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Hi! I work on a lot of cool stuff involving around my passions: malware research, medical device security, and blockchain technology. However, I work on other things too.

It started with my personal curiosity on hacking my own power-wheelchair that runs off on a neat protocol called R-Net. Unfortunately R-Net is closed-source and a black-box protocol. That was until I decided to change that. I made an OSS library of sorts in Python that allows you to control your chair with multiple devices. Such a Raspberry Pi or linux based computer as seen here in this cool video! It didn't stop there though. Your smart cellphone can work with your chair too.

You can see the library code here: can2RNET

Many hours were spent with friends unravelling the mystery of R-Net. We spent 100+ hours total from the start of the research. It was brutal as we were sweating our tears from our eyes. It felt like we had many nights with no sleep. The hard work paid off though as it helped launched my evolving career and allowed me to present at professional conference talks. I was able to speak at amazing events such as DEFCON 24, Kaspersky SAS, and many more events. Awards were won and university research teams were contacting me to help with their projects. Such as the SmartWheels chair prototype. I couldn't ask for a more awesome life at 26. It will only get better as time goes on.

In addition to all of that, I also maintain a privacy-aware OSS AI assistant called Project Naomi. Go check it out. If you like it, please consider sponsoring that on GitHub too. https://github.com/NaomiProject or feel to help out in whatever way you want.

If you want to know more about me, read my blog at https://dicesoft.net or watch this cool introduction video https://youtu.be/kJR1fNI8iNQ

Your sponsorship helps me continue to contribute. It helps offset the costs of getting to conferences, and pay for hosting and other promotional expenses associated with my projects.

@redragonx

Having 10 sponsors will allow me to help pay some cost on servers ($300 a month) As such as my merch store server: https://bitlantis.city/

Current sponsors 1

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Past sponsors 1
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Featured work

  1. NaomiProject/Naomi

    The Naomi Project is an open source, technology agnostic platform for developing always-on, voice-controlled applications!

    Python 267
  2. redragonx/can2RNET

    This repo has code and documentation to control power-wheelchairs with R-Net electronics.

    Python 67
  3. GoKillers/libsodium-go

    A complete overhaul of the Golang wrapper for libsodium

    Go 140
  4. paragonie/random_compat

    PHP 5.x support for random_bytes() and random_int()

    PHP 8,173
  5. TheFixers/SuperHoneyPot

    The honey pot allows connections to be made to it, and mimics the appropriate protocols that are defined as plugins without actually allowing system access.

    Python 5
  6. redragonx/ApothemOS

    A simple operating system for the Raspberry Pi

    Assembly 3

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