Weekly Accomplishments:

The first stuffed animal is almost done, barring the last few details of eyes and claws. “Jody” was given the last few fabric details earlier in the week, and the pocket installed has been tested to fit with the components ordered. The plush design should be done by end of week, if not the first day.

The game itself has begun progress as well. Jody has a digital sketch of herself in the game that has been rigged with basic animation, and the game’s UI has been set up for the main screen (without functionality besides simple button clicks). Using the DeepDreamGenerator AI found online, I converted some free-for-use background pictures into painter-like backgrounds for use in the game.

I’ve started work on getting the RaspberryPI set up as well with the RFID reader. Everything is wired together in the breadboard right now, and I’m just waiting on the SD card to load up Raspbian so I can get back to work.

Images:

Additional Material List:

1. 1. Battery/USB Charger (still torn on which I’ll be using, but right now it isn’t a priority)
   2. MicroSD Card (this might add a bit to the expense of the plush
   3. Cost of Plastic for 3D printing the pendants (depends on whether I’m crushing the old pendant ot make the new one, or working around the original key fob. Again, I’ll make this call once I have a base product working).

Areas of Concern:

I was initially a bit concerned by how elaborate the RFID reader would be to set up. I’ve found enough tutorials that hopefully I won’t run into a deadend, but I’m currently having issues with my MicroSD card not being recognized by my main computer which is slowing down progress. This seems like more of a minor hurdle though, and I’ve got plenty to work on in the meantime.

Project title: Qi Jeans
Project team: Gregg Van Dycke
Weekly accomplishments: I have a mock jean pocket that fits the phone, and have started a second mock jean pocket with the phone slot as well as the internal pocket for the wireless charger.
Images:

No picture of mock pocket. I left it in my locker.
Material list: 10000mah wireless charging portable battery
Areas of concern: What I am most concerned with is functionality, as in how well the device will be able to charge the phone. Being early prototype I thought this might be a concern since this isn’t the designed use case of the charger. But I have ideas to on how to change it for the next iteration of Qi Jeans.

This is the No Sleep Pillow! I used four capacitive touch sensors to control the volume of a battery powered speaker unit.

I simply drove a transistor to short the input audio connection to ground to lower the voltage.

I tried initially to do this in a digital manner but the results weren’t great. I based my code mostly on this example from GitHub, with a few important changes.

descriptor.srcaddr = (uint32_t) &ADC->RESULT.reg;
descriptor.btcnt = HWORDS;
descriptor.dstaddr = (uint32_t)&DAC->DATA.reg; // end address

I pulled the ADC results into the DAC, instead of into memory.


descriptor.btctrl = DMAC_BTCTRL_BEATSIZE_HWORD | DMAC_BTCTRL_VALID;


I also removed the DMAC_BTCTRL_DSTINC flag in the btctrl register. This was causing the controller to auto-increment the memory addresses it was writing to, creating invalid memory writes. I also played around with the number of half-words in the buffer, but ultimately keeping to one seemed to work as well as other values.

Still, the sound quality was terrible, so I decided to not go the digital route and pursued my analog solution. Potentially, more filtering on the input could have solved some of these issues but the Arduino’s DAC isn’t as high resolution as used in most audio-quality products.

Project Title: Penetration of Endpoints and Networks Infiltration System.

Project Team: Me, myself and I.

Weekly Accomplishments:

• This week was dedicated to researching methodology into constructing components:
  • Plenty of guides for making a rogue access point:
    •   https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/build-pumpkin-pi-rogue-ap-mitm-framework-fits-your-pocket-0177792/
    • I will likely be looking at this for my guide if I choose to build one.
    • 
  • Also there are plenty of guides already of poor man’s bash bunnies:
    • https://www.cron.dk/poor-mans-bash-bunny/
    • https://blog.hackster.io/build-an-affordable-bash-bunny-with-a-raspberry-pi-zero-w-11a4abf7bde5
    • If I decide to build it I will be using these guides.
  • The RFID reader/writer was the hardest as there are no reliable methods to do this without spending a lot of money or trusting a sketchy manufacturer, I might consider replacing this device with something else (maybe something to due with bluetooth) if I cannot find a good way to do this.

Changes to Approach:

After receiving some feedback, I am now considering adding some bluetooth device to my jacket to exploit those possible attack surfaces, also I might just buy cheaper versions of all of these gadgets to prevent problems in the future. I will be weighing the costs and benefits of each approach.

Materials List:

Using four capacitive touches to have four light outputs.

One sound output when shaking it.

Using light sensor to read the light level and give light output response.