostname ‘ptzcam’ on familab LAN – play with it!) to the OpenCV face detection library! He created a twitter bot that updates how many faces it detects in the lab at each run. It tends to see faces in everything, but if it sees any faces at all chances the light is on and somebody is in the lab anyway :p.

famduino on Twitter
The Abyssknight’s Blogpost
famicam sourcecode on github

He still needs server space on our rack to get it running 24/7, so when it’s up there’ll be another post.

They called it the ‘CodeDojo‘ at BarCamp. In a professional sense, it’s a coding style and standards workshop. In a metaphorical sense, it’s a martial-arts training group for your code-fu.

Kata (n): a Japanese word describing detailed choreographed patterns of movements practiced either solo or in pairs.

They propose ‘Kata’ at the beginning of each meeting, and is solved appropriately according to best practices. With ‘Prepared Kata‘, a professional enlightens the attendees, step-by-step, the appropriate way to solve the problem, using TDD and BabySteps. With ‘Randori Kata‘, participants approach the board in pairs and spend 5-7 minutes solving as much of the problem as they can, often with the mentoring of the partner, then rotate out.

The next meeting is tomorrow, Saturday, April 10th, at Camden Apartments right next to Colonial and I-4 (link below).

CodeTown Event Invite
Location on Google Maps

CodeDojo WordPress Blog
CodeDojo Google Group
Google Group Mailing List Threat

Maybe we can offer them our lab as a meeting place. If it’s not too out of the way.

April 9th-11th, Ocoee, http://www.outintheboonies.com/Lake_Monroe/

This is the place. We call up this number on that sign and ask for a camping license at least seven days in advance.

Its got a nice campsite and many trails to go exploring. It’s basically pack it in pack it out. I dont know what crazy activities we will think up but it’s sure to be a lot of fun.

This site only has a hand pump water source as far as I could see and I am not sure if it is portable but we can work around all that. It may not have hot/cold running water or sowers but there is the Cadillac of porta-john’s.

FAMiLab is located at: 540 N State Road 434, Altamonte Springs, FL
in the South Seminole Business and Storage facility. We are in unit 134!

Some pictures from Micro-Controller Monday March 14, 2010 or our latest machinations as we hack micro-controllers.

Here is a video of a light cube from a few months ago.

And some hot scope action: