Happy Holidays!

This months talk took a while to compile, but that’s the fun in it as it was put from scratch using Gentoo!

Gentoo Linux: An Introduction by Rocco

Attendance was still strong through the end of the year with 47 attendees!

This months talk featured repeat speaker, one of our helpers!

Plurality by Remnant

This month featured an interesting maker focused talk on Rose Parade float building by one of IVU’s organizers!
What it Takes to Build a Rose Parade Float by Zhoratrope

Welcome back from DEF CON!

This months featured talk:
“How I Learned to Rob AI” by ProBro(Gold Leader).

DEF CON 33 overlapped with IVU this month so in addition to our monthly meeting, we also hosted a DEF CON party in conjunction with San Diego’s DEF CON group!

The in-person meeting at Gulliver’s still took place, and was a small hang out.

One month out from DEF CON!

This meeting featured two back to back talks:
Nintendo Switch (1) hacking by Remnant
and
A general DEF CON Primer

Our speaker this month came down with COVID last minute, and we instead occupied the meeting with casual hangout night, along with hacker movies!

Duald also brought a portable mock CCDC competition environment and some laptops for people to hack on during the meeting.

Even during a casual meeting, we still had a great turnout of 75 people!

This month’s talk came from a hardware hacking security local, Alex Lynd! Alex is known for his work at DevKitty, and for creating a cat-shaped console for hackers and makers!

This month also set a new attendance record of 90 people!

Talk title:
$5 Wireless Hacking with Microcontrollers by Alex Lynd

Happy Valentines Day!

For some, this Valentine’s day was shared with IVU members and the collective love for our gatherings 🙂

The talk this month was from an repeat speaker, and IVU helper – Ghriz!

Car Mods and Hacking by Ghriz

As many might recognize each month, Ghriz routinely rolls up each month with new fun and funky mods to his car. This talk came full circle on understanding his approach to modding his own cars!

Here is a modded car Ghriz is known to drive around and play music from during the after-talk parking lot con:

Happy New Year!

Our original speaker had a last minute scheduling conflict. As a last minute back up, Guillotine stepped up and gave a second iteration on their Quantum Computing talk from last year!

Outside of the talk, there were some Miku GFuel to share, along with some other creations!

Happy Holidays!

The talk this month featured a history lesson, and walk through tour of a collection of interesting “Electromechanical Curiosities”.

Talk:
A Brief History of Electro-Medical Quackery, and Other Curiosities by Time Capsule

This month featured no talk, but two unique events!
Spring Cleaning Crapmeet
Bring in your half-finished projects, old tech, and forgotten gizmos and help them find a new home

Hebocon Combat Robot Tournament with Robartimie
Build the best worst combat robot out of trash, kids’ toys, and whatever you can find at the crapmeet! All comers welcome!

For those new to Hebocon, some helpful background info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ivFpsmEVQ

This month featured a talk on career development in infosec:
Starting, growing, and advancing your career in information security by Niko from OWASP San Diego

A new addition to our meetings is a Kindle to pass around with a QR code to join the IVU Discord made by our very own Remnant. The password from this month is expired, but show up to join the server as an Attendee!

(There is a challenge hidden on the kindle too!)

Gobble Gobble!

This month’s IVU meeting featured:

What’s going on over those radios? by Ezemar
A talk about LoRa and LoRaWAN

Gear up for spooky season at IVU with two presentations this month:
Ada Lovelace 101 by AST
Ada Lovelace in terms your non-computer friends will understand 🙂
and
Heist Planning Open Forum with Rob
How would you look for an attack vector on something “Un-hackable”?