IoT Gate Opener with the Ganimede.E12 Board
Control a gate or other electronic devices from your smartphone using the Ganimede.E12 board and a dedicated mobile app, with a focus on privacy and security.
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DIY a Snips Based Infrared Voice Controller
If you’ve ever wanted to build your very own personal assistant voice control rather than use one of the off-the-shelf devices from Amazon, Google, Apple and others…You may be interested in a new DIY infrared voice controller created using Snips Voice Platform. Snips is a set of applications that together create an AI assistant and…
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Project Alias, the Smart Speaker HAT to Protect Your Privacy
Alias is a teachable “parasite” that is designed to give users more control over their smart assistants, both when it comes to customisation and privacy. This open-source device trains custom wake-up names for smart home devices while disturbing their built-in microphone. It’s composed of a 3D-printed top layer, a mic array, raspberry pi, and two…
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3D Printed Physical Device for Internet Privacy Control
A Spanish designer duo Roman Terre and Angeles Angulo have built a prototype of a rather simpler privacy solution called Thero. Their 3D printed internet connected device is still a concept that looks like a crystal made out of concrete, wood, or some other material. Under the hood, Thero houses Raspberry Pi 3 powered access point which can…
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Onion Pi makes your web traffic anonymous
Adafruit’s Onion Pi is a Tor proxy that makes your web traffic anonymous, allowing you to use the internet free of snoopers and any kind of surveillance. Follow Adafruit’s tutorial on setting up Onion Pi and you’re on your way to a peaceful anonymous browsing experience. Tor is an onion routing service – every internet…
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Have a Good Night Amazon Echo!
Are you worried about security and privacy issues of your Amazon Echo? Let see Shawn Hymel’s solution by creating and configuring a kill switch that is activated over IFTTT and a set of instructions to power-off the device. First of all, you have to connect all the needed hardware components, based on the Particle Photon board. Once you…
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Welcome CryptX2: an Open Source Hardware Encrypted Storage Device
Pretty cool open source project again looking into security and privacy in the post-PRISM world (Support on indiegogo): The CryptX2 is a hardware encrypted storage device. If you have data you want to secure and you want the highest level of security you can get, you want the CryptX2. Open source – verified secure, no backdoors,…
