2. August 2010 by admin.

Due to personal time and monetary restraints, I will be unable to continue doing the project a day for the remainder of the year. I am working on the plans for projects and saving so that I can pick it up at the first of 2011. This was something that I was really looking forward to doing, but have to give up in order to preserve my sanity. My sincerest apologies to those who were waiting for these updates. I do promise that they will be continued and that I will be spending the rest of this year preparing for the next so that it can be accomplished without any major setbacks, as this is something that is near and dear to me.

I do promise that the next post will be a lot more happy-making.

-Tottie

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14. July 2010 by admin.

As promised, here is the second post that deals entirely with DEFCON 18 plans. I don’t know if I’ll be following them closely or not. As stated in the last post, I kind of suck at keeping schedules at DEFCON. There’s so much stuff to do and I either get ADD and try to do everything or I follow Rain around for most of the con and will keep Twitter (@tottenkoph) updated no matter what. But this is what I’m planning so far…

I should be touching down in LAS around 1400 PDT. If there is anyone who is getting in around the same time, my friends and I would be more than happy to share a taxi or (if there are enough people) get a limo. I have no plans whatsoever between then and the Summit. I highly recommend people attend. For those of you who don’t know what the Summit is, it’s an opportunity to raise money for the EFF. The Mini Bosses and Dual Core will both be performing there this year (for more information click here) . After that? Probably mass consumption of beverages.

Friday, I would like to go to the 1000 talk on “How to Get Your FBI File…” by Marcia Hoffman, but getting up that early would be really ambitious of me and I don’t think it will happen. What’s most likely going to happen is that I’ll procure bacon and caffeine and generally kill time with Rain until her talk at 1200 on “Build a Lie Detector/Beat a Lie Detector”. Probably attend her Q&A and generally tool around/try not to throw up between then and 1600. I’ll be MIA from 1500-1600 because the speaker goons (and possibly Nikita) will deal unspeakable bodily harm to me if I am not in the green room during that time. My talk is at 1600, followed by the Q&A session (during which I will try my hardest not to rant about how much I hate a certain evil telecommunications company and love the Graffiti Research Lab). But I may be drunk. So there will be no promises…. Kill time until 1930 when Zoz is talking about “Pwned By the Owner: What Happens When You Steal a Hacker’s Computer”.

I will be attending random events Friday night as well as getting Jayson Street (@jaysonstreet on Twitter) to sign my copy of his book. Repeat mass consumption of beverages.

Saturday is completely up in there air, expect 1400 is Shawn Moyer’s (@shawnmoyer) talk on “Wardriving the Smart Grid: Practical Approaches to Attacking Utility Packet Radios”. At 1500, is James Arlen’s (@myrcurial) talk on “SCADA and ICS for Security Experts: How to Avoid Cyberdouchery”. 1600 is Jayson E. Street’s talk “Deceiving the Heavens to Cross the Sea: Using the 36 stratagems for Social Engineering”.

Repeat consumption of beverages as well as going to 10,000 Cent Pyramid at 2200 on Saturday night.

Flight leaves at 1100 on Sunday for some god awful reason and the taxi/limo share is open to anyone who needs a ride to LAS.

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3. May 2010 by admin.

This week was paper crafts!  I started out on a relatively easy one and then worked my way to a harder one each day. I also thought that it would be better for you all if I did just one post so you don’t get a post every day last week about paper. I didn’t make any of the patterns, but they were still a lot of fun to do. I put the link for each pattern next to the description.

Group shot!

Monday: Companion Cube. From the game Portal. As soon as I find the pattern I used, I’ll post it here.

Tuesday: NES with two controllers. Pattern can be downloaded: HERE

Wednesday: Lon Lon Cow. From the Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. It lives on Lon Lon Ranch where you can get milk from it to replenish your health! Also, did I mention that his head (kinda?) bobbles… Download pattern: HERE

Thursday: Okokok. I know I have a thing for The Legend of Zelda. I can’t help it. This is the treasure chest you see after beating a boss. Download pattern: HERE (NOTE: The link contains all three different types of chests that you can find in Ocarina of Time/Majora’s Mask).

Friday: Blast Mask from Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Made it super easy to kill/destroy stuff without having to make sure you’re carrying enough bombs. Download pattern: HERE

Saturday: Power star from Mario. Would have eyes, but I lost them. So now it’s a blind power star. Download pattern: HERE

Sunday: Grindel and Spindel are two types of Thwomps that first appeared in Super Mario 64. Download Pattern: HERE

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2. May 2010 by admin.

I know you all have heard me whine since last week about last Saturday’s project. Well, here it is…

Materials:
Pink Buttons
White Buttons
Black Buttons
T-Shirt
Thread/Needle
Image you want on shirt

Trace the image on to the shirt

Start sewing the buttons Just keep sewing…
And many buttons and swear words later, you’ll be done.

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29. April 2010 by admin.

Hey all,

While planning hte next… oh, 7 weeks worth of projects, I realized that this will greatly increse the amount of crap I have around. So, unless something is marked “Wanted” or “Promised”, I’m giving away everything I make. If you see something you want, email/dm/message me and let me know and if no one has asked before you, then it’s yours.

Everything from Week 1 (clothes/accessories) is spoken for and this week is papercraft, so (unless you *really* want paper) this will all start this upcoming Monday.  I will send it to you absolutely free, but if you want to show your appreciation I will accept a donation or (even better) a picture of you enjoying the hell out of your shiny new free thing.

xoxo,

Tottie

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24. April 2010 by admin.

Ok. So. I’m not sure if these are shiny or douche-y. I’m leaning more toward the latter. But I could be wrong. Anyways! The second pair of sunglasses will be cute-sy.

Materials:
Sunglasses (found them in closet)
Self-stick rhinestones ($1.78/packet)
Dry erase marker (found)

Use dry erase marker to make dots where you want your rhinestones to go

Carefully place rhinestones. I say this because partway through, I erased some of the little dots I made.

Wear them and bathe in the (cuteness/douchery).

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23. April 2010 by admin.

But I’m still grumbly because I can’t find any damn “hatah blockahs”. How can I make them light up if I don’t have them? How will my favorite pretentious git go on about her days in .ca without back-lit hatah blockahs?! *sigh* So, instead I give you a last minute POV wristband. I’ll make a prettier one at some other point in time.

Materials:
Wristband ($1, Target)
Scotch Velcro fasteners ($4, Target)
Adafruit MiniPOV3 Kit ($17.50, Adafruit.com)

Gather your materials

Build the miniPOV3 (I wasn’t going to take pics of that step-by-step. Sorry.) and then program it.

Put velcro on the back of the miniPOV3 and the other half on the wristband.

Wear it!

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22. April 2010 by admin.

This is the second (and last) post that I owe for the day. I saw these little hats are coming back, but I don’t see the point in buying one. So for half the price, I got some materials and made my own!

Materials:
Cardboard box (small) in shape of choice ($1, Michael’s)
1/4 yd tulle in your choice of color (varies)
Elmer’s glue ($1)
Sequins ($2.50 at Joann Fabrics)
Hot glue gun
Hair clip or head band (whichever you want to affix the finished product to)
Paint in color of choice (varies)
Paintbrush

Take the top of the box and paint it

Once that is dry, do a second coat.

Dab a little bit of glue on the bottom of a sequin and then place it on the hat.

Eventually (it will seem like forever, believe me), it will look something similar to this

Add your tulle to the bottom of it using the hot glue gun

And then affix it to your hair accessory of choice. That’s it. (I lost my hair accessory of choice, so that’s why I’m holding it)

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22. April 2010 by admin.

No, I am not promoting eating disorders. I promised Tyger during DEFCON 17 that if she were to model my motion sickness hat/glasses, I would make her a “I throw up for science” shirt. And then afterward I got busy (read as: forgot). So, what better second project for this thing during the two week “DIY Clothes/Accessories” theme?

Materials:

Shirt ($3 at Michael’s or JoAnn Fabrics)
Sewing hoop (varies depending on size)
Panty hose
Fabric marker in color of your choosing
An image that is simple to trace

Start off by cutting the top and toes part of the pantyhose and stretching it across the hoop (easier said than done unless you get big honking pantyhose).

Lay the hoop so that the hose is touching the image and trace with a permanent marker.

Mine looked like this when I finished tracing (the foot is in the upper corner because I couldn’t get it to fit inside the hoop the way it was.

Lay the hoop on top of the shirt where you want your image to be (this is the time to get out that fabric marker).

Start tracing. I found that it’s easiest if you just draw little dots first. Once you’re done with the dots, connect them. You should be finished unless you want to get all fancy and embellish it. It takes a little while for the marker to dry, so be careful. Don’t wash it for at least 48 hours.

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20. April 2010 by admin.

So. I was told at the beginning of NOTACON 7 that shardy and pretentious git had a present for me. I was touched and a little frightened. Right before I went in with ne0nra1n to give our speech, they both approached me with this:

I wore it during the speech as well as at lunch afterwards and have decided that it is my official speaking hat. Das Tottenhat, if you will. You see, I posted on twitter at some point last year about how people are making necklaces that are gold and topped with I think crystals or fake bling that spells out their twitter names. I thought it was the funniest and gaudiest thing I have ever heard of and evidently pretentious git took it upon herself to make me a hat with shardy.

I don’t know if you can tell, but the hat started it’s life out as an Easter basket.

They then cut out the bottom of the hat and removed the handle and resewed it at the bottom. I can’t fit it under my chin, but I can put my ponytail through it so it is still an epic win. They then inserted 6 white LEDs with 6 coin cell batteries (affixed with tape and safety pins) under the pink felt beneath each pompom.

Then they made a tag with my twitter handle using a laser.

And put pink LEDs behind it on either end.

I absolutely love this hat and even though I didn’t make it myself, I’m using this as my opportunity to announce that this is the first of 365 posts. Every day I will make, hack, or craft something and then post information and pics about it here. The hat will be seen at a later date because I plan on adding an arduino to the inside of it and blink my handle in morse code and wear it at my next (and all subsequent) public gathering (whether it be DEFCON or Maker Faire). How sexy would that be?

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