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Disney Galaxys Edge
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Disney Galaxys Edge

TL;DR — Disney star wars games involve a bunch of scanning Aztec codes for items and challenges, I couldn’t figure out how to generate my own correctly so I took apart the APK and generated each one I found with its description and put all the barcodes on my GitHub page for this. Recently, my…

Aurora: Ambient Lighting
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Aurora: Ambient Lighting

If you just want to build, there is a build guide here there is also a Slack for a more interactive discussion if you just want to peak the code its on github. Ambient lighting has always been something I have been interested in, from early days when I was watching *cough* videos that I…

Aurora: How to build
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Aurora: How to build

This blog post will cover the build process for Aurora up, if you want to find out about how it was built you can read about it here, If you’d like to look at the code you can see the github It’s often easier to ask something that can be answered quickly than spend hours…

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BSides Badge Config

Badges At some time in the next 6 billion years I will complete the writeup for the badges about how they were put together. For now this is just how to get your badge working at home as well as how to unlock all the challenges now that BSides Cape Town is over. For those of…

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ZaCon V Badge [2/2]: How they work

The ZaCon badges were a ton of work on the hardware side (see ZaCon V Badge [1/2]: Build Time), however they provided their own challenges on the software side as well. Since my knowledge of chipsets only extended to the Arduino the badges are essentially a complete Arduino without the UBS->FTDI breakout. This means that…