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+Title: Getting Started with O.MG's DemonSeed EDU
+Date: 2020-08-01
+Category: hardware
+Tags: hacking, hardware
+
+
+## I have good friends
+
+It's been a lonely year, no doubt, but I'm very lucky to have a loving family
+and plenty of friends to lean on. While I don't see many people in the flesh
+lately, I do have frequent contact online, and my hacker friends have been
+critical to my health and happiness. Thanks to the hacker and DEFCON
+communities, I've even been able to make new friends along the way.
+
+One new friend from DEFCON has made a pandemic project out of learning to cast
+gaming dice. He's been sharing his progress, from buying masters to crafting his
+own masters and resin printing them before casting his own masters. He's learned
+some pretty stunning coloring techniques, so I had to have a set of my own. When
+he posted a set that really caught my eye, I claimed it right away. He let me
+pick the color for the numbers and once they were ready, he put them in the
+mail. The dice are _beautiful_, and someday when we can get together again for
+some dungeon hack'n'slash, I look forward to using them.
+
+## What's in the box?
+
+Now, when I received my package in the mail, and I was done marveling at my new
+dice, I noticed a small, paper envelope at the bottom of the box, white with
+black, seemingly demonic symbols on it. My friend had included an [O.MG
+DemonSeed EDU](https://o.mg.lol/) kit! These were quite popular at DEFCON and
+I'd seen them available at
+[Hak5](https://shop.hak5.org/products/o-mg-demonseed-edu). This was a very
+generous gift that I certainly did not expect! While I've done a certain amount
+of hardware hacking, my workbench has been neglected this summer. I took the kit
+to my bench in the basement, dusted off the soldering mat, and got to work.
+
+I'm not going to cover my effort here. For starters, I've only gotten through
+soldering the programmer and the DemonSeed into a USB connector before loading a
+very basic payload. Also, I still haven't done the work I want to do to safely
+load photographs onto the site without spreading even more location meta-data
+about myself onto the internet. I do, though, want to put up the links I'll want
+later, and a quick note about udev rules.
+
+## Asking for forgiveness won't work this time
+
+After you've flashed a bootloader onto your DemonSeed and soldered into the USB
+connector, you're ready to put a payload onto your device. Once you've
+configured your Arduino IDE for the Digispark and you try to load your sketch,
+you may encounter an error like this:
+
+```shell
+micronucleus: library/micronucleus_lib.c:66: micronucleus_connect: Assertion 'res >= 4' failed.
+```
+
+This happens because the default usb udev rules are set up to have the device
+mounted as `root` with `0600` permissions. Thanks to [this forum post
+here](https://digistump.com/board/index.php?topic=106.0) I found I could create
+a file at `/etc/udev/rules.d/digispark.rules` like so...
+
+```
+SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="16d0", ATTR{idProduct}=="0753", MODE="0660", GROUP="dialout"
+```
+
+Double-check your `dmesg` output to ensure that you're using the correct
+`idVendor` and `idProduct` for the device you've connected. Now when you connect
+your device, and assuming your user belongs to the `dialout` group, you should
+be able to write to your DemonSeed without trouble.
+
+## What's next?
+
+By the [seventh
+video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww_71dgkgW8&list=PLW5y1tjAOzI1xRXLCU1ROeZIuyVz7aF0e&index=7)
+in O.MG's series, things start to get pretty complicated as he describes ways to
+experiment with hardware such as radio interference, etc. This will require some
+time and concentration. I'll certainly share any of my own discoveries here. In
+the meantime this project has me inspired to put a little more time into playing
+with the various micro-controller devices I've picked up over the years,
+including a very cool programmer a friend and I assembled for the ESP8266 12F
+chip.
+
+There's less than a week until [DEFCON28: Safe Mode with
+Networking](https://defcon.org), and following that I have resumed my labs to
+prepare for my OSWE exam in October. It's going to be a sleepless couple of
+months, no doubt.
+
+## Links
+
+* [O.MG DemonSeed EDU on Hak5](https://shop.hak5.org/products/o-mg-demonseed-edu) 
+* [Setup page on O.MG's site](https://o.mg.lol/setup/OMGDemonSeedEDU/)
+* [Digispark Wiki](http://digistump.com/wiki/digispark)