Collaborate Disseminate
The Vote Hacking Village invited attendees – including kids as young as six – to hack the voting infrastructure, including ballot machines, a voter database and more. Continue reading DEF CON 2018: Voting Hacks Prompt Push Back from Election Officials, Vendors
We’ve often said that kids with hackers and makers for parents must be some of the luckiest kids in the world. While all the other children have to settle for some mass produced drivel from Toys“R”Us Amazon, they’ve got some of the most thoughtfully engineered and built toys and gadgets on the planet. After all, there’s no way any hacker worth their salt is going to give anything less than 110% for their own child.
A case in point is this RGB star nightlight that [Unexpected Maker] built for his children. The star itself is simple enough, just a basic …read more
Continue reading Custom ATTiny85 Board Powers Kids’ Light Show
Assuming you have a child and it’s no longer womb-bound, there’s a fairly high chance they’ve already had some experience with the glowing beauty that is the LCD display; babies of only a few months old are often given a tablet or smartphone to keep them occupied. But as the child gets to the age where they are capable of going outside or doing something more constructive, staring slack-jawed and wide-eyed at their tablet becomes a concern for many parents.
[Richard Garsthagen] is one such parent. He wanted a way to monitor and control how much time his children were …read more
[JohnathonT] has a two-year-old who can’t reliably tell time just yet. Every morning, he gets up before the rooster crows and barges into his parents’ room, ready to face the day.
In an effort to catch a few more Zs, [JohnathonT] built a simple but sanity-saving clock that tells time in a visual, kid-friendly way. Sure, this is a simple build. But if a toddler is part of your reality, who has time to make one from logic gates? The hardware is what you’d expect to see: Arduino Nano, a DS1307 RTC, plus the LEDs and resistors. We think an …read more
Little humans have a knack for throwing a wrench in the priorities of their parents. As anyone who’s ever had children will tell you, there’s nothing you wouldn’t do for them. If you ever needed evidence to this effect, just take a gander at the nearly year-long saga that chronicles the construction of an activity board [Michael Teeuw] built for his son, Enzo.
Whether you start at the beginning or skip to the end to see the final product, the documentation [Michael] has done for this project is really something to behold. From the early days of the project where …read more
Continue reading A Hacker’s Epic Quest to Keep His Son Entertained
There are a few guests that we have had on multiple times and yet continue to excite and entertain us. This month we invite back the amazing Michael Bazzell to discuss OSINT, Security and parenting tips. March 12, 2018 Contents Download Get Involved Do… Continue reading Ep. 103 – How To Be A Good Parent With Michael Bazzell
When [Chris Campbell]’s children wanted to play an album in the background over dinner, switching the outputs on his family’s Sonos sound system was perhaps too involved for their budding mastery of technology. This got him thinking about using kid-friendly inputs so they could explore his music collection. Blending QR codes, some LEGO, and a bit of arts and crafts, a kid-friendly QR code reader media controller comes out!
Working with a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and a cheap camera, [Campbell] whipped up some code to handle producing and reading the QR codes — though he’s running the media …read more
Continue reading A Jukebox For The 21st-Century Kit Blends Raspberry Pi, Sonos, QR Codes
YouTube is apologizing, again, uttering the tried-and-true “we have to do better.” Continue reading YouTube Kids hasn’t cleaned up its act
One coalition member notes that with smartphones, for example, “they’ve got you for every waking moment”. Continue reading Early Google, Facebook employees band together to tame tech addiction
The regulator is telling parents it’s up to them to destroy the things Continue reading Germany bans sale, distribution and possession of kids’ smartwatches