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DISMANTLING THE storm WORM BOTNET

Zero Day has an interview with German researchers who have found a way to take down the storm Worm botnet. Their program, Stormfucker, takes advantage of defects in Storm’s command network: Nodes that are NAT‘d only use a four-byte XOR challenge. Nodes […]

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SNES CARTRIDGE budget

[gamemaster87] put together this SNES wallet. It isn’t just a wallet, it also has internal lighting and theme music. He harvested LEDs from Christmas lights, switches and battery compartments from an old all in one joystick, and the sounds from a holiday […]

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THE NARCISYSTEM

The Narcisystem is part of an art screen where [Eric] strapped himself to as many biometric sensors as he could. The core of the system was a Funnel IO which includes an Arduino, Xbee plug, as well as LiPo charging circuit. It […]

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HAPTIC COMPASS

[eric], influenced by this Wired article, built his own haptic compass. named “the clown belt”, it is a belt with 12 bit vibrating motors mounted evenly all around. A digital compass vibrates whichever motor is closest to north at all times. This […]

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NAVAL ACADEMY’S AUV team job

[Daniel] sent us over to the blog for the Naval Academy’s Autonomous underwater automobile entry for the AUVSI competition. You can comply with along as they design, build, as well as test this years entry. It truly looks like it would be […]

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DIY ARDUINO pro small QUADCOPTER

[execUc] took a stock V929 quadcopter and started making some crafty customizations. The main change – the control electronics were replaced by an Arduino pro small (16Mhz model). He soldered all the modules on a prototyping board and, although admittedly a bit […]

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