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Makers Unplugged – Episode #3 – Hack the Dragon

Episode Posted: 22 October 2016

Show Notes: 8 December 2016

CHRONOLOGICAL NOTES

Original reason for creating the game [0:45]

Phone IVR [0:58]

Interactive Voice Response is the technology that allows you to interact with menus using your phone keys or voice prompts, for example on a customer service line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_voice_response

DTMF Tones [2:24]

Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency signaling is how touch-tone telephones translate the number you pressed into an electrical signal of two sine-waves superimposed that can be decoded using signal processing techniques.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-tone_multi-frequency_signaling

Beware of getting Rick Rolled! [3:22]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Original concept of text-to-speech game [3:50]

Zork [4:11]

Zork is one of the earliest interactive computer games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork

MUD games [4:25]

Multi-User Dungeon games are real-time multi-player games that are typically text-based. Some graphical MUD games do exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

Google Speech API [4:50]

An API is an Application Programming Interface and they are sets of functions that allow the creation of applications that access the features or data in another application or operating system.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html

NLP [7:12]

Natural Language Processing, a field related to human-computer interactions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing

Next steps after text-to-speech limitations [7:56]

Asterisk PBX and how phone networks work [8:14]

Asterisk is a software product of PBX; or “private branch exchange,” which is the network that allows phones to connect to each other.

http://www.asterisk.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_telephone_system#Private_branch_exchange

2600 Magazine [12:40]

https://www.2600.com/

Development of a choose your adventure game [13:45]

SIP Technology [14:48]

Session Initiation Protocol, a protocol for signaling and communication often used in VoIP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol

DID [16:55]

Direct Inward Dialing is a service that allows a company with its own PBX to buy a block of phone numbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_inward_dial

Making of the game [19:00]

Eli’s favorite room [28:48]

First players and reception [32:05]

Hack.RVA Access Badge Easter Egg [32:30]

Skills USA [35:20]

http://www.skillsusa.org/

Bugs, updates, and changes to the game [40:30]

MGCP Firmware [44:05]

Media Gateway Control Protocol, another signaling protocol (like SIP) that had early problems with the game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Gateway_Control_Protocol

TFTP Server [46:08]

Trivial File Transfer Protocol is an extremely basic file transfer system. It is easy to implement but has no security features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_File_Transfer_Protocol

VLAN Path [46:28]

Virtual Local Area Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_LAN

Windows VM [47:30]

A virtual Machine is an emulation of an operating system to experiment with code without risking your computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine