A Brief Introduction to tmux (A Better Way to Use the Command Line Remotely)
tmux is a terminal multiplexer, a tool that makes working on the command line better and easier. It can allow you to work across connections, and to get multiple views on the computers that you are using. murph will show how it works, how to install it on popular systems, and how to use it.
Amateur Radio Using Digital Modes
You want to play with wireless communications? You heard that getting an amateur radio license expands the spectrum available for you to transmit on? That’s great, but experimenting is all you want to do, and you would like any communication with another “ham” to be kept “short and sweet,” and kept to the experiment at hand. This is what will occur in this workshop. Playing with the various digital modes of communications used in amateur radio can be a good starting point to ease into the hobby, both cheaply and at a comfort zone of human interaction desired. This workshop will introduce various digital mode communications used in amateur radio using a simple setup you can build with a laptop, open-source software, and around $65 USD in hardware.
Anarchist Assembly
Open, gently guided discussion. Open stack, all welcome!
Anarcho Curious
Are you anarcho curious? Bring your thoughts and questions to find out if this is the political tendency you’ve been waiting for!
Arduino For Total Newbies workshop
You’ve probably heard lots about Arduino. But if you don’t know what it is, or how you can use it to do all sorts of cool things, then this fun and easy workshop is for you. Arduino is an amazingly powerful open-source tool that is very simple to learn to use. It was designed so that artists and non-geeks could start from nothing and make something cool happen in less than 90 minutes. Yet it is powerful enough so that uber-geeks can use it for their projects as well. This workshop is easy enough for total newbies to learn all you need to know to get going on an Arduino. Participants will learn everything needed to play with electronics, learn to solder, and learn to use a solderless breadboard to make a TV-B-Gone remote control to turn off TVs in public places - a fun way to learn Arduino (and electronics) basics.
The Basics of Wi-Fi Hacking and Soldering
Want to learn how hackers break into Wi-Fi networks? This workshop introduces you to common wireless attacks, and equips you with the knowledge to defend against them. You’ll walk away with your own cat-shaped hacking companion that you assemble yourself (the DevKitty) - and you’ll also get to code a fun mini project in CircuitPython that alerts you about malicious Wi-Fi activity happening nearby! This workshop is beginner friendly, and all tools will be provided! You’ll learn to solder, code in CircuitPython, and get a basic introduction to wireless reconnaissance plus attack techniques. NOTE: As a prerequisite to this workshop, attendees need to build a DevKitty - there are several “Solder Your Own DevKitty” workshops given each day at the DevKitty Village where you can do this.
BlueLeaks Explorer: Learn to Analyze Hacked Police Documents
In conjunction with Micah’s talk (“Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data”), he will be teaching a workshop specifically about one of the datasets: BlueLeaks. In the summer of 2020, during the BLM uprising, someone hacked hundreds of U.S. law enforcement websites and leaked the data to Distributed Denial of Secrets. The dataset contains evidence of police misconduct. In this workshop, he’ll share a copy of the BlueLeaks dataset - which is full of documents marked “Law Enforcement Sensitive,” including from agencies like FBI and DHS - with all participants and teach you how to start analyzing it. Specifically, you’ll learn how to run custom software Micah wrote called BlueLeaks Explorer directly on your laptop, running inside Docker containers. Bring a laptop running Linux, Windows, or macOS and, if possible, an external hard disk. You’ll need about 300GB of free disk space.
Bringing Privacy-Focused Computing Curriculum to Your School
Weary of corporate-influenced computer science education? Looking to bring privacy-focused computing curricula to your middle school? This workshop will provide a deeper dive into the design of our public interest computer science curriculum for educators. It will provide hands-on training, discussion, and next steps for educators to bring this curriculum to their school.
Build Your Own Satellite Ground Station
Are you fascinated by space and want to learn how to receive data from satellites and weather probes? In this TinyGS station workshop, you’ll build and program your ground station and antenna to receive data from space. This hands-on, beginner-friendly workshop is perfect for anyone interested in radio, electronics, IOT, antenna design, and space exploration.
TinyGS is an open community-run network of ground stations distributed around the world to receive and operate LoRa satellites, weather probes, and other flying objects, using cheap and versatile modules. With a TinyGS ground station, you can receive data from a variety of sources, such as CubeSats.
During the workshop, you’ll learn how to build and program a TinyGS ground station and a quarter-wave ground plane antenna. No prior experience is required.
Build Your Own Simple CMOS Noise Synthesizer
Grab a soldering iron and enter the wonderful world of synth DIY! In just a few hours, you can build your own batwing synth, a touch synthesizer which uses just a few CMOS chips and passive components, but can create many interesting digital blips, drones, and squelches, all controllable via six knobs, three touchpoints, and modular synth-compatible inputs and outputs.
Build Your Own Toolkit Against Online Censorship: VPNs, Strategies and Beyond With Outline
Sander Bruens Vinicius Fortuna Junyi Yi
In an era of escalating online censorship, maintaining a free and open Internet is crucial. This workshop delves into the Outline ecosystem, a comprehensive toolkit that empowers individuals and organizations to circumvent censorship, share VPN access, and even develop their own blocking-resistant protocols. Participants will gain the knowledge and skills to:
Become VPN Providers: Learn to set up and manage your own Outline server using Outline Manager to share free Internet access with others.
Harness the Outline SDK: Utilize Outline SDK to test and evaluate censorship circumvention strategies, create small tools, and even develop new protocols in restricted regions.
This workshop is designed for individuals passionate about Internet freedom and those seeking to understand the technical underpinnings of censorship circumvention. Participants will gain hands-on experience with the Outline platform, enabling them to actively contribute to a more open and accessible Internet.
Build your own ArduBoy
DIY ArduBoy is comprised of an Arduino micro, OLED display, and six buttons. A piezo speaker is optional. It’s super easy to build this on a breadboard or to solder it together. You can easily put one together within 30 minutes and then load up your favorite game. What’s great about this is that people can continue to learn and code on the device after they have taken it home, and perhaps add more features, like a rechargeable battery. Construct a quick and dirty open-source video game system! Learn how each component works as you solder it to a custom designed circuit board. Add buttons, buzzer, and an OLED display to an Arduino to create a DIY Arduboy! Beginner friendly: time and support will be offered for first timers. It is great for confidence-building. Please note that this is not primarily designed as a “learn to solder” workshop.
CascaMesa passive drum, drone, and drama machine workshop
Participants in this workshop will all make a CascaMesa passive drum, drone, and drama machine, a music synthesizer that runs off of almost no external power - for the off-grid raver in all of us. No prior electronics or soldering experience is needed. Ever power an instrument off the microbes found in a bucket of mud? Because this guy totally does that. As a bonus, if you’re slightly more traditional in your music making, you can also hook it to the usual CV sources and drum triggers for a wide array of chirps, blips, and beats of the chip-tuney EDM variety. In short, it’s a win-win for everyone - the hippies, the ravers, and, most importantly, you.
Cat-Shaped Wi-Fi Defender: Hands On Hacker Hunting With Microcontrollers
Become a Wi-Fi investigator: Uncover Hidden Wi-Fi Cameras, network Intruders, and more with the Wi-Fi Nugget. In this workshop, we'll use a cute, cat-shaped microcontroller board to catch hackers using well-known hacking tools like a Wi-Fi Pineapple, hunt down suspicious Wi-Fi devices like hidden cameras, and detect jamming attacks. We’ll explore how low-cost microcontrollers can be used to unmask and track down Wi-Fi hacking tools, or locate unwanted devices on your local network.
Cat-Themed USB Hacking and Soldering (Day 1)
Want to learn how hackers compromise unlocked computers in seconds? Come build your own USB attack tool in this beginner-friendly workshop and learn to write prank payloads with your new cat-shaped hacking companion! This workshop is beginner friendly. In the first part, you’ll be familiarized with soldering techniques and tools, and guided through assembling a DevKitty - which comprises a cat-shaped PCB, screen, microcontroller, and a 3D printed enclosure. The second half of the workshop introduces basic USB hacking techniques and common real-world scenarios. You’ll be guided through scripting fun prank payloads and learn to deploy attacks remotely using “ScriptKitty” software! NOTE: As a prerequisite to this workshop, attendees need to build a DevKitty - there are several “Solder Your Own DevKitty” workshops given each day at the DevKitty Village where you can do this.
Cat-Themed USB Hacking and Soldering (Day 3)
Want to learn how hackers compromise unlocked computers in seconds? Come build your own USB attack tool in this beginner-friendly workshop and learn to write prank payloads with your new cat-shaped hacking companion! This workshop is beginner friendly. In the first part, you’ll be familiarized with soldering techniques and tools, and guided through assembling a DevKitty - which comprises a cat-shaped PCB, screen, microcontroller, and a 3D printed enclosure. The second half of the workshop introduces basic USB hacking techniques and common real-world scenarios. You’ll be guided through scripting fun prank payloads and learn to deploy attacks remotely using “ScriptKitty” software! NOTE: As a prerequisite to this workshop, attendees need to build a DevKitty - there are several “Solder Your Own DevKitty” workshops given each day at the DevKitty Village where you can do this.
Crack the Code of Government Transparency: FOIA Strategies
Ever felt stonewalled when seeking information from the government for advocacy, journalism, education, watchdog activities, technology policy, civil liberties, or just simple curiosity? Join attorney Michael Ravnitzky, a national Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) expert, as he reveals his Top 20 FOIA tips. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll gain insights from his extensive experience with thousands of successful public records requests, and build your records access skills. This workshop is a practical guide to crafting compelling requests, navigating bureaucratic mazes, overcoming unwarranted denials, and obtaining the data you need in the most useful formats. He will discuss real-world FOIA challenges and roadblocks for a session of collaborative problem-solving. This session will also explore the concept of a FOIA Requesters Bill of Rights, to help create a future where access to information is more robust and user-friendly.
Create your own IoT Weather Station with Adafruit IO and CircuitPython
Want to combine sensors with the cloud? Create a Wi-Fi connected weather station with a dashboard and more using CircuitPython, a cat-shaped microcontroller dev board, and Adafruit IO. Perfect for any makers wanting to try connecting hardware with the cloud.
Materials cost: $75
Creative Problem-Solving
This training program immerses participants into using both familiar and unfamiliar creative methodologies, problem-solving techniques, and the application of diverse tool sets. This comprehensive program spans from understanding the fundamentals of creativity to the practical utilization of creative tool kits for generating and focusing options in problem-solving scenarios. By the end of the day, participants will be equipped with the skills and knowledge necessary for creative problem-solving, fostering an innovative mindset, and providing practical tools for addressing challenges in real-world scenarios.
Digital Music Synthesis/Solder workshop with ArduTouch synth kit
Learn to solder together a way cool, powerful music synthesizer - and learn how to make cool music, sound, and noise with a computer chip! For total beginners. Participants will learn to solder well for life, learn the basics of digital signal processing, and bring home a working performing music synthesizer that is Arduino-compatible, open source, with a touch keyboard and a built-in speaker/amp.
Electronic Badge Hacking (Fri ONGOING)
The Badge Clinic will be hosting an ongoing workshop for all three days of HOPE XV, where everyone can come by and learn about (hack) their hackercon badges. Come by with your stories, questions, and answers! Nurses at The Badge Clinic serve electronic therapy to hackers interested in badges. They can surgically repair badge problems and advise on all hackercon electronic badge-related topics.
Ongoing at The Badge Clinic.
Electronic Badge Hacking (Sat ONGOING)
The Badge Clinic will be hosting an ongoing workshop for all three days of HOPE XV, where everyone can come by and learn about (hack) their hackercon badges. Come by with your stories, questions, and answers! Nurses at The Badge Clinic serve electronic therapy to hackers interested in badges. They can surgically repair badge problems and advise on all hackercon electronic badge-related topics.
Ongoing at The Badge Clinic.
Electronic Badge Hacking (Sun ONGOING)
The Badge Clinic will be hosting an ongoing workshop for all three days of HOPE XV, where everyone can come by and learn about (hack) their hackercon badges. Come by with your stories, questions, and answers! Nurses at The Badge Clinic serve electronic therapy to hackers interested in badges. They can surgically repair badge problems and advise on all hackercon electronic badge-related topics.
Ongoing at The Badge Clinic.
Emergent Objects
Create an electronic circuit on a solderless breadboard and control it by programming a Raspberry PI Pico W microcontroller. You will need a laptop with a USB A port to set up the development environment. You will learn to program your Raspberry Pi with CircuitPython. Circuit diagrams and starter code will be provided. You can mix and match a variety of input and output peripherals to create a device of your own.
Everyone Is Shanti Sena
Anonapussy Garrick Beck Rob Savoye
Shanti Sena is a version of community policing that has been in practice for over 50 years at Rainbow Gatherings. It is one way to begin implementing de-tasking, which is an alternative to calling the police should a disruption occur. The workshop includes a history of Rainbow Gatherings, Shanti Sena at Rainbow Gatherings, and five types of Shanti Sena. It also covers Rainbow’s connection with Occupy Wall Street. Included will be a video demonstration of Shanti Sena in action. You will see how Rainbow is the opposite of cancel culture, learn diffusion tips with love as the main ingredient, and practice roll playing in different scenarios.
Exploring telecom point-to-point wireless
I'm a wireless network engineer based out of scranton, and kinda i want to bring up a few things and have the community brain trust take a poke at them; have done a fair amount of reverse (and initial) engineering on certain systems in the wireless point to point telecoms niche, and am to points with them where i'm not going to get further quickly on my own,
Basically a "here's what we know about the radio, here's the attack exposure, here's the root pass, here's this really cool group of pins i found that looks like stdout but i can't seem to get it to make sense" play with it type deal on the ceragon ip-20 platform that's currently whitelabeled as the Cambium 820 platform and in use in networks worldwide- the manufacturer won't play nice with documentation and i think the community as a whole is pretty good at responding to those types of situations when the need is made clear, anyway.
Free software education - Together, we can spread the word
Do you want to help create educational material about free software that can be used by teachers, professors, lecturers and free software activists around the world? If you believe that education is vital for a free future and you want to help educate the youth that will make a difference, come to this workshop and, together, let's come up with a game plan and concrete materials. The goal of this workshop is to come up with specific messaging, create educational materials we can share with institutions and maybe even a game plan to activate it. Whether you are a student or an educator yourself, or you have experience with free software activism in any way, your educational knowledge is valuable and can aid free software activism.
Geodesic Dome Building
Make a 50cm model of a geodesic dome. The Geodesic Dome was given to the world by R. Buckminster Fuller over 50 years ago. Natalie Williams intends to revitalize the concept of Geodesics through education workshops and construction camps. Geodesic Structures – domes (hemispheres) and spheres ( soccer balls ) are made up of hexagons and pentagons; these open span structures are remarkably light and strong. Come and construct a dome or a sphere model; all materials will be provided.
Get Your Amateur (Ham) Radio License in a Single Day
Nicole Adams Dan Romanchik Ed Wilson
This workshop will teach attendees what they need to know to pass the Technician class amateur radio license exam and get started in amateur radio. It includes six hours of instruction, with the exam administered immediately after the workshop.
It is sometimes said that radio amateurs were the original hackers, cobbling together transmitters and receivers from odds, ends, and discarded electronics. Radio amateurs continue this tradition today, and in addition to building their own gear, they’re hacking on digital communications systems, including both hardware and software. Amateur radio is a great hobby for electronics enthusiasts and, increasingly, for hardware and software hackers.
Participants will increase their chances of passing the test if they download the study guide from https://www.kb6nu.com/study-guides/ and familiarize themselves with the material before coming to the workshop. The text for this workshop is Dan’s No Nonsense Technician Class License Study Guide. The PDF version of the study guide is available for free at the above page. EPUB and print versions are also available for a small charge.
Group Decision-Making Governance
All are welcome to this facilitated group workshop on sharing and comparing experiences of group decision-making. Everyone who wants to gets a turn. The point is to explore the challenges of holding power together and add to people’s toolkit of collective sense-making, collective intelligence, and group decision-making approaches in order to enhance the ability of HOPE attendees to take collective action in whatever contexts they may exist within. Participants will see where the conversation goes regarding further exploration of specific challenges or entertaining ideas for addressing specific challenges.
Hacking the Business
The chasm between technical hacking outcomes and their business implications remains a critical barrier to effective security measures. This workshop, "Hacking the Business," aims to bridge this gap by empowering hackers and technical professionals with the tools and techniques necessary to communicate the business impact of their findings and the value they add to the company.
Hackers possess the unique ability to identify vulnerabilities that, if unaddressed, can lead to devastating breaches affecting not just the IT infrastructure but the entire business's bottom line. However, without proper translation, these technical insights often fail to resonate with decision-makers, resulting in underfunded security initiatives and overlooked vulnerabilities.
By mastering the art of translating technical risks into business language, hackers can significantly elevate their role within an organization. This essential skill ensures not only greater visibility and recognition for their work but also positions them as vital contributors to the company's strategic objectives. Hackers will learn to articulate the value of proactive security measures, leading to stronger alignment with business goals, increased investment in cybersecurity initiatives, and broader opportunities to apply creative problem-solving skills to protect and drive business success.
Hands-On Linux: A Practical Introduction for Everyday Users
Dive into Linux with this hands-on workshop! Explore essential concepts, from file navigation to terminal commands, and even install Linux yourself. Whether you’re new to Linux or looking to deepen your skills, you will learn to unlock its potential for productivity and innovation.
How to Hunt and Map Wi-Fi Devices
This workshop takes your wireless reconnaissance skills to the next level through a fun Wi-Fi foxhunting challenge! You’ll learn about wardriving - a technique used by hackers to map wireless devices while driving past them - and use your cat-themed hacking companion to gather intelligence on wireless targets. You’ll even be introduced to practical wardriving applications - like detecting stalkers - and learn how you can visualize devices around you on a map through Python. NOTE: As a prerequisite to this workshop, attendees need to build a DevKitty - there are several “Solder Your Own DevKitty” workshops given each day at the DevKitty Village where you can do this.
How to Talk to Humans
· The attendees will learn how to express their needs and describe a negative situation in a positive way.
· The attendees will learn how to communicate and negotiate with upper management, colleagues, and across departments.
· The attendees will learn from successful cases on obtaining the resources and support needed for a project.
Rationale:
A good idea without being carried out is the same as no ideas. IT security specialists utilize their expertise to present solutions that can effectively prevent potential harm to an organization. These ideas are helpful only if the projects are approved and receive funding and resources. This workshop offers tools and presents successful cases on how the person responsible for IT (Security) can have a better chance of receiving the necessary support.
Interfaces for Data Consent
How can clear, effective, and fluid interfaces for consent be built into digital public infrastructure and data governance?
Some examples of cultural frameworks and interfaces for consent include: Betty Martin’s Wheel of Consent; informed consent in medicine; University Title IX Policies of Affirmative Consent; Sociocracy’s “Consent Decision-Making”; consensus decision making; opt-in vs. opt-out; consent profiles; GDPR cookie consent interfaces; Creative Commons licensing; open-source licensing, GPL3, and copyleft; and more!
As we translate cultural frameworks for consent into interactable consent interfaces, how can we implement privacy and cryptography tools to provide backend consent guarantees?
The first half of the workshop will be a short (~20 min) talk, introducing cultural frameworks for consent, existing digital interfaces, and proposals for ways emerging privacy and cryptography tools can support implementations of consent interfaces. The rest of the workshop (~40 min) will be a co-design session with workshop participants as a speculative exercise for what consentful, privacy-preserving, and agency-encouraging interactions may look like in a digital ecosystem.
Introduction to Hardware Programming with CircuitPython on the USB Nugget
CircuitPython is a wonderful tool if you want to begin your hardware world adventures! Come to learn hardware exploration basics with CircuitPython and the USB Nugget - a cat-shaped device with an OLED screen, buttons, a Neopixel, and a whole bunch of GPIOs you can plug straight into a breadboard!
Required for workshop: computer with Google Chrome
Materials cost: $80
Introduction to Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning, the fun way
This introduction workshop equips the participants with the skills to build and implement their NLP pipeline from scratch. Instead of focusing on working exclusively with GUIs and LLMs, we teach the fundamentals of NLP by writing actual code with a top-down approach. We do this while providing engaging and interesting code examples and exercises. The web is full of funky datasets, and language models are, well...language models. Are you interested in building stuff with us?
At the completion of the workshop, participants will learn:
- how to differentiate NLP tasks and their implementation types
- what language models are and how they work
- how to pick the right model for the task
- how to build a pipeline: the difference between using GUI and hands-on coding
- how to load models from diverse deep-learning framework hubs
- how to train a model and fine-tune it to address domain-specific taskings
- How to save a model and weights
- how to measure model efficiency and measurement limitations
- how to iterate on an NLP project
Is There HOPE for Phone Privacy? CalyxOS and Privacy-Focused FLOSS Phone Solutions
Your phone: useful tool and trusted companion, or sneaky spy spilling all the private details of your life? You decide! This presentation aims to shed light on the phone privacy threats that users face (like location tracking, insecure communications, and more) and how privacy-focused FOSS smartphone operating systems like CalyxOS can be the foundation of effective mitigation strategies to safeguard our mobile devices. This workshop will discuss the top threats to phone privacy and learn how CalyxOS’ “privacy-by-design” approach to digital security can help us better protect ourselves and our digital identities.
LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone! workshop
Learn how to light up LED strips with a cheap Arduino and make your life trippy and beautiful! For total beginners - no knowledge needed at all. LED strips have become really inexpensive. People have created many way-cool methods of controlling their color and brightness. This workshop shows one way to control LED strips using open-source tools to make them do what you want. You will use a very cheap Arduino clone, and will learn everything you need to know to use existing programs - as-is or to hack on - to control the colors in your world with LED strips.
Learn BadUSB Hacking With the USB Nugget
In this workshop, you’ll learn to write BadUSB scripts to hack computers using a cute, cat-shaped hacking tool called the USB Nugget. You’ll learn to write scripts to get computers of any operating system to do your bidding in seconds, and also how to automate nearly any desired action remotely. If you want to learn scripting like the USB Rubber Ducky, but with a Wi-Fi interface and more, this workshop is for you! A computer with Google Chrome is required for this workshop.
Learn Beginner Soldering With the Meow Mixer Badge
Want to learn how to solder? Create your own interactive, color-tuning cat badges with the Meow Mixer! In this workshop, you’ll solder together a light-up, cat-shaped badge that teaches a simple RGB tuning circuit. By turning the red, green, or blue knob, you can adjust the color of the cat’s eyes. Perfect for beginners and soldering experts wanting to make a fun and cute badge. A computer with Google Chrome is required for this workshop.
Learn Hardware Basics With DevKitty! (Day 1)
If you’re intrigued by hardware but don’t know where to start, this crash course is for you! You’ll learn to solder and assemble your own cat-shaped console - the DevKitty - and will walk away with a powerful prototyping and hacking companion that fits in your pocket! You’ll become familiarized with the basic skills and tools to start prototyping your own mini projects, including beginner-friendly coding through CircuitPython. You’ll also be briefly introduced to processes like circuit board design and 3D printing when you’re ready to take your projects to the next level! Be sure to bring your hardware questions to this flexible session. NOTE: As a prerequisite to this workshop, attendees need to build a DevKitty - there are several “Solder Your Own DevKitty” workshops given each day at the DevKitty Village where you can do this.
Learn Hardware Basics With DevKitty! (Day 3)
If you’re intrigued by hardware but don’t know where to start, this crash course is for you! You’ll learn to solder and assemble your own cat-shaped console - the DevKitty - and will walk away with a powerful prototyping and hacking companion that fits in your pocket! You’ll become familiarized with the basic skills and tools to start prototyping your own mini projects, including beginner-friendly coding through CircuitPython. You’ll also be briefly introduced to processes like circuit board design and 3D printing when you’re ready to take your projects to the next level! Be sure to bring your hardware questions to this flexible session. NOTE: As a prerequisite to this workshop, attendees need to build a DevKitty -- there are several Solder Your Own DevKitty workshops given each day at the DevKitty Village where you can do this.
Learn Lockpicking! (Fri ONGOING)
Christine Bachman Bob Hermes Paulette Ivanovic
The Lockpick Village will be hosting an ongoing workshop for all three days of HOPE XV, where everyone can come by to learn and practice lockpicking. All of the necessary materials will be available for you to use, including locks, picks, and instructional aids. Knowledgeable instructors will give you an understanding of how locks work.
Ongoing at Lockpick Village.
Learn Lockpicking! (Sat ONGOING)
Christine Bachman Bob Hermes Paulette Ivanovic
The Lockpick Village will be hosting an ongoing workshop for all three days of HOPE XV, where everyone can come by to learn and practice lockpicking. All of the necessary materials will be available for you to use, including locks, picks, and instructional aids. Knowledgeable instructors will give you an understanding of how locks work.
Ongoing at Lockpick Village.
Learn Lockpicking! (Sun ONGOING)
Christine Bachman Bob Hermes Paulette Ivanovic
The Lockpick Village will be hosting an ongoing workshop for all three days of HOPE XV, where everyone can come by to learn and practice lockpicking. All of the necessary materials will be available for you to use, including locks, picks, and instructional aids. Knowledgeable instructors will give you an understanding of how locks work.
Ongoing at Lockpick Village.
Learn to Solder With "I Can Solder" Badge kit
Anyone can learn to solder! It is useful and fun. This workshop is for kids of all ages (and anyone of any age). Learn to solder by making a cool badge that you can wear and blink wherever you go. The “I Can Solder!” badge kit is a very simple open hardware kit that anyone can use for learning to solder. Mitch will also give a fun overview of how it works. This workshop is for total newbies to learn to solder. All ages. And Mitch guarantees your badge will work after you solder it!
Learn to Solder With BiaSciLab and Girls Who Hack!
In this workshop, you will learn the basics of soldering by assembling the Girls Who Hack soldering kit! This class is aimed at kids (younger ones will need adult supervision), but adults are welcome as long as they make room for the kids.
LoRa for Hackers: Long Range Hacking for Beginners With CircuitPython
LoRa is an exciting new technology renowned for its low cost and long range, making it popular for hackers and makers. In this workshop, you’ll learn to program a LoRa radio with CircuitPython to create long-range hacking tools and blinky prototypes which can communicate off-grid from over a mile away! The workshop will cover remotely triggered BadUSB devices, LED controllers, sensor monitors, and more! A computer with Google Chrome is required for this workshop.
Make Your Own Wi-Fi Controlled Pusheen Cat Lamp
Want to create a cute, squishy, Wi-Fi controllable LED cat lamp? In this workshop, we'll create a cute cat lamp featuring programmable IoT LED's, giving it custom light animations and Wi-Fi control! Your adorable cat lamp can be controlled over Wi-Fi with WLED, allowing you to control it with home automation sof. You will create open source, Wi-Fi controlled LED art; learn basic soldering; and take home the remote-controlled Pusheen lamp of your dreams.
Mastering Security in Development
This is a hands-on workshop that provides participants with an introduction to secure software development and leveraging DevSecOps tooling to aid in this. Participants will learn about setting up a local development environment that includes security tooling. Following this, they will progress into learning how to use DevSecOps tooling within GitHub to detect security issues and flag accidentally committed secrets. The workshop will then conclude with a review of how GitHub runners and other features can be used to aid in secure deployments.
Having a GitHub account (which is free) set up in advance would be good. Optional: Have a license for Copilot or set up a 30-day trial: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/quickstart
Negotiating a new job: Resumes and Interview Techniques
This interactive workshop will help you turn job interviews from nerve-wracking gauntlets to casual conversations that land you the job – or help you avoid the jobs you don’t want. Whether you are trying to get your first cyber security job, or are looking to progress your career, this workshop will help you, by working through:
* How to spot and fix common mistakes on CVs/resumes.
* How to showcase your skills and experience.
* Common interview techniques, questions, and how to respond.
* How to negotiate salaries and compensation.
* Employer red flags: weeding out the bad gigs.
This will be a practical workshop, so expect lots of participation and engagement.
Nugget Meshtastic Meetup
Come learn about Meshtastic, the long-range, low-power, encrypted off-grid messaging protocol. We'll be setting up our Meshtastic Nuggets, going over the setup options, and exploring the advanced options that make Meshtastic more useful. We'll cover setting encryption, choosing a device role, and connecting over serial, web, and bluetooth. We'll also look at some of the optional modules, like broadcasting sensor telemetry data or adding a GPS.
Onion (Web)Rings: Self-Hosting Websites With Tor
Self-hosting your own websites is one entry point into making creative, small-scale, and meaningful reclamations of technologies present in our everyday lives. This workshop is a tiny exercise in homemade website infrastructure with a privacy-centric lens! It will start with a brief introduction to Tor and how websites can be hosted and accessed anonymously. Then, you’ll spend time going through the process of installing, configuring, and running Tor to host a personal website. You’ll then create your own web pages (bring your own or personalize the provided template), and form a short-lived webring by linking to each other’s onion websites.
Physical Security Assessment Basics for Internal Employees
If you have an interest in physical security and want to help your employer secure their buildings, this workshop is for you! Common flaws in locks, alarms, surveillance systems, and employee training will be covered. You’ll learn how to test for them and suggest remediations to company leadership. This is a very hands-on workshop; exhibits from the Physical Security Village will be used to let you try your hand at lock bypass, alarm bypass, forcible entry, social engineering, and other common vulnerabilities! This workshop is aimed at employees whose primary job function does not involve physical security. This often includes cybersecurity teams though, so lots of analogies to infosec concepts will be made. The workshop will be accessible to everyone.
Script Your Way to Circuit Boards With Circuit Painter
Inspired by the simplified drawing language of Processing, Circuit Painter provides a scripting environment for designing PCBs using basic geometric shapes such as lines, arcs, and polygons. Circuit Painter works as a front end/wrapper for KiCad’s pcbnew. In this workshop, you will explore the world of generative circuit board design using Circuit Painter and KiCad. Participants should have a basic understanding of a programming language and basic knowledge of electronic circuits, such as how to connect an LED to a battery.
Show the World What Your Free Software Project Is About
Are you a free software activist, hacker, tinkerer, artist, or educator looking to show the world what your free software project is about? Then this workshop is exactly what you need. In this workshop, we will exchange strategies to present a free software project, work on pitches for each of the attendee’s projects, and create a short video to present your free software project. No matter if you would like to simply spread the word about your project, attract volunteers to join your team, or promote the software you're developing, the videos will be a useful resource for your outreach.
In a first round, everyone will present their project. This will be followed by a short presentation on story-telling and outreach techniques tailor made for free software projects. Afterwards everyone will work on their pitches and prepare for a recording of a 3-minutes pitch. In the end, everyone's pitch will be recorded. If there's time left we will use it to improve some recordings if needed. The Free Software Foundation can offer to upload videos of those who want it to the FSF's PeerTube channel to help broaden the reach.
Solder Your Own Cat-Shaped Wi-Fi Hacking Tool
Test out your through-hole and surface mount soldering skills to create your own open source, cat-shaped hacking tool! In this workshop, you’ll create a microcontroller-powered hacking tool that allows you to perform BadUSB attacks, control hardware with CircuitPython, and more! A computer with Google Chrome is required for this workshop.
Solder Your Own DevKitty (Day 1 / 1)
The DevKitty Village is hosting several workshops each day of HOPE XV. Here you will learn to solder - and at the end of the workshop, you will have your own DevKitty!
Solder Your Own DevKitty (Day 1 / 2)
The DevKitty Village is hosting several workshops each day of HOPE XV. Here you will learn to solder - and at the end of the workshop, you will have your own DevKitty!
Solder Your Own DevKitty (Day 1 / 3)
The DevKitty Village is hosting several workshops each day of HOPE XV. Here you will learn to solder - and at the end of the workshop, you will have your own DevKitty!
Solder Your Own DevKitty (Day 2 / 1)
The DevKitty Village is hosting several workshops each day of HOPE XV. Here you will learn to solder - and at the end of the workshop, you will have your own DevKitty!
Solder Your Own DevKitty (Day 2 / 2)
The DevKitty Village is hosting several workshops each day of HOPE XV. Here you will learn to solder - and at the end of the workshop, you will have your own DevKitty!
Solder Your Own DevKitty (Day 2 / 3)
The DevKitty Village is hosting several workshops each day of HOPE XV. Here you will learn to solder - and at the end of the workshop, you will have your own DevKitty!
Solder Your Own DevKitty (Day 3 / 1)
The DevKitty Village is hosting several workshops each day of HOPE XV. Here you will learn to solder - and at the end of the workshop, you will have your own DevKitty!
Solder Your Own DevKitty (Day 3 / 2)
The DevKitty Village is hosting several workshops each day of HOPE XV. Here you will learn to solder - and at the end of the workshop, you will have your own DevKitty!
Wi-Fi Hacking Self Defense: Four Advanced Techniques and How to Stop Them
This workshop offers hands-on instruction using a unique, cat-shaped Wi-Fi hacking microcontroller. Designed to engage participants in practical learning, the workshop will cover essential skills for defending against four common Wi-Fi attacks. Participants will explore topics like detecting Wi-Fi leaks, the risks of QR codes leading to hidden networks, spotting phishing networks, and defending against advanced Wi-Fi karma attacks. The cat-shaped Wi-Fi Nugget is a powerful tool for understanding and fighting back against Wi-Fi hacking. This workshop is suitable for Wi-Fi hacking experts and those just getting started. A computer with Google Chrome is required for this workshop.
{almost} Free Radio Stations
Surplus electronics are everywhere in modern life, and ripe with creative applications. Maybe you remember the iTrip, which transmitted music to a car stereo? It turns out that these radio transmitters can be hacked back to life very quickly! This session will cover the basics of running a low-power radio station for art and fun, from soldering circuits, to the legal limits. At the conclusion of this workshop, every participant will have one upcycled FM transmitter which is secretly a synthesizer! All ages, no experience necessary.
