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.

Speaking of DEFCON, I leave for DEFCON 18 in about fifteen days. For those of you who haven’t heard, my talk on “VirGraf101: Introduction to Virtual Graffiti” got accepted this year and I’ll be speaking on Friday at 1600. I’ll post a second blog with my best-guess itinerary for the show this year. Chances are that I won’t follow my own schedule, but I will try my best and you can always follow me on Twitter (@tottenkoph). I will have the slides that I’m using during the presentation up on tottenkoph.com Thursday night/Friday morning so that those of you unable to attend can see them and those who are attending can see them beforehand and prepare to throw your best questions at me (well, your second-best questions. Don’t be an over-achiever).

Another reason why the blog hasn’t been updated recently is that Rain and I just became the owners of neuronumerous.com It is completely empty right now, but we are working on making a place for neurohackers that not only has a collection of neurohacking presentations, but also a list of links and various other bits for the budding neurophyte (think of something similar to BoingBoing or Mind Hacks).

That’s all for now, kids. I need to go get more coffee and stare at the screen for another 6.5 hours.

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

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.

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

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).

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!

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)

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.

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?