#October 2016 prodigy hacks serial#
#October 2016 prodigy hacks portable#

and his colleague were passing USB sticks back and forth to get software running on a machine without Internet. Like all good technology, the USB Borg Drive began as a joke. ItвЂ™s two (or more) mirrored USB thumb drives linked together by condescending condensation saying you too can have the cloud in both your pockets. ThatвЂ™s the idea behind the USB Borg Drive. A collaborative Dropbox running on hardware you own isnвЂ™t a bad idea, and a physical device that does the same is a pretty good idea. It was a stupid phrase then, and itвЂ™s a stupid phrase now, but the idea behind it does have some merit. It came, I believe, from an asinine press release I read years ago. I did not coin the phrase in this articleвЂ™s headline. Posted in Slider, Wireless Hacks Tagged ESP, ESP8266, War Walking, wardriving, wifi

ItвЂ™s a brilliantly simple device for War Walking, and the addition of a small LiPo makes this a much better value than the same circuit with a larger pricetag.

#October 2016 prodigy hacks serial#

The software is based on platformio, and dumps all the WiFi info you could want over the serial port or displays it right on the OLED. A $2 SPI OLED display is the user interface, and the rest of the circuit is just some perfboardВ and a few wires. This board is available for $3.77 in quantityВ one, with free shipping. The core of the buildВ is an ESP-based carrier board built for NodeMCU. can build his version for $6 in materials. The Dope Scope is a capable device, but itвЂ™s marketed towards the 1337 utilikilt-wearing, The Prodigy-blasting pentesters of the world.В It is, therefore, a ripoff.

#October 2016 prodigy hacks portable#

ItвЂ™s based on the WarCollar Dope Scope, a tiny, portable device consisting of an off-the-shelf Chinese OLED display, an ESP8266 module, and a PCB that can charge batteries, provide a serial port, and ties the whole thing together with jellybean glue. TheВ War Walker didnвЂ™t appear out of a vacuum. His solution was to build a War Walker, a tiny handheld device that would listen in WiFi access points, return the signal strength, and monitor the 2.4GHz environment around him.

A laptop would do, but WiFi modules and tiny OLED displays are cheap now. Needed a tool to diagnose and fix his friendвЂ™s and familyвЂ™s WiFi.