While many of us prefer order in our lives, at least most of the time, we sometimes need a little chaos. Specifically, we need a source of true randomness in order to properly drive many of our cryptographic systems – to secure our digital communications, for example. And while computers are very good at doing what we tell them to do, they suck at being unpredictable. Therefore we have to find other ways to inject a little chaos. Today I will discuss these concepts with Joe Long, founder and CEO of HackerBoxes.com. Along the way, we’ll share stories of hardware hacking and our love of electronics tinkering. And then we’ll reveal a totally geeky project we’ve been working on together for many months now that we dubbed the Amulet of Entropy!

Joe Long is a professional engineer, patent attorney, and hardware hacker.  He has decades of expertise in electronics which he has taught to over a million students around the world.  Joe is the founder of HackerBoxes – a company that provides kits, workshops, and monthly subscription boxes for building and learning electronics.

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