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Alasdair Allan

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Scientist, author, hacker, maker, and journalist. Writes, speaks, and builds. Accidental privacy advocate.

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Alasdair Allan’s Biography

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Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker, maker, and journalist. An expert on the Internet of Things and sensor systems, he’s famous for hacking hotel radios, deploying a 500-node mesh sensor network at Google I/O, and for revealing, back in 2011, that Apple’s iPhone was tracking user location constantly. He has written eleven books, and writes regularly for Hackster.io and other outlets. A former astronomer, he also built a peer-to-peer autonomous telescope network that detected what was,…

Alasdair Allan’s Journalist Portfolio

How I Discovered the First Big Mobile Privacy Scandal

How I Discovered the First Big Mobile Privacy Scandal

That smartphones can track our every movement seems obvious today, but in 2011 we weren't quite used to the i…

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Benchmarking Edge Computing

Benchmarking Edge Computing

Over the last year custom silicon, intended to speed up machine learning inferencing on the edge, has started…

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A Retro Rotary Phone Powered by AIY Projects and the Raspberry Pi

A Retro Rotary Phone Powered by AIY Projects and the Raspberry Pi

Inspired by the 1986 Google Pi Intercom build put together Martin Mander, ever since I’ve been thinking about…

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A Magic Mirror Powered by AIY Projects and the Raspberry Pi

A Magic Mirror Powered by AIY Projects and the Raspberry Pi

A lot of Magic Mirror builds are complicated, they use a full sized LCD flat panel monitor, and require a lot…

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Adding an External Disk to a Raspberry Pi and Sharing it Over the Network

Adding an External Disk to a Raspberry Pi and Sharing it Over the Network

The Raspberry Pi isn't necessarily the best choice for creating a fast and efficient Network Attached Storage…

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How to blink an LED with Raspberry Pi Pico in C - Raspberry Pi

How to blink an LED with Raspberry Pi Pico in C - Raspberry Pi

The new Raspberry Pi Pico is very different from a traditional Raspberry Pi. Pico is a microcontroller, rathe…

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The Return of Pebble: You Can't Keep a Good Watch Down!

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By Alasdair Allan
| Hackster.io
Eight years after the demise of both the watch and the company behind it, the Pebble smartwatch is coming back from the dead. 13 days ago • Wearables / Machine Learning & AI Eight years after the demise of both the watch and the company behind it, at the tail end of last month we learned that the Pebble smartwatch is coming back from the dead. Back in 2016 amongst rumours of Fitbit buying Pebble for “a small amount,” I wrote about the coming demise of Pebble as a platform.
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Fool me once, fool me twice

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By Alasdair Allan
| Medium
It’s not as if machine learning models aren’t incredibly easy to fool? Alasdair Allan · Follow 18 min read · -- The transcript of a keynote I gave at the Future of Cyber Security conference held at Prospero House in London in November 2024, during which I talked about machine learning, the internet of things, edge computing, and how the new attack surfaces introduced by the arrival of artificial intelligence changes things.
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The Death of a Salesman

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By Alasdair Allan
| Hackster.io
Have products like the Humane AI Pin or Rabbit R1 failed? Or are they the next underlying model around which our computing will be built? 4 months ago • Internet of Things / Wearables / Machine Learning & AI The transcript of a talk I gave at the Particle Spectra conference in 2024,duringwhich I talked about machine learning, edge computing, technological readiness, and how abstraction changes computing.
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