With over 200 installations every week Howdy is the go-to alternative for WIndows Hello on multiple linux distributions. Howdy works by activating the infrared camera some laptops have and comparing the user’s face to a stored hashed face model. If both are close enough the user is logged in without a password. Read more
A website showing the exact position of my car (nicknamed “bessie”), along with internal data such as RPM, throttle and indicated speed. This is accomplished by pulling data from the onboard computer system through the debug port and transmitting it to a central server using a mobile phone. The website itself is build in the amazing A-Frame javascript virtual reality framework, enabling the user to view a miniature of my car and its real location in VR. Read more
Together with a small community i build a component to control the most used smart thermostat in The Netherlands: Toon by Eneco. We successfully reverse engineered most of the network requests because Toon units did not have an open API at the time. I also worked on the now completed merge request which pulled our component into the Home Assistant core, the most versatile open source home automation platform. Read more
After buying a drone i found out it had an accompanying app to control it, which sparked my interest. By intercepting the traffic from the app to the drone i realized no authentication was done and all traffic was simple and unencrypted. I wrote a small script to send the same commands and sure enough, i could control the drone by adjusting a few easy to decipher values in its packets. Read more