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Event begins at 10:00 Friday, runs until 18:00 Sunday, and will be open 24/7.

Workshops

We already have a fantastic lineup of workshops at HOPE-X! Please see below for the schedule.

We also have space reserved space for self-organized Workshops / Demos / Talks at HOPE-X. To make use of this space simply fill out the registration form for self-organized Workshops/Demos/Talks

Learn to Solder / Variety of Cool Kits! (Friday)

Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:00:26 +0000 (Mezzanine Village Zone A)

Click for more infoLearn to solder! Mitch Altman and Jimmie Rodgers and others will bring kits to make cool, practical, intriguing, hackable things that you can bring home after you make it. Of course, you can also bring your own projects to hack. And if you have anything to fix, bring it by! Plenty of cool kits are available to make, including: * TV-B-Gone (turn off TVs in public places!) *Brain Machine (Meditate, Hallucinate, and Trip Out!) *LOL Shield (Lots Of LEDs!) *Trippy RGB Waves (interactive blinky lights!) *LEDcube (animated 3D cube!) *MiniPOV (more cool blinky lights!) *MintyBoost (charge your USB enabled gadgets!) *Hello My Name Is... badge (Geeky, blinky version!) *microcontroller programmers (program all your AVR family chips!) *Arduino clones (make just about anything!) *Open Heart (animate fun patterns in the shape of a heart!) *Atari Punk Console (make cool noise from an Altoids tin!) *And many, many more! More info on these projects is available at: http://www.CornfieldElectronics.com/   (click on the "Projects" tab) http://www.adafruit.com/ http://www.jimmieprodgers.com/ http://www.evilmadscientist.com/ http://analogmachines.com/ Anyone can learn to solder! Even if you have never made anything in your life, you can learn this very useful and enjoyable skill. It really is fun! Mitch and Jimmie have taught tens of thousands of people to solder all around the world, and they can teach you, too! Add yourself to the ever increasing community! NO NEED TO REGISTER -- JUST COME BY WHEN YOU LIKE! Duration:   Most kits take about 1.5 hours to make.  Come by whenever you like!  This workshop is ongoing, all day, and all night, from the beginning of HOPE-X, till the end of HOPE-X. Material cost:  kits cost between $10 and $25 Anything for participants to bring?  no

Getting up and Running with Encrypted Communications

Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:30:20 +0000 (6th floor small room)

Click for more infoABSTRACT: Want to encrypt your email/chat but not sure how to get started?  In this beginner-oriented workshop we'll give hands-on help in getting you set up with encrypted email and chat on your laptop, text and talk and email on your smart phone.  Come for the beginning for a short (15min) presentation on security basics and *bring your laptop*/*smart phone* for hands-on help! (If you just want to get set up and go, drop ins are also welcome!) ADD'L DETAILS: My workshop is for beginners who are curious about encrypted comms but don't know where to start.  It will be strictly beginner friendly, carefully avoiding details that might confuse or baffle & focusing exclusively on practical info.  For example, we'll cover the difference between private & "authenticated" communication (encryption vs. knowing Alice is really Alice), but only enough to help people avoid common pitfalls or missteps.  No theory will be presented unless it's immediately practical to the beginner. I envision a short (10-20min) intro,  the rest of the time being spent getting people set up with encrypted chat/email on their own laptops & phones.  Coming w/o laptop/phone *could* be useful/informational but my goal is for people to walk away with encryption ready to go. Duration:   2 hours Material cost:  none Anything for participants to bring?  Laptop and/or smartphone, email address to setup for encryption and/or chat account (XMPP/Google/Facebook/Yahoo/ICQ/etc., anything supported by Pidgin/Adium)

Extensively Adaptable Sploits and Tools for Encroaching on Router Security

Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:00:14 +0000 (6th floor small room)

Click for more info* Extensively Adaptable Sploits and Tools for Encroaching on Router Security will teach attendees penetration testing methodology for testing the security of SOHO routers. This workshop will provide an overview of application security issues commonly found in routers, demonstrate how attackers exploit these issues, and enlighten attendees on common methods used to remediate critical system deficiencies. Throughout this course, attendees will learn the skills necessary to discoverer vulnerabilities and develop custom, reliable exploits. After attending this workshop, attendees should be more comfortable performing penetration tests against networked systems and discovering vulnerabilities ranging in criticality (i.e., information disclosures to remote code execution). * Information Gathering * Discovering and documenting system settings from black and white box perspectives. * Scanning and Service Enumeration * Service discovery and verification * Services enumeration * Gaining Access * Analyze web applications * What to look for * Tools and Techniques * Analyze network servers (e.g., FTP, SMB, HTTP) * What to look for * Tools and Techniques * Static Code Analysis (Source Code Review) * What to look for * Tools and Techniques * Dynamic Analysis (Network Service Fuzzing) * What to look for * Tools and Techniques * Reverse Engineering * What to look for * Tools and Techniques * Exploit Development * Web Application Vulnerability Overview * OWASP Top 10 * Application Vulnerability Overview * Buffer Overflows * Directory Traversal * Insecure Cryptographic Storage * Authentication and Authorization * Misconfigurations * Information Disclosure * Social Engineering Overview * Maintaining Access * Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure This workshop emphasizes the "how to" aspect of application security and exploit development. Attendees will be provided with sample binaries for exercises that will be conducted during the workshop, and access to a lab of networked routers where newly learned skills can be applied. 1. Attendees will learn how to discover, exploit, and mitigate vulnerabilities found in network-based equipment. This workshop will focus on exploiting vulnerabilities in routers, but the methodologies presented are applicable to other hardware platforms as well. 2. Attendees will become acquainted with with numerous types application and web application vulnerabilities Who is the workshop intended for? * This workshop is suited for a broad range of security professionals, from systems engineers, to those performing security assessments with intermediate to advanced computer science skill sets. This is a fast paced workshop that starts off catering to inexperienced information security professionals by providing a general overview of common vulnerabilities and how they can exploited, but then quickly moves into more advanced topics such as using return-oriented programming (ROP) to exploit stack-based buffer overflows on the MIPS architecture. Attendees must be familiar with Linux, web attacks (OWASP Top 10), memory corruption attacks (specifically stack-based buffer overflows), and using the command line! Additionally, attendees need be comfortable writing code for proof-of-concept attacks, and reading source code written in various programming languages such as JavaScript and C. Duration:   3.5 hours Material cost:  none Anything for participants to bring? * Attendees will need a laptop that is capable of running virtual machines and accessing the Internet. * An updated Kali Linux installation (i.e., a Kali Linux virtual machine configured to use bridge mode networking or a native Kali Linux install). * The latest version of statically linked Qemu installed on Kali Linux (qemu-user-static).  

Learn to Solder / Variety of Cool Kits! (Saturday)

Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:00:21 +0000 (Mezzanine Village Zone A)

Click for more infoLearn to solder! Mitch Altman and Jimmie Rodgers and others will bring kits to make cool, practical, intriguing, hackable things that you can bring home after you make it. Of course, you can also bring your own projects to hack. And if you have anything to fix, bring it by! Plenty of cool kits are available to make, including: * TV-B-Gone (turn off TVs in public places!) *Brain Machine (Meditate, Hallucinate, and Trip Out!) *LOL Shield (Lots Of LEDs!) *Trippy RGB Waves (interactive blinky lights!) *LEDcube (animated 3D cube!) *MiniPOV (more cool blinky lights!) *MintyBoost (charge your USB enabled gadgets!) *Hello My Name Is... badge (Geeky, blinky version!) *microcontroller programmers (program all your AVR family chips!) *Arduino clones (make just about anything!) *Open Heart (animate fun patterns in the shape of a heart!) *Atari Punk Console (make cool noise from an Altoids tin!) *And many, many more! More info on these projects is available at: http://www.CornfieldElectronics.com/   (click on the "Projects" tab) http://www.adafruit.com/ http://www.jimmieprodgers.com/ http://www.evilmadscientist.com/ http://analogmachines.com/ Anyone can learn to solder! Even if you have never made anything in your life, you can learn this very useful and enjoyable skill. It really is fun! Mitch and Jimmie have taught tens of thousands of people to solder all around the world, and they can teach you, too! Add yourself to the ever increasing community! NO NEED TO REGISTER -- JUST COME BY WHEN YOU LIKE! Duration:   Most kits take about 1.5 hours to make.  Come by whenever you like!  This workshop is ongoing, all day, and all night, from the beginning of HOPE-X, till the end of HOPE-X. Material cost:  kits cost between $10 and $25 Anything for participants to bring?  no

Arduino For Total Newbies

Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:00:13 +0000 (Mezzanine Village Zone A)

Click for more infoArduinos for Total Newbies:  Learn Arduino using TV-B-Gone as an example project Abstract: 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. As an example project, we'll be creating a TV-B-Gone remote control out of an Arduino you can take home with you. Full Description: Arduino is an amazingly powerful tool that is very simple to learn to use. It was designed so that artists and non-geeks can 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. Taught by Mitch Altman. Participants will make their own Arduino clone, and set it up on solderless breadboards to make their own TV-B-Gone remote control to turn off TVs in public places -- a fun way to learn Arduino (and electronics) basics. Bring your laptop, if you can. Big thanks to Ken Shirriff, who came up with the original TV-B-Gone for Arduino. Workshop Itinerary * Intro to Arduino * Very short lesson to learn everything you need to know about electronics! * Then we will learn to solder. Don't let this scare you! I've taught well over 40,000 people to solder, most of whom have never made anything before in their lives. It is actually a very easy skill to learn. It is also very useful. * Then we will each make our own Arduino clone from a kit made by Evil Mad Scientist: Diavolno. * Now that we each have our own Arduino, we will set up the free and open-source software on our laptops (if you bring one) -- Windows, MacOS, or Linux are all fine! * And then its time to make something and learn how easy it is to use Aruino! I'll (very easily!) show you how to read schematic diagrams, and you'll put together your own TV-B-Gone remote control using your Diavolno. We will use a solderless breadboard. These are really useful, and provide a fast, and very easy way to put circuits together without needing to solder. * Target practice is available after the workshop. NO NEED TO REGISTER -- JUST COME BY.  BUT PLEASE COME EARLY, SINCE THIS WILL FILL UP.  MAX#: 50. Summary * What:  Arduino workshop for total newbies, using TV-B-Gone remote controls as an intro * When:  Saturday, July 19th, 1:00pm - 4:30pm * Where: Village Zone A * Who: Anyone and everyone can have fun learning Arduino. Ages 10 to 100 * Max #: 50 participants -- This workshop will fill up, so please arrive early! -- No need to register -- just show up early and get a kit to take the workshop * Cost: $35 for materials -- includes everything you need to make your Arduino TV-B-Gone! And you get to bring your Arduino TV-B-Gone home with you. Optional: $20 communications/programming cable -- (some will be available to use for free during the workshop). * Instructor: Mitch You do not need to register in advance to take this workshop -- just show up early and get a kit. Bring your laptop if you want to go home with the free Arduino software installed on it. Arduino software runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux. Links: http://cornfieldelectronics.com/cfe/projects/tvbg_arduino/tvbg_arduino_workshop.php http://www.tvbgone.com/ http://www.arduino.cc/ http://www.arcfn.com/2009/12/tv-b-gone-for-arduino.html http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2010/diavolino/ Duration:   3.5 hours Material cost:  $35, plus optional $20 FTDI communications cable Anything for participants to bring?  optional: laptop

Learn to Solder / Variety of Cool Kits! (Sunday)

Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:00:26 +0000 (Mezzanine Village Zone A)

Click for more infoLearn to solder! Mitch Altman and Jimmie Rodgers and others will bring kits to make cool, practical, intriguing, hackable things that you can bring home after you make it. Of course, you can also bring your own projects to hack. And if you have anything to fix, bring it by! Plenty of cool kits are available to make, including: * TV-B-Gone (turn off TVs in public places!) *Brain Machine (Meditate, Hallucinate, and Trip Out!) *LOL Shield (Lots Of LEDs!) *Trippy RGB Waves (interactive blinky lights!) *LEDcube (animated 3D cube!) *MiniPOV (more cool blinky lights!) *MintyBoost (charge your USB enabled gadgets!) *Hello My Name Is... badge (Geeky, blinky version!) *microcontroller programmers (program all your AVR family chips!) *Arduino clones (make just about anything!) *Open Heart (animate fun patterns in the shape of a heart!) *Atari Punk Console (make cool noise from an Altoids tin!) *And many, many more! More info on these projects is available at: http://www.CornfieldElectronics.com/   (click on the "Projects" tab) http://www.adafruit.com/ http://www.jimmieprodgers.com/ http://www.evilmadscientist.com/ http://analogmachines.com/ Anyone can learn to solder! Even if you have never made anything in your life, you can learn this very useful and enjoyable skill. It really is fun! Mitch and Jimmie have taught tens of thousands of people to solder all around the world, and they can teach you, too! Add yourself to the ever increasing community! NO NEED TO REGISTER -- JUST COME BY WHEN YOU LIKE! Duration:   Most kits take about 1.5 hours to make.  Come by whenever you like!  This workshop is ongoing, all day, and all night, from the beginning of HOPE-X, till the end of HOPE-X. Material cost:  kits cost between $10 and $25 Anything for participants to bring?  no

Using a Data Glove as Musical Instrument

Sun, 20 Jul 2014 18:00:01 +0000 (Mezzanine Village Zone B)

Click for more infoWe are presenting a data glove and a software system for musical applications. Hard- and software-design is open. The project is about controlling audio with gestures and movement. Containing a few sensors and radio, the glove will transmit the gesture-data to your laptop where the datastream is analyzed and used to create sound and music. The software system uses the full scale of the sensor data, without limiting it to MIDI. The main goal is to transform the complexity of gestures into music without restricting your movement for the sake of simple parameter-mapping. Visitors of the workshop can either put together the hardware from their own parts (for necessary parts see below) or work with the software (MaxMSP or PureData) using Gloves provided by us (limited supply!). Timing constraints make it impossible to create a fully functional Glove, but participants will leave with all the info & software necessary for completion. The primary focus of this project is on music and we think Hackers in all kinds of areas will have a lot of fun with our Glove, be it Musicians, Programmers, Makers, etc. Who is the workshop intended for? In general you should have interest in music! The hardware is easy, the software is complex. But the workshop is structured in a way to be accessible for absolute beginners and giving the more experienced enough to bite their teeth out Artists: Use the complex possibilities of expression of your gestures to create sound. Be it in installations or on stage, the complexity of movement can be catched and transformed into individual sound-language. Makers: We show how to build your own Glove prototype to play with. It's built on arduino and sensor shields, with 3d printed cases. Hackers: The stream of sensor data can be interpreted in many ways, the quest is to find the most expressive and meaningful ones. We use simple dsp, complex algorithms up to machine learning to figure out how to best map the gestures to the sound generator. The generator in turn wants to be hacked, too. It's up to the fantasy and imagination of the Hacker what great ideas will sound later on. Parts List Sensor:  MPU6050 (smallest possible breakout board) Microcontroller:  Arduino Pro Mini -> Computer:  FTDI Breakout USB Cable:  Micro USB Battery:  LiPo 850mAh PRT-00341 Charger:  USB LiIon/LiPoly charger Glove:  thin glove pref. without fingers Transmitter / Receiver:  2x xBee 1mW Series 1 Dongle:  xBee Explorer We're just putting up a little website with all required info to keep it updated, it will be ready shortly: http://glove.synack.ch Duration:   4 hours Material cost:  You can buy the parts yourself.  Or, if people want to buy the parts from us it would cost approx. $140.- This includes the shipping fee to the US. Anything for participants to bring?  Basic soldering skills. Some basic understanding of PureData / MaxMSP programming environment as well as Arduino technology.

DIY LED lighting with the BlinkyTape

Sun, 20 Jul 2014 18:30:52 +0000 (Mezzanine Village Zone A)

Click for more infoBecome a master of light itself -- learn to bend LEDs to your will! The gang from Blinkinlabs, specialists in DIY LED illumination, will show you how to turn your dreams into illuminated reality. The Blinkinlabs crew will present a special three-hour workshop to teach you everything you want to know about using LEDs, using some of their own products, like the famous BlinkyTape, as well as widely-available tools like Arduino. Bring your best idea and you’ll walk out with a working prototype. Want to make a LED alarm clock? Color-based stock ticker? Secret color-coded transmitter?**Hypnotizing BlinkyHat?**Awesome. Let’s make it happen. First we’ll demonstrate some easy-to-use BlinkyTape techniques and visual software, and then delve right into an in-depth discussion where you’ll learn how to make simple animations and interactions by programming in Arduino and Processing. You’ll learn to use several libraries to implement your ideas, as well how to navigate as the power and space constraints you need to keep in mind. You’ll also learn how to cut the tape and integrate it with different materials for wearables, physical installations and light painting. Duration:   2 hours Material cost:  optional $60 for BlinkyTape (free loaners for workshop participants) Anything for participants to bring?   Some introduction to programming would be good, but it's not necessary.  We'll start from the basics.  A computer (any OS is ok).  Preferably with Processing and Arduino loaded on it.  And a BlinkyTape, if you have one.  <http://blinkinlabs.com/blinkytape/>

Projects

Projects run all day every day unless otherwise noted.

Noisy Square

Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:00:19 +0000 (Mezzanine Village Zone B)

Click for more info20' x 20' space at HOPE-X with table, chairs, power.  Chill space, with music.  UX testing area.   There will be plenty of self-organized workshops, demos, talks, . . .  Everyone is welcome to come by. http://wiki.hope.net/w/index.php/NoisySquare The Noisy Square is a horizontally organized community full of critical thinking, discussions, theorizing and politics. We encourage the fundamental questioning of all the systems we rely on, fight, build or destroy. We aim to build stronger ties, learn from and teach to the individuals and organizations participating in HOPE. Our favorite subjects relate to citizen-journalism, tools for freedom, censorship, surveillance, open technology, circumvention techniques, organization analyses and politics in general. We gather during larger events to strengthen ties between individuals from the anti-surveillance and anti-censorship community, also known as the circumvention tech community. It consists of self-organized events like talks, workshops, discussion, sometimes a flood induced by spy agencies and numerous social get togethers. The Noisy Square has its roots in Techno-Activism 3rd Monday an event which happens in 21 cities simultaneously every month. The Noisy Square appeared before at the Dutch hackercamp OHM2013 and at the German hacker congress 30C3. Duration:   Every day, all day, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, throughout HOPE-X Material cost:  none Anything for participants to bring?  no

Art Projects

This area will be updated soon with all kinds of cool art projects.

Villages

Are you coming to HOPE X as part of a group of hackers? A hackerspace or makerspace that wants to have a unique presence, a FLOSS project promoting your software, the crew you hang out with every HOPE? Maybe something even stranger?

Would you like a place on the conference floor where you can hang out and potentially meet up with more likeminded hackers?

Villages are places to meet, hang out, chill, set up your gear, and show off what you've got and what you can do. It's your home base at HOPE X; it's a place where you can bring your tech, your toys, your gear, work on and share cool projects, let others join in, and most of all have fun!

Email hackerspace@hope.net to get involved!

Vendors

At every HOPE conference there's a nice group of vendors who offer great stuff of interest to hackers. This year we have the best selection of vendors ever! Excellent books, electronic parts, kits, lockpicking tools, encrypted phones, tee shirts, hats, stickers, LED strips, and other stuff you might not find anywhere else--even a Bitcoin ATM. Support our vendors who help make HOPE possible.

We donate vendor tables to selected nonprofits who support our community, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Freedom of the Press Foundation, and others. They deserve our support for all the vitally important work they do for our community and for everyone else, so stop by their tables and say Hi!

Date/Time: Fri, Sat, Sun
Location: Mezzanine