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K.C.'s Garage
Personal blog · phreakmonkey.comhardwareprogramming
K.C.'s Garage is a personal blog at phreakmonkey.com about hardware and programming. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link K.C. Budd's hobby projects: ToWL, which tunnels telemetry over open wifi links, and a demo of connecting to the net through a 1963 modem from a Defcon 17 talk.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Thankyou! I've been having fun with ToWL[1] but this might be the next step. [1] http://www.phreakmonkey.com/2016/08/towl-telemetry-over-oppo...
Comment linking /2016/08/towl-telemetry-over-opportunistic-wifi.html
on “Apple Introduces AirTag”Submitted Circa 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Modem (2009) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHacky solution that works by tunneling telemetry data over open wifi links: http://www.phreakmonkey.com/2016/08/towl-telemetry-over-oppo...
Comment linking /2016/08/towl-telemetry-over-opportunistic-wifi.html
on “Apple Introduces AirTag”Submitted Beginners' guide to flying quadcopters as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA short YouTube video also by KC Budd was posted on Hacker News 521 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1110981 (107 points) and 778 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=629383 (30 points) and made it to the reddit frontpage today. However, this link is to a follow-up demonstration at the 1999 Defcon 17 and also features ASCII art porn and a decoding of the band Information Society's track "300b…
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on “Connecting to the net using a 1963 modem (Defcon 17 presentation)”Submitted 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A modem as a story · 1 points
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