Collaborate Disseminate
At long last, Blue Water Farm is generating revenue! Around 20 acres of our land consists of dense, mature hardwood of oak, maple, and beech, and we were able to contract to sell 65 maple and 25 oak trees to a logging company. I won’t be retiring from … Continue reading Tree-Tracker – Auditing a Log Harvest using IOT Edge Connect and node-red
At long last, Blue Water Farm is generating revenue! Around 20 acres of our land consists of dense, mature hardwood of oak, maple, and beech, and we were able to contract to sell 65 maple and 25 oak trees to a logging company. I won’t be retiring from Akamai any time soon from our logging windfall, but it’s nice to see some revenue from our land, and clearing mature trees is a part of good responsible forest management. Continue reading Tree-Tracker – Auditing a Log Harvest using IOT Edge Connect and node-red
What’s the point of smart home automation? To make every day tasks easier, of course! According to [Tomasz Cybulski], that wasn’t the case when he installed IKEA smart lights in his closet. It’s handy to have them in a common switch, in this case a remote control, but having to …read more
Continue reading Making Smart Bulbs Smarter With The Power Of MQTT
I’m trying to perform a MiTM attack using Ettercap.
where i’m trying to publish a message to topic "A" and using ettercap trying to replace topic "A" to topic "B".
MQTT Subscribe to topic "A"
mosquit… Continue reading MQTT – Man in The Middle Attack
I’m trying to explore the possible attacks on MQTT without TLS. It’s obvious that this might involve MITM, but I need clarification on how to test attacks.
I did analyze the packets from Wireshark and can observe the message being transfer… Continue reading MQTT Attacks – without TLS
One of the more interesting display technologies of the moment comes from Sharp, their memory display devices share the low power advantages of an e-ink display with the much faster updates we would expect from an LCD or similar. We’ve not seen much of them in our community due to …read more
The use of publicly accessible MQTT brokers is prevalent across numerous verticals and technology fields. I was able to identify systems related to energy production, hospitality, finance, healthcare, pharmaceutical manufacturing, building management, … Continue reading Adventures in MQTT Part II: Identifying MQTT Brokers in the Wild
We have no idea whether [Nick Goodey] is a trained engineer or not. But given the detailed design of this DIY energy recovery ventilator for his home HVAC system, we’re going to go out on a limb and say he probably knows what he’s doing.
For those not in the …read more
Continue reading How an Engineer Designs a DIY Energy Recovery Ventilator
The market is absolutely inundated with smart gadgets, with everything from coffee makers to TVs advertising that they support the latest and greatest in home automation platforms. Don’t worry about how many of those platforms and services will still up up and running in the next few years, the thing …read more
Continue reading An Open Source IR Gateway Based on the ESP8266
Those of you who were regular office dwellers before the pandemic: do you miss being with your coworkers at all? Maybe just a couple of them? There’s only so much fun you can have through a chat window or a videoconference. Even if you all happen to be musicians with …read more
Continue reading Slack Off from Home with a Networked Jam Session