Remote Hardware Development, Hacking, Reverse-Engineering, and Education for the Next Pandemi

Presented at A New HOPE (2022), July 24, 2022, 3:30 p.m. (50 minutes)

In this workshop you will learn about the available tools and methods that will help you access, hack, reverse-engineer, or teach embedded systems using physical hardware in a remote location. Tarek will share with you what he successfully used before and during the pandemic to help the Cairo Hackerspace community have seamless remote access to unaffordable (to them) educational embedded systems devices. He will show you how remote hardware tools helped him teach Arduino, robotics, and software defined radio more efficiently to his online students. And lastly, Tarek will present some professional use cases from his personal experience and how it helped him supply a museum and an escape room in New York City with quick remote technical support for most of their hardware related problems that previously required an engineer to be present in person. He will be using a Linux laptop and Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu.

Presenters:

  • Tarek Omar
    **Tarek Omar** leads Senet Software, a software consultancy and game development studio that was born inside Cairo Hackerspace. With Senet Software, Tarek has built and helped design eight of the most popular fourth generation escape rooms in New York City. He has worked on Senet Lab, a state of the art online solution for remote work and remote education. In the past, he has provided IoT solutions for environmental, agricultural, and "smart cities" projects, acted as team lead on numerous software projects, launched and managed Cairo Hackerspace and mobile makerspace Maker Express in Egypt, taught interdisciplinary creative tech workshops, and coached parkour for more than ten years.

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