actual post time was [11/9/08]11:24pm

Almost done with my first semester at Georgia Tech. Things are going well. Unfortunately, I have had zero time to work on any projects. I have, however, been doing research on some. Over Christmas break, Kyle and I plan on working on several things (including hosting a LAN party). I have been looking into multitouch applications. There are several very cheap options that have come out in the past 6 months. I really want to try making at least one of them (using either the webcam in a box version, or an array or wii remotes). There are a lot of good demo applications out there too that seem neat. I also want to put a wireless link inside of the case of my 24 port router. I took it apart, and there is a lot of extra space in there, perfect for something like a Fon router. I really need to get a Fon router for security experiments, and for modding my router. That would let me have a lot more players on the same subnet without needing a physical cable. My black monitor died, and I am attempting to resurrect it. All that broke was the back lights, and I saw a post online of a guy who had the same problem and replaced the cold cathodes with LEDs. So, I took the entire thing apart (very interesting actually) and then went to AutoZone and bought 2 24 LED strips that are supposed to go on the front of a car. They run off 12v, so I wired 2 6v lantern batteries together in series and hooked up the strips. They worked great, and when i put them in the case to see how they lit up the big piece of plexiglass designed to spread the light out, it looked really good. The only problem was, I must have accidental shorted some of the LEDs by touching the leads to the aluminum case, although i don't know how this could have happened. Anyway, I need to get more LED strips (online this time, it will be much cheaper) and modify the case to accept all of the LEDs. I also need to coat the solder points in hot glue. I also plan on buying a 22in monitor with my money from Christmas and my birthday. That will let me have more room on my laptop to do stuff, and it will also give me a place to have VNC sessions open on my closet computer (that records TV and hosts a CS:S server) and a session on the cluster (if I can find a place for it to run), and maybe another computer or 2. I also had the idea of installing a ceiling server in my old school. I have a friend there who can keep it up hardware wise. Basically, I would install it in the ceiling somewhere and jack into the network spoofing a MAC address of a school machine. Hopefully this would keep it under the radar. It would probably be linux based and host a game server. If it was discovered, I could change the MAC address remotely via VNC and my friend could move it physically. This would be mostly just for kicks, and to have a ceiling server. I have been keeping up with security news as usual. Hak5 is great. I have made a USB pocketknife and hope to test it in the field soon. I also came up with a plan to own a network completely. It is comprised of a combination of physical and remote access. Although, it could theoretically be completed entirely from across the internet. Anyway, I hope to set up a practice network at my house to see how applicable my idea is. It can be done on most owned networks, but I added a few touches that I think are really nice. I might release more info later. I also came up with my own version of the WarCart as first made by the guys from MIT (they did the Boston Transit talk at Defcon [or attempted to]). It also has some interesting features, some designed for pure hilarity. I am on the robotics team here at Tech, and we are working on a Battlebot for competition in the spring. It will own. I learned how to weld and machine stuff in the process of building it. Once we have completed it and have videos, I will post some links to it destroying something cool. Wow, longest post to date. cool. theres a lot going on. I just keep waiting for time to work on all this.