A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, there was a tradition of Younglings constructing their first lightsaber on the way to becoming a Padawan and ultimately a Jedi Knight. This tradition will continue at the Kalahari as the KidzMash Younglings learn about basic electronics and build their own lightsabers in this fun-filled workshop surrounded by the Force.
All vehicles made or imported to the US after 1997 are required to have an ODBII(On Board Diagnostics 2) connector exposed to users. Auto manufacturers have exposed data from vehicles this way. As technology progressed, auto manufacturers switched from mechnical feedback and controls to programmable Bus system. So, in order for you to switch on the radio in the car, your mechnical or touch screen communicates via CAN Bus to achieve such a task. The same goes for turning on lights, horns, all the way to stopping (and if available self driving and parking vehicles with little or no assistance [...]
I recently made build lights for the company I work for and my home office. They integrate with TeamCity and indicate when a build is running and success/failure of all the tests. In this session, we will reverse engineer a bluetooth light bulb's protocol, learn how to have an Intel Edison communicate with the bulb, and by the end you too will know how to make your own build lights! Please note that this talk will be highly technical. We will be discussing low level details of bluetooth communication, protocol analysis with Wireshark, sniffing bluetooth packets, etc.