October 11, 2023April 11, 2024 by George

Sat. Oct. 28, 2023 – Forgotten Pill Warning (Hybrid)

George gets a scolding from Alexa for not opening his pill box on time. Technologies include

A dollar store pill box,
ESP8266 micro-controller
PHP server page to receive message from ESP8266
Cron job to notice late opening and to send a scolding email and SMS
IF This Then That (IFTTT) to signal Alexa
Amazon Alexa Echo Show to further admonish George to open the damn pill box.

George’s presentation .pdf is here

For the meet and greet, George explains how this device can be shipped without the recipients SSID and wifi password, using only 20 bytes of code on the micro controller.

9:30-10a Cocktails & Conversation
10a Presentation

This is a Hybrid meeting (in-person and on Jitsi).

Small Boardroom @ Quality Foods, 27 Helmcken Rd #110 · View Royal

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Thu, Apr 25, 2024
6:30pm - 8:00 pm

We have been discussing different aspects of the Network, however, we should also give consideration to Network Security. In fact, this should be part of your thinking when designing any network, not an after thought.

In this presentation/lab, we'll give a brief Introduction to Network Security and some basic pen testing tools.

Bring a laptop or similar device with Wireshark installed and we'll explore live Pen Testing in our "lab" network.

Afterword, we will go out for a beer/coffee.

NetSIG is a Special Interest Group focused on computer networking. Building networks for Today and Tomorrow! We will be meeting virtually and in person at the Quality Foods Small Boardroom at Eagle Ridge in View Royal.
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