Mythbusters and RFID

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 No Comments

I ran across this article on one of my favorite geek-sites, Engadget. Being a huge fan of Mythbusters (along with the rest of my family), I was struck by how frustrated and animated Jamie became when discussing a squashed episode involving them taking a closer look at how hack-able RFID technology can be when not [...]

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Hawkeye: The Scuba Cat

Hawkeye: The Scuba Cat

Thursday, July 17, 2008 No Comments

I am a geek by nature, so I browse many geek-related websites: engadget, ThinkGeek, Wired or Switched. During the last couple weeks my kids were back with during the summer, we became fascinated with the craziest commercials we had ever seen. The folks at HowStuffWWorks released one of their first television commercials featuring the nearly [...]

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Category: Engineering, News, Technology, video

The calm before the storm

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 No Comments

It’s early Wednesday morning and I have finished tackling the mind-numbing task of upgrading my WordPress engine to version 2.5. Not only that, I’ve finally uploaded some of my blog’s pictures that were missed when I transferred this blog over to my new domain. This should be a fine summer; with my kids with me [...]

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Category: News, Personal, University of Iowa

Senior Design: RFID Hacker nearing completion

Thursday, May 1, 2008 No Comments

It’s been a busy semester as Team Wombat has been working at a feverish pitch in order to successfully complete their senior design project: The RFID Hacker. For those that don’t visit this blog often, our senior design project is a device that will read and write RFID tag information. What is RFID? Well, you [...]

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Category: Engineering, Local, News, Personal, Programming, Technology, University of Iowa

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