Talk given at BSides Cape Town (Cape Town) - 06 December 2025
[Read More]Building Miss Duckworth - Escape 2024
A physical AI powered rubber duck
Talk given at Escape 2024 (Johannesburg) - 5 September 2024
[Read More]I can see clearly now - Adding vision to a rubber duck - DataConf 2024
Adding better vision capabilities to my AI Robot Rubber Duck, Miss Duckworth.
Talk given at DataConf (Cape Town) - 29 August 2024
[Read More]Ducking Duck - Rubber Duck 2.0 - DevConf 2024
Building an AI powered robot rubber duck
Talk given at DevConf (Johannesburg and Cape Town) - 7 May 2024, 9 May 2024
[Read More]A Practical Supply Chain Hack
Blinking RGBs for fun & profit.
Talk given at BSides Cape Town - 2 December 2023 on hacking a keyboard and embedding a key logger.
[Read More]Smart Watch Lobotomy - DevConf
Taking a cheap smart watch and making it do what I want.
Talk given at DevConf Cape Town & Pretoria - 23 & 25 May 2023 on hacking a cheap smart watch.
[Read More]HP Compaq 8300 SFF Repair
Repairing a HP Compaq 8300 SFF the hardcore way.
Notes on fixing a friend’s HP Compaq 8300 USDT SFF machine.
[Read More]All of this was done around 23rd April 2022 and I’ve finally finished writing it all up.
Smart Watch Lobotomy
Taking a cheap smart watch and making it do what I want.
Talk given at BSides Cape Town - 3 December 2022 on hacking a cheap smart watch.
[Read More]Hacking a FocusFit Pro-Y68
Companion blog post for the Smart Watch Lobotomy talk
A companion blog post that covers everything that was in my Smart Watch Lobotomy talk and everything that couldn’t make it into the talk.
You’ll find a lot more information on the watch, BLE hacking, SWS and firmware.
[Read More]Repairing a Lenovo B590
Repairing a laptop the hardcore way.
Notes on repairing my father-in-law’s Lenovo B590
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