https://gsswrk.com/Its like a blog only different 2026-05-19T03:54:05-07:00 Guesswork https://gsswrk.com/ Jekyll © 2026 Guesswork /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-05-19T12:00:00-07:00 2026-05-19T03:53:43-07:00 https://gsswrk.com/posts/furpy-v2/ Guesswork

It has been a while. A lot longer than I intended. A few people have reached out asking if FurPy was still happening, and the honest answer is yes, just slower than I hoped. Here is where things actually stand. If you missed the original post, the short version: FurPy is a drop-in replacement mainboard for the 1998 Tiger Electronics Furby. You swap out the original SPC81A chip board, drop in a...

2026-05-07T12:00:00-07:00 2026-05-12T19:58:27-07:00 https://gsswrk.com/posts/grid/ Guesswork

I’ve been quietly building something I’m pretty proud of. It’s called GRID — General Resilience Information & Defense. The short version: it’s an offline-first survival knowledge and media system running on my UNRAID server. The longer version involves way too many nginx quirks and a rabbit hole of ZIM files. The Problem The internet is easy to take for granted. Power outage, ISP outage...

2023-08-15T14:22:00-07:00 2023-08-15T15:06:38-07:00 https://gsswrk.com/posts/furpy-redux/ Guesswork

The previous design was based off the Google AIY kit that I had been tinkering with at the time. I’ve learned a few tricks and am taking a new approach to this project. My biggest hurdles previously were the size of the components I was trying to cram inside the furby, and, stupid audio drivers for the mic. SO, I decided to ditch the pcb mic in favor of a usb mic and instead of the raspi A+, ...

2023-07-29T11:17:00-07:00 2023-07-29T11:26:10-07:00 https://gsswrk.com/posts/furpy-archive-log-071122/ Guesswork

7/11/22 - managed to get voice recog working again lights are flickering and more testing needs to be done combined the cloudspeech script and the main_test script into “speech_led_test.py” current issue is that the neopixels want sudo and the mic does not about logic level shifters and getting a 3.3v data signal up to 5v for neopixels: https://learn.adafruit.com/neopixel-levelshifter neopi...

2023-07-27T13:01:00-07:00 2023-10-04T11:01:25-07:00 https://gsswrk.com/posts/cheatsheets/ Guesswork

BROWSER TOOLS: DNSDUMPSTER - my favorite dns tool. https://dnsdumpster.com/ SHODAN - great for threat hunting and footprinting a target. https://www.shodan.io/ CYBERCHEF - great tool when working with encoded data. download and run locally if handling sensitive data. https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef WHOIS - useful but i prefer to use the whois command from terminal. https://...