jma89
Member Since: November 26, 2010
Country: United States
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English
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HTML/CSS, PHP, MySQL, BASIC (For what it’s worth)
Universities
Davenport University
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There is an easy way to do programmatically simple “encryption” that’s uncrackable: A one-time pad, or OTP.
Basic gist: Have a single-use random string that’s the same length as (or longer than) the message you wish to send. Take your original message, add the OTP to it (per-character), and then MOD 26 the result (again, per-character. The Wiki page has a great example section for this.)
Only downside is that the security of a OTP comes from the secret never crossing an insecure channel. You could preload the entirety of spare flash with a massive (or several smaller) pads, then mark in EEPROM when they get used. (The base station would similarly keep track of this.)
Once all the pads are used up you’d have to re-compile (with new pads) and flash your transmitter again. Bonus points for just using a “small” (~8 GB) SD card instead and filling it with pads. Even if you did use them all it’s just a matter of swapping in a freshly filled card.
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They do support booting from the network without an SD card on some hardware: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pi-3-booting-part-ii-ethernet-all-the-awesome/
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With Shawn’s work on the Laugh-inator complete, Nick has to work furiously to add a Self-Destruct button before he passes out.
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Ugh So much metric. I’ve converted units for those (like me) who can’t relate to metric measurements that easily:
Fully fueled, it weighs [almost] [3.1 million pounds]. It will be capable of putting [142,000 pounds] into Low-Earth Orbit (for reference, the entire ISS weighs [about] [882,000 pounds]), [59,500 pounds] into Geosynchronous-Transfer Orbit, [37,500 pounds] into Mars-Transfer Orbit — or sending [7700 pounds] to Pluto (seven times the mass of the New Horizons spacecraft). It has a total of 27 first-stage engines generating over 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff.
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As cool as those outlets (and their supporting infrastructure) are, I do wonder what the ROI is on them, both from a monetary standpoint and an environmental standpoint. (All the extra support material has impact too.)
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Could 3D print a case to hold the LEDs (and diffuse the light), and use said case as a sly way to slip a 90 degree USB OTG adapter in to talk with a cheap micro that could drive the LEDs.
Only thing left to manage is auto-launching a full-screen app, and locking it down so folks don’t poke around and break stuff. (The commercial offering we use also supports finding another open room based on what building/location you are in, and also provides a mechanism to report a device or hardware failure in the room, such as a bad Ethernet drop, misbehaving TV, or dead remote batteries.)
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We run one of the more commercial solutions, and one of the nice features these units have is a nice red or green rear illumination (to the wall): If there’s a meeting going on, it’s red, otherwise green. Wouldn’t be too crazy to make it go yellow ~10-15 minutes before the next meeting if you were to roll your own though.
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This whole money-first attitude isn’t helped by organizations that are publicly held either: Suddenly you have thousands of other people who now own a (typically tiny) piece of your organization, and the only thing they are interested in is getting more money back.
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You could even modify your cane with lights and a button on the top (side? not sure what style it is) to turn the light on and off.
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As you can see from the picture above, we have divided everything going into each box by weight and cost to make sure you receive a mixed box of different parts with different value.
I think that’s the key to this whole mess: Keeping the assortment evenly random and not just chaotic random. (I didn’t get in this time because I was a silly boy and forgot to set a reminder. Realized what I’d (not) done about 2 hours too late.)
