Random Walking

Projects

Patio Bench
[ IN PROGRESS A patio bench with storage ]
VHF/UHF homemade antenna
[ ABANDONED Dual-band antenna based on N1GY's design ]
APRS Weather station
[ IN PROGRESS Build a remote APRS Weather Station ]
Switch randomwalking.com to "CMS from Scratch"
[ I've switched the backend of this website to CMS from Scratch ]
Assassian EPP Combat Wing
[ From Crash Test Hobby ]
Convert an ATX Power Supply to a Bench Power Supply
[ Based off Andy Batts' Guide ]
Media Center PC
[ A audio/visual server for the home ]
Where To Fly RC Website
[ Find places to fly RC airplanes ]
Pull out pantry cabinet
[ Easy woodworking project to increase space efficency ]
Hyperion Yak55 Profile
[ An okay 3D flyer ]
Renovate our Backyard Patio
[ Stone work by Weiler's Landscaping ]
Fundango
[ Quick and fun ]
Slow Stik
[ This is a great plane for new flyers ]
Digital Picture Frame from Sony Z505JS
[ Now using an Avaratec ]
Eclipse PICdt
[ Abondoned project that attempted to create an open-source IDE for PIC microcontroller development ]
CANSS
[ Compressed Audio Network Streaming System - Senior Design Project ]
Nomad
[ Portable backpacking weather station ]
VHDL Graphical LCD Interface Core
[ A Wishbone compliant VHDL core to access a KS0108B controller ]
Sleepy Box
[ Add a simple sleep function to RhythmBox ]
Corkd Pod
[ Store your corkd journal on your iPod ]
irivdb-py
[ An iHP-100 series database generator in Python ]
StatCVS/StatSVN enhanced LOC counting
[ Measure blank lines, comments, physical, and logicl SLOC ]
Python SAP/SDP Module
[ Generate/Parse SAP/SDP in python ]
XUL RPN Calculator
[ Requires Firefox ]

Code Snippets/Bug Fixes

Generate plain-text Nagios service-detail reports
[ A quick and easy way to produce plain-text summaries for daily status emails ]
Simple Python Shelve Module with File Locking
[ Let's you share a python shelve between multiple proceses and threads ]
Simple rsync based digital camera importer
[ A simple way to import pictures from a camera ]
Axis2 Proxy Configuration Bug
[ Fix for a bug with Axis2 Issue 3839 ]
PIC microcontroller Servo Switch
[ Read the standard signal from RC receivers to make an on/off switch ]
Python iprange module
[ A small Python module for iterating through ip addresses in a for loop ]
EasyTag patch for basic MPEG4/AAC/M4A support
[ A patch that allows easytag to edit the tag of m4a/AAC files. Now part of easytag 1.99.8+ ]
Openphotopod image handling bug patch
[ A patch that fixes an image handling bug in openphotopod ]
PHP Hidden email script
[ A simple php script to easily insert e-mail addresses (hidden from spam bots) into a webpage ]
PHPBB Recent Posts script
[ A simple php script to display the topics of the most recent phpbb posts ]

Publications, Papers, & Presentations

Generating Polices for Defense in Depth (DiD)
[ Paul Rubel, Charles Payne, Michael Ihde, Steven Harp, and Michael Atighetchi. IANewsletter Volume 9 No 3 Fall 2006 ]
Barbarians in the Gate: An Experimental Validation of NIC-based Distributed Firewall Performance and Flood Tolerance
[ Michael Ihde, William H. Sanders. The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks June 25-28, 2006 Philadelphia, PA ]
Generating Policies for Defense in Depth.
[ Paul Rubel, Michael Ihde, Steven Harp, Charles Payne. 21st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference December 5-9, 2005 Tucson, Arizona ]
Experimental Evaluations of Embedded Distributed Firewalls: Performance and Policy.
[ Michael Ihde. Master's Thesis, University of Illinois, 2005 ]
Evaluating the Fault Tolerance of SELinux Policies in the Presense of single-bit failures
[ A class project Tom Brown and I worked on and presented at a UIUC SIGMIL meeting ]

Misc

Bongard Problems
[ I've created one of the many Harry has compiled ]
How good is the shuffle of IPod, IPod shuffle, and iRiver
[ A project I helped Mike McQuinn and Eric Rozier with in grad. school ]

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