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Side-channel Attacks Using the Chipwhisperer

I finally had a chance to dig into the chipwhisperer. It’s a learning tool to teach about hardware security vulnerabilities like Side-channel attacks.

Jonathan
06 Feb 2020

Fire Emblem Lights

As gift for my wife’s birthday I wanted to make something to celebrate our shared time with the game Fire Emblem Three Houses. I was...

Jonathan
14 Jan 2020

AWS IoT Setup

As a followup to NodeMCU Development, I decided to connect my project to the AWS IoT cloud to see what that entailed. Turns out, it’s...

Jonathan
04 Jan 2020

Fog of War Game

I made a tactics game with a gimmick of espionage in the LibGDX Java framework. This is probably the most complete game I’ve put together....

Jonathan
17 Dec 2019

Wreath Pixel Display

This idea was based on the concept of making a “Sound Catcher” pixel display. I’ve been wanting to make this for a long time, but...

Jonathan
04 Jul 2017

Magic Box

A gift I made for Maria. Uses mana rocks to unlock a treasure.

Jonathan
17 Jan 2017

Gwyndolin Costume

My 2016 Halloween costume. I made the mask, and Maria made the dress! Almost everything was handmade except for one layer of the skirt, the...

Jonathan
17 Jan 2017

Book Safe

A hollowed out book that works as a keyboard controlled locking safe.

Jonathan
08 Apr 2012

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Side-channel Attacks Using the Chipwhisperer

I finally had a chance to dig into the chipwhisperer. It’s a learning tool to teach about hardware security vulnerabilities like Side-channel attacks.

Jonathan
06 Feb 2020

Painting DnD Minis

For a non-software related project my wife and I recently had a chance to paint some miniatures for our DnD characters.

Jonathan
05 Feb 2020

Litter Box Reminder

Another simple “home automation” project. My wife mentioned it would be nice to have a way to keep track of when the cat litter was last cleaned. This is a...

Jonathan
01 Feb 2020

Exapunks Optimization

For something a little different, I thought I’d look at the process I went through to optimize a solution in the game Exapunks.

Jonathan
27 Jan 2020

Web Based Door Control Update

Another update to Web Based Door Control. Here I take the path of least resistance to add Google Assistant integration and uptime monitoring by integrating with Blynk, IFTTT, and UptimeRobot....

Jonathan
25 Jan 2020

Added SSL to Blog

I finally decided to go through the hassle of setting this blog up with SSL. While normally this wouldn’t be too hard with https://letsencrypt.org/, since I’m using S3 bucket based...

Jonathan
25 Jan 2020

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I finally had a chance to dig into the chipwhisperer. It’s a learning tool to teach about hardware security vulnerabilities like Side-channel attacks.

As gift for my wife’s birthday I wanted to make something to celebrate our shared time with the game Fire Emblem Three Houses. I was...

As a followup to NodeMCU Development, I decided to connect my project to the AWS IoT cloud to see what that entailed. Turns out, it’s...

I made a tactics game with a gimmick of espionage in the LibGDX Java framework. This is probably the most complete game I’ve put together....

This idea was based on the concept of making a “Sound Catcher” pixel display. I’ve been wanting to make this for a long time, but...

A gift I made for Maria. Uses mana rocks to unlock a treasure.

My 2016 Halloween costume. I made the mask, and Maria made the dress! Almost everything was handmade except for one layer of the skirt, the...

A hollowed out book that works as a keyboard controlled locking safe.

All Projects

I finally had a chance to dig into the chipwhisperer. It’s a learning tool to teach about hardware security vulnerabilities like Side-channel attacks.

For a non-software related project my wife and I recently had a chance to paint some miniatures for our DnD characters.

Another simple “home automation” project. My wife mentioned it would be nice to have a way to keep track of when the cat litter was last cleaned. This is a...

For something a little different, I thought I’d look at the process I went through to optimize a solution in the game Exapunks.

Another update to Web Based Door Control. Here I take the path of least resistance to add Google Assistant integration and uptime monitoring by integrating with Blynk, IFTTT, and UptimeRobot....

I finally decided to go through the hassle of setting this blog up with SSL. While normally this wouldn’t be too hard with https://letsencrypt.org/, since I’m using S3 bucket based...

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