Stuff I write about

VInnie's substack article stack

Amateur Radio

• Hamming it up - Adventures in Amateur radio

• Friggin in the Riggin - Adventures in Maritime and Aviation radio

• Mayday… - The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)

Search and Rescue

• Rescue Me - Adventures in Search and Rescue

• Woofing in the Woods - Training as a rescue medical professional

• The M part of March - Tourniquet use and training

• Thunderstruck - More than you wanted to know about lightning, much more!

Adventures in Linux

• Leaving the Apple EcoSystem - We got to get ourselves back to the garden.

• Leaving the Apple Ecosystem - part 2 - Time to Monkey around with it.

• Leaving the Apple Ecosystem - part 3 - The day-to-day apps.

PiCar - Raspberry Pi Car Radio Project

• Part 1 - Why would anyone sane do this?

• Part 2 - The Hardware.

• Part 3 - 1-wire temperature sensors

• Part 4 - An Overview of the Software

• Part 5 - GPS, or where the heck are we?

• Part 6 - Can you hear me now? - Raspberry Pi Audio.

• Part 7 - Software Defined Radio.

• Part 8 - Who ate all the CPU?

• Part 9 - Play that funky music ...

• PiCar in MagPi Magazine

• Demo Video

• Tech Talk Video

• PiCar Build Notes and GitHub link

Various pieces of hardware I constructed for PiCar

• Rings and Knobs - Rotary encoder and LED rings

• Power Management Part 1 - Safe shutoff switch

• Power Management Part 2 - Turning on the Radio

CAN bus and Hacking your Car Network

• Part 1 - ODB vs. CAN bus,

• Part 2 - Connecting Raspberry Pi to CAN

• Part 3 - Reverse Engineering CAN packets

• Part 4 - Writing code to talk to CAN

• Part 5 - ODB and older cars

Home/Farm Automation

• Chicken Coop with RaspberryPi

• Chicken Coop with Arduino platform

• Using a Raspberry Pi to measure the cistern level

• A standby power system for a well-pump

Raspberry Pi Client/Server topics

• Part 1 - architecture

• Part 2 - Server Code

• Part 3 - Client Authentication

• Part 4 - Debugging REST with PAW

• SQLite for your Raspberry Pi

• Preventing SQLite Injection attacks

Other Raspberry Pi Topics

• Using a Raspberry Pi to track Aircraft

• BLE on Raspberry Pi

• Dealing with I2C Noise

• Vinnie’s Raspberry Pi Setup

What I do

• What Wikipedia thinks I do

• What LinkedIn thinks I do

• What Apple thought I did (Slow connection)

• What Financial Crypto World thought I did (even Slower)

• Playlist from the first MacCrypto Workshop 1996

• What I really do...

Older Stuff

• We have always been at war with Cryptography

• Verifying Authenticity of Public Keys with BlockChain

• Self-Destructing Data

• Silent Text - from Wayback Machine

• Silent Text Design Notes (GitHub)

Old Videos From ZDC / 4th-A