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https://hackaday.com/2009/01/29/pseudo-3d-chat/ | Pseudo 3D Chat | Eliot | [
"downloads hacks",
"home entertainment hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"3d",
"chat",
"johnny lee",
"opencv",
"video chat",
"wiimote"
] | [Chris Harrison] and [Scott E. Hudson] have built a novel system for
faking a 3D video chat session
. Their implementation separates the image of the chat participant from the background. They then dynamically reposition the video based on the movement of the viewers head. Their using the OpenCV library to do facial re... | 21 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "61284",
"author": "DarkFlib",
"timestamp": "2009-01-30T04:26:23",
"content": "The thing that attracts me is not the pseudo 3d effect its the decent effectiveness it managed to remove the background. It would be pretty cool to be able to replace the background (even if it requires a ... | 1,760,377,688.216249 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/29/boxee-and-apple-tv/ | Boxee And Apple TV | Eliot | [
"downloads hacks",
"home entertainment hacks",
"Mac Hacks"
] | [
"abc",
"apple",
"apple tv",
"atv",
"boxee",
"boxxy",
"ces",
"hulu",
"lifehacker",
"nbc",
"patchstick",
"usb",
"xbmc",
"xbox"
] | We’ve been following
Boxee
(not
Boxxy
) since its
public alpha debut last Summer
. We were captivated by it. Who expected a project built off of code originally intended for
hacked Xboxes
would be
shown on NBC’s Today Show
? We’ve been promised internet connected set top boxes for years, but it seems like Boxee is here... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "61268",
"author": "nick",
"timestamp": "2009-01-30T02:31:41",
"content": "I run this setup at home along with XBMC on the apple tv, it works great. I highly recommend looking into an apple tv if you are considering HTPC options.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies"... | 1,760,377,687.959487 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/29/uhf-power-harvesting/ | UHF Power Harvesting | Eliot | [
"home hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"antenna",
"dvice",
"e-paper",
"hd",
"hidef",
"hygrometer",
"intel",
"RF",
"rfid",
"supercap",
"thermometer",
"uhf",
"wireless"
] | [Alanson Sample] and [Joshua R. Smith] have been experimenting with
wireless power transfer for their sensing platform
. Their microcontroller of choice is the MSP430, which we used on our
e-paper clock
. They chose it specifically for its ability to work with low voltages and they discus its specific behavior at diffe... | 15 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "61264",
"author": "tony",
"timestamp": "2009-01-30T01:49:25",
"content": "Very cool.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "61265",
"author": "joe57005",
"timestamp": "2009-01-30T01:59:39",
"content": "i’m just waiting for ... | 1,760,377,688.358972 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/29/water-powered-jet-pack/ | Water Powered Jet Pack | Caleb Kraft | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"jet pack",
"water jet"
] | We’ve all dreamt, with tears in our eyes, of one day flying with a jet pack. The inherent danger of falling and/or exploding were almost as much as of a deterrent as the price tag. Now, that dream is closer to our grasp. This system, looks like it is
basically just a pump that drags along behind you
pushing water throu... | 37 | 36 | [
{
"comment_id": "61233",
"author": "Insipid Melon",
"timestamp": "2009-01-29T23:54:19",
"content": "This brings tears to my eyees.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "61235",
"author": "EdZ",
"timestamp": "2009-01-29T23:57:12",
"content"... | 1,760,377,688.439633 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/29/the-segwii/ | The Segwii | Caleb Kraft | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"segway",
"wii",
"wiimote"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYUm3V1NSAM&eurl=http://segwii.com/]
The
Segwii is a self balancing robot
. Yes, another one, only this one can be controlled via WiiMote. The Segwii can function in stand alone mode, which offers only the ability to balance, or it can be tethered. When tethered via USB to the la... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "61246",
"author": "Skyler Orlando",
"timestamp": "2009-01-30T00:40:07",
"content": "I’m going to have to invest in a wiimote soon.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "61248",
"author": "neighbor",
"timestamp": "2009-01-30T00... | 1,760,377,688.588535 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/29/led-push-buttons/ | LED Push Buttons | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"LED Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"button",
"led"
] | [pros] has come up with a
very elegant way of making lighted buttons
(
translated
). Using a bunch of small push buttons harvested from old CD players, he rigged this unique way of mounting LEDs. Each LED has two buttons under it. They are wired in parallel, so if either of them is pushed, the button works. The LED isn... | 39 | 39 | [
{
"comment_id": "61190",
"author": "paul",
"timestamp": "2009-01-29T17:10:31",
"content": "Erk, it took me a while to notice that it was a google translation.My tired brain spent waaaaay too long trying to understand what they were saying.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
... | 1,760,377,688.302661 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/28/pandora-case-prototype/ | Pandora Case Prototype | Eliot | [
"handhelds hacks",
"News"
] | [
"clamshell",
"dev unit",
"gizmodo",
"pandora",
"prototype",
"video",
"youtube"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T6zzV1vmOI]
The last time we checked in on Pandora it was just being
shown in dev unit form
. Embedded above is a video of the first case prototype. It doesn’t have any components yet, but it definitely looks like a good formfactor with a lot of potential. The
Pandora
is a
Linux... | 23 | 23 | [
{
"comment_id": "61138",
"author": "MikeFez",
"timestamp": "2009-01-29T03:18:47",
"content": "I can see the top row of keys could be extremely helpful in RPG games, but all together there might be too many keys on there than necessary.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
... | 1,760,377,688.642793 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/02/01/generating-g-code-with-common-lisp/ | Generating G-code With Common Lisp | Eliot | [
"cnc hacks",
"digital audio hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"cnc",
"common lisp",
"eagle",
"fbz",
"g-code",
"gcode",
"lisp",
"midi",
"pcb",
"ruin wesen",
"wesen"
] | Ruin & Wesen are a two person shop creating specialized music gear. As part of their recent MIDI Command development, they got into case manufacturing. They purchased a mini
CNC
mill to cut the aluminum cases. Unhappy with the software options provide [Wesen] decided to
write his own G-code generator
.
G-code
is part o... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "61631",
"author": "j-striker",
"timestamp": "2009-02-02T15:01:15",
"content": "I learned about the G-Code on the STREETS, fool.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "61640",
"author": "Wolf",
"timestamp": "2009-02-02T18:12:02"... | 1,760,377,688.489172 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/02/01/eye-fi-teardown/ | Eye-Fi Teardown | Eliot | [
"digital cameras hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"atheros",
"eye-fi",
"flash",
"flickr",
"memory",
"radio-on-chip",
"rocm",
"samsung",
"sd",
"skyhook",
"teardown",
"wifi",
"wintec"
] | [les robots] had a defective
Eye-Fi
card on his hands and when a replacement was sent, he was told to destroy the original. What better way to ‘destroy’ something than opening the case? The
Eye-Fi
is an SD card with a builtin WiFi radio so it can upload images while remaining in camera. One
version
uses Skyhook’s locat... | 44 | 43 | [
{
"comment_id": "61581",
"author": "ejonesss",
"timestamp": "2009-02-02T01:42:22",
"content": "what a great idea!!!!so you can then get the camera into places where cameras are not allowed and if the camera is taken then you still have the pictures because they are wirelessly sent to a laptop in a c... | 1,760,377,688.046239 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/02/01/wireless-genesis-controller-for-pc/ | Wireless Genesis Controller For PC | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"game controller",
"genesis"
] | [Jacob] wanted to play some sega games on his PC and felt like the experience just wasn’t complete while using the keyboard for input. He had an old MadCatz controller laying around, which could have probably been connected fairly simply, but he really wanted it to be wireless. A wireless keyboard was sacrificed, and t... | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "61541",
"author": "Orange",
"timestamp": "2009-02-01T15:28:37",
"content": "Awesome, it can be a great base for other project!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "61550",
"author": "Craig",
"timestamp": "2009-02-01T16:41:02"... | 1,760,377,688.545274 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/31/fission-3d-game-engine-for-wii-homebrew/ | FiSSION 3D Game Engine For Wii Homebrew | Eliot | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Nintendo Wii Hacks"
] | [
"360",
"3d",
"fission",
"game engine",
"homebrew",
"nintendo",
"nintendo wii",
"punmaster",
"wii",
"xbox",
"xbox 360",
"xna"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd1DrN2PDt4]
[PunMaster] wrote in to tell us that he has just released the first public demo of
FiSSION Project
. It’s a homebrew 3D game engine for the
Wii
. He’s hoping it will make development easier for other people that want to get into the Wii hacking scene. The project was... | 36 | 35 | [
{
"comment_id": "61513",
"author": "abula45",
"timestamp": "2009-02-01T05:43:56",
"content": "hmm.. nice post..Thank’sBest Regards,Newbie From: Indonesia",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "61515",
"author": "dustin",
"timestamp": "2009-02-0... | 1,760,377,688.812075 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/31/ps3-ubuntu-install-for-emulation/ | PS3 Ubuntu Install For Emulation | Eliot | [
"downloads hacks",
"Playstation Hacks",
"PSP Hacks"
] | [
"gizmodo",
"net yaroze",
"playstation 3",
"powerpc",
"ppc",
"ps3",
"psp",
"snes",
"snes9x",
"sony",
"super nintendo",
"ubuntu"
] | Gizmodo has done us all a favor by wading through many forum posts and condensing them into a handy guide to
installing Ubuntu on your Playstation 3
. It covers some of the caveats of going this route. You have to backup all of your game data before starting since the system repartitions the drive. Ubuntu installs with... | 15 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "61504",
"author": "kamanashi",
"timestamp": "2009-02-01T04:01:05",
"content": "I have Ubuntu on my PS3, but I mostly use it for nothing. I thought I would use it for SNES games, but I ened up using my PSP and Wii still. But, it is still cool to know I still have a computer just in c... | 1,760,377,688.707514 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/31/surface-mount-soldering-in-depth/ | Surface Mount Soldering In Depth | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"smd",
"solder",
"surface mount"
] | [doctek] wants to help ease any fear you may have of surface mount design. He has written this
extremely in depth explanation
of how to design and build an LED driver composed of surface mount parts. While there has been plenty of surface mount instruction floating around for a while, he feels that they skimp on the de... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "61464",
"author": "alexfox",
"timestamp": "2009-01-31T20:02:11",
"content": "nice beginner tutorial on the subjectfyi — using a toaster oven is much better than using a hotplate; thats the way they do it in industrial processes (with a very big toaster oven)",
"parent_id": null,... | 1,760,377,689.073978 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/30/avr-light-controller/ | AVR Light Controller | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"attiny",
"AVR",
"bike light",
"halogen",
"lithium polymer"
] | [Matthias] sent us this project where he
builds an AVR light controller
. He had a halogen bike light laying around, but was unsatisfied with its lead-acid battery. He wanted to use a lithium-polymer battery but found that they can’t be used directly with halogen lamps due to their voltage. His produced 8.5 volts at fu... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "61378",
"author": "ninethcircle",
"timestamp": "2009-01-30T22:46:17",
"content": "new should be knew. other than that power controllers are neat.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "61382",
"author": "tony",
"timestamp": "20... | 1,760,377,689.029305 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/28/wireless-bootloading/ | Wireless Bootloading | Caleb Kraft | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Robots Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"atmega",
"bootloader",
"wifi",
"wireless",
"xbee"
] | [vimeo= 2976417]
Tired of having to physically connect to your microprocessor to upload new code? Just do it
over a wireless connection
. [Nathan] takes us through the process of setting up a wireless bootloader for the ATmega168. He is using the XBee base and remote modules for the
wireless communication
. While peopl... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "61132",
"author": "Jerome",
"timestamp": "2009-01-29T01:49:42",
"content": "That is a great video!My friend told me about wireless bootloading and there it is.Bluetooth would be even nicer for short range!No need of a device connected to the computer.Very nice.Thanks for posting.",
... | 1,760,377,689.180837 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/28/5-cent-tilt-censor/ | 5 Cent Tilt Sensor | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"coin",
"tilt sensor"
] | This is a 5 cent tilt sensor. We know it cost more than 5 cents, but it is in fact a
tilt sensor that utilizes a 5 cent coin
. We’ve all done quick hacks to make quick sensors for various projects. We’ve seen tons of them, from stealing springs out of pens and shoving a resistor through them for flexible contact switch... | 27 | 27 | [
{
"comment_id": "61088",
"author": "macegr",
"timestamp": "2009-01-28T19:33:03",
"content": "Gotta protect the children from all that corrupt tilt. Censor it! (this may not make sense if Caleb eventually edits the article for the correct spelling of “sensor”)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,... | 1,760,377,689.141871 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/27/quake-on-the-bug/ | Quake On The BUG | Caleb Kraft | [
"handhelds hacks"
] | [
"bug",
"buglabs",
"quake"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tpAHjh7O2Y]
It seems like every piece of hardware has to earn its respect by going through some standard paces. One of which is having
Quake
ported to it. Much like an angel earning their wings,
Bug Labs
, with the help of community [CMW], has ported
Quake
to the
BUG
. Right now... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "60999",
"author": "TJHooker",
"timestamp": "2009-01-27T21:58:35",
"content": "I didn’t see too well, but it looks like it was dropping frames.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "61006",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "200... | 1,760,377,689.22765 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/27/thermosonic-wedge-bonding/ | Thermosonic Wedge Bonding | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"hot plate",
"thermosonic",
"wire bonding"
] | In the past, if we’ve been doing smd soldering, we’ve used pretty basic
hot plates
. This project takes that idea a bit further. Since [kc6qhp] will be using parts that aren’t conducive to soldering, he has to use
wire bonding
. After locating a fairly cheap wire bonding machine and microscope, he
built the heated sta... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "60998",
"author": "spiderwebby",
"timestamp": "2009-01-27T21:55:03",
"content": "i’ve played this game at work :Dglueing dies down with a pair of tweezers and a toothpick is the hardest bit in my opinion, tho i was using a semi-automated wire bonder.",
"parent_id": null,
"de... | 1,760,377,689.380009 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/27/hardware-mod-portable-wii/ | Portable Wii | Strom Carlson | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Nintendo Wii Hacks"
] | [
"hardware hack",
"nintendo",
"portable",
"wii",
"wiimote",
"xteaph-n"
] | Not content with
Nintendo’s
current portable video game offerings, fifteen year old hardware hacker [
Xteaphn
] (pronounced “Steven”) has come up with a series of hardware modifications to make a battery-operated
Wii
console. The hacked console features a folding laptop-like screen, which apparently includes the IR em... | 32 | 32 | [
{
"comment_id": "60986",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2009-01-27T20:15:00",
"content": "Actually his nickname is ‘Xteaph-N’;“I am Steven. However my nick name, pronounced the same, is Xteaph-N. I make portable hardware. I even go as far as making the current systems portable. I can and will tak... | 1,760,377,689.505827 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/27/sweat-bot/ | Sweat Bot | Caleb Kraft | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [] | The future is here ladies and gentlemen, robots are truly making our lives better. The grueling job of sweating into clothing has been taken over by the latest in technology:
the sweat bot
. With water heated fake skin, and robotic sweat glands, this machine works tirelessly to test clothing. While emulating walking ... | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "60953",
"author": "Liam",
"timestamp": "2009-01-27T17:19:26",
"content": "damn right about those hoses in the face, should of put then through the ears, eyes, nose and mouth.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60956",
"author":... | 1,760,377,689.429503 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/26/ferric-chloride-etching-chemistry/ | Ferric Chloride Etching Chemistry | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"Chemistry",
"circuit board",
"copper",
"etch",
"etchant",
"ferric chloride",
"hydrogen peroxide",
"instructable",
"ladyada",
"oxidant",
"pcb",
"peroxide",
"wattcher"
] | [ladyada] has republished an interesting snippet from the synthDIY mailing list. [David Dixon] discusses the actual chemistry behind
ferric chloride based home circuit board etching
. He concludes that ferric chloride is essentially a ‘one-shot’ oxidant. It can’t be regenerated and can be difficult to dispose of proper... | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "60864",
"author": "Dennis",
"timestamp": "2009-01-27T03:30:57",
"content": "We used a similar thing in school if I remember correctly.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60882",
"author": "dan",
"timestamp": "2009-01-27T06:... | 1,760,377,689.55557 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/24/hands-free-point-of-view-camera/ | Hands Free Point Of View Camera | Eliot | [
"digital cameras hacks",
"handhelds hacks"
] | [
"brush",
"brushes",
"camera",
"comic",
"comic tools",
"hands free",
"illustrate",
"matt bernier",
"photograph",
"photography"
] | Here’s an odd little footnote we found while perusing the
Comic Tools blog
. [Matt Bernier]’s blog is dedicated to drawing and inking tutorials for comic artists. He uses a lot of example photographs that involve both hands. This week, at the bottom of his post on
cleaning brushes
, he included a photo to illustrate ho... | 31 | 31 | [
{
"comment_id": "60634",
"author": "Rivetgeek",
"timestamp": "2009-01-25T03:56:33",
"content": "That’s just retarded. How did this even make hackaday? Some guy duct tapes a fucking point and shoot to his face?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6... | 1,760,377,689.627039 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/24/manual-protocol-analysis/ | Manual Protocol Analysis | Eliot | [
"downloads hacks",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"analysis",
"binary",
"breakingpoint labs",
"druid",
"hex",
"packetfu",
"protocol",
"ruby",
"security",
"tod beardsley"
] | As a followup to last week’s post on
automated protocol analysis
, [Tod Beardsley] has written up how to start
analyzing a protocol manually
. He walks through several examples to show how to pull out the interesting bits in binary protocols. His first step was sending 10 identical select statements and capturing the o... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "60635",
"author": "tony",
"timestamp": "2009-01-25T04:04:55",
"content": "Patience is the hackers best friend.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60650",
"author": "austin",
"timestamp": "2009-01-25T05:20:20",
"content"... | 1,760,377,689.665327 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/24/road-sign-hacking/ | Road Sign Hacking | Caleb Kraft | [
"Tool Hacks",
"Uncategorized"
] | [
"roadside",
"street sign"
] | We’ve all seen these on the side of the road and wondered
how we could change the message
. It turns out that it is actually pretty easy. There’s a keypad inside for programming that is often still set with a default password of “DOTS”. Even if the password has been changed, you can reset it right there pretty quickly.... | 159 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "60611",
"author": "jimmys",
"timestamp": "2009-01-25T01:42:58",
"content": "Legality wouldn’t be my first concern. Some jackass is going to replace “DANGER: ICE AHEAD” with “PWND”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60612",
"au... | 1,760,377,689.815143 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/24/leyden-jar-of-doom/ | Leyden Jar Of DOOM. | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"Uncategorized"
] | [
"arc",
"high voltage",
"leyden",
"spark"
] | A leyden jar is basically just a simple home made capacitor. We’ve
shown you
how to make them before. This, however, is how you
make a ridiculously large one
. [Nickademuss] used a five gallon bucket to make his leyden jar. That’s five whole gallons of lightning. The video, which you can see after the break, shows it l... | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "60608",
"author": "corp769",
"timestamp": "2009-01-25T00:48:24",
"content": "wow, thats a nice sized spark right there….imagine touching that damn thing…..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60609",
"author": "joe57005",
"t... | 1,760,377,689.727453 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/23/megaupload-captcha-cracking-in-javascript/ | MegaUpload Captcha Cracking In JavaScript | Eliot | [
"downloads hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"captcha",
"ga",
"genetic algorithm",
"greasemonkey",
"javascript",
"neural network",
"ocr",
"recaptcha",
"shaunf",
"waxy"
] | This was certainly the last thing we expected to see today. [ShaunF] has created a Greasemonkey script to
bypass the captcha on filehosting site Megaupload
. It uses a
neural network
in JavaScript to do all of the OCR work. It will auto submit and start downloading too. It’s quite a clever hack and is certainly helped ... | 25 | 25 | [
{
"comment_id": "60526",
"author": "johnny",
"timestamp": "2009-01-24T02:33:43",
"content": "The funny thing is the ReCaptcha is actually piggy backing difficult OCR of old texts while also doing a human test. So, if Recaptcha is ever “broken”, they would be solving a significant machine learning p... | 1,760,377,689.878435 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/23/wifi-theremin/ | WiFi Theremin | Eliot | [
"digital audio hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"ap",
"audio",
"midnight research labs",
"midnightresearchlabs",
"modulate",
"mrl",
"pyaudio",
"python",
"script",
"wifi"
] | The fine folks at Midnight Research Labs have put together a new toy for you to play with. It’s a Python script that makes your
WiFi hardware behave more like a theremin
. Based on the pyaudio library it monitors the signal strength of the AP you’re connected to and changes the tone accordingly. There’s a sample embedd... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "60537",
"author": "tikimexican",
"timestamp": "2009-01-24T05:03:06",
"content": "Musically, I’d say lame. As for the cool factor, to the max. This would be fun to use for checking wifi strength or while wardriving.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,377,690.545423 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/23/choreographed-christmas-lights/ | Choreographed Christmas Lights | Caleb Kraft | [
"home hacks",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"christmas",
"led",
"parallax"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cj-morKHPQ]
We’ve covered a couple of different ways of doing choreographed Christmas lights. The most basic being
sound activated ones made from speakers
, then the
parallax controlled ones
. This one uses the parallax microcontroller as well, but [prabbit22m] seems to have put... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "60506",
"author": "aonomus",
"timestamp": "2009-01-23T21:52:59",
"content": "The first thought that comes to mind is that he’s lacking free-wheeling diodes for the relays… depending on the size/rating and the mosfet’s rating it may do bad things…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth"... | 1,760,377,690.165739 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/23/adding-right-click-to-a-macbook-pro/ | Adding Right Click To A Macbook Pro | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"laptops hacks",
"Mac Hacks"
] | [
"apple",
"macbook",
"right click",
"track pad"
] | Surprisingly, one of the most common complaints we hear from people trying out macs are the fact that there isn’t a right click. The latest version, the unibody, has an option that remedies this, but older versions are stuck without. While you could always plug a USB mouse in, that is hardly a hacker’s solution. [spiri... | 50 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "60466",
"author": "Timothy",
"timestamp": "2009-01-23T16:40:48",
"content": "Awesome. About time someone did this",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60468",
"author": "dwebster",
"timestamp": "2009-01-23T16:51:36",
"con... | 1,760,377,690.12124 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/22/how-to-bus-pirate-v1-improved-universal-serial-interface/ | How-to: Bus Pirate V1, Improved Universal Serial Interface | Ian | [
"hardware",
"how-to",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"bus pirate",
"electronics",
"i2c",
"interface",
"interface tools",
"jtag",
"keyboard",
"pc at keyboard",
"scancode",
"serial",
"serial port",
"spi",
"uart",
"universal interface"
] | We use the Bus Pirate to interface a new chip without writing code or designing a PCB. Based on your feedback, and our experience using
the original Bus Pirate
to demonstrate various
parts
, we updated the design with new features and cheaper components.
There’s also a firmware update for both Bus Pirate hardware versi... | 65 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "60424",
"author": "Cirictech",
"timestamp": "2009-01-23T05:06:58",
"content": "To think earlier today I ordered all the parts for the first one times six. Oh well any way thanks for all the hard work on this project I had been meaning to build something like this for some time.",
... | 1,760,377,690.265248 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/22/neuros-set-top-box-with-wiimote/ | Neuros Set Top Box With Wiimote | Caleb Kraft | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Nintendo Wii Hacks"
] | [
"neuros",
"set top box",
"wiimote"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUT0yb04q_A]
The
Neuros set top box
, called Link, is a disc-less computer running
Ubuntu
. Neuros encourages hacking and finding new ways to use the unit, as can be seen in their latest article explaining
how to get a Wiimote to work with it
. The results are pretty slick, as yo... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "60404",
"author": "devturkler",
"timestamp": "2009-01-22T23:21:49",
"content": "hımm thanks Caleb Kraft",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60409",
"author": "nubie",
"timestamp": "2009-01-23T00:05:22",
"content": "So it... | 1,760,377,690.630577 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/22/automated-shooting-range/ | Automated Shooting Range | Caleb Kraft | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"classic hacks",
"Uncategorized"
] | [
"airsoft",
"arduino",
"iobridge",
"target"
] | [Steve] was discussing airsoft with a friend when he came up with this idea. His friend was lamenting the lack of “action” style targets for their airsoft hobby. [Steve] took this as an opportunity to make his own
automated target system
. The targets themselves are made from
Construx
, a paper target and a piece of cl... | 28 | 28 | [
{
"comment_id": "60360",
"author": "TheZuke!",
"timestamp": "2009-01-22T15:47:57",
"content": "“down range”?Most targets _are_ changed “down range”,changing a target from “up range” (where theshooter is) is a nice convenience.(insert here Mel Gibson singing“dah, dadadah, da dada, da dadat da, dah da... | 1,760,377,690.32926 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/21/hackit-dtv-converter-boxes/ | Hackit: DTV Converter Boxes? | Eliot | [
"HackIt",
"home entertainment hacks",
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"convert",
"converter box",
"dtt900",
"dtv",
"HackIt",
"serial",
"slashdot",
"teardown",
"zenith"
] | An anonymous
Slashdot
reader asked today what was the
best digital television to analog converter box
. He was looking for one with the best hacking potential. We actually purchased a Zenith DTT900 HD converter box this summer specifically wondering about the hacking potential. We did a teardown and you can find a
full... | 63 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "60291",
"author": "Rob G.",
"timestamp": "2009-01-22T03:00:43",
"content": "Hah, that Circuit City wont be there much longer….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60295",
"author": "Eliot Phillips",
"timestamp": "2009-01-22T... | 1,760,377,690.50415 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/21/meggy-serial-cable/ | Meggy Serial Cable | Caleb Kraft | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"handhelds hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"ftdi",
"meggy",
"meggy jr"
] | We thought the
Meggy had some serious potential
. The open serial port is ripe for the plucking, but has thus far been fairly unused. Here’s directions on how to
make your own serial cable
capable of connecting two Meggies. Basically, it is just modifying an audio cable, used to connect CDROMs to the
motherboard
. The... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "60268",
"author": "paul",
"timestamp": "2009-01-21T22:54:47",
"content": "On the one hand, it’s a good tutorial, complete with photos. On the other hand, it’s just a simple crossover cable! Do we even need photos for this, much less a full tutorial? It seems that the diagram alon... | 1,760,377,690.587508 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/21/external-antenna-on-panasonic-cf-r1/ | External Antenna On Panasonic CF-R1 | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"laptops hacks",
"Netbook Hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"antenna",
"EeePc",
"external"
] | [Steven] managed to get his hands on a Panasonic CF-R1 for pretty cheap. Though it is a decently powerful machine, it was built in 2002 and didn’t come with an internal wireless card. It did, however have a mini-PCI slot. [Steven] promptly installed a wireless card, but found the internal antenna lacking. The solutio... | 15 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "60265",
"author": "Timothy",
"timestamp": "2009-01-21T21:07:43",
"content": "Wow. From 6 to 31 access points? He must be in a city.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60266",
"author": "Lord Taco",
"timestamp": "2009-01-21T... | 1,760,377,690.680194 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/20/chumby-digital-picture-frame-teardown/ | Chumby Digital Picture Frame Teardown | Eliot | [
"classic hacks",
"digital cameras hacks",
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"camera",
"ces",
"chumby",
"devkit",
"digital camera",
"digital picture frame",
"dpf",
"hdk",
"samsung",
"stormwind",
"teardown",
"usb",
"widget",
"wifi"
] | At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show,
Chumby
unveiled their latest prototype. It’s a network connected digital picture frame that runs Flash widgets. Just like the current Chumby model, they’re publishing the software and hardware under a license designed to let you hack it. They let us borrow one of their open cha... | 27 | 27 | [
{
"comment_id": "60212",
"author": "deoryp",
"timestamp": "2009-01-21T04:46:21",
"content": "AWESOME!!! i can’t wait.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60213",
"author": "rasz",
"timestamp": "2009-01-21T04:59:26",
"content": ">The silk... | 1,760,377,690.747801 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/20/passive-midi-foot-switch/ | Passive MIDI Foot Switch | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"digital audio hacks"
] | [
"foot switch",
"midi"
] | [Matt] was looking into some software that allows him to use his audio card as a means to control analog audio devices. After seeing how it worked, he got an idea to try to do the opposite. He is sending a signal into his audio input, and piping it to a pice of MIDI software. The input he has chose is a
foot switch
. ... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "60171",
"author": "hogiewan",
"timestamp": "2009-01-20T20:01:27",
"content": "How is this passive?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60173",
"author": "Abbott",
"timestamp": "2009-01-20T20:16:56",
"content": "Hmm… that... | 1,760,377,690.800088 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/20/mario-etching/ | Mario Etching | Caleb Kraft | [
"Netbook Hacks",
"News"
] | [
"eee",
"laser etch",
"mario"
] | [revolvingdork]
etched his Eeepc with the entire level map of Super Mario Land
for Game boy. He set the laser to 70% speed and 40% power to get it to turn out this way. This is a far safer way of expressing your self and playing with laser etching than
tattooing yourself with the laser
. | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "60152",
"author": "j",
"timestamp": "2009-01-20T16:26:17",
"content": "opened it up on my eee 1000h and ever more jealous",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60153",
"author": "sean",
"timestamp": "2009-01-20T16:36:00",
... | 1,760,377,690.85295 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/19/programmable-scientific-calculator-watch/ | Programmable Scientific Calculator Watch | Nick Caiello | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"calculator",
"pic",
"PIC24",
"RPN",
"Scientific Calculator",
"uWatch",
"watch",
"µWatch"
] | When the band support on [David]’s Casio CFX-400 Scientific Calculator Watch finally broke after 10 years of use, he found it almost impossible to find another watch with the same functionality. Like any good engineer, [David] decided to design a watch to meet his needs. The result of his endeavors was the
µWatch
, a p... | 17 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "60082",
"author": "dan",
"timestamp": "2009-01-20T00:14:15",
"content": "I have one of these, and it’s bitchin’.In addition to RPN, it even tells you what phase the moon is in!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60087",
"author... | 1,760,377,690.903189 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/19/servo-switch-assemblies/ | Servo Switch Assemblies | Caleb Kraft | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"home automation",
"oomlout",
"servo",
"switch"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0hBCdMJ96g]
If you are interested in trying out some home automation, but don’t want to get into the
potentially dangerous
area of hacking your house wiring, consider these
servo switches
. These allow you to flip a switch, using a servo. They are clean, temporary, and fairly co... | 16 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "60061",
"author": "kyle007",
"timestamp": "2009-01-19T22:35:21",
"content": "oh that is slick! and safe…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60070",
"author": "sol",
"timestamp": "2009-01-19T23:03:00",
"content": "Nice. ... | 1,760,377,691.274045 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/19/high-frequency-start-box/ | High Frequency Start Box | Caleb Kraft | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"arc",
"tig",
"welding"
] | When welding with an AC arc welder, it is often necessary to “scratch start” them to get the arc going. For those unfamiliar, it is just like it sounds. You drag the head across something just like a giant match. There are some that come with an arc stabilizer or “high frequency starter”. This is preferred, but they ca... | 52 | 38 | [
{
"comment_id": "60049",
"author": "blubb",
"timestamp": "2009-01-19T21:20:05",
"content": "looks intressting but the parts are not easy to find ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60051",
"author": "Zorink",
"timestamp": "2009-01-19T21:3... | 1,760,377,691.225637 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/19/quick-cheap-remote-outlets/ | Quick Cheap Remote Outlets | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"home hacks"
] | [
"automation",
"infrared",
"ir"
] | [jwad650] wanted a
remote controlled power strip
. These are fairly expensive, with a
single outlet
running roughly $15. He was able to build a 6 outlet version for about $50. He is using an
SIS-7c
to decode signals from a universal remote. Each plug is individually controlled by a 3Amp relay. Be careful making this, ... | 16 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "60040",
"author": "xrazorwirex",
"timestamp": "2009-01-19T20:40:15",
"content": "You can go to radioshack and get a remote single outlet and just plug it into a surge bar and just wire that to your wall, probably alot safer than having a bunch of loose high current wires lying aroun... | 1,760,377,691.137491 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/26/besmoke-fluid-dynamics/ | Besmoke – Fluid Dynamics | Caleb Kraft | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"iphone hacks",
"ipod hacks",
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"fluid dynamics",
"iphone"
] | [vimeo= 2963541]
Besmoke
is a fluid dynamics engine. It is compatible with any multitouch system, as well as the accelerometer in an
iPhone
. It also accepts audio input. The audio input can turn it into a fancy music visualizer that would even work with live or acoustic music. Different frequencies cause fluid to be i... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "60822",
"author": "Timothy",
"timestamp": "2009-01-26T21:42:12",
"content": "That’s pretty neat. I’ll check it out",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60825",
"author": "ula",
"timestamp": "2009-01-26T22:18:05",
"content... | 1,760,377,691.412762 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/26/autofocus-assist-light/ | Autofocus Assist Light | Caleb Kraft | [
"contests",
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"camera",
"nikon"
] | [Aki]’s Nikon D2H did not come with an autofocus assist light. His other cameras have them, and he likes the feature, so he decided to
hack one into his D2H
. He wired into the AF system, so that his LED gets voltage when the shutter release is pressed half way. The circuit needs refinement though, he found that the l... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "60807",
"author": "Dennis",
"timestamp": "2009-01-26T20:26:27",
"content": "Might have to do this myself. Looks good.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60810",
"author": "chrisChris",
"timestamp": "2009-01-26T20:47:16",
... | 1,760,377,691.321597 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/26/parts-at-keyboard/ | Parts: AT Keyboard | Ian | [
"Parts",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"at keyboard",
"bus pirate",
"interfacing",
"keyboard",
"parts",
"parts monday",
"scancode"
] | Last week we introduced
a new version
of the
Bus Pirate universal serial interface tool
. The last firmware update included an AT keyboard decoder library for both hardware versions.
There’s a ton of old AT keyboards making their way to the landfill. We’ll show you how to recycle one as an input device for your next pr... | 15 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "60796",
"author": "YenTheFirst",
"timestamp": "2009-01-26T18:21:38",
"content": "I actually hooked up an old IBM model M to my arduino last week. how coincidental. :)As for sockets, what I did is take apart an old MIDI cable I didn’t need. MIDI uses the same physical connector (5-pi... | 1,760,377,691.57362 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/25/forknife-android-g1-controlled-robot/ | Forknife, Android G1 Controlled Robot | Eliot | [
"Android Hacks",
"Arduino Hacks",
"Cellphone Hacks",
"g1 hacks",
"google hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"android",
"arduino",
"dtmf",
"engadget",
"G1",
"google",
"java",
"jeffrey nelson",
"otg",
"robot",
"t-mobile",
"t-mobile g1",
"usb",
"usb host",
"usb otg",
"video"
] | When we first saw [Jeffrey Nelson]’s
G1 based robot
we immediately wondered what the transport for the controls was. The
G1
‘s hardware supports
USB
On-The-Go, but it’s not implemented in Android yet. It turns out he’s actually sending commands by using
DTMF
tones through the
headphone adapter
. The audio jack is conne... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "60758",
"author": "Taylor Alexander",
"timestamp": "2009-01-26T08:07:15",
"content": "Hah, good ol DTMF. I used to get free payphone calls with the coin tones on my ipod.-Taylor",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60763",
"autho... | 1,760,377,691.370934 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/25/tempest-a-signal-problem/ | TEMPEST: A Signal Problem | Eliot | [
"Security Hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"bell labs",
"cia",
"crypto",
"eavesdropping",
"electromagnetic",
"electromagnetic radiation",
"eliza",
"encryption",
"foia",
"nsa",
"plaintext",
"schneier",
"security",
"tempest",
"wwii"
] | TEMPEST is the covername used by the NSA and other agencies to talk about emissions from computing machinery that can divulge what the equipment is processing. We’ve covered a few projects in the past that specifically intercept EM radiation.
TEMPEST for Eliza
can transmit via AM using a CRT monitor, and just last Fall... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "60766",
"author": "SoundwaveHi",
"timestamp": "2009-01-26T10:02:41",
"content": "Ha they still bothered to block out 3/5 of the report…that sux",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60780",
"author": "hans",
"timestamp": "2009... | 1,760,377,691.721851 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/25/sound-effects-box/ | Sound Effects Box | Caleb Kraft | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"classic hacks",
"digital audio hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"monome",
"project 64",
"sound effects",
"voice shield"
] | At first glance, this may look like a retro styled
monome
, but it is actually quite different. Merging a
Project64
key pad and a
Voice Shield
for Arduino, [Spikenzie] has
made a sound effects box
. Each button triggers a unique sound that is stored in the Voice Shield. Of coarse, it will be like a game of
memory
tryin... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "60718",
"author": "pragma",
"timestamp": "2009-01-25T22:50:55",
"content": "Is it just me, or are all the sounds playing back too fast – like it’s the wrong sample-rate or something?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "60731",
"... | 1,760,377,691.617696 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/24/wattcher-twittering-kill-a-watt-plans-posted/ | Wattcher, Twittering Kill A Watt Plans Posted | Eliot | [
"home hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"adafruit",
"core77",
"green",
"greener gadgets",
"kill a watt",
"killawatt",
"ladyada",
"limor fried",
"make",
"phillip torrone",
"power",
"power meter",
"power monitor",
"twitter",
"xbee",
"zigbee"
] | You probably saw [Phillip Torrone] and [Limor Fried]’s
twittering Kill A Watt
earlier this week. It was an entry in the
Core77/Greener Gadgets Design Competition
. We saw a little bit about how it was assembled, but now they’ve posted a
full guide to assembling the hardware
. Each Kill A Watt gets an XBee radio that tr... | 20 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "60646",
"author": "Taylor Alexander",
"timestamp": "2009-01-25T04:53:50",
"content": "Those xbee radios rock, btw. If you’re only using two, you don’t even have to program anything, they default to acting like a dumb serial link. Send a few commands, tho, and you can talk to any num... | 1,760,377,691.676292 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/18/multitouch-tabletop-gaming/ | Multitouch Tabletop Gaming | Eliot | [
"classic hacks",
"home entertainment hacks",
"Multitouch Hacks",
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"fiduciary marker",
"game",
"multitouch",
"ramon viladomat",
"reactable",
"tangible",
"video",
"warhammer",
"warhammer 40k",
"warhammer40k"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QflrIK-m4Ts]
Reader [Ramon Viladomat] sent in what he has been working on over the last year at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Tired of see nothing but zooming map demos, he created a roleplaying game that takes advantage of the
reacTable
‘s multitouch interface. Alon... | 29 | 29 | [
{
"comment_id": "59832",
"author": "Wwhat",
"timestamp": "2009-01-19T04:06:50",
"content": "Pretty damn sweet, but that rotating light in the first part of the video is annoying as hell IMHO.And I bet it dazzles the babes too! :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,377,692.783974 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/18/use-the-cpu-cache-to-prevent-cold-boot-no/ | Use The CPU Cache To Prevent Cold Boot? No. | Eliot | [
"downloads hacks",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"cache",
"cold boot",
"coldboot",
"crypto",
"crypto coprocessor",
"encryption",
"frozen cache",
"key recovery",
"keyschedule",
"memory",
"ram",
"slashdot"
] | Frozen Cache
is a blog dedicated to a novel way to prevent
cold boot attacks
. Last year the cold boot team
demonstrated
that they could extract encryption keys from a machine’s RAM by placing it in another system (or the same machine by doing a quick reboot). Frozen Cache aims to prevent this by storing the encryption... | 21 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "59834",
"author": "Wwhat",
"timestamp": "2009-01-19T04:20:22",
"content": "If someone can open your computer and take out the RAM and walk away then you are already bogged down by much more serious security issues and there’s little to protect from keeping your encryption keys secur... | 1,760,377,694.530388 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/18/attiny-breadboard-headers/ | ATtiny Breadboard Headers | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"attiny",
"attiny13",
"attiny2313",
"AVR",
"breadboard",
"header",
"isp",
"prototype"
] | [Alex] was frustrated by the amount of time it took to start prototyping with an AVR ATtiny. To make things easier, he built
headers that carry the 8 and 20 pin chips
and plug directly into breadboards. The boards include a 6pin ISP header, resonator, pull-up resistor, reset, and blocking caps. The ATtiny2313 version a... | 22 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "59763",
"author": "Taylor Alexander",
"timestamp": "2009-01-18T18:59:19",
"content": "Hah, i was JUST going to do something like this! I saw the post on making PCB’s and i thought this would be a good start.-Taylor",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,377,694.469543 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/17/scrabble-keyboard/ | Scrabble Keyboard | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"gizmodo",
"keyboard",
"keys",
"scrabble",
"scrabble keyboard",
"steampunk",
"typewriter"
] | Here’s another bizarre keyboard mod to add to the pile. Unlike previous
typewriter style
mods, this one
uses Scrabble tiles
. All of the tiles were hand beveled and attached to a clicky keyboard. The Num, Cap, and Scroll lock buttons have their letters’ hollowed out so the LED light will shine through.
[via
Gizmodo
] | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "59716",
"author": "Basic A.",
"timestamp": "2009-01-18T07:18:34",
"content": "Nice.gotta miss the simpler days of board games… just imagine… entertained by a wooden tile… preposterous.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "59729",
... | 1,760,377,694.667417 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/17/using-bittorrent-on-amazon-ec2/ | Using Bittorrent On Amazon EC2 | Eliot | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"amazon",
"amazon ec2",
"ami",
"apache",
"bittorrent",
"brett oconnor",
"cloud",
"ec2",
"keypair",
"mysql",
"php",
"seedbox",
"ssh",
"torrent",
"ubuntu",
"waxy"
] | Bittorrent
is a great distribution method for large files, but its heavy bandwidth usage can be disruptive to both work and home networks. [Brett O’Connor] has decided to
push all of his torrenting activity into the cloud
. Amazon’s
EC2
service lets you run any number of Amazon Machine Images (AMI, virtual machines) on... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "59708",
"author": "Imroy",
"timestamp": "2009-01-18T05:04:24",
"content": "Why go to all this trouble when Amazon S3 (their storage service) already supports torrents? All you have to do is add ‘?torrent’ to the URL.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
... | 1,760,377,694.414272 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/17/malware-posing-as-changegov/ | Malware Posing As Change.gov | Eliot | [
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"barack obama",
"botnet",
"change.gov",
"fast-flux",
"lithium",
"malware",
"obama",
"pandalabs",
"president",
"president-elect",
"storm worm"
] | PandaLabs has identified a botnet running a
malware campaign impersonating president-elect Obama’s website
. The front page of the site features a sensational story titled “Barack Obama has refused to be a president”. Clicking the link will download the malware and make the target’s machine part of the botnet. They’re ... | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "59707",
"author": "HZ",
"timestamp": "2009-01-18T04:33:11",
"content": "I wonder how many people attempted to visit the sites marked “Please do not attempt to visit the sites.” lol. I did…in BT3.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "... | 1,760,377,694.617895 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/17/ipod-touch-2g-jailbreak-demoed/ | IPod Touch 2G Jailbreak Demoed | Eliot | [
"digital audio hacks",
"ipod hacks",
"Mac Hacks",
"News"
] | [
"apple",
"appstore",
"cydia",
"exploit",
"iboot",
"iphone dev team",
"ipod",
"ipod touch",
"ipod touch 2g",
"jailbreak",
"kernel",
"musclenerd",
"nes",
"patch",
"redsn0w",
"yellowsn0w"
] | Now that the iphone-dev team has
unlocked the iPhone 3G
they’re moving onto jailbreaking the
iPod Touch 2G
. While they have a fully working jailbreak, it’s not yet in a user friendly format. [MuscleNerd] did a
live video demo this afternoon
to show what progress they had made. It starts with him showing the
iPod
on bu... | 19 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "59701",
"author": "marz",
"timestamp": "2009-01-18T03:32:07",
"content": "WTF is up with that photo?Takin’ pics under your bed covers?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "59706",
"author": "xrazorwirex",
"timestamp": "2009-0... | 1,760,377,694.72282 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/17/cuiduino-arduino-with-true-usb-support/ | CUIduino, Arduino With True USB Support | Eliot | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"classic hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"ATmega168",
"AVR",
"cuiduino",
"ftdi",
"hid",
"midi",
"midi over usb",
"osc",
"peripheral",
"pic",
"pic18f4550",
"usb",
"usb hid"
] | The
CREATE USB Interface (CUI)
was a project that came out of UC Santa Barbara around the same time the
Arduino
was being developed. It has a USB port, a PIC18F4550, and a prototyping area. It was designed to enable easy interfacing with the real would through many A/D inputs and general I/O ports. It supports both OSC... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "59695",
"author": "Dan P",
"timestamp": "2009-01-18T02:13:38",
"content": "“…interfacing with the real would”I think you mean real world :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "59703",
"author": "amk",
"timestamp": "2009-01-1... | 1,760,377,694.367848 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/17/reprap-pinch-wheel-extruder/ | RepRap Pinch Wheel Extruder | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"3d printer",
"dc",
"dc motor",
"drive",
"extruder",
"gear",
"motor",
"rapid prototyping",
"reprap",
"zach",
"zach smith"
] | What you see above is the culmination of [Zach Smith]’s work
building a pinch wheel style extruder
for the RepRap. The current RepRap 3D printer uses a
screw mechanism
to push 3mm polymer filament into a heating barrel where it is melted and then extruded through a fine nozzle. [Zach]’s new version uses a drive gear fr... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "59702",
"author": "Benjamin Brown",
"timestamp": "2009-01-18T03:51:07",
"content": "I’ve been kicking the idea around of building a reprap that uses reclaimed plastics for extruding material, I like this design very much. It could work well with irregular shape material it seems.",
... | 1,760,377,694.571314 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/17/cat5-camera-flash-extension/ | Cat5 Camera Flash Extension | Eliot | [
"digital cameras hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"camera",
"camera hack",
"cat5",
"cat5e",
"digital",
"digital camera",
"digital photography",
"dslr",
"ethernet",
"ethernet cable",
"ethernet jack",
"extension cable",
"flash",
"flash extension",
"mario giambanco"
] | Network engineer [Mario Giambanco] recently purchased a cable to move his flash off camera. Unfortunately, it ended up way too short for his purposes. Instead of purchasing a slightly longer proprietary cable, he decided to employ what he had around him: a lot of cat5e cable and ethernet jacks. He cut the cable close t... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "59676",
"author": "Michael Wheeler",
"timestamp": "2009-01-18T00:06:18",
"content": "I wouldn’t wanna be holding the cat5 cable when the flash goes off. That stuff doesn’t have too much insulation, and knowing from experience of getting zapped by a disposable camera flash (to make a... | 1,760,377,694.772306 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/16/generating-midi-with-ruby/ | Generating MIDI With Ruby | Eliot | [
"digital audio hacks",
"downloads hacks"
] | [
"achaeopteryx",
"dj",
"giles bowkett",
"midi",
"reason",
"ruby",
"rubyfringe",
"step",
"step sequencer",
"video"
] | [vimeo 720761]
[
Giles Bowkett
] has been working on a music library for Ruby called Archaeopteryx. He describes it as a “
Ruby MIDI DJing/live-coding thing
“. In the video above, He’s using it to generate and then morph rhythms. The Ruby code is directly controlling the step sequencer in
Reason
. It’s an interesting a... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "59620",
"author": "Sanjay",
"timestamp": "2009-01-17T14:56:30",
"content": "Sounds better than alot of the shit i hear played in clubs.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "59641",
"author": "csirac2",
"timestamp": "2009-01-1... | 1,760,377,694.80797 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/16/dismantling-the-storm-worm-botnet/ | Dismantling The Storm Worm Botnet | Eliot | [
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"25c3",
"botnet",
"ccc",
"german",
"isp",
"malware",
"nat",
"security",
"storm worm",
"stormfucker",
"xor",
"zero-day"
] | Zero Day has an interview with German researchers who have found a way to
take down the Storm Worm botnet
. Their program,
Stormfucker
, takes advantage of flaws in Storm’s command network: Nodes that are
NAT
‘d only use a four-byte
XOR
challenge. Nodes that aren’t NAT’d are only using a trivial 64bit RSA signature. Th... | 26 | 26 | [
{
"comment_id": "59595",
"author": "_matt",
"timestamp": "2009-01-17T08:40:44",
"content": "those crazy germans, cutting service off to infected customers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "59596",
"author": "cde",
"timestamp": "2009-01-17... | 1,760,377,694.949343 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/16/pid-smd-reflow-hot-plate/ | PID SMD Reflow Hot Plate | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"ceramic",
"hot plate",
"hotplate",
"mightyohm",
"pid",
"reflow",
"solder",
"soldering",
"ssr",
"thermocouple"
] | [mightyohm] put together a nice piece of lab kit. It’s a
PID controlled hot plate
. The plate is capable of reaching 500F, hot enough to do
SMD reflow soldering
. The large chunk of metal has a hole drilled through the center to contain a cartridge heater. A thermocouple is used to monitor the temperature of the plate.... | 15 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "59601",
"author": "gio",
"timestamp": "2009-01-17T10:29:15",
"content": "My guess is that the base plate does not only heat up by radiant heating, but also by conduction thru air. To lower the radiant heating, one might polish that base plate (I guess), but maybe there are better ma... | 1,760,377,695.011889 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/16/electric-spinning-wheel/ | Electric Spinning Wheel | Eliot | [
"cnc hacks",
"home hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"bobbin",
"dc",
"ebay",
"flyer",
"glacialwanderer",
"knit",
"knitting",
"motor",
"motor controller",
"sheep",
"spinning wheel",
"syren",
"wool"
] | [glacialwanderer], who you may remember from his
CNC machine build
, recently completed an
electric spinning wheel
. Spinning wheels are used by knitters to turn raw sheep’s wool into yarn. He went through several iterations before arriving at a good design. Besides the motor, there are two major components to the spin... | 16 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "59590",
"author": "smilr",
"timestamp": "2009-01-17T05:08:00",
"content": "Pretty nifty. One thing that I notice, having helped my mother make yarn on her manual spinning wheel was that the foot-pedal action allowed for “on the fly” control of the speed without taking your hands awa... | 1,760,377,695.164401 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/13/multitouch-patched-into-android/ | Multitouch Patched Into Android | Eliot | [
"Android Hacks",
"Cellphone Hacks",
"g1 hacks",
"google hacks",
"Multitouch Hacks"
] | [
"adp1",
"android",
"G1",
"google",
"multitouch",
"tmobile"
] | [Luke Hutchison] has come up with a rather clever hack to get
multitouch support on the G1
. He wrote a patch against the Synaptics touchscreen driver. When two fingers are placed, the driver reports the x/y of the midpoint and a radius for the size field. If only one finger is used, the size is reported as zero. The n... | 16 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "59149",
"author": "ALAN",
"timestamp": "2009-01-14T06:44:20",
"content": "Hack",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "59159",
"author": "eric",
"timestamp": "2009-01-14T07:12:32",
"content": "Sounds like a software fix to a... | 1,760,377,695.313896 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/13/automated-protocol-analysis/ | Automated Protocol Analysis | Eliot | [
"downloads hacks",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"bioinformatics",
"breakingpoint labs",
"druid",
"druidian",
"fuzzing",
"protocol",
"protocol informatics"
] | [I)ruid] from BreakingPoint Labs has been doing quite a bit of protocol reverse engineering as part of his work. He put together a
post covering some of the tools
that have been useful for this task. Text-based protocols have a lot of human readable characters that can help you identify fields. Binary protocols don’t h... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "59166",
"author": "Gert",
"timestamp": "2009-01-14T07:41:14",
"content": "News: the project was published as a proto in 2004, and was abandoned since.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "101847",
"author": "furniture",
"time... | 1,760,377,695.429393 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/13/rickshaw-pulling-robot/ | Rickshaw Pulling Robot | Eliot | [
"Robots Hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"bob schneeveis",
"chinese",
"maker faire",
"rickshaw",
"robot",
"wu yulu"
] | [Wu Yulu] is a Chinese farmer with no formal mechanical training. He’s been building various contraptions over the years and even accidentally burned down his house at one point. Pictured above is a walking, talking rickshaw pulling robot he built to haul himself around town. You can see a
video of the mechanical man o... | 21 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "59104",
"author": "bistromathics",
"timestamp": "2009-01-14T01:40:58",
"content": "Isn’t this a bit unnecessary? How about just an electric motor?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "59105",
"author": "bistromathics",
"times... | 1,760,377,695.489653 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/13/a-history-of-sparkfun-prototypes/ | A History Of SparkFun Prototypes | Eliot | [
"News",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"bluesmirf",
"development",
"dfm",
"pcb",
"prototype",
"rx",
"serial",
"sparkfun",
"sparkfun electronics",
"tx"
] | If you haven’t checked out SparkFun Electronics’ prototype collection yet, you’re missing out. They unearthed many of their old prototypes and published them to
show what kind of mistakes could be made
. You’ll see plenty of errors and get hints on what to look for while developing your own hardware. This pairs well wi... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "59350",
"author": "monster",
"timestamp": "2009-01-15T06:43:35",
"content": "so not only is Savad spamming, the website is a forgery. Savad just proved it’s possible to suck and blow at the same time. lets give him a hand.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
... | 1,760,377,695.259197 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/13/hand-made-triode/ | Hand Made Triode | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"short wave radio",
"triode",
"vaccum tube"
] | [Claude Paillard]
makes his own triodes
(
google translated
) for short wave radios. The site doesn’t have a lot of details itself, but links to entire books on the history of radio tubes and manufacturing of them. [Claude] takes us through the entire process of building a
triode
in a 17 minute long video. Even if you... | 29 | 29 | [
{
"comment_id": "59078",
"author": "zigzagjoe",
"timestamp": "2009-01-13T21:20:20",
"content": "Failure.http://hackaday.com/2008/01/07/how-to-make-a-vacuum-tube/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "59080",
"author": "rvisokey",
"timestamp": ... | 1,760,377,695.385365 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/12/the-ondestrak/ | The Ondestrak | Caleb Kraft | [
"digital audio hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"gametrak",
"music",
"theremin"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9S9SZswOC0]
If you like the sound of the theramin, you may enjoy the
Ondestrak
. Based loosely off of the
Ondes Martnot
, the Ondestrak works by changing the pitch of a continuous note. [Devin_mccutchen] built his using an old
gametrak
controller. The controller looks pretty co... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "58989",
"author": "Adam Ziegler",
"timestamp": "2009-01-13T03:55:32",
"content": "Very Cool… I would make amplitude / volume more sensitive with the closing and opening of the board, and make the total distance the board has to close much smaller.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth... | 1,760,377,695.594411 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/12/giant-nixie-tube/ | Giant Vacuum Tube | Caleb Kraft | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"el wire",
"electro luminescent",
"nixie tube",
"vacuum tube"
] | When we saw this
giant home vacuum tube
, we thought it would go perfectly along side the
giant LED lamp
. Constructed from spare computer parts, a glass display dome and some EL wire, it is fairly convincing looking. If only he had shaped some characters with the EL wire, we could do a giant nixie tube project. | 20 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "58949",
"author": "stealthmonkey",
"timestamp": "2009-01-12T21:20:24",
"content": "Umm… It’s not a Nixie fake… But it’s a giant fake regular vacuum tube – very nice decoration for oldschool geeks =)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id"... | 1,760,377,695.547597 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/16/m-cle-hacked-smart-cycle/ | M-CLE: Hacked Smart Cycle | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"creativity",
"robot",
"smart cycle",
"toy"
] | M-CLE
, described as ” a physical learning environment in which synergistic artificial intelligence through the use of robots(creative agents) is employed to embellish the creativity of the child”, looks like a pretty fun toy. For those of you who haven’t figured out what it does from that quote, it is a toy that kids... | 15 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "59550",
"author": "kyle",
"timestamp": "2009-01-16T17:03:28",
"content": "Thats interesting but try to get a halfway creative child to sit back seat to 4 robots drawing on the kitchen floor. you will soon find them disassembled and markings on your walls.+1 for the work-1 for the id... | 1,760,377,695.65393 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/debian-on-the-g1-once-again/ | Debian On The G1 Once Again | Eliot | [
"Android Hacks",
"Cellphone Hacks",
"downloads hacks",
"g1 hacks",
"google hacks"
] | [
"adp1",
"android",
"android dev phone 1",
"arm",
"arm eabi",
"busybox",
"debian",
"ghostwalker",
"linux",
"root",
"t-mobile",
"t-mobile g1",
"tnkgrl"
] | [ghostwalker] dropped in on our
previous Debian Android post
to let us know that he had
streamlined the install process
. The first time around, it quickly became difficult to complete the process because firmware updates had taken away root access. Hackers have since figured out how to
downgrade from RC30
and
install ... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "59496",
"author": "kd5uzz",
"timestamp": "2009-01-16T04:15:53",
"content": "Xastir would be great.GPS + Net access allowing APRS-IS access = single device APRS tracker. Yes, it needs internet access to make it happen, but the next step would be to pair it with a Bluetooth serial ada... | 1,760,377,695.699904 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/ | How-to: Prepare Your Eagle Designs For Manufacture | Ian | [
"how-to",
"Parts"
] | [
"cadsofteagle",
"circuit boards",
"digital picture frame",
"diy pcb",
"eagle",
"electronics",
"gerbers",
"pcb"
] | Cadsoft Eagle
is a multi-platform freeware circuit layout program. Lots of open source hardware is designed in Eagle, and it’s become a hobbyist favorite. We use it for all of our
hardware designs
.
There are several ways to turn an Eagle design into an actual
printed circuit board
(PCB). We’ll show you how to save Eag... | 47 | 46 | [
{
"comment_id": "59480",
"author": "Adam Ziegler",
"timestamp": "2009-01-16T00:43:25",
"content": "Great article!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "59481",
"author": "jimmys",
"timestamp": "2009-01-16T00:46:00",
"content": "Excellent w... | 1,760,377,695.807805 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/power-suit-for-japanese-farmers/ | Power Suit For Japanese Farmers | Eliot | [
"News",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"farm",
"farming",
"iron man",
"japan",
"japanese",
"power suit",
"powersuit",
"robot",
"tokyo"
] | Researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have been
demoing a new power suit
. It’s intended to be used by people hand harvesting in the farm industry. The 55 pound device supports the worker’s joints as they squat and reach. Within three years, they hope to have the cost within $10K. We’ve seen qui... | 24 | 24 | [
{
"comment_id": "59487",
"author": "sarsface",
"timestamp": "2009-01-16T03:00:21",
"content": "$10 grand is more than a farm worker like that would make in their entire ‘career’",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "59489",
"author": "Anti-sarsfac... | 1,760,377,695.907399 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/libelium-arduino-contest/ | Libelium Arduino Contest | Eliot | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"News"
] | [
"arduino",
"contest",
"libelium"
] | Libelium is holding another
Arduino Open Hardware contest
. Just create a how-to by April 15th that makes your daily life easier. Prizes include
GPS
, GPRS, SD, and solar modules designed for the
Arduino
. | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,377,695.847295 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/smart-attic-fan/ | Smart Attic Fan | Caleb Kraft | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"fan",
"hawaii",
"pic"
] | [Andrew] lives in Hawaii where the climate usually doesn’t necessitate heating and cooling systems. Usually, some open windows and doors will cool the house down enough. This relies on the breeze though, and that isn’t always there. [Andrew] came up with the solution of
automating an attic fan
to circulate air dependin... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "59470",
"author": "kyle007",
"timestamp": "2009-01-15T22:28:31",
"content": "I wish they’d post more pictures in the actual installation of the exhaust fan..I’m sooooo prooo home automation! :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "59... | 1,760,377,696.063203 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/tape-measure-generator/ | Tape Measure Generator | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"generator"
] | [Dr. West] wanted to do his small part to help save the planet. He has built a
small generator from a stepper motor and a tape measure
. The tape part of the tape measure was replaced with some cord. The spring loading mechanism makes the string re-wind automatically, which is nice. He shows it attached to one leg, wit... | 39 | 39 | [
{
"comment_id": "59417",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2009-01-15T15:50:13",
"content": "What?The video is no longer available? :(It looks interesting.I wonder if one could use a small gen like the ones in other crank-gen type devices more efficiently?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth":... | 1,760,377,696.335768 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/14/oomlouts-guide-to-kitting/ | Oomlout’s Guide To Kitting | Eliot | [
"Robots Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"design",
"dfm",
"kitting",
"ladyada",
"limor",
"manufacture",
"minty boost",
"oomlout",
"serb",
"servobot",
"sticker cutter",
"wire cutter"
] | The team at
oomlout
has continued to post all the methods they use in their manufacturing process. This time around
it’s the kitting process
: how they actually packaged 30 identical
SERB
kits in an efficient fashion. We covered their
wire cutting bot
before, but they’ve got other dedicated machines like a
sticker cutt... | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "59351",
"author": "Jack",
"timestamp": "2009-01-15T06:48:20",
"content": "Enough spamming ddsas (or whatever you’re going by at the moment). That website isn’t even interesting. Just a collection of the latest random trash on the net. And get a proper domain name.",
"parent_id":... | 1,760,377,696.159832 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/14/defcon-calls-for-new-ctf-organizer/ | Defcon Calls For New CTF Organizer | Strom Carlson | [
"cons",
"News"
] | [
"capture the flag",
"conference",
"ctf",
"defcon",
"defcon 17",
"defcon17",
"hacker con",
"hacker convention",
"kenshoto"
] | Kenshoto
, organizer of the official Defcon
Capture the Flag contest
for the last four years, has stepped down from the position, and thus Defcon is
looking for a new organizer for the event
. If you’re highly competent, and maybe a little crazy, this might be your chance to step in and run one of the most well-known a... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "59315",
"author": "jiggy-wiggy-piggy",
"timestamp": "2009-01-15T03:09:59",
"content": "that is some huge shoes to fill",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "59326",
"author": "TJHooker",
"timestamp": "2009-01-15T05:08:26",
... | 1,760,377,696.107932 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/14/high-voltage-cable-inspection/ | High Voltage Cable Inspection | Strom Carlson | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"electricity",
"faraday",
"faraday cage",
"gizmodo",
"helicopter",
"high voltage",
"hv",
"nomex",
"safety",
"video"
] | Have you ever wondered how they inspect high voltage cables without taking them out of service? Check out this
video
which offers a glimpse into the life of a professional high voltage cable inspector. There are parts of the job you’d expect—namely perching on the cable like a bird, trying to not fall off—but the part ... | 27 | 27 | [
{
"comment_id": "59266",
"author": "localroger",
"timestamp": "2009-01-15T00:42:22",
"content": "It is worth watching the video for the last line. However, I wouldn’t want to have to wear the magic Nomex lined Faraday cage suit in very cold or hot weather — it’s a magic material that manages to nei... | 1,760,377,696.473695 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/14/interview-with-an-adware-author/ | Interview With An Adware Author | Strom Carlson | [
"downloads hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"adware",
"interview",
"malware",
"matt knox",
"spyware"
] | Philosecurity has an
interview with [Matt Knox]
, a former coder for Direct Revenue, an adware company which was sued in 2006 by New York governor Eliot Spitzer. The interview contains some interesting details of how the adware code worked internally: it created a Browser Helper Object, then ensured that the Browser He... | 41 | 40 | [
{
"comment_id": "59256",
"author": "BigD145",
"timestamp": "2009-01-14T23:38:13",
"content": "He knew exactly what he was doing. He’s a scumbag.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "763674",
"author": "rick",
"timestamp": "2012-08-3... | 1,760,377,696.561387 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/14/apple-forces-wired-to-take-down-netbook-osx86-video/ | Apple Forces Wired To Take Down Netbook OSx86 Video | Strom Carlson | [
"laptops hacks",
"Mac Hacks",
"Netbook Hacks",
"News"
] | [
"apple",
"chilling effects",
"hackintosh",
"mac",
"macintosh",
"netbook",
"OsX",
"osx86",
"wired"
] | Wired Gadget Lab
has taken down a video made by [Brian X. Chen] in which he gives a brief overview and demonstration of how to install OSX on an MSI Wind
netbook
. This apparently didn’t sit well with Apple, who contacted Wired and complained; Wired agreed and removed the video. Frankly, we’re disappointed with Wired’s... | 28 | 28 | [
{
"comment_id": "59242",
"author": "joe57005",
"timestamp": "2009-01-14T22:52:38",
"content": "Why bother? Everything apple is so horribly proprietary, i can hardly see this as more than a novelty. i’d just stick with linux, though not the included one.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"... | 1,760,377,696.401535 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/14/hack-a-walkie-talkie-for-music/ | Hack A Walkie Talkie For Music | Caleb Kraft | [
"digital audio hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"fcc",
"radio",
"walie talkie"
] | [nepheron] shows us how he
hacked his walkie talkie to broadcast music
. While using this to broadcast music is
possibly illegal
, it could be used to make actual upgrades to your system as well. He has replaced the microphone input with a headphone cable and extended the antenna. It is only mono, and he states it will... | 40 | 36 | [
{
"comment_id": "59218",
"author": "AnarKIT",
"timestamp": "2009-01-14T21:02:07",
"content": "Cute, I did something like this a while ago with a cordless phone.http://daxter12.topcities.com/electronics/punkphone/punkphone.htm",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"c... | 1,760,377,696.645234 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/14/wiimote-controlled-coil-gun/ | Wiimote Controlled Coil Gun | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Nintendo Wii Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"coil gun",
"iobridge",
"wiimote"
] | [thecapacity] sent us his iobridge project where he
controls a coil gun with a Wiimote
. To make the coil gun, he took apart an office golf putter that had a ball return. The mechanism to return the ball is a metal cylinder that is moved magnetically. He simply replaced the cylinder with a smaller diameter piece of me... | 24 | 24 | [
{
"comment_id": "59196",
"author": "Harvie",
"timestamp": "2009-01-14T17:09:17",
"content": "nice, but it have big latency… ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "59197",
"author": "mess_maker",
"timestamp": "2009-01-14T17:26:23",
"conte... | 1,760,377,696.790617 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/12/illuminato/ | Illuminato | Caleb Kraft | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"classic hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"illuminato",
"shields"
] | [Matt] sent us this very cool looking project called
Illuminato
. After brainstorming on how to improve upon the
Arduino
, and receiving lots of input on his ideas, [Matt] has put together this board that has several nice improvements. It has more I/O, more code space, faster serial communication speeds, built in PWM, ... | 19 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "58920",
"author": "fractalrock",
"timestamp": "2009-01-12T16:37:24",
"content": "Awesome! Wow, good job. And as for the looks of the board…well, I normally don’t care a bit about the looks; I’m a function over form guy. However, I’ve got to admit: I like the pcb color, and love t... | 1,760,377,696.708878 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/11/windows-drivers-for-ps3-controllers/ | Windows Drivers For PS3 Controllers | Nick Caiello | [
"downloads hacks",
"News",
"Playstation Hacks"
] | [
"dcemu",
"dualshock 3",
"force feedback",
"playstation",
"playstation3",
"ps3",
"sixaxis",
"sony",
"windows"
] | Recently, a Japanese coder on the DCEmu Forums released Windows drivers for DualShock 3 controllers. While the drivers only support using the controllers over USB and not bluetooth, they do include force feedback and Sixaxis support. Included with the drivers is a configuration tool, and though it appears to be in Japa... | 38 | 37 | [
{
"comment_id": "58676",
"author": "Darkzero",
"timestamp": "2009-01-12T00:35:44",
"content": "It’s awesome! It works with PS2 emulator, rumble and all (except the 6axis, ofc ;)..I’m not sure how they’ll be able to incorporate 6 axis on windows though?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"r... | 1,760,377,696.898787 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/11/putting-fd-lenses-on-a-digicam/ | Putting FD Lenses On A D60 | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"canon",
"digial camera",
"dslr",
"fd lens"
] | [Peter] sent in this really slick project where he ads an
FD lens mount to a cannon EOS D60
. He already had a collection of nice lenses and didn’t want to waste them. After finding some a donor camera for the
FD mount
, he purchased a cheap D60 to graft it onto. While his first impulse was to simply glue the new mount... | 15 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "58640",
"author": "entropia",
"timestamp": "2009-01-11T19:28:14",
"content": "canon, not cannon. somehow i think this isn’t the first time its been typo’d. otherwise it’s a nice project. i use fd lenses with a converter on my d30 but it makes infinity focus impossible.",
"parent... | 1,760,377,696.97564 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/10/n8vem-single-board-z80-computer/ | N8VEM Single Board Z80 Computer | Eliot | [
"computer hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"cpm",
"hombrew",
"n8vem",
"oldbitcollector",
"parallax",
"ppdb",
"propeller",
"smd",
"ttl dip",
"vt100",
"z80"
] | The
N8VEM
is a homebrew computer project based on the classic
Z80
microprocessor. It’s designed to be easy to build using large TTL DIP components instead of SMD devices. It runs the
CP/M
operating system and all drives are virtual in RAM/ROM. While the base hardware is interesting, we really like the potential for exp... | 17 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "58572",
"author": "Jake of All Trades",
"timestamp": "2009-01-11T02:35:28",
"content": "Looks like the guts of a Timex/Sinclair 1000 to me. Just add a membrane keyboard and a composite video output and you’re set!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,377,697.04951 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/10/resistive-ladder-volume-control/ | Resistive Ladder Volume Control | Eliot | [
"digital audio hacks",
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"instructable",
"jefffolly",
"passive",
"resistor",
"resistor ladder",
"rotary switch",
"volume",
"volume control"
] | [jefffolly] published some straight forward plans for a
passive volume control
. It uses a resistive ladder built across the contacts of 12W rotary switches. Each resistor provides a 5dB difference, and he recommends using 0.1% tolerance resistors to maintain accuracy. The use of discrete resistors instead of volume po... | 26 | 26 | [
{
"comment_id": "58568",
"author": "none",
"timestamp": "2009-01-11T02:19:21",
"content": "lolololololololFIRST",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "58574",
"author": "none",
"timestamp": "2009-01-11T02:54:14",
"content": "what what in my... | 1,760,377,697.12188 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/10/wireless-blinkm-control/ | Wireless BlinkM Control | Eliot | [
"classic hacks",
"LED Hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"atmega",
"ATmega168",
"AVR",
"blinkm",
"led",
"receiver",
"rflink",
"rgb",
"RGB LED",
"wireless"
] | [John] has been working with several
BlinkM
RGB devices. He’s created a
controller to talk to each of the BlinkMs wirelessly
and change their behavior. The core is an old relay tester box used to test telephone circuits. Each of its four knobs are connected to the analog inputs on the Arduino. The signal is transmitted... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "58571",
"author": "sly",
"timestamp": "2009-01-11T02:25:47",
"content": "ooooo… shiny O.O",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "58773",
"author": "Fate",
"timestamp": "2009-01-12T06:10:01",
"content": "They must be the new... | 1,760,377,697.236883 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/10/dc-gearmotor-teardown/ | DC Gearmotor Teardown | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"flickr",
"gearmotor",
"gm3",
"kysan",
"reprap",
"solarbotics",
"zach",
"zach smith"
] | The RepRap project has made heavy use of the
Solarbotics GM3 Gearmotor
as part of their extruders. Unfortunately they’ve proven to be underpowered for the task and the plastic gears could cause future problems. [Zach] decided to investigate some other options. He
bought a pile of motors
from Kysan to try out. He posted... | 15 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "58554",
"author": "Danny",
"timestamp": "2009-01-10T23:23:33",
"content": "This is a bit lame Hack a Day. I expected better from you. its just pictures of a motor in pieces. and just cos theres a gearbox in there dosnt make it any better.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,377,697.185376 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/08/artfall-pachinko-for-techies/ | ArtFall: Pachinko For Techies | Caleb Kraft | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"iphone hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Nintendo Wii Hacks"
] | [
"iphone",
"pachinko",
"projection",
"wiimote"
] | [vimeo= 2758525]
ArtFall
allows you to draw on a whiteboard, then have small geometric shapes interact with your drawing like a barrier. Imagine a
pachinko machine
where you have to draw the pegs in. Not only can you draw barriers, but you can change the direction of gravity with either an
iPhone
or a Wiimote. The foot... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "58375",
"author": "wbdeejay",
"timestamp": "2009-01-09T02:42:25",
"content": "Very entertaining, nice job. lol’d at the cat chasing the cursor @2:35 & ~3:17",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "58439",
"author": "Rbz",
"times... | 1,760,377,697.403744 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/08/hacking-a-digital-picture-keychain/ | Hacking A Digital Picture Keychain | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"coby",
"keychain",
"lcd",
"picture frame"
] | The Coby DP-151sx Digital picture frame keychain seems to be
ripe for hacking
. At
roughly $9
, you get a screen, and Li-Ion battery. That’s not bad considering a
similar screen
alone would cost $20 elsewhere even though it runs on a slower serial connection. While they’ve only put a 3 color pattern on it so far, more... | 28 | 28 | [
{
"comment_id": "58328",
"author": "deoryp",
"timestamp": "2009-01-08T16:48:47",
"content": "“While they’ve only put a 3 color pattern on it so far…” seems like the guy just picked that pattern to show us. Fun project, I have seen those lcd guys at the store and thought about hacking them too but n... | 1,760,377,697.473221 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/07/bouncing-ball-analog-computer/ | Bouncing Ball Analog Computer | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"analog",
"analog computer",
"aphex twin",
"bouncing ball",
"eric archer",
"opamp",
"oscilloscope",
"video"
] | [Eric Archer] constructed an analog computer to
model the physics of a bouncing ball
. The core is a TL074 opamp that does all the integral math. He had no trouble finding descriptions of analog computers, but how to set the initial conditions was rarely covered. The controls include potentiometers to set the initial v... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "58276",
"author": "zool",
"timestamp": "2009-01-08T03:33:58",
"content": "Great! Now can you model something that goes splat?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "58282",
"author": "chris",
"timestamp": "2009-01-08T04:00:51"... | 1,760,377,697.522451 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/07/uiremote-universal-remote-application-for-iphone/ | UIRemote: Universal Remote Application For IPhone | Nick Caiello | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"iphone hacks",
"ipod hacks",
"News"
] | [
"apple",
"infrared",
"iphone",
"iphone app",
"remote",
"UIRemote",
"universal remote"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-SlcjmqeYw]
When several students from the University of Toronto became tired of having multiple remotes lying around, they decided to do something about it. Their solution to this problem came in the form of
UIRemote
, a universal remote application for the
iPhone
. The applic... | 18 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "58239",
"author": "Christopher Finke",
"timestamp": "2009-01-07T23:24:29",
"content": "If the price is right (less than $20 for the adapter+software), I would definitely buy this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "58284",
"aut... | 1,760,377,697.580224 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/07/autonomous-game-controllers/ | Autonomous Game Controllers | Caleb Kraft | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Playstation Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"ps2",
"ps3",
"psx",
"video game"
] | [vimeo=2727246]
On the off chance that you want to
program a microcontroller to play your games for you
, you should check this out. Near Future Laboratories has made a dongle that can allow an Arduino to operate as a
PS2
or
PS3 controller
. You can see the Arduino running a random path generator in Katamari Damacy in ... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "58267",
"author": "K1ngfunK",
"timestamp": "2009-01-08T02:40:36",
"content": "When it comes to autonomous gaming, I still prefer the “rubber-band-on-left-stick-wrapped-around-controller” method for Gran Turismo, mainly for endurance races.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,377,697.698313 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/07/brute-force-attack-on-twitter/ | Brute Force Attack On Twitter | Caleb Kraft | [
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"brute forcce",
"hack",
"twitter"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKNbggNJMVI]
Wired Threat Level has posted an
interview with the hacker who recently broke into several high profile twitter accounts
, such as Fox News, and Barack Obama. Since we know how much
you all love twitter
, we thought you might want to learn more about it. Apparently h... | 22 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "58246",
"author": "zub",
"timestamp": "2009-01-08T00:20:07",
"content": "that’s a dictionary attack, not quite the same as brute force",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "58248",
"author": "happypinguin",
"timestamp": "2009-... | 1,760,377,697.658517 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/07/tour-thinkgeeks-offices/ | Tour ThinkGeek’s Offices | Caleb Kraft | [
"News"
] | [
"thinkgeek",
"tour"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTOMezmVC-s]
If you’ve ever been curious what it is like to work at ThinkGeek, check out this video. [John Frazier], a purchasing agent,
talks about the history of ThinkGeek as well as what daily work is like
. Fairly interesting, but the summary is that it’s just like any other ... | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "58238",
"author": "sheep",
"timestamp": "2009-01-07T23:17:31",
"content": "hmmm… sourceforge > slashdot > thinkgeek… never knew that…inexpensive monocular nightvision goggles… sounds hackworthy to me!and that is definitely an interesting little glass jar…. you can put your weed in t... | 1,760,377,697.881527 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/04/parallel-parking-system/ | Parallel Parking System | Eliot | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"autoblog",
"car",
"hydraulic",
"mechanical engineering",
"parallel parking",
"toledo",
"video"
] | Autoblog
dug up
this classic mechanical engineering project from 2006. A team of five University of Toledo students constructed a system to help parallel park a car. First, you drive nose first into the space. Hydraulic rams then lower the drive wheel out of the trunk, raising the rear of the car. The single wheel is a... | 40 | 40 | [
{
"comment_id": "57923",
"author": "deamon",
"timestamp": "2009-01-05T01:31:03",
"content": "So………..you know this has already been done by an auto company. Not putting anyone down, just saying its been done.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "57924... | 1,760,377,697.83676 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2009/01/04/hacking-at-random-2009-call-for-papers/ | Hacking At Random 2009 Call For Papers | Eliot | [
"cons",
"News"
] | [
"call for papers",
"hacking at random",
"har",
"har2009",
"Netherlands"
] | With the
Chaos Communication Congress
concluded, it’s time to start looking towards the next massive European hacker event. This means
Hacking at Random
August 13-16th in the Netherlands. It’s a four day long camp experience that will feature many conference talks, interactive projects, and more.
The team has selected ... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "57984",
"author": "Hals",
"timestamp": "2009-01-05T16:53:33",
"content": "Yeah! Everyone is welcome, get yass here and enjoy HAR",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,697.746192 |
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