A little less than a year...
...since I stopped updating this religiously, and in that time, we have done quite a few projects! Ā So here is the quasi semi annual update, with hopefully ambitious plans to start blogging again!
Project 1: The time machine!
Probably one of the most significant projects we tackled was changing our houseās phone lines to an internal paging system. Ā This required tracking down all of the different pairs of wires involved in the phone system and seeing how they connected to each other. Ā The following are some of the instructables that came out of that.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Cheap-and-Easy-Guide-to-Building-a-Private-Telepho/Ā
http://www.instructables.com/id/Retrofit-a-PBX-to-Existing-Phone-Lines/
The reason we wanted to do this, besides being able to call each other from any floor of the house, was to work on ourĀ āTime Machineā - a system that could get onto the internet but using mostly old school technology.Ā
As seen here:Ā http://www.instructables.com/id/Telecom-Time-Machine/Ā and it involved the following pieces:
Antique Telephone (G type handset)
300 Baud Acoustic Coupler Modem
Green Phosphor Cathode Ray Tube Monitor
Model M (buckling-spring, clicky) Keyboard
AT to PS2 Keyboard Adapter
PS2 to USB Keyboard Converter
Raspberry Pi Dial Up Server
Raspberry Pi Dumb Terminal
Project 2: House renovations!
After taking apart the phone system, we wanted to update the upper floor of our house with bamboo floors instead of the old carpet and linoleum. Ā Here is the during:
And here is the after (but still before cleaning things up):
Things have since been cleaned up quite a bit, which leads us to our next project of the year! Ā
Project 3: Cyphercon 2016 Badges
@Goetzman brought us onto the Cyphercon team to make their badges and it was a pretty fun experience, and definitely one where we learned a lot more about the manufacturing process:
275 of them were hand soldered! Ā It was pretty much nonstop solder pasting for me. Ā Each board was then individually reflowed and tested. Ā And finally switches were soldered on. Ā When I get more close up pictures, Iāll be sure to show you all.
The green ones are those who paid for the Friday portion of the conference. Ā The white ones are the normal con goers. Ā The blue was the speakers, black were the vip, and the red were the life-timers. Ā Thereās more information on them on http://hackthebadge.com/
And if youād like to continue checking our projects, I created a reddit that I treat like our forums. Ā Our previous forums decided to get too much bot traffic and that didnāt make our server provider happy :p Woops.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tymkrs
If you would like to join and see what all is going on!
