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Extracting and dissecting Neato Connected firmware to control high-end vacuum cleaners The Neato Botvac Connected vacuum cleaners offer a nice platform with up-to-date sensors, including laser scanner mapping your home. The newest Neatos, which are coupled to cloud services over WiFi, run QNX and little was known about them so far. Connected vacuum cleaners are an interesting target regarding priv...

Wir lassen die MRMCDinale beginnen – mit einem kurzen Überblick, was alles auf dem Kinoprogramm steht, und womit sich die Kinobegeisterten in den Pausen so beschäftigen können. about this event: https://talks.mrmcd.net/2018/talk/CKUYQ9

Eine schnelle Einführung in [angr](https://github.com/angr/angr), eine Binary Analyse Platform und Vorstellung eines Plugins bzw experimentellen Frontends das wir nebenher entwickeln. Angr ist ein opensource Framework um diverse Aufgaben im Binary Analyse Kontext zu implementieren und zu automatisieren. Es kann zur konkreten Emulation, symbolischer Ausführung und statischer Analyse verwendet werde...

In diesem Film geht es um die Geschichte von Yachten, deren Elektronischen Systeme an Bord, wie alles untereinander vernetzt ist und letztendlich ans Internet angeschlossen wurde. FSK 16+ In meinem Vortrag zeige ich, wie moderne Yachten aufgebaut sind, welche Systeme an Bord zur Navigation und Steuerung eingesetzt werden und wie diese miteinander interagieren. Anhand von 2 verwundbaren System mit...

People coming from other languages can find a lot of familiar aspects in Rust’s traits: Traits are somewhat like interfaces, and also somewhat like type classes, and also like… classes? This talk will try to give you an overview of what traits are and how you can use them to make your code more concise and flexible. about this event: https://c3voc.de

This talk explains how you can use the Fn* traits to properly accept functions and closures as function parameters, and gives an overview of which closures implement which traits. about this event: https://c3voc.de

I’ll take some time to explain what is Wayland and why it’s here to stay. Then, I’ll give a high level overview of the state of Rust on Wayland: how to write servers and clients, and how far along we can get with Rust. I want to focus on Smithay projects, and wlroots-rs. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Nobel-prize winning Professor Richard Feynman is known not only for his dramatic contributions to theoretical physics, his teaching of physics and his testimony on the Challenger disaster, but also for his unconventional life. Noted for picking locks, questioning authority, and unapologetic playing of bongos, the physics superstar also dabbled in life drawing and testified to the acceptability of...

Members of the EMF infrastructure teams (network, power, video, telephony) will give some insight into how we delivered these services this year. We'll explain particularly some of the new challenges faced at Eastnor, and the new services we've delivered, along with sharing some statistics on how they were used. This year we'll also talk about some of the automation we've developed over the last f...

I hacked a domestic knitting machine from the 1980s and turned it into a network printer. I'll show you how I did it using a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino compatible board, Python and a PHP/MySQL web interface. I share my source code. I'll also take you through a brief showcase of what I've done with my printer since automating it, including Stargazing: a knitted tapestry on show for the first time her...

I'm James, and I'm responsible for firing literally hundreds of billions of (low power) laser pulses at the countryside in the UK through my work at Gigaclear, a rural FTTH ISP. We're using mobile mapping technologies to make better maps of the country for our network planners. In this talk I'll provide an overview of Mobile Mapping technologies, precision location (and the technology to achieve i...

Making is cool, but we talk and think a lot less about maintenance. Everything we make - software, hardware, communities - needs to be looked after, if it is useful. Sadly, maintaining, repairing and sustaining can be challenging in a fast-moving era, where this work can be seen as boring and low value, compared to the excitement around inventing or making new things. It is easy to forget that app...

Contemporary software engineering is at a crucial juncture in the evolution as a discipline. We’re professionalising and expanding our abilities, but in doing so we’re encountering dramatic new risks and venturing into new ethical territory. In this way, we share similarities with the expansion of traditional civil engineering during the industrial revolution. In this talk I’ll discuss what lesson...

I've designed a series of PCB modules that can be wired in series to form wearable circuits: necklaces, bracelets, or even epaulets and other accessories. Each small PCB has solderable pads for large SMD or through-hole components – including LEDs, resistors, coin battery holders, and so forth. Each holds one component, except for a few which are decorative (such as LED diffusers), and I plan to e...

How can classical ballet be used a medium for computer science theory, digital ethics and visualisation biometric data including EEG? What will the future hold for the human body and communication when we boldly go into space? What ethical consideration must we take to ensure that it is the many who control their personal data? We’ve been making educational, technologically exciting ballets and pe...

Its difficult to say how many mountains in the world have never been climbed - probably thousands. Breaking new ground is always exciting, whether in mountaineering or mathematics. We'll talk about our experiences making several first ascents of unclimbed peaks in the Indian Himalaya and the Kyrgyz Tien Shan, and some of the surprising similarities to our other lives in research and development. W...

Orbs are located all over the site, hung in lots of locations (aiming for 30). Players use an RFID card to capture the orb for their team, changing the orbs colour. A website shows which team hold which orbs and tracks who is winning, with a live scoreboard in the null sector. This talk is a breakdown of how it all works, the orbs themselves and the game architecture. The hardware inside the orbs,...

Everyone has visited a hacker conference, but not many have seen it through the eyes of an organizer. As someone who has worked hard behind the scenes to make SHA2017 one of the more awesome events, I am giving you a firsthand experience on the good, the bad and the ugly of event organisation. about this event: https://c3voc.de

The Large Hadron Collider is the latest step in the continuing endeavour of particle physicists to understand our universe. Colliding hydrogen nuclei 40 million times every second the LHC is a powerful microscope looking into the world of the microcosm. Experiments like ATLAS are detecting the products of these collisions. The large amount of data generated by these detectors are analysed by an in...

Most people know that you can have your ashes launched into space, or made into a diamond once you’ve been cremated, but being cremated is far from your only option. From alkaline hydrolysis to freeze-drying, there are many (legal) ways to dispose of a body. Whether you want to nourish fungi, roses, a coral reef or the minds of trainee doctors, your remains could make the world a better place. Why...

At EMF it's easy to see lots of cool things and think you "that's awesome, but I couldn't possibly do that!": this talk is about how to overcome that feeling and get started in a new domain. Two years ago, despite having not done any woodwork since high school, I decided to turn my hand at building electric guitars; with success enough that people are now commissioning me to make them for them. Bu...

We spent thousands of pounds and hundreds of hours building the most awesome 110kg combat robot ever to be dreamt up and then the BBC goes and cancels Robot Wars. Here's the story how Deadlock was thought up, designed and made by 3 people in a garage as well as what our plans are now. about this event: https://c3voc.de

In 1976, in an amusement park in Southern California, the crew of The Six Million Dollar Man were setting up a scene in a fun house. They moved a waxwork dummy, accidentally broke off its arm, and discovered that rather than being made of wax, it was made of a real dead guy. With a bit of investigation, the coroner discovered it was Elmer McCurdy, a failed bank robber who died in 1911. Between his...

When you share an office with a CT scanner you start to look at the world differently, it's like having X-Ray vision (because it is X-ray vision really); you know you can look inside just about anything you like (as long as it is dead and will fit in a Pringles can.) Over the last 10 years or so I've been developing different types of CT scanner and finding uses for them that are not just the usua...

Our ability to measure time has become so good that we've run into a problem. The Earth isn't very accurate. Which is awkward. Leap Seconds are our current best effort to bridge the widening gap between Atomic Time and the actual rotation of the Earth. But the addition of a leap second causes no-end of headaches for technology systems that often prefer to ignore it. In this talk I'd like to trace...