Voice Controlled Christmas Tree Lights

Posted on by David Vassallo

What we're building: https://youtu.be/Lgtpi0k7FD8 It's a great project to get started with learning about IoT, and Alexa. Hardware Particle Photon micro-controllerAdafruit Featherwing mini-relay (https://learn.adafruit.com/mini-relay-featherwings/overview)Amazon Alexa (Dot in my case...)Optional for some extra holiday cheer: Adafruit NeoPixel Stick (https://www.adafruit.com/product/1426) Circuit Diagram Fritzing file can be found here: https://github.com/dvas0004/SmartMote/blob/master/SmartMote_v1.fzz Notes, tips and tricks about the Hardware The … Continue reading Voice Controlled Christmas Tree Lights

Pentesting gRPC-Web : Recon and reverse-engineering

Posted on by David Vassallo

gRPC-Web has reached General Availability! The official blog announcement can be found here: https://grpc.io/blog/grpc-web-ga gRPC makes leveraging Protocol Buffers extremely easy, and ProtoBufs in and off itself has some very good advantages over REST when it comes to performance and contract-based development. However so far ProtoBufs are used typically in the backend to facilitate inter-microservice … Continue reading Pentesting gRPC-Web : Recon and reverse-engineering