The RP2350 is the controller that coordinates the C5 scanners over a SPI bus.
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The RP2350 is the controller that coordinates the C5 scanners over a SPI bus.
WiFi-Shuriken v0 PCB top side. There are 3 Xiao ESP32-C5 boards, an SD socket, a Xiao RP2350, and an LC86L GNSS module.
Bottom of the WiFi-Shuriken v0 board. There are 3 Xiao ESP32-C5 boards, a 74LS595 shift register, a battery clip, and a cutout in the PCB to solder to the back of the RP2350 on the top side.
Got my new WiFi-Shuriken boards delivered and assembled today. They have 6x @seeedstudio.com Xiao ESP32-C5 boards and a Xiao RP2350. This thing is a scanning beast! Can scan both 2.4 and 5GHz bands in under 2 seconds.
The Pico controls the scanners over a SPI bus that should be able to steam WiFi metadata at over 2MB/s. I'm building out the protocol to be future proof so it should support 6GHz WiFi and HaLow once appropriate hardware becomes available.
A black ESP32-C5 dev board, a red Pi Pico 2 dev board, an RGB LED currently lit red, a GNSS module, and a blue micro SD card module soldered to a green perf board.
Breaking stuff is just an opportunity to learn to fix it!
I have been working on a high performance wardriving platform. My prototype has a Pico 2 managing GNSS, SD logging, and scanner orchestration. I currently have a single ESP32-C5 scanner, but the plan is to scale it up to dozens.
I'm calling it my "Escape Room in a Box." I have a PC running Proxmox. I have VMs for Asterisk, Home Assistant, and OpenWRT so far. I'm using HA automations to control all the game logic, then the majority of the game elements will be running ESPHome and pull state info and give input to HA.
I'm in the early stages of building an escape room as a birthday present for my kid. I built out the majority of the infrastructure and now I'm working on individual puzzle elements. It took way too long, but I just got a phone ringing from external triggers.
That's neat. Make sure to attach an antenna to that ESP32 if you haven't, otherwise the radio will eventually burn out.
A Segfault Mini Wardriver v2 PCB with an ESP32-C5 module in place of the normal ESP32 in the Side B location. There is no BW16 installed, yet there are 5GHz networks detected.
I did some work with the ESP32-C5 this week. I replaced the Side B of the @jhewitt.net wardriver.uk with a C5. I had to strip out everything but Wi-Fi scanning, but it's a beast for 5GHz. In my tests, I saw about a 30% increase for 5GHz compared to BW16. Code available at github.com/CoD-Segfault...
github.com/WithLoveFrom...
Someone made an android app that will trigger all axon police body cameras in range
I know I am. I even print out a copy on paper before ordering as a sanity check for footprints and I'm still surprised when I actually get a new board in hand.
Picture of a furnace made by Gibson.
HVAC THE PLANET!!
Screenshot of a PlatformIO config file with options set for 2 ESP32 targets.
Picture of a CoD_Segfault mini wardriver with normal data on the display.
Started working on moving the wardriver.uk code from Arduino to PlatformIO. It's a bit messy, but it does run! I have some plans to make a few enhancements, including potentially running the code on different hardware.
Screenshot from the WiGLE app of the user screen. User is CoD_Segfault and the Wi-Fi found is just over 3 million.
Broke 3M Wi-Fi found on @wiglenet.bsky.social today! Got a new color! #wardriving #AllTheWifi
Been working on restoring a payphone. A battery leaked and caused a bunch of rust and corrosion. Was able to clean up the boards fairly well. The solder mask seems to have protected the traces, but a couple of chips look crusty. Waiting on my ATA to arrive and I can see if it works.
We have squeezed the last bit out of Wigle! The final numbers are here! Thank you all for contributing to another 24 Hour event and to @wiglenet.bsky.social for the support. Hat tip to
@se.gfau.lt for running the scoreboard.
Stay tuned for more after we rest up.
#HHB24Wigle 👷♂️👷🏽♂️👷🏿 ❤️
And we are off! All uploads between 0001 and 2359 count!
Make sure to tag us and/or use the hashtags below with updates on your journey.
Scoreboard : hardhat.rocks/24hours2025/
Reminder: Safety first! Don’t drive sleepy and take breaks.
#AllTheWiFi #HHB24Wigle
Just dropped my first batch, in queue for the @wiglenet.bsky.social kittens to chew on.
S9, S10, S20, Pixel6 and 3 Jhewitts in tow
The S10 completely borked its WiFi somewhere early in the run so we’ll see how its relatives do!
#allTheWifi #hhb24wigle #wardrive @hardhat.rocks
Using phones to wardrive? Don't forget to turn off "Wi-Fi scan throttling" in Developer options.
Join us Saturday October 25th for our 24 event!
#HHB24Wigle #AllTheWiFi
Where has the time gone??? One week until the 24 Hours of HHB!
We are encouraging our group (and everyone else) to wardrive and upload to
@wiglenet
during 24 hours.
Saturday October 25th from 00:01 PDT to 23:59 PDT
Leaderboard is here: hardhat.rocks/24hours2025/
#HHB24Wigle 1/2
sherman, for the love of god!
Ugh, time for a new fork.
It's both
The last few weeks, we've been working to connected with the family of the person taken by ICE and are building a campaign to get his out.
But he was the only person working for his wife and kids and we need to raise money for a lawyer and his family's living expenses.
bsky.app/profile/bmes...
It is invariably cheaper to choose kindness:
Thanks for running the village and giving us the opportunity to help!
A gentle reminder to my friends: it's been a rough time lately.
Take good care of yourself and each other.
Do something nice for yourself.
#MakeKindnessNormal
An analog multimeter and a smaller analog multimeter sitting on a blue silicone soldering mat. There is text that says "Don't talk to me or my son ever again."
I'm giving a talk about multimeters this weekend for @pancakescon.com! Thanks to @blenster.com for running the Hardware Hacking Village and for giving me the opportunity to present!
Thanks!
Not even into VCFMW yet and saw this amazing hat courtesy of @hardhat.rocks! Very awesome!
