#hackspace meetup success! Several people came to our monthly meetup on 2/24, our first meetup with a hardware project. This guide was used to complete the firmware flashing and assembly/soldering. Please note it’s a work-in-progress for a future formal workshop and edits/improvements are being made regularly. Some people had never…
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smart home contest winners!
Our upcoming @_kernelcon_ workshop (more info here) is all about locally controlled smart-home stuff (#nocloud). The plan all along was to use @home_assistant and @snips to have our newly modified smart plugs be 100% controlled, and voice enabled, without using any cloud services. I was going to pull my snips…
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Boxes of supplies for Kernelcon arrived yesterday
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We’re leading a workshop in the hardware hacking village at kernelcon later this spring – https://kernelcon.org/con Supplies arrived today! So many boxes…what could they be? OH! Smartplugs that connect to an unsecured public server — yay :-\ We’ll be leading a session on disassembling these things, soldering up an interface…
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