CATO
Posted by FirmWarez on 13 Mar 2012 in Blog | 0 comments
CATO. Catastrophe At Take Off. or Catastrophic Take Off. Depends on who you believe, but no matter what, we can call it: Uncontained engine failure. The results of an aged D12 engine; it was no longer a rocket motor, it was just a big firecracker. View from the business end. I’ve already removed the most aft portion of the destroyed motor mount, and have...
Read MoreMachining and Prototyping
Posted by FirmWarez on 12 Mar 2012 in Blog | 0 comments
Have been doing quite a bit of machine shop work building enclosure prototypes for a start-up I’m involved with. The device is designed to mount to a standard rail, for those of you whom that means anything. The enclosures are tubular, about the size of a small flashlight. Current design has a stack of board elements — battery connection, main...
Read Moredc501 Defcon 19 Badge
Posted by FirmWarez on 11 Mar 2012 in Blog | 0 comments
I designed and built some badges for Defcon 19 for our DC group, dc501. The badge is based on a Microchip PIC18F13K50. Power is from a single CR123, boosted to 5V by an LT1610. The blue 7-segment LEDS are some Chinese e-bay purchase; they were cheap and look nifty. Board was designed to fit in an Altoids tin; called cool and retro by folks who gave us...
Read Moredc501
Posted by FirmWarez on 5 Mar 2012 in Blog | 0 comments
What is dc501? dc501 is a Defcon affiliated group for self identified hackers, be they infosec, makers, coders, modders, circuit benders, hardware developers, lock pickers, phreakers, or others interested in all things related to technology. The original members came together out of mutual interest in starting a hackerspace in central Arkansas, which is still...
Read MoreNew look at FirmWarez.com
Posted by FirmWarez on 4 Mar 2012 in Blog | 1 comment
Ok, so I’m an embedded systems guy. Last time I did web pages we edited html by hand. I’ve not kept up with this realm, so I decided to go the Word Press route and try the canned content management stuff. Some haxors may call it lame; I call it a learning experience. For years I had this domain only for e-mail. After Defcon 17 I put up a simple...
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