Samstag, 10. Januar 2015

Triplet ceiling lamp


A lamp made out of three Hella fog lamps ('Hella 1NL 008 090-821' to be exact).

The lamps are mounted upside down and are adjusted to light the ceiling but not the wall. They are nearly parallel to the ground but still only light the upper part. So you can see the exit point of the light but it doesn't dazzle.

The 12V transformator is contained in an Ikea Blanda Blank metal bowl - perfect fit.

A learning: Do not use speaker cable for anything that gets hot! I had this mounted 3 month ago, but the isolation of the speaker cabling melted and shorted. Thankfully I was in the room and could switch it of before everything went to hell.

Downsides: Gets horribly hot, draws just under 300W, really expensive (around 150€ in parts)


Freitag, 2. Januar 2015

My 31c3 watch list

I went to the 31c3 and watched a lot of awesome talks. Here is my list of good stuff (still expanding):

Security

Too Many Cooks - Exploiting the Internet-of-TR-069-Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFP5YcvQsKM

SS7: Locate. Track. Manipulate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ0I5tl0YLY

Mobile self-defense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeCkO0fWWqc

Gefahren von Kameras für (biometrische) Authentifizierungsverfahren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIY6k4gvQsY

Vor Windows 8 wird gewarnt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCVFHLVsk44

The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gweDBQ-9LuQ


NSA

NSA: Tell no-one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh9txt1TGt8

Inside Field Station Berlin Teufelsberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l4B7C5MNMQ


Society

What Ever Happened to Nuclear Weapons?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKxj-Jh9pmY

Mit Kunst die Gesellschaft hacken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=colBviXfHKA

The Cloud Conspiracy 2008-2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijr0E6Lw4Nk


Culture

The Only Thing We Know About Cyberspace Is That Its 640x480
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucMDGKc00DA