1. Happy Hacking Day 2016 in Japan

    August 8th is Happy Hacking Day in Japan, because "Happy Hacking" sounds like 8 8.

    This year, I explain some ideas behind FSM-55 and show the demonstration of "bricoleur" of mine.

    FSM-55 and its applications

    The board is FSM-55 (Flying Stone Mini Go! Go!), which I designed in 2014: http …

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  2. Flying Stone Bare Bone 48

    Here is the idea of another small computer. Like FST-01, its intended usages are Gnuk, and/or NeuG.

    Some Update Required

    In 2016, it found that the regulator chip in FST-01 became discontinued.

    There are some stocks in the market, so, FST-01 is still reproducible. Yet, this is a good …

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  3. Creating newer ECC keys for GnuPG

    Here is an explanation of how to create your new ECC keys for GnuPG.

    GnuPG 2.1.x supports ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography). ECC is generic term and security of ECC depends on the curve used. Unfortunately, no one wants to use standardized curve of NIST.

    Since GnuPG 2.1 …

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