Great suggestion. I'll try and get that added in today. I was debating adding in score checkpoints that unlock other permutations, but I might just add in a shuffle and make sure it doesn't reveal the wotd. Thanks for the feedback!
not every tp-link model (or revision, or locale, or firmware version) that shares a web interface with the c7 requires you to manually set a password. even if that were the case, there are bound to be users who aren't security savvy and chose a very weak password (e.g. "password", "admin").
many tp-link routers also have configurable vpn servers built in, which can open up the whole network to malicious actors.
What a great writeup! It's awesome to see the process all the way from component selection, through code, to a final working demo. I'm definitely saving this for when I have time to do more hands-on FPGA learning.
Great write-up! We did something very similar when trying to find duplicate product images for a consumer review site we were working on. Our implementation desaturated the image, broke it into a fixed number of tiles, and generated a histogram of each tile's values. Then we put a threshold on the histogram values, and had each value in the tile represent a bit. Combine the bits, and we had a hash to store in the DB. Our hashes were a bit larger, so images within a certain hamming distance were flagged, rather than just looking for exact hash matches. It took quite a bit of tuning for us to get good results, but it seemed to work pretty well. Do you see many false positives with such a small processed image size (the 9x8 one, I mean)?
In practice we are using an image size of 17x16 which will result in a hash size of 256 bits and currently it seems to work pretty well. I ran the algorithm through the whole dataset (about 330.000+ icons) and I would say that from all the duplicate matches about 1% where false positives.
Also, we will be integrating this into the reviewing process for an iconset, where we also do a manual quality check, showing possible matches to something currently uploaded so skimming over one or two false positives isn't such a big deal and we where more interested in the speed of the algorithm.
