Some of the highlights from the teardown include detailed drawings of how the display operates, all of the commands for controlling the device, and even an interesting note about how the system clock operates even when the device has been powered off for a substantial amount of time. For a pocket synthesizer this has a lot to offer, even if you plan on using it as something else entirely thanks to the versatility of the Cortex M3.
during the pocket operator project competition, we have seensome amazing submissions and are blown away by all the super nicestuff you've made. you are the best!we want to thank everyone deeply for participating.here is the in-depth report on selected submissions we've received,you will also find our thoughts on your project. let's go and get inspired!
Hacking The Pocket Operator
this flip case is made of paper fiberboard.when you are on the go, the lid will protect the pocket operator from cracking the screen or accidentally playing music. when you want to play flip the lid and fold it to the back as a stand.
arduino based tempo divider for the pocket operators. rhythm goes into arduino. sub gets half tempo. factory gets quarter tempo. all three play the same beat in the start, but hit at different points.
a bone conductor cover to make your pocket operator operate anything! it transforms every surface into a loudspeaker. we love the idea of using everyday found objects to enhance and expand the possibilities of the pocket operators. well done!
Teenage Engineering created one of the affordable, yet powerful, drum machines out there with the Pocket Operator PO-32. It features a wide array of adjustable drum sounds (and pitches) and a calculator-esque sequencer with ready-made effects. The Pocket Operators are made and distributed in this slimmed-down no-case design, which invites hacking. In fact there was a Teenage Engineering sponsored hacking competition where a number of clever and silly additions to the Pocket Operators were introduced.
the frekvens collection of speakers and lights are perfect to be used when creating music together.1. 3D-print some add-ons2. build your own light and sound rig3. invite some friends for a pocket operator party4. turn up the volume!pocket operator, buy now!
make musicthe frekvens collection of speakers andlights are perfect to be used when creatingmusic together.1. 3D-print some add-ons2. build your own light and sound rig3. invite some friends for a pocket operator party4. turn up the volume!pocket operator, buy now!
Ah, ok. I haven't actually used a pocket operator so maybe I've done some things better or worse - and hopefully differently. :) I have channels, which are generally a single instrument or type of instrument. That channel might be a waveform type, or a sample bank, which may have kick, clap, cymbal, etc... Then there are patterns, which can have multiple channels that play simultaneously. Then your track will be sequenced from the patterns, arranged how you want. I haven't built anything on the pattern sequencing yet, but it's been designed with that in mind. I plan to work on all this stuff while I'm at Superconference at the end of next week.
Mobility in itself offers a new dimension of risk. Now we can have location-specific data, which is one of the biggest privacy problems. Recent stories, like that of mobile operator EE selling user data including gender, age, postcode and locations to polling organisations, have highlighted the need to identify what personal data is used, and in what ways.
Neil stands in a room with military cyber operators from Joint Task Force ARES to launch an operation that would become one of the largest and longest offensive cyber operations in U.S. military history. Josh Kramer for NPR hide caption
Everyone was in uniform; there were scheduled briefings, last-minute discussions, final rehearsals. "They wanted to look me in the eye and say, 'Are you sure this is going to work?' " an operator named Neil said. "Every time, I had to say yes, no matter what I thought." He was nervous, but confident. U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency had never worked together on something this big before.
It looked like a giant bingo card. Each number represented a different member of the ISIS media operation. One number represented an editor, for instance, and all the accounts and IP addresses associated with him. Another might have been the group's graphic designer. As members of the terrorist group slept, a room full of military cyber operators at Fort Meade, Md., near Baltimore were ready to take over the accounts and crash them.
The spring and summer of 2016 were spent preparing for attack. And while members of Task Force ARES didn't reveal everything they did to crack into ISIS's network, one thing they used early on was a hacking standby: a phishing email. ISIS members "clicked on something or they did something that then allowed us to gain control and then start to move," said Gen. Edward Cardon, the first commander of Task Force ARES.
Almost every hack starts with hacking a human, cracking a password or finding some low-level unpatched vulnerability in software. "The first thing you do when you get in there is you've got to get some persistence and spread out," Cardon said, adding that the ideal thing is to get an administrator's account. "You can operate freely inside the network because you look like a normal IT person." (ISIS didn't just have IT people; it had an entire IT department.)
Once ARES operators were inside the ISIS network, they began opening back doors and dropping malware on servers while looking for folders that contained things that might be helpful later, like encryption keys or folders with passwords. The deeper ARES got inside ISIS's network, the more it looked like the theory about the 10 nodes was correct.
If ISIS had stored something in the cloud or on a server sitting in, say, France, ARES had to show Defense Department officials and members of Congress that U.S. cyber operators had the skill to do the cyber equivalent of a surgical strike: attack the ISIS material on a server without taking down the civilian material sitting right next to it.
That Marine was Neil. He began peppering the leadership with ideas. He talked to them about not just hacking one person ... or ISIS in Syria and Iraq, but how to take down the media operation's entire global network. "That's how these attacks work," Neil said. "They start very simple and they become more complex."
There was something else about Task Force ARES that was different: Young operators like Neil were briefing generals directly. "A lot of [ideas] come up that way, like somebody says, 'Well, we could gain access and do this to the files.' Really? You can do that? 'Oh yeah.' Would anyone notice? 'Well, maybe, but the chances are low.' It's like, hmmm, that's interesting, put that on the list."
Cardon said young operators on Joint Task Force ARES understood hacking in a visceral way and, in many respects, understood what was possible in cyberspace better than commanding officers did, so having a direct line to the people making the decisions was key.
After months of looking at static webpages and picking their way through ISIS's networks, the task force starting logging in as the enemy. They deleted files. Changed passwords. "Click there," a digital forensic expert would say. "We're in," the operator would respond.
Once they had taken control of the 10 nodes, and had locked key people out of their accounts, ARES operators just kept chewing their way through the target list. "We spent the next five or six hours just shooting fish in a barrel," Neil said. "We'd been waiting a long time to do that and we had seen a lot of bad things happen and we were happy to see them go away."
The second phase of Operation Glowing Symphony focused on sowing confusion within ISIS. Joint Task Force ARES operators worked to make the attack look like frustrating, daily-life IT problems: dead batteries, slow downloads, forgotten passwords. Josh Kramer for NPR hide caption
The ideas that flowed up from operators like Neil were endless. Let's drain their cellphone batteries; or insert photographs into videos that weren't supposed to be there. Task Force ARES would watch, react and adjust its plans. It would change passwords, or buy domain names, delete content, all in a way that made it (mostly) look like it was just run-of-the mill IT problems.
"Within the first 60 minutes of go, I knew we were having success," Gen. Paul Nakasone, director of the NSA, told NPR in an interview. "We would see the targets start to come down. It's hard to describe but you can just sense it from being in the atmosphere, that the operators, they know they're doing really well. They're not saying that, but you're there and you know it."
Three years after Neil said "Fire," ARES is still in ISIS networks. Gen. Matthew Glavy is now the commander of Joint Task Force ARES. He says his operators still have a thumb on ISIS's media operations; the group is still having a lot of trouble operating freely on the Web. But it is hard to be sure why that is. While ARES has been hacking into ISIS in cyberspace, forces on the ground have driven the group out of most of Syria and Iraq.
ISIS itself has spread out. It now has fighters in Libya and Mali and even the Philippines. Glavy says his operators are still there. "We cannot have for them to gain the momentum that we saw in the past," he told me. "We have to learn that lesson." 2ff7e9595c
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