Successful test vend

We just loaded up a column and dispensed it all. None of them broke in my face, jammed, or did anything else bad. We now officially win at hacking vending machines.

The Brawndinator

We now have a black front which we tagged with a very large instance of our logo. We've had successful test vends of both 12 and 16 ounce cans and we're about to put the innards back together. The front will get a clear coat for protection and because we like shiny things. Once that is done (later tonight) we'll put the front on, take some pictures and call it a night.

Defcon Preperations

So we now have planned out transportation of people and items; we have one of the hosts set up running 2 contest VMs, 1 shared VM and the scorekeeper. There are officially 4 services installed, working and being monitored by the scorekeeper. On top of that, we actually have teams registered to play. So I'd say we're doing much better than a week ago.

If things go to plan we'll have 3 more services installed, working and being monitored by the scorekeeper by Friday. Once I secure another hard drive which I can do whatever I want with, I can set up another host and keep cranking out and hosting VMs. The network setup is scheduled for this weekend. Even if the gear fails to show up at my house, I plan on switching subnets around and making sure that it'll just be a matter of physically plugging in the CAT6 cables. I have some unmanaged switches here which will work fine for testing.

The contest is coming together as well as I expected, but not as well as I had hoped. This is typical; at any rate, we'll make it. We always do.