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https://hackaday.com/2008/07/08/major-dns-issue-causes-multivendor-patch-day/ | Major DNS Issue Causes Multivendor Patch Day | Juan Aguilar | [
"News"
] | [
"cachepoisoning",
"cert",
"dankaminsky",
"dns",
"patch",
"security",
"vulnerability"
] | Earlier this year, our friend [Dan Kaminsky] discovered
a major DNS issue
that could allow hackers to compromise name servers and clients easily. The vulnerability involves cache poisoning, and [Kaminsky] plans to publish the full details of the vulnerability on August 6th. However, he has already begun his work to con... | 5 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "38568",
"author": "Criticalfault",
"timestamp": "2008-07-09T01:51:15",
"content": "Another big win for the white hats.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38569",
"author": "ajd4096",
"timestamp": "2008-07-09T08:44:15",
... | 1,760,377,794.55677 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/08/pedal-powered-panzer-tank-built-for-crashing-parties/ | Pedal Powered Panzer Tank Built For Crashing Parties | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"kensingtonkineticscultpturederby",
"panzer",
"pedal",
"pedalpower",
"sculpture",
"tank",
"welding"
] | A group from Philadelphia PA calling themselves Team pzkpfw decided to
recreate a Panzerkampfwagen III
, but not entirely according to the original specs. Instead of treads and an engine, they used a system of pedals, gears and chains powered by up to six riders. The team of roughly nine men spent eleven days welding b... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "38563",
"author": "Tom",
"timestamp": "2008-07-08T23:52:39",
"content": "that’s right by my friends house!!I can’t wait to stop by and check it out!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38564",
"author": "James",
"timestamp":... | 1,760,377,794.367729 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/08/aurora-open-source-hardware-mixer/ | Aurora Open Source Hardware Mixer | Juan Aguilar | [
"LED Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"ambient",
"aurora",
"backlight",
"backlighting",
"dj",
"djmixer",
"led",
"midi",
"mixer",
"music",
"picmicrocontroller"
] | We’ve seen some fairly impressive mixer projects this year, and the
Aurora mixer
is no exception. It is a dual channel USB-powered mixer with two linear faders, one crossfader, eight backlit buttons and 24 potentiometers, all built around a PIC 18LF4525 microcontroller. That’s all pretty typical for a mixer, but this o... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "38552",
"author": "philip",
"timestamp": "2008-07-08T22:13:54",
"content": "o geez…. thats on my “things I need to build” list",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38553",
"author": "Bjonnh",
"timestamp": "2008-07-08T22:36:37... | 1,760,377,794.776063 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/08/programmable-avr-thermostat/ | Programmable AVR Thermostat | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"diy",
"soldering"
] | This nifty thermostat is actually built from just a few off the shelf components. A Dallas DS1820 1-wire temperature sensor provides and an Olimex
ATMega development board
. If you’re not so handy with the soldering side, you can pull this one off. The device can be programmed by the button cluster and will even output... | 11 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "38545",
"author": "Michael Witt",
"timestamp": "2008-07-08T16:00:30",
"content": "‘olimex’ not olimax.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "2625168",
"author": "markbook68",
"timestamp": "2015-06-27T18:02:52",
... | 1,760,377,794.601737 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/07/grizzly-suit-up-for-auction/ | Grizzly Suit Up For Auction | Juan Aguilar | [
"News"
] | [
"armor",
"auction",
"bears",
"ebay",
"grizzlybear",
"mkiv",
"powersuit",
"projectgrizzly",
"tobyhurtubise"
] | Do you have a burning desire to fight grizzly bears? If you do, We can’t guarantee that the first bear you face will win, but we really can’t imagine another outcome unless you use
[Troy Hurtubise]’s Mk IV suit
, which is currently up for auction.
We have discussed the suit before
along with several other high-tech pow... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "38540",
"author": "kvmanii",
"timestamp": "2008-07-08T21:09:18",
"content": "I dont know if I would trust that suit to protect me against bears. Watch the video,,",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38541",
"author": "W01F",
... | 1,760,377,794.813341 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/07/wii-nunchuck-used-for-mocap-on-3d-studio-max/ | Wii Nunchuck Used For Mocap On 3D Studio Max | Juan Aguilar | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"3dstudiomax",
"ableton",
"arduino",
"midi",
"midiyoke",
"mocap",
"motioncapture",
"processing",
"wiinunchuck"
] | If you’ve been looking for a cheap way to do motion capture on 3D Studio Max, [melka] has devised an ingenious way to do
mocap using a Wii nunchuck
. As shown in his Vimeo video, the nunchuck is connected to an Arduino that feeds MIDI data to a computer running the MIDI app Ableton Live.
Ableton Live
feeds that data to... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "38534",
"author": "John Park",
"timestamp": "2008-07-08T05:26:13",
"content": "That’s pretty darned cool. IIRC 3d studio max ships with mouse “mocap” drivers, so I wonder if you could do an additional set of controls using the wiimote with some mouse pointer software directly.",
... | 1,760,377,794.68669 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/07/black-hat-hackers-face-off-in-iron-chef-style-competition/ | Black Hat Hackers Face Off In Iron Chef Style Competition | Juan Aguilar | [
"cons",
"News"
] | [
"blackhat",
"blackhatconference",
"code",
"fuzzing",
"static-codeanalysis",
"vulnerabilities"
] | Which is a better method for finding vulnerabilities, fuzzing or static-code analysis? The question will be put to the test at next month’s
Black Hat USA
conference, where two experienced
hackers
security researchers will be given a piece of
mystery code and one hour to find all the vulnerabilities
they can using one o... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "38533",
"author": "td",
"timestamp": "2008-08-11T23:26:44",
"content": "its now about SIGINT/ ELINT/ RADINT as facilitated by telecommunicatins {HINT}.same as used by UK intelligence for global cyber espionage/ cyber terrorism!!compliments of YoCli",
"parent_id": null,
"dept... | 1,760,377,794.403019 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/07/paintball-gun-silencer/ | Paintball Gun Silencer | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"instructables",
"paintball",
"paintballgun",
"pvc-pipe",
"reducer",
"silencer"
] | In paintball, the element of surprise can make the difference between victory and defeat. While we can’t help you with the sounds of labored breathing and shuffling feet as you waddle across the field, we did find this guide on how to make a
silencer for your paintball gun
.
To build this you will need two lengths of P... | 16 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "38519",
"author": "razor128",
"timestamp": "2008-07-08T02:58:00",
"content": "It should be noted that these are most likely illegal to build. This thread explains it quite well.http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/forum_posts.asp?TID=176358",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,377,794.520867 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/07/build-a-lifeform-for-io9/ | Build A Lifeform For Io9 | Juan Aguilar | [
"contests"
] | [
"biobricks",
"biology",
"contest",
"esquilax",
"io9",
"life",
"syntheticlife"
] | Whether you consider yourself a bona fide mad scientist or you simply think your horrifying mutant creations are misunderstood, you’ll want to enter
io9’s Build a Lifeform contest
.
The contest doesn’t require any actual primordial soup, just a concept of a synthetic lifeform you think would be useful or interesting. T... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "38516",
"author": "Skyler Orlando",
"timestamp": "2008-07-08T03:14:13",
"content": "This looks totally cool but the first category is a bit over my head. Maybe when I have a PhD in molecular biology… lol.Or, better yet, find a free online course and learn it between now and August. ... | 1,760,377,794.727259 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/07/pulse-the-emotional-visualization-organism/ | Pulse, The Emotional Visualization Organism | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"art",
"emotional",
"emotions",
"keywords",
"mood",
"servo",
"servos",
"visualization"
] | [Markus Kison] built a device called Pulse, which is part art installation and part data visualization tool. What the
emotional visualization organism called Pulse
actually does is scan new posts on Blogger.com blogs for synonyms of keywords related to 24 distinct emotions from eight emotional groups. A red cone in the... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "38513",
"author": "Thomas Kilbride",
"timestamp": "2008-07-08T01:16:47",
"content": "this thing could destroy the human race :|",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38514",
"author": "Reece",
"timestamp": "2008-07-08T16:23:31... | 1,760,377,794.636585 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/07/eee-pc-tablet-build/ | Eee PC Tablet Build | Juan Aguilar | [
"laptops hacks",
"Netbook Hacks"
] | [
"casemod",
"ebook",
"ebookreader",
"eee pc",
"EeePc",
"tabeee",
"tabeeemk1"
] | OCAU member [Bismar] was in the market for an e-book reader, but all of his commercial options were too expensive. He decided to build one himself, and what he came up with is the Tabeee MK1, an
e-book reader made from a 7″ Eee PC
, a touchscreen, and a custom case.
The project is far from completion, still in the mids... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "38508",
"author": "Shadyman",
"timestamp": "2008-07-07T23:49:45",
"content": "Sweeet!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38509",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2008-07-08T02:42:58",
"content": "I would of thought I wou... | 1,760,377,795.168907 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/07/hack-a-day-is-still-hiring/ | Hack A Day Is Still Hiring | Eliot | [
"News"
] | [
"freelance",
"hackaday",
"hiring",
"job"
] | We’ve added a handful of contributors in the last couple months, which you can see in our new
How-Tos
. We’re still looking for people to contribute daily posts and help expand the site though.
This is a paid, freelancing position that requires professionalism, consistency, and reliability. We want to hear from people ... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "38502",
"author": "miked",
"timestamp": "2008-07-08T00:28:12",
"content": "i will send in my application today!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38503",
"author": "Dok",
"timestamp": "2008-07-08T02:02:25",
"content": ... | 1,760,377,795.223069 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/07/stereodata-maker/ | StereoData Maker | Juan Aguilar | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"canon",
"chdk",
"photography",
"sdcard",
"shutter",
"shutterspeed",
"stereodatamaker",
"stereophotography"
] | So you got CHDK
working on your camera
, and the histograms, raw image files, variable shutter speeds and other added functions are amazing, but stereo imaging is what you really want. If you have two or more CHDK-ready cameras, it’s cheap and easy to run
StereoData Maker
, a system that synchronizes the shutter and fl... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "38499",
"author": "Tyler",
"timestamp": "2008-07-07T23:18:55",
"content": "personally, i think stereo images could be used a lot more than they are now. for example, imagine two games running simultaneously on two monitors, but one was a slightly different perspective. then you wo... | 1,760,377,795.265103 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/07/use-junk-to-measure-your-caps-and-coils/ | Use Junk To Measure Your Caps And Coils | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"electronics",
"parts",
"projects"
] | [Cliff] sent in [N5ESE]’s
junk box project page
. Most of the projects are amateur radio specific, but one that caught my eye was his
capacitance checker
permalink | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "38497",
"author": "tReg",
"timestamp": "2008-07-07T15:15:06",
"content": "A soundcard and speaker workshop (http://www.speakerworkshop.com/SW/Feature%20Summary.htm) is also an handy free solution for ponctual or urgentuse.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
... | 1,760,377,795.343169 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/06/the-rock-afire-explosion-movie-trailer/ | The Rock-afire Explosion Movie Trailer | Eliot | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"aaronfechter",
"animatronic",
"christhrash",
"Pizza",
"rockafire",
"showbiz",
"showbizpizzaplace",
"waxy"
] | A small group of enthusiasts have apparently been restoring and reprogramming the animatronic bands from the former Showbiz Pizza Place chain. Original engineer [Aaron Fechter] and car salesman/choreographer [Chris Thrash] have started
performing modern pop songs
with the bands and have a page where you can
bid on new ... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "38487",
"author": "EllisGL",
"timestamp": "2008-07-07T06:24:32",
"content": "Anyone remember Bullwinkle’s in Santa Clara, CA?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38488",
"author": "alex mccown",
"timestamp": "2008-07-07T06:2... | 1,760,377,795.5287 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/06/really-bare-bones-board-arduino-clone/ | Really Bare Bones Board Arduino Clone | Eliot | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"AVR",
"clone",
"freeduino",
"moderndevices",
"rbbb"
] | Modern Device’s
Really Bare Bones Board
is an
Arduino
clone designed to have an incredibly small footprint. It’s barely wider than the requisite AVR and is laid out so you can reduce the size even further. Don’t need the power connector? Just snip it off. Don’t need the voltage regulator? That can be removed just as ea... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "38481",
"author": "alex mccown",
"timestamp": "2008-07-07T06:29:05",
"content": "i was wondering when someone was going to make one small enough to slip in to small places",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38482",
"author": "... | 1,760,377,795.305505 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/06/motorcycle-engine-powered-cars/ | Motorcycle Engine Powered Cars | Eliot | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"car",
"engine",
"hyabusa",
"lightweight",
"motorcycle",
"motorcycleengine",
"motorcyclepowered"
] | Autoblog recently
posted
about the
LusoMotors LM23
, a track car powered by a Honda CBR1000 that weighs less than 900 pounds. We knew there have been quite a few other home built cars that have foregone traditional engines for motorcycle power plants, so we asked Google for a few project suggestions. It turned up this ... | 36 | 36 | [
{
"comment_id": "38471",
"author": "mike",
"timestamp": "2008-07-07T05:35:51",
"content": "It’s worth noting that Honda used 2 cylinder motors in a few of their earlier cars as well.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_N360Funny how things come full circle, isn’t it? =)",
"parent_id": null,
"d... | 1,760,377,795.450267 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/06/data-manipulation-with-sprog/ | Data Manipulation With Sprog | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"data",
"database",
"datamanipulation",
"linuxjournal",
"perl",
"script",
"sprog"
] | Linux Journal’s [Mike Diehl] pointed out an
interesting tool for manipulating data
: Sprog.
Sprog
lets you assemble machines to complete specific data processing tasks. You snap together gears that read input data, process the data in different ways, and then output the results. The input could be a file, URL, database... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "38466",
"author": "Kevin",
"timestamp": "2008-07-07T03:24:35",
"content": "That’s pretty neat. Beats writing a bunch of shell scripts and using pipes by hand.This is almost as cool as Automater in OSX. The resemblance is uncanny…. I’ll have to check this out. I could definitely us... | 1,760,377,795.382426 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/06/thingamakit-video/ | ThingamaKIT Video | Eliot | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"bleep",
"bleeplabs",
"music",
"synth",
"synthesizer",
"thingamagoop",
"thingamakit",
"video"
] | Bleep Labs has just published a demo video of their new
ThingamaKIT
that we
covered the other day
.
permalink | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "38461",
"author": "Tenetri",
"timestamp": "2008-07-07T00:08:47",
"content": "I really really wish I had one of these. Gas is killing my wallet now though… I’m beginning to lose money, since my work is so god damn far away…Maybe in a year or so, will be awesome to play with",
"pa... | 1,760,377,795.578653 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/06/routerterm-atmega-serial-terminal/ | RouterTerm: Atmega Serial Terminal | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [] | [Adam] sent in the
RouterTerm
. It’s an ATMega8 with an LCD, PS/2 keyboard input and a 16×2 LCD. No source/schematics yet, but he claims that he’ll get around to it if enough people ask. It was built specifically to talk to an Edimax BR-6104KP router with Linux on it.
permalink | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "38458",
"author": "cde",
"timestamp": "2008-07-06T15:20:58",
"content": "http://chezphil.org/slugterm/Is similar.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38459",
"author": "confuciou",
"timestamp": "2008-07-07T06:01:49",
"co... | 1,760,377,795.488183 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/05/ardagentapp-still-vulnerable/ | ARDAgent.app Still Vulnerable | Eliot | [
"Mac Hacks",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"apple",
"ardagent",
"dino",
"mac",
"security",
"securityupdate"
] | When Apple pushed their most
recent security update
, the first thing we checked was whether the
ARDAgent issue
was fixed. It’s not. This vulnerability lets anyone execute code as a privileged user and versions of this attack have already been found in the wild. While several Ruby, SMB, and WebKit issues were addressed... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "38457",
"author": "Frogdog",
"timestamp": "2008-07-06T06:30:45",
"content": "MAC;PC? Whats the difference? Steve and Bill should have been nicer to the public.for their greedinessevery one must suffer. I hope they both burn.%)BURN! BABY BURN! OPEN SOURCE!!Even the hackers quit!",
... | 1,760,377,795.747895 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/05/wii-style-controls-for-the-commodore-64/ | Wii Style Controls For The Commodore 64 | Eliot | [
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"c64",
"cbat",
"commodore",
"Commodore64",
"controller",
"nes",
"nintendo",
"parallax",
"parallaxpropeller",
"propeller",
"wii"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1WOoPV_7HU&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999]
[Jeff] has been playing around with
Parallax’s Propeller chip
. He’s used it to
adapt an NES controller to the to the Commodore 64
. In this latest iteration though, he’s added a Memsic 2125 dual axis accelerometer to ... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "38456",
"author": "Steve-e",
"timestamp": "2008-07-06T15:13:18",
"content": "Has any one tried to put a wii controller in a nes controller case? retro input for the latest gen of gaming?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "75642",
... | 1,760,377,796.171055 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/05/top-10-tedtalks/ | Top 10 TEDTalks | Eliot | [
"News",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"johnnylee",
"nintendo",
"ted",
"tedconference",
"tedtalks",
"wii"
] | The Technology Entertainment Design Conference has been a great source for interesting presentations and in 2006 they started publishing their talks online. This week they published a list of the
top 10 most popular talks
. There are quite a few tech related ones and we’ve covered some of this work before:
[Jeff Han]’s... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "38452",
"author": "Tenetri",
"timestamp": "2008-07-06T03:34:01",
"content": "awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome. TED is excellent",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38453... | 1,760,377,795.795125 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/05/hackit-network-attached-storage/ | Hackit: Network Attached Storage? | Eliot | [
"classic hacks",
"HackIt"
] | [
"amazon",
"apple",
"chron",
"cryptonas",
"drobo",
"edmini",
"ethernetdiskmini",
"freebsd",
"freenas",
"jungledisk",
"jwz",
"kurobox",
"lacie",
"linkstation",
"media",
"nas",
"networkattachedstorage",
"nslu2",
"openfiler",
"s3",
"san",
"server",
"simplestoragesolution",
... | With each passing day the rate we acquire digital media increases (we don’t even bother unpacking our CDs when we move anymore). Large publishers have started moving away from DRM, which means we’ll be buying even more digital media in the future. Acquiring all of this nonphysical property puts importance on not just m... | 24 | 24 | [
{
"comment_id": "38429",
"author": "36chambers",
"timestamp": "2008-07-06T03:07:36",
"content": "I use a POPcorn Hour NetworkedmediatankIt has NAS capabilities – I can add HD via internal IDE or even with USB sata/IDE controllers – It also plays all my media as well.",
"parent_id": null,
"de... | 1,760,377,796.229891 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/05/laser-tattoo/ | Laser Tattoo | Eliot | [
"LED Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"engraving",
"laser",
"lasercutter",
"lasertattoo",
"led",
"ledchessset",
"tattoo"
] | We’re amazed we didn’t stumble across this ill advised burnination sooner. Earlier in the week [tetranitrate], of
LED chess set
fame, posted his experiences
using a laser cutter to scarify his own skin
. It’s very painful, not to mention the discomfort of smelling your own burning flesh. He’s using an
Epilog
with a mag... | 47 | 47 | [
{
"comment_id": "38407",
"author": "DriX",
"timestamp": "2008-07-06T00:01:01",
"content": "OMFG!, that is realy creepy.By the way, that doesn’t make third grade burns in your skin? 0_o",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38408",
"author": "emili... | 1,760,377,796.137414 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/05/render-your-next-render-farm/ | Render Your Next Render Farm | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"computer hacks"
] | [
"cluster computing",
"ClusterComputing",
"rendering",
"video card",
"VideoCard"
] | You might remember [Janne]’s
IKEA cluster
. Now he’s got a couple of dream rigs in mind, so he started doing 3D renderings of them.
Helmer 2
is designed to contain 24 video cards attached to six motherboards with quad core CPUs. (AMD has even taken enough interest to send him some cpus to get started) The rendering rea... | 17 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "38390",
"author": "jelengar",
"timestamp": "2008-07-05T15:20:45",
"content": "nice idea, but. He is intending to use heat pipes, and as far as i know they are supposed to be positioned ~vertical (or at least in a way that the hot part is lower than the cold one). he has positioned t... | 1,760,377,795.988309 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/04/javascript-vi/ | Javascript Vi | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"browser",
"editor",
"javascript",
"js",
"jsvi",
"unix",
"vi"
] | Few would dispute that Vi was a great text editor in its day, but no one has done anything to bring it back until now. A company called Internet Connection has developed JSVI, a clone of Vi that was written in javascript and runs inside editable text areas on virtually any browser with javascript support.
It functions ... | 21 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "38372",
"author": "Nguyen Truong Tho",
"timestamp": "2008-07-05T04:36:15",
"content": "Unbelievable!!! Maybe Linux on web will be soon released :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38373",
"author": "adamziegler",
"timesta... | 1,760,377,796.287032 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/04/infinite-water/ | Infinite Water | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"dehydration",
"filter",
"petcare",
"pets",
"solenoid",
"tupperware",
"water"
] | It’s Independence Day, so if you have pets and planned a trip, chances are you wrangled a pet sitter to keep your pet from starving or dehydrating to death. Next time, consider letting this
infinite water dispenser
help you instead.
The dispenser is made of a Tupperware tub, a fish tank water filter, a float switch, an... | 21 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "38351",
"author": "Jinto Lin",
"timestamp": "2008-07-05T02:05:48",
"content": "They use these with cattle and horses. My grandfather would check them, and if the water was green it was broken.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "383... | 1,760,377,796.340949 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/04/fourth-of-july-extra/ | Fourth Of July Extra | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"4thofjuly",
"celebration",
"chdk",
"fireworks",
"fourthofjuly",
"hotdog",
"microwave"
] | Today is the Fourth of July in the US, where we celebrate our freedom by blowing up a small portion of our country. Embedded above is [Jory] and [Jonathan] doing it wrong by
microwaving their fireworks
. We think a good formula for this year’s celebration is
wireless fireworks control
,
gas powered blenders
, and
CHDK’... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "38347",
"author": "mikey g",
"timestamp": "2008-07-05T00:30:26",
"content": "maximum oscillation!! xD",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38348",
"author": "alex mccown",
"timestamp": "2008-07-05T00:50:19",
"content": "i... | 1,760,377,796.418874 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/04/12-channel-life-battery-management-system/ | 12 Channel LiFe Battery Management System | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"diy",
"ev",
"life"
] | With fuel prices rising, EVs are becoming more an more stylish. This
bit of floor tile wrapped hardware
is actually a 12 channel battery management system designed to handle Lithium Iron battery packs. It’s designed to take power from a standard lead acid charger and supply the batteries with their maximum charge curre... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "38340",
"author": "Greg",
"timestamp": "2008-07-04T18:54:11",
"content": "Lithium Iron? Must be something new. LOL",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38341",
"author": "xyphur",
"timestamp": "2008-07-04T19:34:03",
"co... | 1,760,377,796.382197 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/03/led-battery-level-indicator/ | LED Battery Level Indicator | Juan Aguilar | [
"LED Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"analysis",
"batteries",
"battery",
"indicator",
"led",
"meter",
"voltage"
] | [Kc7fys] came up with a this simple
battery level indicator
. It uses a single LED to display a battery’s voltage; if the voltage exceeds 12V, it glows green. If it is below 11V, the LED glows red. Anything in between generates an orange glow. The meter is built around an LM358 chip per
this schematic
, but his actual ... | 16 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "38325",
"author": "Wolf",
"timestamp": "2008-07-04T05:38:28",
"content": "Quick, dirty, and effective, nice to see a real hack from juan.With the addition of a 555, you could probably rig a version that blinks an led with increased frequency as the battery voltage approaches the thr... | 1,760,377,796.557735 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/03/recon-2008-recap/ | Recon 2008 Recap | Juan Aguilar | [
"cons",
"News"
] | [
"conventions",
"engineering",
"recon",
"recon2008",
"ReverseEngineering",
"tillerbeauchamp",
"virtualmachine"
] | [Tiller Beauchamp] gave a presentation on
applied reverse engineering
in OS X at
this year’s REcon
, but he also attended many of the other talks and gives his take on the highlights of REcon 2008 in a guest post on the ZDNet blog, Zero Day.
One of the highlights for him was Neohapsis’s [Chris Smith] discussing
virtual... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,377,796.590194 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/03/tea-cup-theremin/ | Tea Cup Theremin | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"conductive technology",
"ConductiveTechnology",
"conductivity",
"maxmsp",
"tea",
"teacup",
"theremin"
] | Hardware modding can take you to some strange places: sometimes, you think of really useful improvements to your most practical devices. Other times, you
turn a cup of tea into a theremin
. This is true at least for [Kyle McDonald], who immersed the L/R leads of an 1/8″ cable in a cup of tea, and connected it to a comp... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "38316",
"author": "Tired_",
"timestamp": "2008-07-04T03:13:56",
"content": "Can we put the long, dangly bit into a substance almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38317",
"author": "dane... | 1,760,377,796.658707 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/03/monome-keyboard/ | Monome Keyboard | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"doepfer",
"electronicmusic",
"fatar",
"keyboard",
"mke",
"monome",
"music",
"peaceblaster",
"pke"
] | If you asked [David Phipps] whether he prefers
Monomes
or traditional keyboards, he might ask you “why not have both?” We don’t presume to speak for him, but that’s what we think he’d say based on his
Monome-keyboard combination
, which puts a Monome right in the keyboard’s console, giving the user the best of both wor... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "38315",
"author": "Scott",
"timestamp": "2008-07-11T09:08:19",
"content": "You neglected to mention that he is a member of Sound Tribe Sector 9",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "129820",
"author": "festoolts55",
"timestamp... | 1,760,377,796.839584 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/03/domestic-spying-brought-to-you-by-a-snuggly-bear/ | Domestic Spying Brought To You By A Snuggly Bear | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"animation",
"bear",
"domesticspying",
"flash",
"markfiore",
"security",
"video",
"wiretapping"
] | Mark Fiore’s Snuggly the Security Bear’s latest cartoon explains the
wonders of constitutional compromise
and how it helps
prevent terrorism through domestic spying
.
Related:
Judge: FISA trumps state secrets, binds executive branch
[via
EFF
]
permalink | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "38301",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2008-07-04T02:25:22",
"content": "last i checked hackaday was neither a partisan organization nor a political blog. i guess that’s all changed now. what a disgrace.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"c... | 1,760,377,796.804808 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/03/reusing-pcb-components/ | Reusing PCB Components | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"capacitor",
"capacitors",
"components",
"pcb",
"pliers",
"recycle",
"recycling",
"resistors",
"reuse",
"solder",
"solderingiron",
"vice"
] | If you’re anything like us, you have a closet full of old electronics, some broken, some obsolete. You can stop using those as paperweights with the help of this guide that shows you
how to recycle and reuse PCB components
.
The first step of the process is finding electronics you don’t mind taking apart. Next place th... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "38291",
"author": "Mordanthanus",
"timestamp": "2008-07-04T01:36:54",
"content": "I’ve been doing this since I was 8 years old… there are ALWAYS good parts on old boards. I hope someone doesn’t think this is a new idea, I was 8 over two decades ago…",
"parent_id": null,
"d... | 1,760,377,797.050072 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/02/easiest-rock-band-to-midi-setup-yet/ | Easiest Rock Band To MIDI Setup Yet | Juan Aguilar | [
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"drums",
"drumset",
"junxion",
"midi",
"music",
"nintendo",
"nintendowii",
"rockband",
"rockbandwii",
"wii"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6bQaHuFvLw&hl=en&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999]
We have news for those of you dismissing the new Wii Version of Rock Band. Sure, the lack of DLC is a huge factor, but if you’re looking to
use the instruments with MIDI software
, [Jordan Balagot] has found what may be the... | 19 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "38227",
"author": "alex",
"timestamp": "2008-07-03T01:36:59",
"content": "not to rain on anyone’s parade, but don’t all rockband drum kits use usb? at least the 360 and ps3 ones do, and neither this or the article make any claim as to why the wii has easier drums to convert.",
"... | 1,760,377,797.003833 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/02/age-verification-cameras-easily-fooled/ | Age Verification Cameras Easily Fooled | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"ageverification",
"cigarettes",
"cigarettesmoking",
"japan",
"smoking",
"taspo",
"underage",
"vending",
"vendingmachines"
] | Nice try, Fujitaka. They manufacture cigarette vending machines in Japan, and were all set to roll out a new system of age verification cameras on their machines, which would scan the face of the buyer to look for sagging skin, wrinkles, age spots, and other signs of legal smoking age. The system is easily circumvented... | 18 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "38206",
"author": "alex mccown",
"timestamp": "2008-07-02T21:56:05",
"content": "gr8 now lets show kids how to shoot up",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38207",
"author": "Skyler Orlando",
"timestamp": "2008-07-02T22:13:0... | 1,760,377,797.138083 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/02/another-helping-hand-for-the-work-bench/ | Another Helping Hand For The Work Bench | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"solder",
"workbench"
] | We like clever work bench accessories; especially the kind that make our projects that much easier. [rstraugh] put up his version of the ubiquitous helping hands:
thirdhand++
. The arms are made from modular coolant tubing that’s made for machine tools. With the basic arms in place, he created several attachments – lik... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "38204",
"author": "Alexander",
"timestamp": "2008-07-02T22:32:37",
"content": "I think the proper term for that piping is called “Articulated Hose” and yes. It is primarily used in the milling/lathe shops where coolant needs to be sprayed into the tools as they work to prevent tool ... | 1,760,377,797.087028 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/02/electric-bandages/ | Electric Bandages | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"bandage",
"bandages",
"electricity",
"germs",
"infection",
"infections",
"medgadget",
"medicine",
"wounds"
] | Silverleaf Medical products has created an electric wound dressing that staves off infection by killing microbes in an open wound and preventing other germs from getting in.
They call it the
CMB Antimicrobial Wound Dressing
, and it is made of polyester fabric woven with a proprietary material called Prosit. When the b... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "38202",
"author": "DarkFader",
"timestamp": "2008-07-03T01:58:54",
"content": "… for when you hacked a bit too much",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38203",
"author": "Grenadapult",
"timestamp": "2008-07-07T22:18:35",
... | 1,760,377,797.73657 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/02/roast-marshmallows-with-high-voltage/ | Roast Marshmallows With High Voltage | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"high voltage",
"highvoltage",
"marshmellows",
"mmmmm"
] | The guys (and gals) over at the NYCResistor definitely
know how to have a good time
. They decided to roast some marshmallows with a Jacobs Ladder. Mmmm. There’s nothing like fresh 15,000 volt roasted.
permalink | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "38201",
"author": "alex mccown",
"timestamp": "2008-07-02T18:44:40",
"content": "i wanna try that with my mot bankhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usXTxJP6Z2Y",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,797.425134 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/02/metasploit-on-the-iphone/ | Metasploit On The IPhone | Will O'Brien | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"classic hacks",
"iphone hacks"
] | [
"iphone",
"tools"
] | [muts] went through some trials, but managed to get
metasploit running on his iPhone
. Later he found out that it comes with the
Cyida installer
that he used on his journal to manually install it. Still, it’s interesting to see these tools showing up on the platform.
permalink | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "38195",
"author": "kwijibo",
"timestamp": "2008-07-02T16:51:08",
"content": "metaspliot? check your spelling guys",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38196",
"author": "Brownjl01",
"timestamp": "2008-07-02T17:04:29",
"co... | 1,760,377,797.175273 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/02/25th-chaos-communications-congress/ | 25th Chaos Communications Congress | Eliot | [
"cons"
] | [
"25c3",
"berlin",
"berlingermany",
"ccc",
"chaoscommunicationscongress",
"conference",
"germany",
"hacker",
"hackercon",
"hackerconference"
] | The 25th annual Chaos Communications Congress is happening December 27-30th in Berlin, Germany. They’ve just published their
official call for papers
. Last year’s 24C3 was
incredible
and we’ll take any chance we get to attend an event held by the fine folks in the CCC. We hope to see you there!
[via
BoingBoing
]
perma... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,377,797.209141 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/03/portable-nes-in-an-nes-cartridge/ | Portable NES In An NES Cartridge | Will O'Brien | [
"handhelds hacks",
"Nintendo Game Boy Hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"benheck",
"cartridge",
"gameboy",
"hack",
"nes",
"nintendo",
"nintendones",
"portable"
] | Fresh off the tips line, [Jake] sent in his
portable NES project
. We’ve seen quite a few portables, but we love that the entire thing is built into an old
NES
cartridge. It’s got 99 games and some clever control placement. Three N cells nestled in the former connector slot power the system. You can see more pic over a... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "38282",
"author": "michaelb",
"timestamp": "2008-07-03T23:23:22",
"content": "This is absolutely the most awesome portable I have ever seen. The only thing that would make it better is if cartridges could be played.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{... | 1,760,377,797.464746 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/03/thingamakit-make-your-own-thingamagoop/ | ThingamaKIT: Make Your Own Thingamagoop | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"bleeplabs",
"diy",
"kit",
"lfo",
"modulator",
"oscillators",
"synthesizer",
"thingamagoop",
"thingamakit"
] | Bleep Labs’
Thingamagoop
is a small synthesizer packed with wacky controls for generating unique sounds; you can now
build an expanded version yourself with the ThingamaKit
. Made “because there are not nearly enough beeping, zapping, bixxerfouping, anthropomorphic synthesizer monsters in the world,” it generates sound... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "38279",
"author": "cube",
"timestamp": "2008-07-03T23:59:14",
"content": "-1",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38280",
"author": "Solenoidclock",
"timestamp": "2008-07-04T00:04:30",
"content": "The kits are much more c... | 1,760,377,797.503904 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/03/ardupilot-arduino-based-uav-autopilot/ | Ardupilot: Arduino Based UAV Autopilot | Will O'Brien | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"classic hacks",
"gps hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"gps",
"uav"
] | A short while back, [Chris Anderson] released an
Arduino based autopilot
. It rings in fairly cheap and being open source, you can tweak away. To add more functionality, he’s releasing a
dual core version
. Thanks to the second processor, it no longer requires an external hardware co-pilot. It uses an on-board GPS and ... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "38276",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2008-07-03T15:46:42",
"content": "The projects look great. If I had a plane I would fly…actually I’d let the ArduPilot fly it.I work for TI, so seeing the parts list reference a TI part and saying to ask for Samples is just fantastic. I know ... | 1,760,377,797.702997 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/02/netflix-player-source-code-released/ | Netflix Player Source Code Released | Eliot | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"gpl",
"netflix",
"netflixplayer",
"OpenSource",
"roku",
"rokunetflixplayer",
"sourcecode",
"teardown"
] | The Netflix Player continues to gain in popularity. Roku has finally
released the GPL code
for their Netflix Player. Just today Forbes published that Roku would roll out a software update allowing it to
stream from other online services
. The diminutive device has no internal storage and just enough RAM to buffer the s... | 15 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "38264",
"author": "garrett",
"timestamp": "2008-07-03T05:39:26",
"content": "These will be nice devices to pick up on eBay after Netflix throws in the towel on the whole streaming idea.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38265",
... | 1,760,377,797.662322 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/02/beer-bot-will-pour-you-a-cold-one/ | Beer Bot Will Pour You A Cold One | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"asahi",
"bartender",
"bartending",
"beer",
"robot",
"robots"
] | We love
beer
and we love
robots
, so guessing how we feel about this
robotic bartender
should be a no-brainer. Known as Mr. Asahi, the robot opens bottles and pours beer while taking your orders with aplomb and a jovial British accent. It also has a customized lazy susan with slots for bottles and notches for the robot... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "38259",
"author": "Dsthunder",
"timestamp": "2008-07-03T03:44:55",
"content": "I need one of those, wouldn’t it be better suited for a bar if it were on a track?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38260",
"author": "diy audio p... | 1,760,377,797.614766 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/02/eee-pc-900-touchscreen/ | Eee PC 900 Touchscreen | Juan Aguilar | [
"laptops hacks",
"Netbook Hacks"
] | [
"Asuseeepc",
"eee",
"EeePc",
"eeepc900",
"inputdevice",
"touchscreen",
"umpc"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wVhW6a9i7Y&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999]
Jkkmobile has just posted their
touchscreen hack for an Eee PC 900
, and it looks great. Installation of this kit is pretty easy, just fit the panel to the screen, connect the controller to the USB lines, close it up, ... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "38256",
"author": "Pedro",
"timestamp": "2008-07-03T02:48:27",
"content": "I have a 701 which I just added a touchscreen kit to yesterday. Just wondering how can I get mine to scroll like the one in this video? He flicked the stylus and it kept scrolling like an iphone.",
"paren... | 1,760,377,797.931488 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/02/vu-meter-made-with-an-lm3915/ | VU Meter Made With An LM3915 | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"audio",
"leds",
"lm3915",
"lm3916",
"vu",
"vumeter",
"wiring"
] | So here’s the situation: you have an audio device, maybe a boombox,
perhaps one you built yourself
, but it has no VU meter. No problem;
building a VU meter
is easy with these instructions from [Joe].
You’ll need either an LM3915 or LM3916 chip, a couple of bread boards, two audio jacks, ten LEDs, and a few other compo... | 17 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "38240",
"author": "h_2_o",
"timestamp": "2008-07-03T03:21:18",
"content": "this isn’t a hack or anything, you guys are just linking to instructables now. the 3915 has been known for forever as something simple to use as a vu meter. come on post something worthwhile or close doors ... | 1,760,377,797.786932 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/01/flip-camera-microscope-and-macro-lenses/ | Flip Camera Microscope And Macro Lenses | Juan Aguilar | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"binoculars",
"flip",
"flipcamera",
"lens",
"lenses",
"macrophotography",
"microscope"
] | Flip cameras
are fun and easy to use, but not particularly versatile. If you’ve had poor results at macrophotography with a Flip, you might be interested in
these DIY lenses
. One is macroscopic lens for taking photos and video of small things, and the other is a microscope for even smaller things.
To construct the mac... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "38190",
"author": "john.s948@mint.us.to",
"timestamp": "2008-07-02T07:13:48",
"content": "i approve of this post. will go great with those disposable camcorders.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38191",
"author": "MadEngineer... | 1,760,377,799.762104 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/01/ssd-hard-drives-tank-laptop-battery-life/ | SSD Hard Drives Tank Laptop Battery Life | Juan Aguilar | [
"News"
] | [
"energy",
"energyconsumption",
"energyefficiency",
"harddrive",
"power",
"powerconsumption",
"ssd"
] | Tom’s Hardware has been running some tests to challenge the common assumption that SSD hard drives use power more efficiently than magnetic plate drives. Their results were quite definitive: not only are they not as energy efficient,
SSDs actually use more power than conventional hard drives
.
What they found is that m... | 16 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "38176",
"author": "T-D",
"timestamp": "2008-07-02T05:30:08",
"content": "A very interesting article. I have issues with their writing style (hinting at the conclusion during the introduction makes it sound like they were aiming for the conclusion they got), but it’s a very informati... | 1,760,377,799.634101 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/01/xbox-360-controller-remixed-for-optimized-fps-play/ | Xbox 360 Controller Remixed For Optimized FPS Play | Juan Aguilar | [
"Xbox Hacks"
] | [
"buttons",
"controller",
"controllers",
"xbox360",
"xbox360controller"
] | [F00 f00] of Acidmods was not satisfied with his first-person shooter gaming experience, so he
modded an Xbox 360 controller
so that A, B, X and Y buttons are on the underside of the controller, on the inside edges of the wings where the player’s fingertips usually go. He also moved the right thumbstick up a bit so tha... | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "38168",
"author": "sarsface",
"timestamp": "2008-07-02T05:24:04",
"content": "This is badass, I need this for CoD4.Also, what the hell is the name of the background track?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38169",
"author": "J... | 1,760,377,799.885574 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/01/time-magazines-favorite-robots/ | Time Magazine’s Favorite Robots | Juan Aguilar | [
"News"
] | [
"cute",
"photoessay",
"robot",
"robotics",
"robots",
"timemagazine",
"wall-e"
] | Time Magazine recently posted a
photo essay of some of their favorite robots
. The article was composed in response to the recent release of the Pixar film
Wall-E
, and features some of the cutest, most cuddly automatons in the world. We were more interested in the most functional ones, huggability notwithstanding. See... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "38166",
"author": "tjhow",
"timestamp": "2008-07-02T08:11:17",
"content": "pfff.. My favorite robot is Eva from the movie WALL-E",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38167",
"author": "Tachyon",
"timestamp": "2008-07-02T14:33... | 1,760,377,799.540088 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/01/british-steam-car/ | British Steam Car | Juan Aguilar | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"cars",
"engines",
"steam",
"steampower",
"turbine",
"turbines"
] | The land-speed record for steam-powered locomotion has been holding steady for 88 years at 127mph, but a team of British engineers and stunt drivers will attempt to break it with the
Steam Car
.
The Steam Car works by burning liquid petroleum fuel at 750° F, which heats 10.5 gallons of water, converting into steam. The... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "38158",
"author": "Wolf",
"timestamp": "2008-07-02T02:23:09",
"content": "Hmm, liquid petroleum fuel, sounds exotic. Then again, not nearly as exotic as compressed air hydraulics, which I’m certain are *much* cooler than pneumatics.lol",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"r... | 1,760,377,799.679524 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/01/led-painter/ | LED Painter | Juan Aguilar | [
"LED Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"decoration",
"decorative",
"led",
"light",
"rgbleds",
"rgblights",
"texasinstruments"
] | The people at Brilldea have come up with
LED Painter
, a 16-channel RGB LED controller capable of controlling up to 48 independent LEDs. It uses a Texas Instrument TLC5940 to control the LEDs and can be connected to more LED Painter boards, creating a large array of RGB lights. The TLC5940 itself has been modified to m... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "38150",
"author": "zygomatic",
"timestamp": "2008-07-02T00:54:39",
"content": "You can get samples of the TLC5940 from TI’s website. I picked up a couple tubes of the DIPs myself, not sure if they offer SMT samples, but they’re worth a few bucks a piece otherwise.",
"parent_id"... | 1,760,377,799.841737 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/01/external-cd-rom-turned-class-a-headphone-amp/ | External CD-ROM Turned Class A Headphone Amp | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"audio",
"headphones"
] | [Gio] sent in
this
slick Class A headphone amp. An old CD-ROM case was gutted to hold the goods. The design is fairly simple. Cost can be kept fairly low although the capacitors can add up if you’re a fanatic about quality. If you’ve ever lost any of your headphone gear to sticky fingers, you know that having it blendi... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "38142",
"author": "Liam",
"timestamp": "2008-07-01T15:12:23",
"content": "What a great idea for a project enclosure. I’ll remember this in future.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38143",
"author": "Marcin",
"timestamp": ... | 1,760,377,799.800591 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/10/taser-ammo-for-your-spud-gun/ | Taser Ammo For Your Spud Gun | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"evil",
"potatogun",
"spud gun",
"SpudGun",
"taser"
] | We definitely don’t recommend trying
this
one, but [Tony] sent in this odd twist on the old potato launcher. A pair of physics students put together a Taser like potato sized bullet. On impact, two metal pins are inserted into the target, delivering an electric shock. Depending on the size of the capacitor and amount o... | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "38654",
"author": "Satiagraha",
"timestamp": "2008-07-10T08:53:40",
"content": "That’s ridiculous. 50mA can be lethal only if it’s applied directly across the heart. And also, if you’re going to measure what current the victim is receiving, you can’t just short your cap through an a... | 1,760,377,799.936228 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/09/new-drobo-has-firewire-support-old-model-drops-in-price/ | New Drobo Has Firewire Support, Old Model Drops In Price | Juan Aguilar | [
"News"
] | [
"backup",
"data",
"databackup",
"datastorage",
"drobo",
"firewire",
"firewire800"
] | Data Robotics has released an
updated Drobo
with two Firewire ports and an updated processor, allowing for faster data transfer and daisy chaining multiple Drobos. The new models of this storage and backup device also features a quieter and larger case fan. The case itself has been modified slightly but to great effect... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "38643",
"author": "if you dont like my comment dont read it.",
"timestamp": "2008-07-10T04:07:03",
"content": "OMG what a cool hack as soon as i get home i will break out my soldering gun and start hacking!!!! ( or is that break out my wallet and start spending so that juan gets his... | 1,760,377,799.584013 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/09/xbox-360-and-lcd-hdtv-rolled-into-one/ | Xbox 360 And LCD HDTV Rolled Into One | Juan Aguilar | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Xbox Hacks"
] | [
"360",
"casemod",
"hdtv",
"lcdhdtv",
"lcdtv",
"tv",
"videogames",
"xbox",
"xbox360"
] | What happens when you take a little
[Ben Heck] ingenuity
, a little
Lian Li utility
, an Xbox 360 and an LCD HDTV and mix it all together? You get the Microvision 360, a
combination LCD HDTV and Xbox 360
.
The mod is not particularly complex. The Microvision 360’s creator [PvP_LostKnight] only removed the working parts... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "38635",
"author": "if you dont like my comment dont read it.",
"timestamp": "2008-07-10T04:19:00",
"content": "juan you are right all he did was strip a xbox 360 and mount it on the back of a lcd tv. and i agree with you that’s not a hack!!!you sir are my heroyou bitch and belittle ... | 1,760,377,799.720657 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/09/live-full-motion-video-on-a-peggy/ | Live Full Motion Video On A Peggy | Will O'Brien | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"aquateen",
"arduino",
"emsl",
"evilmadscientistlaboratories",
"leds",
"peggy",
"steve",
"video"
] | [Windell] was stoked enough to send us [Jay]’s sweet hack on [Windell]’s Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
Peggy 2.0 kit
. [Jay] added serial input and hacked quartz composer on his mac to light up all 625 LEDs with
live motion video
. If you were jealous of the
Metalab’s giant LED display
, now you can have your own – s... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "38631",
"author": "tjhow",
"timestamp": "2008-07-10T07:51:14",
"content": "OOOH NICE!!Now all we need to do is get a rgb peggy working with this ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38632",
"author": "J",
"timestamp": "200... | 1,760,377,800.353538 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/09/custom-modular-control-interfaces/ | Custom Modular Control Interfaces | Caleb Kraft | [
"digital audio hacks"
] | [
"buglabs",
"control",
"interface",
"midibox",
"modular",
"monome",
"rapidprototyping",
"stribe"
] | Machinecollective.org is bringing rapid prototyping to every day artists and hackers. We’ve covered similar interfaces like the
monome
,
MIDIbox
, and
Stribe
. Machinecollective allows you to make your own input system using multiple blocks to get exactly what you want. The setup allows you to fit pretty much anything ... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "38630",
"author": "Dale",
"timestamp": "2008-07-10T01:47:45",
"content": "Wow, these things just take all the work (and admittedly some of the fun) right out of building stuff and just leaves you with creating and coding. That’s awesome as it leaves more time for beer!",
"parent... | 1,760,377,800.312203 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/09/pet-photography-and-tracking/ | Pet Photography And Tracking | Juan Aguilar | [
"digital cameras hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"camera",
"cats",
"chdk",
"dogs",
"geotagging",
"gps",
"photography"
] | We’ve seen numerous products geared toward tracking the location and activities of your pets, two in the last month, but we feel sure you can make more functional devices than those you can purchase. Let’s look at a few and consider our options.
A camera called
Pet’s Eye View
hangs from your pet’s collar and takes phot... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "38627",
"author": "miked",
"timestamp": "2008-07-10T08:58:44",
"content": "i was just looking into this yesterday. my cat is jumping from my 2nd story balcony to a tree and then climbing to the roof. i can hear him up there running aroung doing cat things.since it is night time, i d... | 1,760,377,800.278606 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/07/09/intervalometers-and-timelapse-photography/ | Intervalometers And Timelapse Photography | Caleb Kraft | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"camera",
"digitalcamera",
"digitalcamerahacks",
"dslr",
"intervalometer",
"remote",
"servo",
"time-lapse",
"timelapse",
"timer"
] | Time lapse photography can seem out of reach for many of us who don’t have fancy cameras(
or a hacked cannon point and shoot
). We recently covered using a
TI-83 as a timer
, and now we’ve gathered a collection of DIY intervalometers to help you get clicking.
Up first, for those of you who don’t want to dismantle your ... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "38621",
"author": "Mark Hoffmeyer",
"timestamp": "2008-07-09T22:33:50",
"content": "I use gphoto2 and a Bash script to do my time lapse photography. Here is a list of compatible cameras:http://www.gphoto.org/doc/remote/My Nikon D40x has a usb connection that gphoto could communicate... | 1,760,377,800.513318 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/30/3d-glasses-for-an-sgi/ | 3D Glasses For An SGI | Juan Aguilar | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"3d",
"3ddisplay",
"3dglasses",
"geektechnique",
"glasses",
"markie",
"sgi",
"silicongraphics",
"stereoscopy"
] | [Mark Hoekstra] is a true SGI enthusiast, and he proves it with these
3D glasses for an SGI
. Taking advantage of the SGI’s stereo viewport, [Hoekstra] created a controller for a pair of CrystalEyes glasses that would allow them to be used with the SGI.
[Hoekstra] used the schematic from
[M.C.D. Roos]’s similar project... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "38100",
"author": "Alexandre Gauthier",
"timestamp": "2008-06-30T22:48:25",
"content": "I’m glad to see some SGI love, especially from Mark.Also, english isn’t my first language, but isn’t “an SGI” wrong…?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comm... | 1,760,377,800.432253 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/30/the-backyard-ogre-catapult/ | The Backyard Ogre Catapult | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"bungee",
"catapult",
"wood",
"wooden",
"woodworking"
] | Today we’ll be setting aside the circuits and solder for a little while in favor of good old fashioned wood and bungee chords to make this
backyard catapult
. Items needed include nine sections of 2×3 wooden beams of varying lengths, some screws and eye hooks, a bungee chord, a broom handle, and a few other things whic... | 29 | 29 | [
{
"comment_id": "38081",
"author": "Bergo",
"timestamp": "2008-06-30T20:41:14",
"content": "umm, not really a hack. Maybe if you put a wifi remote firing mechanism or something on there, but as it stands it’s just some scrap 2×4’s and a bungee cord…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"repl... | 1,760,377,800.610469 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/30/how-to-build-an-arctic-web-cam/ | How To Build An Arctic Web Cam | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [] | This particular unit has been de-commissioned since 2005, but it’s still interesting. JACARA set up a
webcam on Antarctica
. They used an off the shelf Axis NetEye200 camera, mounted it inside a pair of hemispherical plastic domes along with a small electric heater and thermostat to keep the device from freezing. | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "38077",
"author": "barry99705",
"timestamp": "2008-06-30T16:41:16",
"content": "I had one of those d-stink web cams that look like half a soda can mounted on my roof for a couple years. Built an enclosure out 6″ pvc pipe. Built a poe adapter for it, and mounted it to the tv antenn... | 1,760,377,800.3888 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/29/physical-value-of-sound/ | Physical Value Of Sound | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"dj",
"music",
"sound",
"train",
"turntable",
"turntables",
"vinyl",
"vinylrecords",
"wemakemoneynotart",
"wmmna",
"yurisuzuki"
] | The Royal College of Art in London recently hosted its annual graduate summer show, where postgrad students exhibit some of their artistic and musical projects. Among those featured this year were
several vinyl record and turntable mods by [Yuri Suzuki]
.
One of his projects is called the Finger Player: it is a record ... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "38074",
"author": "36chambers",
"timestamp": "2008-06-30T04:23:35",
"content": "Nice Post-Stuff to check out if you are interested in thisDJ Woody has a routine 3 yrs old utilizing this concepthttp://youtube.com/watch?v=dFdNmx21FdMWalter Kitunu has done some amazing thingshttp://www... | 1,760,377,800.470147 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/29/nintendo-ds-homebrew-music-apps-roundup/ | Nintendo DS Homebrew Music Apps Roundup | Eliot | [
"Nintendo DS Hacks",
"Nintendo Game Boy Hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"ds",
"gameboy",
"homebrew",
"music",
"nintendo",
"nintendods",
"proteinds",
"waxy"
] | The fine folks at remaincalm.org, who brought you the wireless mcu controller
dsmcu
, have put together a list of 24
homebrew music apps for the Nintendo DS
. We’ve mentioned
programs like Protein[DS]
before, but the list has others like this
monome emulator
. If you notice anything they’re missing, let them know and t... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "78871",
"author": "groltz",
"timestamp": "2009-06-23T13:30:46",
"content": "The Nintendo DSi’s a great thing, but Nintendo should bring out more games for it…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,800.547537 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/29/seattle-power-tool-race-derby/ | Seattle Power Tool Race & Derby | Eliot | [
"News"
] | [
"circularsaw",
"dragracing",
"hazardfactory",
"powertool",
"powertooldragracing",
"powertoolrace",
"ptdr",
"seattle",
"seattlepowertoolrace",
"seattlepowertoolraceandderby"
] | Yesterday, the Hazard Factory, an industrial arts studio, hosted the 3rd annual
Seattle Power Tool Race & Derby
. Participants construct a dragster powered by at most two “power tools” to race head to head down a 60 foot plywood channel. The rules are fairly loose and creativity is encouraged just as much as performanc... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "38072",
"author": "jeremy",
"timestamp": "2008-06-30T21:29:27",
"content": "Cedric over at our beloved culture blog has posted a video he shot yesterday of the power tool races.http://blog.culturemob.com/seattle-power-tool-race-derby-2008Music by our our Chadwick Dahlquist, programm... | 1,760,377,800.6488 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/29/twilight-for-zune/ | Twilight For Zune | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"art",
"artinstallation",
"chandelier",
"microsoft",
"moritzwaldemeyer",
"mp3player",
"music",
"waldemeyer",
"zune"
] | [Mortiz Waldermeyer], the man who brought us the
interactive LED pong table
, has recently completed a project commissioned by Microsoft: an
interactive chandelier that can receive and react to music from a Zune
mp3 player. The technology behind this project which [Waldemeyer] calls Twilight is not all that complex: at... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "38065",
"author": "happypinguin",
"timestamp": "2008-06-30T02:15:30",
"content": "/set satiric_mode onI wonder which project from M$ is not revolutionary./set satiric_mode off/me shrugs",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38066",
... | 1,760,377,800.873775 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/29/hack-cameras-with-the-image-fulgurator/ | Hack Cameras With The Image Fulgurator | Will O'Brien | [
"digital cameras hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"funny",
"photography",
"photos"
] | [Wallace] sent in this awesome project built by [Julius Von Bismarck]. The “
Image Fulgurator
” is the result of mating an optical slave flash with a camera body turned projector. The result is the ability to project ghost images onto a picture being taken by anyone using a camera with their flash. Check out the demo v... | 26 | 26 | [
{
"comment_id": "38047",
"author": "MrHappy",
"timestamp": "2008-06-29T20:19:40",
"content": "HUNDREDS OF PEOPLEDIED LAST YEARBY TRYING THIS AT THEU.S. \\ MEXICO BORDER",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38048",
"author": "hannes",
"timesta... | 1,760,377,801.09821 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/29/on-board-focus-confirmation-for-the-canon-digital-rebel/ | On-board Focus Confirmation For The Canon Digital Rebel | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"digital photography",
"DigitalPhotography",
"lens",
"lens hack",
"LensHack"
] | We’ve seen plenty of lens hacks, but [Koray] took things in a
new direction
. Rather than buy lens chips for modding all of his manual lenses, he added a lens chip inside his Digital Rebel 300D (aka
XT
). Most of us might cringe at gutting their Rebel, but he performed this bit of soldering surgery on a unit he picked ... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "38036",
"author": "Alex McCown",
"timestamp": "2008-06-29T15:03:28",
"content": "im a Nikon guy (D40) but he must of had balls of tungsten to open up his rebel :-\\ any who this is a nice hack i had no idea u could add that :-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies":... | 1,760,377,800.921423 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/29/gir-robot/ | GIR Robot | Juan Aguilar | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"gir",
"invaderzim",
"johnenvasquez",
"montanastate",
"robot",
"servos",
"zim"
] | We love hardware modding, robots, and generally all things in the DIY category, but cartoons are pretty awesome too. The hilarious yet sadly short lived Nickelodeon cartoon Invader Zim was a favorite ours, due in no small part to a character called GIR, a little borderline insane robot. Not content with just a cartoon,... | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "38025",
"author": "mml",
"timestamp": "2008-06-29T10:36:02",
"content": "Oh snap, I read that as GIRL robot at first…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38026",
"author": "f00 f00",
"timestamp": "2008-06-29T10:53:04",
"... | 1,760,377,801.013955 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/29/netgear-open-source-router/ | Netgear Open Source Router | Eliot | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"linksys",
"linux",
"netgear",
"router",
"wgr614l",
"wifi",
"wireless",
"wrt",
"wrt54gl"
] | Netgear recently launched the
WGR614L wireless router
targeted specifically at open source firmware enthusiasts. It can use
Tomato
,
DD-WRT
, and soon
OpenWRT
. The core is a 240MHz MIPS processor with 16MB of flash and 4MB of RAM. You’ll probably remember when Linksys decided to dump Linux from their
iconic WRT54G lin... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "38018",
"author": "jan",
"timestamp": "2008-06-29T11:08:06",
"content": "isn’t it more likely 16mb of ram and 4mb of flash?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "38019",
"author": "Scottman",
"timestamp": "2008-06-29T11:18:02"... | 1,760,377,801.206703 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/29/botnet-attack-via-p2p-software/ | Botnet Attack Via P2P Software | Juan Aguilar | [
"News"
] | [
"botnet",
"botnets",
"crime",
"filsharing",
"law",
"limewire",
"p2p",
"p2pnetworks",
"peer2peer",
"prosectution",
"worm",
"worms"
] | P2P networks have long been a legal gray area, used for various spam schemes, illegal filesharing, and lots and lots of adware. Last year, though,
the first botnet created by a worm distributed via P2P software
surfaced, the work of 19-year-old [Jason Michael Milmont] of Cheyenne, Wyoming, who distributed his Nugache W... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "38012",
"author": "Yuffie",
"timestamp": "2008-06-29T09:29:56",
"content": "Not a hack.(ok, hacking jokes notwithstanding, stop posting this crap. it’s a virus distributed over downloads of limewire, not even over p2p networks. a few more of these posts a day and i won’t even be rea... | 1,760,377,801.293393 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/28/progressive-myrate-hackable/ | Progressive MyRate Hackable? | Eliot | [
"Uncategorized"
] | [
"car",
"chip",
"datalogger",
"insurance",
"odb",
"odbii",
"progressive",
"progressiveinsurance"
] | Progressive Insurance announced that it will be
rolling out its MyRate plan nationally
. You participate by plugging a
monitoring device
into the ODB-II port on your vehicle. Once every six months you upload the collected data from every trip you’ve made. You’ll receive at least a 5% discount and maybe more based on yo... | 58 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "37985",
"author": "TheSkorm",
"timestamp": "2008-06-28T16:41:43",
"content": "I don’t exactly know how these debugging ports work in cars, but couldn’t you just emulate driving around casually for a while and use that, having it plugged into your computer, rather than your car. I pr... | 1,760,377,801.387382 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/28/led-serial-debugging-for-cell-phone-hacking/ | LED Serial Debugging For Cell Phone Hacking | Will O'Brien | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"classic hacks"
] | [
"AVR",
"cell phone",
"cellphone",
"debug",
"htc",
"serial",
"windows mobile",
"WindowsMobile"
] | [Barry] needed some way to get serial output to help debug his efforts to port Linux to the HTC TytnII (Windows mobile Pocket PC phone). He wrote some code to send
serial output via one of the LEDs
on the phone and rigged up an AVR to pic up the output and provide a USB interface to the computer. It runs at about 200bp... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "37981",
"author": "BlizzardDemon",
"timestamp": "2008-06-28T17:32:53",
"content": "Cool topic, I think I saw this done to a camera once to dump its firmware via a LED reading USB device. Think it was one of the new cannon’s…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []... | 1,760,377,801.16139 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/28/gps-logging-arduino-shield/ | GPS Logging Arduino Shield | Eliot | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"gps hacks"
] | [
"adafruit",
"arduino",
"arduinoshield",
"gps",
"gpslogger",
"gpsreciever",
"ladyada",
"shield"
] | ladyada continues to produce more and more interesting Arduino shields. This new
GPS logger
plugs into a standard Arduino board and has support for four different
GPS receiver modules
. On the backside of the board is an SD card slot where it stores the coordinates in a text file. The total runtime can vary from five h... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "37976",
"author": "BlizzardDemon",
"timestamp": "2008-06-28T17:06:18",
"content": "Great idea, couldn’t this also be combined with a hacked eye-fi card to become a tracker?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37977",
"author": "... | 1,760,377,801.250481 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/28/bittorrent-admin-convicted-by-federal-jury/ | Bittorrent Admin Convicted By Federal Jury | Eliot | [
"News"
] | [
"bittorrent",
"departmentofjustice",
"doj",
"elitetorrents",
"torrent"
] | [Daniel Dove], administrator of the site EliteTorrents.org, has been convicted of conspiracy and felony copyright infringement. Running a bittorrent tracker isn’t in itself illegal, but [Dove] apparently recruited seeders and distributed the initial illegal copies to them from his own server.
From the press release
, i... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "37973",
"author": "aaron",
"timestamp": "2008-06-28T11:12:09",
"content": "Even though I pay for all of my music and movies by choice, this just comes off as stupid to me.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37974",
"author": "C... | 1,760,377,801.505872 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/28/defcon-16-schedule-finalized/ | Defcon 16 Schedule Finalized | Eliot | [
"cons",
"News"
] | [
"con",
"conference",
"convention",
"defcon",
"defcon16",
"hackercon",
"hackerconference",
"schedule"
] | If you were waiting to finalize you travel plans, now’s the time; Defcon has published the
final speaking schedule
. The conference starts Friday August 8th in Las Vegas, NV and continues through Sunday with four separate speaking tracks. There’s quite a few talks we’re looking forward to: Silicon guru [Christopher Tar... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,377,801.538529 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/27/plants-as-speakers/ | Plants As Speakers | Eliot | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"audio",
"plant",
"sound",
"speaker",
"vibrate"
] | You can make pretty much anything a speaker by vibrating it. Japanese engineer, [Keiji Koga], has been working for many years to perfect his
plant based sound transmission system
. The voice coil is at the bottom of the plant container and transfers sound up the stalk to the leaves. It’s and interesting idea, but we ca... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "37966",
"author": "michaelb",
"timestamp": "2008-06-28T06:44:06",
"content": "voice cool… Is that supposed to be voice coil?pretty cool, I guess.. This would be useful, if the sound quality is high enough.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comm... | 1,760,377,801.580243 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/27/anti-paparazzi-sunglasses/ | Anti-paparazzi Sunglasses | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"anonymity",
"anonymizer",
"infrared",
"paparazzi",
"security",
"sunglasses"
] | UPDATE:
Video can also be found here
.
Ah, the life of the work-a-day hacker: sure, it’s glamorous, but all the paparazzi dogging your every step can get unbearably stressful. Thankfully, you have a recourse with these
anti-paparazzi sunglasses
. They work by mounting two small infrared lights on the front. The wearer ... | 27 | 27 | [
{
"comment_id": "37939",
"author": "Andrew Cooper",
"timestamp": "2008-06-28T03:52:08",
"content": "Works well when up against a video camera with no IR cutoff filter. Many security cameras that are designed to used in low light level and with IR illumination can be defeated this way.Usefulness aga... | 1,760,377,802.018902 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/27/logic-probe-kit/ | Logic Probe Kit | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"diagnostic",
"digitallogic",
"logic",
"logicanalyser",
"logicport",
"logicprobe"
] | Logic probes can be anything from useful to critical depending on the project, but if you don’t have one already, why not try building one? Instructables has a guide to
building a logic probe
using a PCB, an assorted lot of resistors, capacitors, regulators, DIP sockets, a 9V battery clip (and 9V battery), and a hex i... | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "37930",
"author": "Batman",
"timestamp": "2008-06-28T02:28:25",
"content": "simple and effective, but I’d think a bicolor led would cost less than the 7-seg. The 7805 will probably drain the 9v batt in no time and get hot doing it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"repli... | 1,760,377,801.624049 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/27/airpiano-touch-free-ir-piano/ | AirPiano: Touch Free IR Piano | Juan Aguilar | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"airpiano",
"arduino",
"infrared",
"motionsensing",
"motionsensor",
"music",
"piano",
"theremin"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh4Ovsh2DZY&hl=en&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999]
We were excited to learn of
[Omer Yosha]’s AirPiano
, but being the persnickety nerds we are, we think its more like a theremin than a piano. The device lets users play 24 different notes with a wave of the hand over the Ai... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "37925",
"author": "josh",
"timestamp": "2008-06-28T00:57:11",
"content": "“we” like juan",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37926",
"author": "36chambers",
"timestamp": "2008-06-28T02:06:46",
"content": "Cool, seems a l... | 1,760,377,802.113773 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/27/eye-fi-explore-review/ | Eye-Fi Explore Review | Juan Aguilar | [
"digital cameras hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"eye-fi",
"geotagging",
"photography",
"review",
"sdcard",
"wi-fi",
"wifi",
"wps"
] | [flickr video=http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauls/2611298593/]
The WiFi uploading
Eye-Fi
SD card made a big splash when it was first introduced, but now Eye-Fi has a whole line of different products. The top of the line is the Eye-Fi Explore, which
supports geotagging without using a GPS
. Instead of GPS hardware, it us... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "37920",
"author": "t0ny",
"timestamp": "2008-06-28T03:36:44",
"content": "neat, but not really a hack. I wounder if they will release a compact flash version then I would be interested.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37921",
... | 1,760,377,801.958129 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/27/turn-your-old-hard-drive-into-a-sandergrinder/ | Turn Your Old Hard Drive Into A Sander/grinder | Will O'Brien | [
"computer hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"burning",
"recycle",
"sparks"
] | [Jipa] over at MetkuMods put up an
original re-use
for old hard drives: make em into power tools. The tiny servo motor that drives the spindle doesn’t generate much torque, but once the drive is spinning fast enough, the inertial force of the platter is enough to make it usable for small grinding/sanding projects. The ... | 22 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "37899",
"author": "Alexander Gee",
"timestamp": "2008-06-27T23:27:03",
"content": "Come on guys this is stupidly dangerous, there is a good reason that those disks cut at high speed they store massive amounts of potential energy. More than a small calibre bullet in most cases. One o... | 1,760,377,802.070782 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/27/duinostamp/ | DuinoStamp | Juan Aguilar | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"atmega",
"breakoutboard",
"dip",
"duinostamp",
"microcontroller"
] | We think that in honor of the
DuinoStamp’s small size and big power
, the post about it should also be small and powerful. About the size of 34-pin DIP, the DuinoStamp is a breakout board that fits in DIP sockets and is Arduino compatible. It features an ATmega 168-20PU chip, a 16MHz resonator, decoupling capacitors an... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "37895",
"author": "Tachyon",
"timestamp": "2008-06-27T23:30:11",
"content": "Wtf, how’d I get to generichackeraimedproductaday.com?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37896",
"author": "garrett",
"timestamp": "2008-06-28T00... | 1,760,377,802.315531 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/27/wii-fit-balance-board-controls-robot/ | Wii Fit Balance Board Controls Robot | Juan Aguilar | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"balanceboard",
"controller",
"controllers",
"controls",
"python",
"robot",
"robots",
"skybot",
"wiifit",
"wiifitbalanceboard"
] | More
Wii Fit Balance Board hacks
keep rolling in from Europe. We’re not sure we agree with [Juan Gonzales]’s assertion that the
Wii Fit Balance board is the best way to control robots
, but we can’t deny how fun it looks. [Gonzales] managed to control a robot of his own design with the balance board, making it turn whe... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "37893",
"author": "sarsface",
"timestamp": "2008-06-27T23:21:22",
"content": "Haha, what does he say at the end?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37894",
"author": "Juan",
"timestamp": "2008-06-27T23:34:20",
"content"... | 1,760,377,802.356763 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/27/pc-interfaced-snes-sound-processor/ | PC Interfaced SNES Sound Processor | Will O'Brien | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [] | [Silverpill] sent in this interesting Super Nintendo mod. [Raph]
interfaced
a SNES audio processing unit to his parallel port using a logic gate and a few resistors. The project looks like it probably died off, but the goal was to use a APU to play authentic audio from emulated games. Schematics and code to get the thi... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "37890",
"author": "Stone",
"timestamp": "2008-06-27T22:24:14",
"content": "Wow, there’s a blast from the past – I built one of these 5 years ago from the same diagram! Worked perfectly with Caitsith’s program so I never fiddled around with it too much.It’s an awesome project, but if... | 1,760,377,802.148705 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/27/mega-underwater-diy-video-housing/ | Mega Underwater DIY Video Housing | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"freakin huge",
"FreakinHuge",
"scuba",
"underwater",
"video"
] | This fantastically huge housing was put together by [Ed Sauer]. He put it together using TIG welded 6061 aluminum for the body and machined the port mount out of 7075 aluminum. The lens port is a commercial unit from a housing manufacturer along with a few manual controls. He wrote up the build in
this pdf
.
permalink | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "37887",
"author": "adam",
"timestamp": "2008-06-27T15:55:47",
"content": "i approve of this post.how the hell does he get this thing on a plane to his nearest dive site? just can’t seem to picture the live-aboard staff handing *this* camera down to him after he’s jumped in…",
"... | 1,760,377,802.187306 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/27/the-great-internet-migratory-box-of-electronics-junk/ | The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"box",
"electronics",
"emsl",
"junk",
"swapmeet",
"tgimboej"
] | UPDATE:
EMSL has
four more boxes ready to go
. If you are in the silicon valley area, pick one up.
The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk
is essentially a virtual swap meet. A mysterious USPS flatrate box arrives on your door step filled to the brim with random electronics. You remove some pieces that you... | 16 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "37874",
"author": "Aarond",
"timestamp": "2008-06-27T12:26:46",
"content": "I have been meaning to set upa few new geocaches around where I live. I might designate one just for electrical junk. It’ll give m the oppertunity to have a bit of a clearout.",
"parent_id": null,
"d... | 1,760,377,802.238136 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/24/streaming-netflix-to-the-xbox-360/ | Streaming Netflix To The Xbox 360 | Eliot | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"lifehacker",
"mediacenter",
"netflix",
"vista",
"vmcnetflix",
"watchinstantly"
] | We were just as excited as anyone when we heard about Roku’s Linux based Netflix Player, but not being ones to spend money on hardware, even $99, we’d much rather use something that’s laying around that’s not living up to its full potential. Lifehacker has a guide for
using vmcNetflix to stream Watch Instantly movies t... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "37656",
"author": "miked",
"timestamp": "2008-06-25T01:24:47",
"content": "i approve of this post",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37657",
"author": "Carlton",
"timestamp": "2008-06-25T04:25:05",
"content": "Netflix i... | 1,760,377,802.274486 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/24/open-source-symbian/ | Open Source Symbian | Eliot | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"News"
] | [
"nokia",
"OpenSource",
"ostatic",
"s60",
"symbian",
"symbianfoundation"
] | Nokia recently announced its
plans to purchase Symbian
and formed the
Symbian Foundation
with the intention opening the software platform over the next two years. Symbian is already present on 60% of all cellphones in the world. With such a massive install base, open source Symbian has a much better chance of taking of... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "37650",
"author": "mace",
"timestamp": "2008-06-24T23:46:49",
"content": "YES!I hope this takes off, I hate having to sign apps on my n73, and nowadays you really can’t sign anything properly anymore, and opensigned doesn’t always work.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"... | 1,760,377,802.527047 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/24/make-a-universal-macbook-air-superdrive/ | Make A Universal Macbook Air Superdrive | Will O'Brien | [
"laptops hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"apple",
"burn baby",
"BurnBaby",
"dvd",
"macbook",
"media"
] | For $99, Apple will happily sell you a slick USB superdrive (aka DVD burner) that only works with the MacBook Air. [tnkgrl]
swapped out the USB-IDE interface
with a generic $9 unit to make it work with everything else. The generic board required a few mods: relocating the crystal oscillator along with the amputation of... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "37642",
"author": "miked",
"timestamp": "2008-06-24T20:11:08",
"content": "i approve of this post",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37643",
"author": "Abbott",
"timestamp": "2008-06-24T21:44:32",
"content": "oi, troll,... | 1,760,377,802.694459 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/24/tesla-coil-tuner/ | Tesla Coil Tuner | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"555",
"ac",
"tesla"
] | Here’s one more use for the insanely handy LM555 chips. [Terry] put together a
Tesla coil tuner
around one. The 555 is used to generate a range of frequencies while a simple double LED arrangement indicates the presence of an output spike from a coil due to the resonance.
permalink | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "37637",
"author": "miked",
"timestamp": "2008-06-24T18:39:19",
"content": "i approve of this post.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37638",
"author": "freyyr890",
"timestamp": "2008-06-24T20:35:56",
"content": "I appr... | 1,760,377,802.63413 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/24/always-on-usb-charge-port/ | Always On USB Charge Port | Eliot | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"alwayson",
"cerberus",
"charge",
"charging",
"folding@home",
"teamhackaday",
"usb"
] | This simple and clever guide to
installing an always on USB port
comes from the
Team Hack-a-Day
forums (originally created for the
team’s Folding@home efforts
). [Cerberus] added a USB port to his computer case that always has power, even when the computer is off. The power comes from the +5VDC standby line in the mot... | 15 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "37622",
"author": "Jax184",
"timestamp": "2008-06-24T13:02:18",
"content": "On some modern motherboards the USB ports remain powered even when the computer is turned off. My Asus P5W DH Deluxe does this.This means I need to not only shut down my computer but also switch it off at th... | 1,760,377,802.853408 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/24/laser-surveillance-defeater/ | Laser Surveillance Defeater | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"gizmodo",
"laser",
"laserlistener",
"lasersurveillance",
"piezo",
"surveillance"
] | Imagine our chagrin when we first laid eyes on this “
laser surveillance defeater
.” It’s supposedly built to the security requirements of federal agencies. We don’t believe most government issue devices have exposed circuit boards or 9V batteries dangling from them. Laser surveillance works by bouncing the beam off of... | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "37609",
"author": "Alex",
"timestamp": "2008-06-24T12:53:13",
"content": "that whole thing is $5 worth of parts including the pcb.someone who made the diy laser system should test to see which frequency is best at jamming it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [... | 1,760,377,802.738025 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/24/pwnie-awards-2008-nominations-open/ | Pwnie Awards 2008, Nominations Open | Eliot | [
"cons"
] | [
"0wn",
"award",
"blackhat",
"conference",
"pwnie",
"pwnieawards"
] | Nominations for the
2008 Pwnie Awards
have opened. The annual event, in its second year, is accepting nominations in nine categories ranging from Mass 0wnage to Best Song. The awards will be presented at the
Black Hat
in Las Vegas in August. Linux.com
covered last year’s awards ceremony
.
[photo:
GNUCITIZEN
]
[via
trai... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "37608",
"author": "miked",
"timestamp": "2008-06-24T18:51:22",
"content": "i approve of this postkind of off track, but it is relate to a hack conference. and eliot posted it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,802.807924 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/26/oink-uploaders-bail-extended/ | OiNK Uploaders’ Bail Extended | Juan Aguilar | [
"News"
] | [
"alanellis",
"arrests",
"britishpolice",
"filesharing",
"music",
"oink",
"p2p",
"recordingindustry",
"torrents"
] | The six people
arrested by British authorities for uploading files to the OiNK torrent network
, all out on bail, have had
the period of their bail extended
. Charged with conspiracy to defraud the music industry, the woman and five men as well as OiNK operator [Alan Ellis] have been ordered to report to the police on ... | 20 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "37854",
"author": "thomas",
"timestamp": "2008-06-27T08:02:33",
"content": "Hey… how is this a hack? I’ve noticed more “news” stories here…. keep it true to the name and just post hacks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37855",
... | 1,760,377,802.9856 |
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