Category Archives: Electronics

Secure Data Destruction

In light of my recent work with making things more secure with a truly random number generator for use in feeding the kernel entropy pool, I also thought it would be a good time to visit secure data destruction, and … Continue reading

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Random Number Generator

I’ve always been interested in the idea of truly random phenomenon, and in particular, the quantum effects like avalanche noise that one can take advantage of to generate truly random data. Note that I say truly random, as compared to … Continue reading

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IRIS Transmitter V1.2

I’ve been working on creating a new version of my IRIS Transmitter boards, which I use for high altitude balloon trackers. This was somewhat more of a re-architechture from the 1.0 and 1.1 revisions. Revision 1.2 brings a number of … Continue reading

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2014 Balloons Launch

Launch happened the morning of Saturday, May 31st. We had two launches from Moses Lake, WA. We were successful in recovering both of the payload strings, and received good data throughout the flights. The first flight carried a number of … Continue reading

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Black Rock 2014

As some of you may know, each year for the past several, I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to volunteer my time and expertise to a couple of classes at the University of Washington, one of which makes a … Continue reading

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