Hi everyone, On 12/12/12 11:50, Safe Hammad wrote: [snip] > Other ideas?
A talk I'm working on at the moment is derived from another of my unofficial university excursions. It's not terribly Python specific, but it's turning out to be much more "audience interactive" than just a talk, so might be more appropriate for a coding session. Basically, it's about reverse engineering stuff, in this case the serial protocol of a data-logger device that one of Holly's colleagues at the uni was struggling with. The only software they had for it was written for Windows 3.1 (!) and naturally they were having a tough time getting it to work on anything even vaguely modern. I said I'd take a look, and we've now got a fair way along with a cross-platform Python-based suite of apps for working with these devices. Anyway, as part of the reverse engineering process I built a little emulator which acts (almost) exactly like one of these data loggers (mostly so I could play around with it without having to take it home and deprive them of it), so I'm thinking it might be fun to run a session where people try and replicate what I did on the day (with the emulator taking the part of the data logger), with some hints on how to start reverse engineering something, and how to interpret the things one sees when looking at raw communication protocols (if possible I'd like to get the emulator onto a Pi so it can be handed around easily). Not sure if I can get it all ready for this Thursday, but is this the sort of thing anybody might be interested in? > > fyi ... MadLab is also holding an End of Year party on Tuesday 18th > December to which we're cordially invited! Details > here: http://madlab.org.uk/content/madlab-end-of-year-party/ > Wish I could make it, but sadly I'm still recovering from some form of lurgy at the moment (should be over it by Thursday!) ... which of course has nothing to do with me having time to write up a workshop ... ahem. Cheers, Dave. -- To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west
