A local group of enthusiasts that I belong to is trying to raise money for a makerspace/hackerspace. Along with membership dues, it has been suggested to teach introduction to arduino (or teensy) classes to corporate IT shops in our metro area.
Most of the IT people are analysts that wouldn't have any interest, but you do get some geeky types that would be interested (client server folks, PC repair, Unix admins).
With a 4 hour intro class, there are many minor projects that could be done such as monitor temperature and turning on LEDs.
But it would be easier to sell if there was something IT shop related such as packet monitoring, or wifi sniffer, or the like. Can you throw out some ideas of projects that may actually apply to the job of an IT worker? I know that is a pretty broad skillset to shoot for, but I'm open to any suggestions.
Ability to reset a computer remotely... either trigger the reset button or cycle the power. Could be controlled by land line, cell phone or ethernet.
Remote console access... access the remote console port of a server or router with the arduino via ethernet or cell phone.
Notification of unresponsive servers or services.
I don't know if the arduino would be capable of monitoring packets at great speeds. So that may not work. Temperature monitoring seems like a great idea. Could even trigger fans or other environmental controls along with notifications.
An arduino that monitors power consumption / water usage(flow) in various parts of an office and updates it to the intranet and people can see a dynamic image(processing) representing usage... perhaps an artistic display... the blues get bluer with less usage of water and greens greener with less usage of power... something of that sort?
I have an extremely difficult to break password on some of the sites I visit, using non-printable characters such as ascii 127, 142, 152 etc. They are characters you can't get from the keyboard. I copy it from a file I have and paste it. Of course a site hack or a keylogger could figure it out, but it won't be from one of those programs that cycles through the characters, because they never think to go beyond the non-printable set of characters.
A USB device that allowed you to hit a small button and get it to inject a password would be useful. I suppose it could even read the last 3 characters of the keyboard as a "key" to produce different passwords.
should be doable but you would require to program an application that can take a specific set of serial data and fill specific password fields. Python perhaps. But this would involve more of application programming than arduino
Yes, there are a couple of ways to do that. One was suggested in the parallel thread cross-posted in another area of the forum, which you already replied to. :-?
