{"id":543,"date":"2019-12-08T23:25:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T04:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/?p=543"},"modified":"2019-12-09T07:18:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T12:18:17","slug":"december-meeting-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2019\/12\/december-meeting-update\/","title":{"rendered":"December Meeting update&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Things are rolling right along for December&#8217;s meeting. I hope to see a bunch of you on the 16th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I&#8217;ve got a healthy smattering of Kali and ParrotOS workstations on the long table ready for anyone who wants to do actual pentesting against the CTF server. (These were the HP All-In-Ones I picked up at the auction.)<\/li><li>The CDC book will be one door prize\/raffle for one lucky winner, and I will also have a few decks of &#8220;Backdoors and Breaches,&#8221; a tabletop card-based game for simulating incident response using a D20 for other winners.<\/li><li>As I mentioned before, the LED Marquee parts kits are all here ($15 a set), and I built and tested one. It&#8217;s been up and running in my family room for a couple of weeks now. If you want to assemble one at the meeting, it&#8217;s super-easy, and if you want it programmed as well, I&#8217;ll leave the choice up to you whether you want me to push the programming from my Arduino IDE on my laptop, or if you&#8217;d rather go through the process of setting up Arduino yourself, for the learning experiences.  There are a number of dependencies and modifications that need to be made, more than I&#8217;ve had to do in any other Arduino project. Most of them are well-documented, and some are just common-sense fixes, I trust all of you are capable of figuring it out. It&#8217;s just a matter of do you want to go home with a working device or a challenge. \ud83d\ude42<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I mentioned this on Twitter, but not all of you follow Twitter &#8212; I picked up the &#8220;Crash Course Electronics &amp; PCB Design&#8221; course on Udemy over Black Friday weekend for just $10. I can&#8217;t say enough good things about it. I have a reasonable enough <em>basic<\/em> understanding of electronics to get by on mimicry and duplication with minor troubleshooting, but I&#8217;ve always wanted a deeper understanding and more foundational knowledge. This 100-hour course, taught patiently by Andre Lamothe, is really hitting the mark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess the best way to characterize it is, come for the PCB design, stay for the best approach to electronics foundational knowledge I&#8217;ve seen yet.  I was going to skip ahead to the PCB design part, but I&#8217;m learning and enjoying the electronics portion so much that I haven&#8217;t been able to pull myself away. Already I&#8217;ve added a few more things to my wishlist (a signal generator, a set of thru-hole diodes, etc.) and acquired a renewed sense of vigor and enthusiasm for my portable payphone project, which fell by the wayside in the old house when I ran into issues trying to power it properly.  Exciting times indeed. It&#8217;s one thing being able to troubleshoot a circuit by trial and error. It&#8217;s another thing to understand the math and theory behind it and be able to make it right &#8212; or even make it better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be sure to register for the meeting so that I can be sure to have enough <s>beer<\/s> chairs for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are rolling right along for December&#8217;s meeting. I hope to see a bunch of you on the 16th. 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