[Question] Security related Hardware project ideas

[Psycho_Coder]

Hello EZ,

I have always been fascinated by hardware hack tools like brueforcers, Surveillance drones etc. I want to get started with building my own tools and I have a budget of about 100-200 USD for buying external kits. I am thinking of starting with Raspberry PI or Arduino (other PIC microcontroller can be used as well but not very sure). I have had searched for different kinds of projects with Arduino or Raspberry Pi and there are plenty on various sites. However I am more interested in building security tools specially with the mindset of learning (since several well known tools are already available.). On lifehacker I got some ideas like packet sniffer, Hack Rifle, Wireless camera launcher, password cracking etc.

I want some ideas on what more security related projects I can work on. I am beginner in this but hey I got to start somewhere and I know I will work with the basics but still just to get more interested I would like to have your input.

(Moreover I am not sure if calling Hardware hack tool is a good idea, sounds cheap like its coming from a noob. Sorry for that!)

Thank you,
Sincerely,
Psycho_Coder

[x40a0e]

Check out Samy Kamkar's youtube channel. He has quite a few hardward projects that are all security related, and he gives good walk throughs. It might help to replicate some of his projects and then see if they inspire anything new.

[bolzano_1989]

This is a useful project:
CIRCLean - USB key sanitizer: https://www.circl.lu/projects/CIRCLean/

[dec]

This posts a couple months old but I hope the HH is going well Psycho_Coder!

I enjoy browsing instructableswww for ideas. Lots of stuff, some of its really basic but always good ideas to build off of.
http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/category-technology/

Build a key-logger with an arduino! Use full and educational. Hardware key-loggers are sometimes more useful.

Also Another Good Website:
http://hackaday.com/

[archfox]

Well, it is good to share, so:

I wanted to implement "Laptop Guard". Simple idea: using sensor to detect if there is any body next to my laptop (let's say, closer that 2 meters) to start an alarm and get notified on my phone.