I had the pleasure of joining the Hak5 crew and Dale Chase yesterday at the Bay Area Maker Faire. There over 9000 excellent projects, kits, and contraptions — though I couldn’t track down a Drink Shield despite asking all over. I was fortunate enough, however, to meet Eben and Liz of Raspberry Pi fame.
The ‘Pi is the DIY hardware that has most excited me since the Arduino. It is an ARM-based GNU/Linux computer for $25, and is only slightly bigger than a credit card (in 2D space). I’m looking forward to playing with one in the future. These things sell out faster than Shmoocon barcodes.
Wrapping up our interaction, I foolishly challenged Eben to a rap battle, in which he destroyed me via several powerful punchlines about my x86-based rap moniker of int0x80:
(click for full-size, the Flickr WordPress plugin is weird)
More pictures from Maker Faire, including lock picking with TOOOL, are over on our photos page :]
We had such a good time at the Hak5 5-Year Anniversary, that we jumped at the chance to play another show. This time we are celebrating the start of Season 9 as well as the relocation of the cast to SF. Details are above, also on this Facebook event page where to please RSVP now please kthx
Join us to celebrate 5 years of technolust at the Hotsy Totsy Club — an Albany institution since 1939 — from 7:00 PM on Saturday, August 14th for drinks, pool, shuffleboard and a live performance from nerdcore sensation Eighty of Dual Core!
Eighty of Dual Core comes down to the HakHouse to share with us a technique for extracting Windows executables from packet captures. Darren’s featuring some of the Gmail badge submissions and a walkthrough of the Easter Egg hunt. Plus be sure to stick around as Eighty treats us to a live performance off his upcoming album.
