/categories/projects/ Recent content in Projects on Vinnie Magro Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/takecharge/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/takecharge/ At SB Hacks last weekend, we built Take Charge, a device that could be disguised as a standard USB charger, but secretly hides a way to install a data-mining application on unsuspecting users’ phones. We do this by taking advantage of the implicit trust that a user has in an innocent-looking phone charger and the trust that Android blindly gives to USB input devices. Take Charge emulates a normal USB keyboard, that is programmed to rapidly navigate through the Android settings menus to enable debugging and allow unknown sources, and then download our payload apk onto the device and install it on behalf of the user, granting an alarming number of permissions in a matter of seconds. /blog/eyebeacon/ Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/eyebeacon/ eyeBeacon provides hyperlocal contextual storytelling and payments through Google Glass and Pebble. Using Bluetooth LE iBeacons (powered by Raspberry Pi), eyeBeacon provides relevant information about buildings, museum exhibits, and anything else of interest, and allows seamless instant payments through Venmo, all triggered by proximity to a beacon. Potential applications include malls, stores, museums, campus tours, and anywhere else that requires location-based contextual information at an intimate level. /blog/such-roadtrip-wow/ Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/such-roadtrip-wow/ Such Roadtrip helps you create a digital scrapbook of your trip automatically with photos, tweets, and other updates. Such Roadtrip will automatically organize all of your and your friends’ activities and plot them on a map in the context of your road trip, so that you can relive the experience again. Such Roadtrip was my team’s entry to hackTECH Winter 2014. We made it to the second round of judging and won an award from DigitalOcean! /blog/photorun/ Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/photorun/ SC PhotoRun is a photo exploration game designed with the University of Southern California in mind. SC PhotoRun comes with several courses that guide you around campus to visit certain campus landmarks. The game includes achievements and leaderboards for each course, so you can quickly see where you stand among your friends. PhotoRun is a powerful and extensible platform that can easily be expanded to new locations - universities, museums, theme parks, even entire cities!