Generating Passive Income with a Side Hustle to the Side Hustle Recently started making cookie cutters for my girlfriend. It’s been a good way to increase my proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Autodesk Fusion. The great thing about this work is once it’s done I have files that have value to others. Taking of my…
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Blog: https://mbparks.substack.com/p/myths-of-running-a-small-business Podcast: https://mbparks.substack.com/p/myths-of-running-a-small-creative In this episode, we talk about new embedded development platforms from Arduino, including the Opta PLC, Uno Rev4, and the ESP32-powered Nano. We also dive into some myths about running a small creative business, from bosses and work hours to the impacts of the AI revolution.
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I was fortunate enough to acquire a Makera Carvera CNC milling machine. My interest in the Carvera is for small-scale manufacturing of circuit boards. While not quite as easy (yet!) as my old OtherMill CNC machine, I really like the automatic tool-changing capability, larger work surface, 4th axis capability, and the multiple materials that can…
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Gears of Resistance #92 for July 28, 2022 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/GOR/2022/GOR_0092_20220728.mp3 This week we cover: Arduino Cloud Thread Security versus Privacy | Ben Franklin Quote Context [Download] For more DIY/Maker, STEAM, citizen science, digital citizenship, open source, and security news follow along on Twitter, Facebook , or our YouTube Channel. Or listen to the audio-only version at Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher or…
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Inspired by Vitruvius and his Ten Books on Architecture, we are going to take a stab at Ten Books on Making. Releasing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Please follow along at https://sites.google.com/view/tenbooksonmaking and https://tenbooksonmaking.blogspot.com
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List of of tools I have found to be useful conducting cybersecurity CTF training: CyberChef Md5 Decrypt & Encrypt EXIF Data Viewer Canarytokens URL and website scanner – urlscan.io Grabify IP Logger & URL Shortener Shodan Search Engine OSINT Framework SpiderFoot HX Google Hacking Database (GHDB) – Google Dorks, OSINT, Recon StegOnline If you are…
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Using a Raspberry Pi as a remote access device for sysadmin or pentesting purposes is a fairly popular concept. Kali 2020.4 made some significant changes to the distro that seems to break a great deal of the content on the web about setting up a reverse shell. After recently upgrading my Kali box, my remote…
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NodeMCU + I2C-controlled FM Transmitter + AP Mode + TRS Electret Microphone = Remote Control Listening Device Adafruit Stereo FM Transmitter with RDS/RBDS Breakout – Si4713 https://www.adafruit.com/product/1958 Solder length of wire for antenna Wire up Si4713 breakout board to NodeMCU Node Si4713 3V -> VIN GND -> GND D1 -> SDA D2 -> SCL Connect TRS…
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Attempting to turn a Seeed Wio Terminal into a universal TV remote. Follow along here: https://github.com/GreenShoeGarage/HackerTV
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Digging on Xojo. It took me less than an hour to whip together a crude prototype that let me achieve four goals: Pick an Arduino (or any serial device) from a list of COM ports. Connect/disconnect on the fly. Read data from the analog pins on the Arduino. Send commands to toggle the LEDs. Save…
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