We are now ready to declare the first Grandmaster GPS spoofing hack for Pokemon Go. Not the Pokemon we’ve been trying to collect all the hardware hacks, and in particular the most complete GPS spoofing hack. Since Pokemon Go blew up the world a couple of weeks ago we’ve been trying to catch ’em all. We’re looking forward to the project dump, which last year included this billy-goat balancing Stewart platform, and a robotic ice cream topping applicator.Ĭontinue reading “Microcontroller And IMU Team Up For Simple Flight Sim Controls” → Posted in google hacks, Microcontrollers Tagged flight simulator, google earth, IMU, pic32, pitch, pyserial, python, Roll, yaw ’s course looks like a blast, and clearly enjoyed it. The video below shows taking an F-16 out for a spin, but despite being a pilot herself since age 16, she was curiously unable to land the fighter jet safely in a suburban neighborhood. All the controls talk to a PIC32, which sends the inputs over a serial cable to a Python script on the PC running Google Earth the script simulates the mouse and keyboard commands needed to fly the sim. Interestingly, the joystick does not have the usual gimbals-mounted potentiometers to detect pitch and roll rather, an IMU mounted on the top of the stick provides data on the stick position. The whole thing is built of cardboard to keep costs down and to make the system easy to replicate. The controls consist of a joystick with throttle, rudder pedals, and a small control panel with random switches. Normally controlled by mouse and keyboard, decided to give the sim a full set of flight controls to make it more realistic. We actually got this tip several days ago, but since it revealed to us the previously unknown fact that Google Earth has a flight simulator mode, we’ve been somewhat distracted. Photo by CC BY-SA 3.0 Posted in Space Tagged crude oil, google earth, sattelite, tankerĬlasses are over at Cornell, and that means one thing: the students in ’s microcontroller design course have submitted their final projects, many of which, like this flight control system for Google Earth’s flight simulator, find their way to the Hackaday tips line. Sometimes will then use imagery to track down these vessels, often by just watching ports. Even in today’s world of omnipresent tracking technologies, it’s surprisingly easy for a massive ship to just disappear. Of course these methods won’t give you exact numbers, but it’s good enough for rough estimates.Īnother interesting detail we found perusing the news posts (requires sign-up) is that tankers will sometimes purposefully switch off their AIS transponders, especially when heading to and from sanctioned countries such as Venezuela and Iran. Height is a bit more tricky, but can often be determined by just checking the facilities’ website for ground level photos of the tanks. Diameter is easy, just use Google Earth’s ruler tool. Of course, you also need to know the diameter and height of a tank. By looking at imagery from the large number of commercial satellites that constantly photograph earth’s surface, one can determine how full the tanks are by comparing the length of a shadow inside the tank to the shadow outside the tank. To prevent the flammable gasses emitted by crude oil from collecting inside partially empty tanks, they have roofs that physically float on top of the oil, moving up and down inside the steel sides as the levels change. The key is in the construction of large capacity crude oil storage tanks. Using satellite imagery, they are using a simple way to monitor the occupancy crude oil storage facilities around the world. The website is in the business of uncovering these details, often from open source intelligence. This may simply to be to gain an advantage at the negotiation tables, or to skirt around international sanctions. The global oil market plays a large role in the geopolitical arena, and it is often in the interest of various role players to conceal the figures on production, consumption and movement of oil.
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