Heist Puzzles

Code for several electronic puzzles created for an interactive heist game.

The Vault

This presently assumes you have a Particle Photon device connected up as in the Motion Detector Code Example.

You will need to enter the access token of your Particle device in a file ./the-vault/security-frontend/secrets.js:

var accessToken = 'YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN';
var deviceId = 'YOUR_DEVICE_ID';

The HTML page provides a security interface that responds to "alert" events in the browser.

Camera Hacker

A puzzle for those who have always wanted to "hack the mainframe" to disable a "security system".

Installing

• Install Python 3.5
• Create a virtual environment in the project folder with virtualenv -p python3 venv
• Activate the virtual environment with . venv/bin/activate
• Install packages with pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the server

• For develop, python server.py (with venv enabled) will do ya
• To see it beyond your local machine, you're going to want to change the IP in Config.Server to 0.0.0.0
• You will need to change the camera IPs in Config/Cameras.py
• I think debug mode messes up the challenge somehow, so I also recommend turning debug=False for actually running this. You can do that in server.py

Setting up smartphone cameras

The system is currently configured for a single camera, though we'll want three in the final game.

You could purchase an IP webcam, but those are expensive, so instead we're following the advice of the MakeUseOf article How to Build a Security Camera Network Out Of Old Smartphones. We installed BL-IP on an old smartphone and it began streaming video to an IP address configured in the app, henceforth referred to as YOUR_CAMERA_IP.

Starting the image gathering script

Run (with venv activated) python get_images.py from the camera hacker directory. It needs valid IPs in the config, then will take care of saving them to the disk. The API will then retrieve them. This fixes a bug where two simaltaneous windows would break things.

Checking that the camera is streaming

The BL-IP app makes available its current frame at <YOUR_CAMERA_IP>/camera.jpg. Test audio and video streams can be viewed at http://<YOUR_CAMERA_IP>/jpeg-browser.html.

Accessing the server

You can see the login page at localhost:8080/login. To access the feeds, enter the username and password found in the Security configuration. If you go to /feeds without this, you'll be kicked back to login.