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https://hackaday.com/2008/06/16/nokia-color-lcd-flickr-frame/ | Nokia Color LCD Flickr Frame | Eliot | [
"Cellphone Hacks"
] | [
"6100",
"colorlcd",
"flickr",
"lcd",
"nokia",
"nokia6100",
"python",
"serial",
"sparkfun"
] | Tinkerlog got their hands on a
color LCD from SparkFun
and set it up to
receive images from Flickr
. These color LCDs are 128×128 pixel and the include a breakout board with a separate power supply for the backlight. Communication is via a three wire SPI bus plus a reset line. [Alex] used an ATmega48 for control, which... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "37021",
"author": "Matt D",
"timestamp": "2008-06-18T01:00:59",
"content": "Here is the 3.3v switching regulator I just ordered. It comes in 3.3v 5v and adjustable. Disclaimer I have nothing to do with this company except as a parts source.http://www.trossenrobotics.com/store/p/516... | 1,760,377,815.039926 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/16/laser-insect-photography-rig/ | Laser Insect Photography Rig | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"gps",
"insect",
"laser",
"macro",
"photo",
"photography"
] | [Marc] sent in this awesome insect photography rig. The camera is manually pre-focused and set for a 30 second exposure at ISO100. The aluminum cylinder in front of the lens is an external shutter mounted with a custom turned lens adapter. It’s used because the built in shutter is too slow for insect capture. The camer... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "37014",
"author": "Dave Van den Eynde",
"timestamp": "2008-06-16T16:22:39",
"content": "This is one of our most respected members on our photography forum. You really should check out his site and the results he gets with this rig. It’s simply awesome.Dave",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,377,815.305945 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/15/laser-based-night-light/ | Laser Based Night Light | Eliot | [
"LED Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"laser",
"led",
"lightbulb",
"nightlight",
"parafin",
"wax"
] | [the4est] put together this quick how to for making a
laser based light bulb night light
. First, you need to break out the black glass base of the bulb and remove the filament. Scrub the inside of the bulb and pour in the paraffin. Once it sets, you can break the glass, leaving a solid wax bulb. Hollow out the inside,... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "37009",
"author": "confuted",
"timestamp": "2008-06-16T05:26:23",
"content": "Why not just use an LED?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37010",
"author": "Pilotgeek",
"timestamp": "2008-06-16T06:23:56",
"content": "An... | 1,760,377,815.14806 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/15/game-boy-foot-controller-demo/ | Game Boy Foot Controller Demo | Eliot | [
"Nintendo Game Boy Hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"8bit",
"chiptune",
"fuzz",
"gameboy",
"getlofi",
"music",
"nanoloop",
"nintendo"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQdqudTzyBs&hl=en&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999]
This is a
video
of [Joey Mariano] from animal style demoing his
Game Boy pedal board
. He added a D15 port to the back of the Game Boy, which is wired to each of the 8 buttons. The port is connected to a breakout box for 8 ... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "37007",
"author": "Dragonsdoom",
"timestamp": "2008-06-16T05:34:21",
"content": "Woah, awesome unique sound. Makes me want to drop everything and learn to do that.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37008",
"author": "Pragma",
... | 1,760,377,815.343291 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/15/pegboard-cable-organizer/ | Pegboard Cable Organizer | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"cable",
"desk",
"integrateddesk",
"organize",
"pegboard"
] | In our
integrated desk
post, we mentioned using pegboards and zip ties to organize cables. Lifehacker has a collection of
pictures from their readers
that are using this solution. We especially love [Steve Price]’s
fliptop solution
pictured above. It may not look too attractive, but we’d do pretty much anything to avoi... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "37004",
"author": "steve price",
"timestamp": "2008-06-16T08:16:51",
"content": "Sweet I just noticed my desk here as well cool.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37005",
"author": "Ken",
"timestamp": "2008-06-17T06:05:14"... | 1,760,377,815.184005 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/15/asus-wl500gp-audio-hack/ | Asus WL500GP Audio Hack | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"Asus",
"asuswl500",
"linux",
"mpd",
"openwrt",
"soundcard",
"usb",
"via",
"wl500",
"wl500gp",
"wymypy"
] | The Asus WL500GP wireless router runs Linux and has two USB ports. [equinoxfr] wanted to install audio support
internally to the router
though (
translated
). Luckily, it uses a VIA VT6212
4port USB controller
. So, he was able to wire two more internal ports. A Brando USB soundcard is plugged into one of those ports a... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "37001",
"author": "Chillout",
"timestamp": "2008-06-16T02:26:36",
"content": "wow this is cool, using Kismet with sound on this thing would be even cooler :-)I simply love this router! ;-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37002",... | 1,760,377,815.26048 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/15/syringe-logic-probe-revision-2/ | Syringe Logic Probe, Revision 2 | Eliot | [
"LED Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"led",
"logic",
"logicprobe",
"needle",
"syringe",
"travisgoodspeed"
] | [Travis Goodspeed] has
updated his syringe based logic probe
that
we covered earlier
. Instead of soldering to the outside, he’s using silver wire shoved into the core of the needle. A nice side benefit is the safety cap now fits. Inside the syringe are two LEDs that indicate current direction. The sharp needle makes i... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "36997",
"author": "Ali Raheem",
"timestamp": "2008-06-15T22:53:35",
"content": "For want of anything particularly technical to say…That’s a leur lok’ing syringe :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36998",
"author": "djpszczol... | 1,760,377,815.380849 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/15/single-side-arduino-ish-beta-board/ | Single Side Arduino-ish Beta Board | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"atmega",
"Atmel",
"microcontroller",
"uc"
] | Via [
ladyada
], [Raijuu] combined some ideas from [Ladyada]’s
boarduino
and [evilmadscientists]
Atmel business card
created
his own single sided (for easy etching) project board for ATMega8/128 projects
. You can tell that the design is an expression of frustration from past projects; We can definitely appreciate feat... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "36995",
"author": "Lucas",
"timestamp": "2008-06-15T14:32:43",
"content": "I don’t think the board works for ATmega128 as it is stated in your news (at least I read it that way).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36996",
"auth... | 1,760,377,815.109367 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/14/solar-engine/ | Solar Engine | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"beam",
"beambot",
"ladyada",
"make",
"pummer",
"solar",
"solarcell",
"solarengine"
] | We spotted [Kerrin Mansfield]’s
lovely solar engine
on
ladyada’s rantings
. It uses 16 1/8th inch solar cells to collect power. At night, an orange LED pulses at .2Hz. He doesn’t have a specific write up on the construction, but from the component layout, it looks identical to [Gareth Branwyn]’s schematic in Make 08, w... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "36990",
"author": "Solenoidclock",
"timestamp": "2008-06-15T05:55:05",
"content": "Dang Elliot, you’re a beast with the hacks today.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36991",
"author": "martin",
"timestamp": "2008-06-15T10... | 1,760,377,815.226221 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/14/robogames-2008-photos-and-videos/ | RoboGames 2008 Photos And Videos | Eliot | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"laughingsquid",
"robogames",
"robogames2008",
"robot",
"scottbeale"
] | Laughing Squid’s [
Scott Beale
] is attending
RoboGames 2008
. Check out the
great pictures and videos he took
on Flickr.
permalink | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,377,815.075209 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/14/detecting-isp-throttling/ | Detecting ISP Throttling | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"bittorrent",
"eff",
"google",
"isp",
"netneutrality",
"networkneutrality",
"nnma",
"nnsquad",
"rtt",
"throttling",
"torrent",
"tunnel",
"wireshark"
] | ISPs have recently become very aggressive towards their customers. They’ve been blocking or altering traffic to prevent you from using specific programs or protocols. Google’s Senior Policy Director recently stated that they’re developing tools to allow people to
detect ISP interference
. A couple other groups have bee... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "36983",
"author": "RT (Panzer Time!)",
"timestamp": "2008-06-15T02:54:24",
"content": "Finally someone big on the side of the “little guy.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36984",
"author": "BigBalls",
"timestamp": "2008... | 1,760,377,815.825317 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/13/wearable-haptic-devices-bestow-sixth-senses/ | Wearable Haptic Devices Bestow Sixth Senses | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"bodymodification",
"compass",
"haptic",
"hapticfeedback",
"haptics",
"implant",
"magnet",
"magnets",
"sixthsense",
"tactile",
"tactiledisplay",
"vibrator"
] | Engadget recently posted
a story about a flexible tactile display
that can be wrapped around any part of the body and give haptic feedback to the user. The research team from Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University that developed the device are focusing on applications like Braille for the visually impaired or transmitting tac... | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "36949",
"author": "Joe",
"timestamp": "2008-06-14T04:25:01",
"content": "Just as a small note on the implants. Last time I checked most of the people with them had to get them removed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36950",
... | 1,760,377,815.978286 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/13/wii-fit-world-of-warcraft/ | Wii Fit World Of Warcraft | Juan Aguilar | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"balanceboard",
"dfki",
"fit",
"googleearth",
"nintendo",
"nintendowii",
"SecondLife",
"wii",
"wiifit",
"wiifitbalanceboard",
"worldofwarcraft"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucEV7N0N9Pw&hl=en]
By now you’ve probably seen the video of two researchers from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
navigating through maps on Google Earth by using the Wii Fit Balance Board
. They’ve gone even further now by using the board to
navigate... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "36941",
"author": "c.k.",
"timestamp": "2008-06-14T00:50:44",
"content": "this + silver surfer game = awesome",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36942",
"author": "dax",
"timestamp": "2008-06-14T01:17:14",
"content": "h... | 1,760,377,816.135401 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/13/3-wire-lcd-display/ | 3 Wire LCD Display | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"hd44780",
"hef4094",
"lcd",
"shiftregister",
"wiring",
"youritronics"
] | Normally driving an LCD requires seven connections to pins on the display, but by using a shift register, [Phillip Warner] at Arduino Playground was able to
drive an LCD using only 3 wires
. The method is cheaper than a serial LCD, but you’ll mainly save yourself a lot of effort and time by using it.
[Warner] used a HE... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "36936",
"author": "Pokey",
"timestamp": "2008-06-14T00:57:57",
"content": "Actually this is better than using a serial LCD backpack since it has a synchronous clock. You can bit bang this as slowly and irregularly as you’d like, and don’t need to waste a UART.",
"parent_id": nu... | 1,760,377,816.29056 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/13/water-runner-robot/ | Water Runner Robot | Juan Aguilar | [
"News",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"biomimetic",
"biomimickry",
"CarnegieMellon",
"cmu",
"nanorobotics",
"NanoroboticsLab",
"robot",
"video",
"waalbot",
"water",
"waterrunner"
] | Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s NanoRobotics Lab have developed
a robot that is capable of running on the surface of a pool of water
. Like their wall climbing
Waalbot
, the Water Runner was inspired by the abilities of a lizard, in this case, the basilisk. The team studied the motions of the basilisk and f... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "36932",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T22:55:25",
"content": "OK, when I can get one of these in the “Pool Toys” section at toys r us?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36933",
"author": "Dean",
"timestamp": "... | 1,760,377,816.250785 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/13/speed-testing-the-latest-web-browsers/ | Speed Testing The Latest Web Browsers | Eliot | [
"computer hacks",
"firefox hacks"
] | [
"browser",
"firefox",
"iexplorer",
"lifehacker",
"opera",
"safari",
"vista",
"webbrowser"
] | With the
imminent release of Firefox 3
and
Opera 9.5 being finalized this week
, Lifehacker decided it was a
good time to run the browsers head to head
to see which was the fastest and least resource intensive. The testing system was a 2GHz 2GB Vista machine. The timing system used wasn’t directly hooked to the browser... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "36923",
"author": "samuel",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T22:12:02",
"content": "ok, I was alright with hack-a-day getting away from the ‘daily’ part, but this isn’t even a hack! I do like this content, but not here! submit it to slashdot and keep hack-a-day free of this kind of stuff.",... | 1,760,377,815.928742 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/13/magnetically-actuated-microbots/ | Magnetically Actuated Microbots | Eliot | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"CarnegieMellon",
"cmu",
"microbot",
"nanobot",
"nanosoccer",
"robot"
] | The Carnegie Mellon NanoRobotics Lab
uses external magnetic fields to precisely control their nanosoccer players
. The micro robots are just 300×300 micron specs of neodymium-iron-boron permanent magnets that have been laser machined. The working volume is surrounded by five electromagnetic coils. Four coils are used f... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "36915",
"author": "barry99705",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T20:58:08",
"content": "I wouldn’t really call that a robot. It’s more like a little bitty magnet being moved by other magnets. Kinda like I used to do on the kitchen table, just smaller.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth":... | 1,760,377,816.018616 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/13/lamp-on-ubuntu/ | LAMP On Ubuntu | Eliot | [
"News"
] | [
"apache",
"lamp",
"mysql",
"php",
"ubuntu",
"webdev",
"webdevelopment"
] | Download Squad’s [Kristin Shoemaker] has just published part 2 of their guide to web development using Linux. This time around they’re
installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Ubuntu Hardy Heron
. It’s a straight forward process under Ubuntu since you just need to select the few packages in Synaptic. Once installed, she sh... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "36907",
"author": "carlsonmark",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T20:27:01",
"content": "If you are looking for the old hack-a-day style, consider changing your bookmark to:http://www.hackaday.com/category/daily/Or for the rss feed:http://www.hackaday.com/category/daily/rss.xmlAs for myself... | 1,760,377,815.885389 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/14/psp-l2r2-button-mod/ | PSP L2/R2 Button Mod | Eliot | [
"Playstation Hacks",
"PSP Hacks"
] | [
"button",
"controller",
"engadget",
"hack",
"playstation",
"ps1",
"psp",
"psx",
"sony",
"switch"
] | This is quickly becoming an unintentional “game controller Saturday”. We haven’t been covering the PSP much lately, so this is a treat. AcidMods forum member [Electro] put together a quick guide for
adding two missing shoulder buttons to the PSP
. The L2 and R2 buttons are used while playing Playstation 1 games and are... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "138692",
"author": "sony portable",
"timestamp": "2010-04-28T15:10:24",
"content": "I have a video game problem. I admit it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,816.088264 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/14/x2wii-nessnesn64-to-wii-adapter/ | X2Wii, NES/SNES/N64 To Wii Adapter | Eliot | [
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"controller",
"gamecube",
"multiuse",
"n64",
"nes",
"nintendo",
"nintendowii",
"snes",
"wii",
"x2wii"
] | If you poke around [
Raphaël]’s site, the creator of
today’s featured hack
, you’ll find a lot of interesting projects. X2Wii is an ongoing project to
adapt controllers from earlier console generations
so they work with the Wii’s GameCube ports. He adapted his
Multiuse tiny1
which uses an ATmega8. The code is all assem... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "36980",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2008-06-16T17:20:53",
"content": "Does the GC port work with all VC titles? I mean, it would suck to do all that work to hook up e.g. an SNES controller, then be stuck without support in your favorite SNES games…",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,377,816.055506 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/14/universal-joystick-usb-interface/ | Universal Joystick USB Interface | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"atmega8",
"Atmel",
"games",
"hid",
"Joystick",
"usb"
] | Building on his
USB NES pad interface
, [
Raphaël] released a
universal USB joystick interface
. It presents a HID device with four directional buttons and eight general purpose buttons. The board uses an ATmega8 and implements USB entirely in software.
permalink | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "36977",
"author": "veysel",
"timestamp": "2008-06-14T17:06:51",
"content": "osman_eminem msn si hackaday veysel tarafından el konulmuÅtur",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36978",
"author": "Miles",
"timestamp": "2008-06... | 1,760,377,816.510605 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/14/exploit-me-firefox-xss-and-sql-scanning-addon/ | Exploit-Me Firefox XSS And SQL Scanning Addon | Eliot | [
"cons",
"firefox hacks"
] | [
"addon",
"crosssitescripting",
"dansinclair",
"extension",
"firefox",
"layerone",
"layerone2008",
"security",
"securitycompass",
"sql",
"sqlinjection",
"xss"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbL2ptbjoSA&hl=en&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999]
One of the best tools we saw at
LayerOne
was the
Exploit-Me series
presented by [Dan Sinclair]. Security Compass created these tools to help developers easily identify cross site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection vulnerabil... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "36972",
"author": "~SB",
"timestamp": "2008-06-14T13:54:48",
"content": "are these safe,i mean no malicious activity in the background…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36973",
"author": "Nick Fury",
"timestamp": "2008-06... | 1,760,377,816.743146 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/13/ultraportable-laser-graffiti/ | Ultraportable Laser Graffiti? | Eliot | [
"Cellphone Hacks"
] | [
"grl",
"lasertagging",
"n95",
"nokia",
"nokian95",
"nuevex"
] | [Sittiphol Phanvilai]’s
multitouch screen project
was posted a couple different places today. It uses the Nokia N95 to track light pens and draws the resulting paths on the video output. We immediately saw the applications for this in
laser tagging
. Right now if you want to do laser tagging you need to haul a laptop w... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "36967",
"author": "rasz",
"timestamp": "2008-06-14T17:09:16",
"content": "this is stupid, ordinary light pen would work 100 times better, you get raster information for free and you dont need-camera-to keep the hand out of view",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies":... | 1,760,377,816.788847 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/13/multiband-nixie-vu-meter/ | Multiband Nixie VU Meter | Eliot | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"music",
"nixie",
"nixietube",
"nixietubes",
"tubes",
"vu",
"vumeter"
] | This
VU meter project by [Daniel Naito]
is a great piece of Russian electrocouture. It’s made up of 14 Nixie tubes that display seven frequency bands for the two audio channels. He found
this similar project
, but wanted to keep the cost low by avoiding such exotic ICs. First, the two input channels are amplified and t... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "36963",
"author": "mav",
"timestamp": "2008-06-14T05:37:18",
"content": "repost! and this is getting really lame.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36964",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2008-06-14T05:38:22",
"conte... | 1,760,377,816.547364 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/13/upcb-makes-your-arcade-stick-universal/ | UPCB Makes Your Arcade Stick Universal | Juan Aguilar | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"arcade",
"arcadestick",
"console",
"game",
"games",
"microcontroller",
"picmicrocontroller",
"soldering",
"streetfighter",
"upcb",
"videogame",
"xbox360",
"xbox360controller"
] | The
Universal PCB project
lets you make any controller (specifically arcade sticks) console agnostic. A PIC microcontroller is used to translate between the button presses and the signals for the specific console you’re connected to. It uses a DB15 for the external plug. The PIC knows which console you’re plugged into ... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,377,817.08243 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/19/em-brace-for-sensing-magnetic-fields/ | EM Brace For Sensing Magnetic Fields | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"antenna",
"antennas",
"electromagneticfields",
"electromagnetism",
"elf",
"embrace",
"hertzianspace",
"sensory",
"sixthsense",
"vlf"
] | We’ve discussed the notion of
using machines to add or improve sensory input to the body
before, and we’ve found another project with the same idea. [Nick Hasty] has developed an object he calls the EM Brace, which allows the user to
sense electromagnetic fields
with a wave of the hand.
The device works by connecting t... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "37321",
"author": "zandi",
"timestamp": "2008-06-20T07:40:49",
"content": "i think i remember a surgical procedure that did something similar to this. a tiny magnet was placed in the tip of one of your fingers (such as the ring finger) and it would vibrate or move in some other fash... | 1,760,377,817.171401 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/19/eavesdropping-encrypted-compressed-voice/ | Eavesdropping Encrypted Compressed Voice | Juan Aguilar | [
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"compression",
"eavesdrop",
"eavesdropping",
"encryption",
"johnshopkins",
"johnshopkinsuniversity",
"packets",
"skype",
"variablebitrate",
"vbr",
"voip"
] | A team from Johns Hopkins University has discovered
a way to eavesdrop on encrypted voice streams
. Voice data like the kind used by Skype for its VoIP service sends encrypted packets of varying sizes for different sounds. The team learned that by simply measureing the size of the packets, they could determine what was... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "37320",
"author": "miked",
"timestamp": "2008-06-20T19:05:18",
"content": "i approve of this post",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,816.850491 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/19/3-digit-frequency-meter/ | 3-digit Frequency Meter | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"cooling",
"flow",
"flowsensor",
"frequencymeter",
"lcd",
"liquidcooled",
"liquidcooling",
"rpm",
"squarewave",
"turbokeu"
] | Flow sensors are useful tools for collecting data on the rate of liquid usage, but they need a device to display the data they collect.
This three digit frequency meter
was designed by [Turbokeu] to do just that, converting a Swissflow SF800 flow sensor’s square wave signal (similar to fan RPM signals) into an numerica... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "37315",
"author": "dane",
"timestamp": "2008-06-20T02:48:38",
"content": "end of paragraph 1: Fan RPM is…..otherwise, good to see some pure logic hackery",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37316",
"author": "...",
"timestam... | 1,760,377,817.046183 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/19/sparkfuns-logic-level-converter/ | SparkFun’s Logic Level Converter | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks",
"News"
] | [
"converter",
"fairchild",
"fairchildsemiconductor",
"level",
"logic",
"mosfet",
"sparkfun",
"ttl"
] | SparkFun has always been good about designing and stocking useful breakout boards. This recently added
Logic Level Converter
is no exception. It’s uses two
BSS138
MOSFETs to shift 5V logic levels to 3.3V. The board handles two separate serial pairs. Just hook up the RX and TX on either side. Provide power at both volta... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "37309",
"author": "Brian",
"timestamp": "2008-06-20T02:52:19",
"content": "pardon the stupid question, but will this effectively replace a max232 chip for serial data?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37310",
"author": "digid... | 1,760,377,816.921172 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/19/opensuse-110-reviewed/ | OpenSUSE 11.0 Reviewed | Juan Aguilar | [
"News"
] | [
"downloadsquad",
"linux",
"linuxdistro",
"opensuse",
"opensuse11",
"review",
"suse",
"zypper"
] | Download squad has posted
a thorough review of OpenSUSE 11.0
. Previous versions of the Linux distro were plagued by thorny and confusing installations, but
OpenSUSE 11.0
installs much more easily and cleanly. After a few standard configuration screens, the user has several options for admin accounts, disk partitions, ... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "37302",
"author": "Dale",
"timestamp": "2008-06-20T01:51:32",
"content": "I actually bought SuSE 7.2 and 8.0 Pro back when Futureshop (Canadian Best Buy) used to sell it. I really liked the distro back then, but had such a hard time with RPM hell that I eventually moved to Gentoo a... | 1,760,377,817.214692 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/19/the-last-hope-full-speaker-list-released/ | The Last HOPE Full Speaker List Released | Eliot | [
"cons"
] | [
"con",
"conference",
"security",
"speaker",
"thelasthope"
] | The Last HOPE has just released a
list of all the schedule talks
at the conference. 97 different talks will be divided over three tracks during the course of the three day conference. It looks like a lot of interesting events will be going down. The
Cold Boot encryption attack
tools will be released. Representatives fr... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,377,817.126218 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/19/wii-menu-33-already-circumvented/ | Wii Menu 3.3 Already Circumvented | Juan Aguilar | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"hackmii",
"nintendo",
"nintendowii",
"twilighthack",
"twilighthackwii",
"twilightprincess",
"wii"
] | Well, that didn’t take long. Three days after the release of the Wii Menu 3.3 update (which prevents homebrew loading on the Wii by
killing a special hack
),
the update has been circumvented
. The update targeted the ubiquitous
Twilight Hack
, which allows homebrew software to be loaded from the Wii’s SD card slot by u... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "37299",
"author": "MCWHAMMER",
"timestamp": "2008-06-20T04:43:54",
"content": "Why not capitalize words? Bad experience with your English teacher or something?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37300",
"author": "Andrew",
... | 1,760,377,817.273142 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/11/camera-lightning-capture/ | Camera Lightning Capture | Eliot | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"30d",
"canon",
"canon30d",
"dslr",
"lightning",
"photo",
"photography",
"trigger"
] | The people at [Hobby Robotics] decided to build a
trigger circuit for lightning photography
. There are
more complex ways
to do this, but they just used a photo transistor and an Arduino. The Arduino watches the photo transistor’s value and compares it to the previously captured one. If the difference is above a certai... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "36778",
"author": "Hal Hockersmith",
"timestamp": "2008-06-12T08:41:32",
"content": "Yes Yes. a proper hardware hack. Elliot good to have you back.Man where was this a year ago. There were a bunch of us lonely retards sitting on a dock in Florida trying to capture lightning manually... | 1,760,377,817.314464 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/11/robogames-2008-this-weekend/ | RoboGames 2008 This Weekend | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"battlebot",
"combat",
"combatrobot",
"io9",
"robogames",
"robot"
] | The fifth annual
RoboGames
is happening this weekend in San Francisco. RoboGames is a broad reaching competition designed to bring together specialists in all areas of robotics. Last year’s event had 800 entries in 62 different events. The biggest audience draw is definitely the combat robots shown in the video above, ... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "36773",
"author": "TheKhakinator",
"timestamp": "2008-06-12T05:23:29",
"content": "I think it was one of the other competitions, but I saw a combat robots series where the teams were allowed to surrender. This was RIDICULOUS. Now I know that such projects take an immense amount of t... | 1,760,377,817.501661 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/11/web-based-bittorrent-support/ | Web Based Bittorrent Support | Juan Aguilar | [
"iphone hacks",
"News"
] | [
"bittorrent",
"iphone",
"mininova",
"playstation3",
"ps3",
"torrentfreak",
"torrentrelay",
"torrents"
] | We recently came across a new bittorrent service called
Torrent Relay
that features an innovative yet simple function: it allows you to
download torrents to web-enabled devices
like the PlayStation 3 and iPhone. Torrent Relay works by having the user surf to their site using the web-enabled device and upload a local co... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "36761",
"author": "jonouk",
"timestamp": "2008-06-12T03:12:39",
"content": "oh dear. Here we go again.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36762",
"author": "dj1298",
"timestamp": "2008-06-12T03:38:09",
"content": "no ha... | 1,760,377,817.544453 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/11/hubless-inline-skateboard/ | Hubless Inline Skateboard | Juan Aguilar | [
"News",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"360",
"bushpig",
"personaltransportation",
"personaltransporters",
"segway",
"wheels"
] | We’ve been talking a lot about
alternate modes of transportation
lately. The
360 inline skateboard
immediately caught our eye for its simplicity and hubless wheel design. The usage seems fairly straightforward, but the videos posted by designer [Francesco Sommacal] don’t make it look exceptionally fun; more like they’r... | 16 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "36747",
"author": "Anonymous",
"timestamp": "2008-06-12T03:33:07",
"content": "Juan Aguilar, i think we have made it clear in responses to previous posts that we don’t want HaD to become another engadger/gizmodo/news portal please stop it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,377,817.45682 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/11/hexapod-cnc-bot/ | Hexapod CNC Bot | Eliot | [
"cnc hacks",
"Uncategorized"
] | [] | With all the 8 legged beasts
lumbering about
and
hosting sausage fests
, it’s nice to see the robots with 6 legs actually being productive. [Matt Denton]’s
hexapod robot CNC router
is quite an impressive piece of machinery. The
B.F. Hexapod
was built using Hitech’s HSR-5995TG which are much higher torque than similar s... | 15 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "36733",
"author": "garrett",
"timestamp": "2008-06-12T01:50:11",
"content": "Fantastic…I can imagine very large CNC artwork being done by a swarm of these bots. They could even drill locator holes into the surface and have expanding fasteners on their feet to temporarily bolt to a s... | 1,760,377,817.664786 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/11/data-recovery-tools/ | Data Recovery Tools | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"datarecovery",
"deleted",
"filerecovery",
"forensics",
"harddrive",
"lifehacker",
"recovery"
] | In your zeal to
delete your data
, you may have accidentally deleted files that you wanted to keep.
Lifehacker has posted this handy list of data recovery tools
to help you get those files back.
As you may know, whenever you delete a file, the only thing that changes is the file system. The data of the deleted file is ... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "36724",
"author": "tiuk",
"timestamp": "2008-06-12T00:56:02",
"content": "hack?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36725",
"author": "mr.propre",
"timestamp": "2008-06-12T01:36:46",
"content": "I keep it @ TestDisk.http... | 1,760,377,817.938326 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/11/guitar-hero-actuator/ | Guitar Hero Actuator | Eliot | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"autoguitarhero",
"controller",
"guitar",
"guitarhero",
"make",
"solenoid"
] | Another day, another EE that refuses to play Guitar Hero properly. [Julian Bleecker] went into the design of this
Guitar Hero actuator
not really knowing how to size solenoids properly. Luckily, trial and error can get you a long way. The first solenoids he purchased couldn’t apply enough force. The second was overkill... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "36719",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2008-06-11T23:18:37",
"content": "So are we going to have guitar hero tournaments with humans versus robots? just like the old chess tournaments with humans versus computers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{... | 1,760,377,817.704172 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/17/hacking-sleep-part-deux/ | Hacking Sleep Part Deux | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"chronotypes",
"napping",
"polyphasic",
"polyphasicsleep",
"sleep"
] | The Boston Globe recently posted
some tips to help you get the most from your naps
. The information comes in the form of a chart with numerous facts about naps, including the timeline of events in a typical nap, information about chronotypes, and ideas on how to fall asleep quickly and stay asleep. Since
our post on p... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "37134",
"author": "jeremiah",
"timestamp": "2008-06-18T01:17:53",
"content": "if only narcolepsy weren’t a problem for me. REM sleep in 3 minutes. Which means all naps produce a crap ton of sleep inertia. Naps for narcoleptics are the enemy, unless you’re trying to get fired or d... | 1,760,377,818.148222 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/17/iphone-used-to-control-squad-of-uavs/ | IPhone Used To Control Squad Of UAVs | Juan Aguilar | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"iphone hacks"
] | [
"c3uv",
"googlemaps",
"iphone",
"remotecontrol",
"uav",
"unmannedaerialvehicle"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRcld5aAN2E&hl=en]
Building UAVs
is only half the work involved in making them fly; the other half is a control system. The Center for Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles (C3UV) from the University of Califorina, Berkeley has devised a way to
control a squad of RC airplane... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "37127",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2008-06-17T22:38:45",
"content": "Side note: Google Maps also forbids use in connection with autonomous vehicles of any kind.http://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.html",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"... | 1,760,377,817.976952 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/17/boxee-social-media-center-public-alpha/ | Boxee Social Media Center Public Alpha | Eliot | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"alpha",
"apple",
"boxee",
"frontrow",
"hometheater",
"hometheaterpc",
"leopard",
"mediacenter",
"osxbmc",
"xbmc"
] | Boxee
is the latest piece of software to enter the home theater PC space. It’s recently become available as a public alpha. The first build is only for OSX 10.5, but Ubuntu is coming. Built on the
XBMC
code base-they even hosted the
XBMC developer con
last weekend-it has the same goal of letting you navigate and watch/... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "37123",
"author": "Brian",
"timestamp": "2008-06-17T20:45:11",
"content": "Where do I solder?Does it use a 555 timer, or will it let my friends know how much reality tv I watch some other way?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "371... | 1,760,377,817.820751 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/17/servo-focus-and-aim-your-telescope/ | Servo Focus And Aim Your Telescope | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [] | The idea of using servos to aim a telescope isn’t new, but [John]’s
build
looks so much like a prop from
Johnny Mnemomic
that we can’t resist posting it. The goal isn’t so much remote control as it is usability. He added a webcam and a pair of servos to help him fine focus and adjust the elevation of the scope to minim... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "37113",
"author": "chris",
"timestamp": "2008-06-17T17:47:14",
"content": "Was this made by someone living in the poorest area of India? It’s the biggest piece of crap telescope I’ve ever seen.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "37... | 1,760,377,818.096624 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/17/get-firefox-3-early/ | Get Firefox 3 Early | Eliot | [
"firefox hacks",
"News"
] | [
"download",
"downloadday",
"firefox",
"firefox3",
"guinness",
"guinnessbookofworldrecords",
"mozilla",
"mozillafirefox",
"webbrowser"
] | It’s five hours till the official release of Firefox 3. We know your hands are sweating in anticipation, waiting to click that download link and contribute to
the greatest World Record known to man
… What? You don’t want your browser to have all the
notoriety afforded to fat twins
? Well then, let’s just go grab the fi... | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "37099",
"author": "Andy",
"timestamp": "2008-06-17T15:29:33",
"content": "Wow, this is a great version. Still has the Firefox charm, but kinda, kicked up a notch! It does load pages faster than previous versions. Very nice.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
... | 1,760,377,818.047949 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/17/la-siggraph-maker-night/ | LA SIGGRAPH Maker Night | Eliot | [
"cons"
] | [
"boinbboing",
"broncotable",
"circuitbending",
"circuitbent",
"make",
"makernight",
"markfrauenfelder",
"siggraph",
"univac"
] | We coaxed our friends at
Mahalo Daily
into coming along with us to LA SIGGRAPH’s Maker Night. There were a handful of interesting projects there. [Univac] was showing a circuit bent Teletubby and his
CellularRecombomat
. [Brett Doar] brought his
Bronco Table
. Tired of engineers building items that made life easier, he... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,377,818.280983 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/17/wii-upgrade-breaks-twilight-hack/ | Wii Upgrade Breaks Twilight Hack | Eliot | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"firmware",
"homebrew",
"nintendo",
"nintendowii",
"twilighthack",
"upgrade",
"wii"
] | Nintendo’s latest menu upgrade for the Wii, version 3.3, has broken the long standing
Twilight Hack
. In the past, you could load a hacked Twilight Princess save game to execute arbitrary code. After the upgrade,
the Wii now deletes the hacked save game
. The
Homebrew Channel
seems to have remained intact. So, if you’v... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "37093",
"author": "The Jake",
"timestamp": "2008-06-17T13:51:58",
"content": "A very small article for a very big news update. Fails to mention that this update bricks some wiis running the homebrew channel (very small chance), and that this update also deletes illegitimate virtual ... | 1,760,377,818.199052 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/12/the-best-of-2600/ | The Best Of 2600 | Eliot | [
"cons",
"News"
] | [
"2600",
"bestof2600",
"emmanuelgoldstein",
"hacking",
"hope",
"phonephreaking",
"phonephreaks",
"redbox"
] | 2600 editor [Emmanuel Goldstein], has decided to publish
The Best of 2600
. It features some of the best essays on lockpicking, phone phreaking, social engineering, and other topics that the hacker quarterly had to offer.
Founded in 1984, 2600 was one of the major catalysts that got the modern hacker scene going. They ... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "36835",
"author": "fentanyl3",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T02:07:19",
"content": "Juan Aguilar, you have done it for me, even after dozens of complaints, you continue to post bull to the site, which has prompted me to edit my igoogle page, and henceforth removing hack-a-day from it, I ... | 1,760,377,818.241482 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/12/malware-alters-dns-data-on-routers/ | Malware Alters DNS Data On Routers | Juan Aguilar | [
"News"
] | [
"dankaminsky",
"default",
"defaultpassword",
"dns",
"dnsattack",
"dnschanger",
"dnsrebinding",
"router",
"trojan",
"trojanhorse",
"zlob"
] | The Zlob trojan, also known as DNSChanger, has been around for a few years, but
recent Zlob variants
to appear in the wild attempt to log into routers using a list of default admin/password combos. If they succeed, they alter the DNS records on the router to reroute traffic through the attacker’s server.
Our friend [Da... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "36829",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2008-06-12T23:18:04",
"content": "What about *detection*? How do we know if our router has been compromised?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36830",
"author": "monster",
"timesta... | 1,760,377,818.319621 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/12/stabilized-video-collages/ | Stabilized Video Collages | Eliot | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"collage",
"flickr",
"stabilized",
"video",
"waxy",
"zapruder"
] | This is some beautiful work. The clip features
multiple video streams stabilized
and then assembled into a whole. First, [ibftp] used the “Stabilize” feature in
Motion 3
(part of Apple’s Final Cut Studio 2) to remove the camera shake from the clips. Then he was able to blend the videos with “fusion” set to “multiplicat... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "36826",
"author": "Viaken",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T00:38:59",
"content": "I’m sure there’s a way you could throw the frames at something like autopano(-sift) and get the lens distortion removed, but I kinda dig the effect.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []... | 1,760,377,818.569956 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/12/led-lightbar-controller/ | LED Lightbar Controller | Juan Aguilar | [
"LED Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"controller",
"led",
"lightbar",
"lightstrip",
"lm386amp",
"opamp",
"sparkfun"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihIaNN9UBY&hl=en]
[Adam Grieg] recently posted this video of his
LED lightbar controller at work making a strip of LEDs flash
to the beat of his music. The controller does it by picking up the music via an electret microphone, then amplifying it with an LM386 Amp. The ATtiny13 m... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "36825",
"author": "Urza",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T07:50:48",
"content": "Radiohead used something like this at a recent concert outside Washington DC. Problem is, the things weren’t synced to the music right. Not sure if it was delay from routing through the computers and everythin... | 1,760,377,818.878589 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/12/how-to-make-an-rgb-combination-door-lock-part-1/ | How-To: Make An RGB Combination Door Lock (Part 1) | Adam Harris | [
"classic hacks",
"Featured",
"home hacks",
"how-to",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"door",
"entry",
"feature",
"howto",
"keypad",
"project",
"rgb",
"security"
] | Part 2 can be found here
Putting a custom designed electronic lock on your space seems like a geek right of passage. For our latest workspace, we decided to skip the boring numbered keypad and build a custom RGB backlit keypad powered by an Arduino. Instead of typing in numbers, your password is a unique set of colors.... | 70 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "36801",
"author": "brad",
"timestamp": "2008-06-12T18:43:58",
"content": "regarding the keypad, are the button colors randomized after each key press? How hard would that be to do? The code would be the same everytime, but the combination of buttons pressed would be different. Wo... | 1,760,377,820.763717 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/12/accelerometer-mouse-from-scratch/ | Accelerometer Mouse From Scratch | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"bluetooth",
"diy",
"engineering",
"india"
] | [Mahavir] sent in
his group’s final project
for the College of Engineering in Pune (
it’s over here
). They built an accelerometer based Bluetooth mouse. They ended up creating a mouse that maps rotational movements to x/y motion. From the video movement, it strikes us as responding the same way that touch pointer mice... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "36796",
"author": "jonouk",
"timestamp": "2008-06-12T16:14:58",
"content": "That’s their final year group project? Wow, and i thought mine lacked technicality.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36797",
"author": "alx",
"ti... | 1,760,377,820.604945 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/11/eagle-5-overview/ | Eagle 5 Overview | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"cadsoft",
"cadsofteagle",
"diylife",
"eagle",
"eagle3d",
"ianlesnet",
"layout",
"pcb"
] | Not sure how we missed this when it was originally published, but our friend
[Ian Lesnet] at DIY Life posted an overview
of Cadsoft’s new release
Eagle 5
. This upgrade seems to be all usability tweaks-it really took 5 versions before you could right click? They also made CTRL+Z undo. Really.
Eagle3D
works nearly the s... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "36784",
"author": "alex",
"timestamp": "2008-06-12T06:54:27",
"content": "I’ve tried many different EDA packages–almost all of the ones on the market, although I haven’t had much time with several. My personal favorite is Altium Designer DXP.Pros:* Does almost all aspects of the ele... | 1,760,377,820.856075 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/13/nokia-1100-lcd-pic-controller-interface/ | Nokia 1100 LCD PIC Controller Interface | Will O'Brien | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"classic hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"1100",
"diy",
"lcd",
"mictrocontroller",
"nokia",
"nokia1100",
"pic"
] | Nokia LCDs have been a popular choice for hardware projects for quite a while. [Ramandeep] published a how-to on
interfacing the 1100 series LCD with a PIC controller
. The 1100 features easily soldered contacts and a backlight, making it an good choice for adding an LCD to your project.
permalink | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "36902",
"author": "twistedsymphony",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T16:28:44",
"content": "That’s pretty sweet…Though I would LOVE to see a hack on how to interface a Composite video signal to a PIC or ATMEL… I have a whole pile of PSX and portable DVD screens with nothing good to do with... | 1,760,377,820.506227 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/13/making-music-with-the-eee-pc/ | Making Music With The Eee PC | Eliot | [
"Netbook Hacks",
"Portable Audio Hacks"
] | [
"Asus",
"asuseee",
"Asuseeepc",
"cdm",
"createdigitalmusic",
"eee",
"EeePc",
"supercollider"
] | Create Digital Music has been watching the Asus Eee PC closely. The laptop’s portable nature and low price-cheaper than a turntable-have made them desirable to both producers and performers.
CDM has collected links
to many people that are figuring out how to leverage the lightweight rig. [Dan Stowell] put together a
tu... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "36895",
"author": "sarsface",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T08:41:49",
"content": "I personally use my EeePC for recording and live MIDI processing/monitoring, and any more exposure to it’s capabilities is great. One thing I would like to see is some sort of serial MIDI controller built ... | 1,760,377,820.554694 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/12/efix-boots-leopard-retail-dvds-on-generic-hardware/ | EFiX Boots Leopard Retail DVDs On Generic Hardware | Eliot | [
"computer hacks",
"Mac Hacks"
] | [
"efix",
"leopard",
"mac",
"OsX",
"osx86",
"pc",
"psystar"
] | On June 23rd, EFiX is planning on releasing a USB dongle that will
let any PC boot and install OSX
from a retail DVD. The commercial device is supposed to take care of all patching and other woes OSX86 enthusiasts have had to deal with. Very little information is provided other than a statement that the development pro... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "36888",
"author": "Firefox",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T12:07:41",
"content": "I’d love to try that on my laptop!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36889",
"author": "Roboarmy",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T16:36:29",
"conte... | 1,760,377,820.806262 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/12/singing-tesla-coils/ | Singing Tesla Coils | Eliot | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"arcattack",
"edward",
"music",
"sound",
"tesla",
"teslacoil",
"video"
] | The video above is
ArcAttack!
playing the classic “
Popcorn
” through their signature Tesla coils. Solid state Tesla coils (SSTC) can generate sound using what
[Ed Ward] calls pulse repetition frequency (PRF) modulation
. The heat generated by the plasma flame causes rapid expansion of the surrounding air and a resulti... | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "36877",
"author": "thegimpster",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T05:55:50",
"content": "I can’t wait till the Blue Man Group get ahold of one of these. Much better than the PVC organ",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36878",
"author"... | 1,760,377,821.043852 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/12/name-that-ware-2/ | Name That Ware | Juan Aguilar | [
"contests"
] | [
"bunnie",
"bunniestudios",
"contest",
"contests",
"namethatware",
"pcb"
] | Guessing games are fun, especially when unnamed hardware and prizes are involved. [bunnie] holds a
Name that Ware
contest on his blog once a month; he posts an image of hardware components like the PCB above (which is May’s mystery ware) and asks visitors to try to guess the machine it came from or at least its functio... | 22 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "36855",
"author": "not a hack",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T05:05:26",
"content": "NOT A HACK",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36856",
"author": "alex mccown",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T05:16:45",
"content": "man why dont... | 1,760,377,821.098553 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/12/drawing-images-on-a-character-display/ | Drawing Images On A Character Display | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"bitmap",
"bitmaps",
"deanhall",
"hitachhd44780",
"lcd",
"monkeeproject"
] | [Dean Hall] doesn’t seem to know his Simpsons characters very well, but that didn’t stop him from coming up with
this method for displaying a bitmap on an LCD character display
with a Hitachi HD44780 chip.
[Hall] used an LCD with two 16 character rows and 8×5 pixels in each character. He displayed the image over 2×3 ch... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "36848",
"author": "dax",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T03:22:42",
"content": "good use of existing technology being used for its predetermined use.I don’t quite agree with rasterizing to paper — personally, I’m much better off with zooming in MS Paint, using the pencil and showing a grid... | 1,760,377,820.649667 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/12/covert-iphone-moleskine-case/ | Covert IPhone Moleskine Case | Eliot | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"iphone hacks"
] | [
"book",
"case",
"corydoctorow",
"covert",
"hidden",
"hiddencompartment",
"iphone",
"iphonecase",
"littlebrother",
"moleskine",
"notebook",
"secret"
] | Crafting isn’t really our thing, but just last week we were planning on doing this project. Thanks to the how-to singularity: the longer we wait, the more likely someone else will do our dirty work. The instructions are this:
Cut a hole in a book.
Stick your phone in that book.
Let her open the book.
Wired’s write up
h... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "36842",
"author": "EdZ",
"timestamp": "2008-06-13T02:57:11",
"content": "The newly arriving 3g iPhone will probably produce a wake of cast off ‘old’ iphones, many without the 2.0 firmware upgrade (the REAL reason there’s an upgrade prior to the new phone’s launch) and ready for jail... | 1,760,377,820.897627 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/11/drive-slagging/ | Drive Slagging | Juan Aguilar | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"destroy",
"destroyed",
"destruction",
"drive",
"erase",
"harddrive"
] | Maybe you
wiped your iPhone by filling the hard drive with music
, or maybe you used
a more sophisticated method
. In either case, your phone is clean, but the hard drive in your computer is still chock full of evidence of your misdeeds (or just personal emails to your mother). If you fear forensic analysis will expose... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "36707",
"author": "Hal Hockersmith",
"timestamp": "2008-06-11T17:14:41",
"content": "In the olden days we just used thermite. Not as fun but hella fast.Oh and jaun: good try at redeeming yourself. The post is good (i’ll let this one slide) but it not up to the old hardware hacks. Tr... | 1,760,377,821.335899 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/11/synaptics-trackpad-swap/ | Synaptics Trackpad Swap | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"computer hacks",
"laptops hacks"
] | [] | Some people are really picky about their trackpads. [John] posted a guide on
retrofitting a Synaptics pad
in place of the newer, but less user friendly ALPS touchpad/stick combo used in the Dell Inspiron 8200. On the opposite end, [C. Järnåker],
loves laptop keyboards
enough to mod them for use on his desktop machine.
... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "36702",
"author": "Pall.e",
"timestamp": "2008-06-11T20:18:20",
"content": "Well I guess I know what I am doing with my old keyboard from my digital picture frame. Anyone got any ideas on how to use a synaptic mouse on a desktop? Could I just turn it into a serial mouse or ps/2 mou... | 1,760,377,821.143734 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/11/perceptual-chronograph/ | Perceptual Chronograph | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"attiny",
"chronograph",
"display",
"ladyada",
"limor",
"video"
] | All praise to [
Limor
] for uncovering this incredibly odd project. [magician]’s
perceptual chronograph
is designed to test whether time “slows down” in stressful situations. The device flashes a random number on the display very quickly so that it is impossible to perceive what is actually being displayed. If you can ... | 22 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "36681",
"author": "Roy van Rijn",
"timestamp": "2008-06-11T09:38:30",
"content": "I’ve seen the video before, and its a very cool experiment. The problem is, what to do with it…!Next time we are running out of time on the planning we hang people with laptops on bungee-ropes?",
"... | 1,760,377,821.433297 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/10/william-gibson-interviewed-by-io9/ | William Gibson Interviewed By Io9 | Eliot | [
"News"
] | [
"book",
"cyberspace",
"interview",
"io9",
"neuromancer",
"sciencefiction",
"scifi",
"williamgibson"
] | Like many of you, growing up
Neuromancer
played a pivotal role in how we thought about the future and where “cyberspace” was going. Things have turned out very different. Although the underlying mass of data and consciousness is still there, it’s not the fully immersed 3D world some are still clinging to. [William Gibs... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "36673",
"author": "Bp",
"timestamp": "2008-06-11T04:46:07",
"content": "not hackaday worthy",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36674",
"author": "gm",
"timestamp": "2008-06-11T05:22:06",
"content": "@1I disagree.",
... | 1,760,377,821.47791 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/10/wiping-an-iphone-more-thoroughly/ | Wiping An IPhone (more Thoroughly) | Juan Aguilar | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"iphone hacks",
"News"
] | [
"apple",
"erase",
"iphone",
"iphone3g",
"jailbreak",
"jailbroken",
"nand",
"umount",
"wipe"
] | You may be hoping to subsidize the purchase of an iPhone 3G with the sale of your old one, but since you should wipe all your personal data from the old one first, we brought you
[Rich Mogull]’s method for wiping all your private data off of an iPhone
. The method, which involves overwriting your data with music, is sl... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "36667",
"author": "fuzion",
"timestamp": "2008-06-11T03:13:44",
"content": "“hack a day serves up a fresh hack each day, every day from around the web and a special how-to hack each week.”please remember this next time you’re digging through engadget (or digg) for something to copy ... | 1,760,377,821.52422 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/10/linux-web-development-tools/ | Linux Web Development Tools | Juan Aguilar | [
"News"
] | [
"bluefish",
"cms",
"lamp",
"linux",
"linux-switch",
"openlaszlo",
"quanta",
"webhost"
] | Download Squad has been publishing an informative series on switching to Linux, and their latest article is about
the benefits of web tools on Linux
.
HTML editors like
Bluefish
and
Quanta
do not have all the features of Dreamweaver, but with many modern CMSes these features aren’t really necessary.
Other benefits incl... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "36656",
"author": "Anonymous",
"timestamp": "2008-06-11T02:20:25",
"content": "This is copypasta from my other post, because it applies here as well.This is NOT engadget, and this is NOT gizmodo.stop posting this non-hackeryhack-a-day means one hack per day, and has for the longest ... | 1,760,377,821.765908 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/10/location-aware-task-tracking/ | Location Aware Task Tracking | Eliot | [
"gps hacks",
"iphone hacks"
] | [
"43folders",
"brightkite",
"dodgeball",
"geocaching",
"georss",
"gps",
"iphone",
"merlinmann",
"omnifocus",
"twitter"
] | With the iPhone finally getting legitimate GPS we’re bound to see more widespread use of location based apps. Services like
Dodgeball
,
Brightkite
, and a few
Twitter clients
have been around, but failed to tightly integrate with the hosting phone. Now we’re seeing applications that reach beyond just “finding your frie... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "36654",
"author": "David Banham",
"timestamp": "2008-06-11T04:24:05",
"content": "There are a few similar applications that won grants under the Android competition. Should only be a few more months before they’re available on hardware.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"... | 1,760,377,821.374198 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/10/wifi-telescope/ | WiFi Telescope | Eliot | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"antenna",
"fon",
"municipalwifi",
"spain",
"telescope",
"wefi",
"wemakemoneynotart",
"whisher",
"wifi",
"wmmna",
"yagi"
] | We Make Money Not Art recently visited the
LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre
in Gijón, Spain. The installation that left the strongest impression on [Regine] was the
WiFi sightseeing telescope
built by Clara Boj and Diego Diaz. Spain is in a situation similar to the USA: A few years ago many municipal WiFi pro... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "36648",
"author": "Geoff",
"timestamp": "2008-06-11T00:38:05",
"content": "That is not a Yagi antenna.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36649",
"author": "otis",
"timestamp": "2008-06-11T00:58:16",
"content": "It is a... | 1,760,377,821.566036 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/10/bbtv-playing-the-building/ | BBtv: Playing The Building | Eliot | [
"News"
] | [
"bbtv",
"boingboing",
"boingboingtv",
"davidbyrne",
"playingthebuilding",
"solenoid",
"video",
"xeni",
"xenijardin"
] | Today’s episode of BoingBoing TV
visits [
David Byrne
]’s Playing the Building installation
which we covered before
. The video provides some insight into the artistic process: they wandered around and whacked things with mallets to see what sounded good. They use counterweighted motors to vibrate cast iron girders and... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "36644",
"author": "killasmurf",
"timestamp": "2008-06-11T01:15:39",
"content": "wtf is this sh|t?OK connected some motors…..Made some noise….But what about music???Where’s the music???You make some sort of fancy piano and no music. It’s weird to me…",
"parent_id": null,
"dep... | 1,760,377,821.876371 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/10/new-vs-old-iphone-apps/ | New Vs. Old IPhone Apps | Juan Aguilar | [
"iphone hacks",
"News"
] | [
"apple",
"iphone",
"iphone3g",
"iphoneapplications",
"iphoneapps",
"iphonesdk",
"iphonesimfree"
] | You’ve probably never heard of this obscure new device called the
iPhone 3G
from no-name manufacturer Apple, but we decided to give a rundown of some of its newest apps anyway. We’ll be comparing them to non-SDK third-party apps that only work on jailbroken iPhones.
The iPhone 3G announcement at WWDC 2008 brought good ... | 16 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "36629",
"author": "Zibri",
"timestamp": "2008-06-10T21:05:50",
"content": "Keep your iPhones.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36630",
"author": "sean",
"timestamp": "2008-06-10T22:05:20",
"content": "This is not a ha... | 1,760,377,821.828354 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/10/diy-hid-ballast/ | DIY HID Ballast | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"biking",
"diy",
"electronics",
"hid"
] | HID lights have a major power consumption and lumen output advantage over halogen lights. Unfortunately the ballast component isn’t very cheap. [brian]’s been
building his own ballasts
for his mountain bike. We couldn’t find any more info on his design, but we did find some interesting stuff. This document lays out
the... | 16 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "36616",
"author": "dane",
"timestamp": "2008-06-10T14:30:28",
"content": "hey all,where are some good places to buy HID bulbs, aside from ebay? ive been using a 150W cfl for a mini projector and it doesnt have the hudspah that a smaller HID would-Dane",
"parent_id": null,
"d... | 1,760,377,821.68153 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/09/hackit-what-to-do-with-a-1st-gen-iphone/ | Hackit: What To Do With A 1st Gen IPhone? | Eliot | [
"HackIt",
"iphone hacks"
] | [
"3g",
"apple",
"HackIt",
"iphone",
"iphone3g",
"nes",
"voip",
"wifi"
] | There’s a new
iPhone 3G
coming out in July. If that statement shocks you, you might want to check your connection. We love new shiny hardware, but what we’re really interested in is the number of “old” iPhones that are going to be hitting the market. Many people will be ditching their 1st generation iPhones just to get... | 34 | 34 | [
{
"comment_id": "36584",
"author": "Ed",
"timestamp": "2008-06-10T04:45:51",
"content": "I really don’t know what I will do. The low price point would make the first gen iphone a really nice wifi device, which i could use because my current mobiles lack that feature, and iPod Touch prices will stil... | 1,760,377,821.949168 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/09/steven-lauries-art-of-the-motor/ | Steven Laurie’s Art Of The Motor | Juan Aguilar | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"burningrubber",
"engine",
"engines",
"motor",
"motorart",
"motors",
"skidmarks",
"stevenlaurie"
] | We’ve served up dozens if not hundreds of machines with a practical purpose, but we are always interested in machines like those [Steven Laurie] makes, which serve no other purpose than looking impressive, spewing smoke, leaving tire marks, and making a lot of racket. We’ll give you the scoop on Steve’s motor art after... | 31 | 31 | [
{
"comment_id": "36555",
"author": "Eric",
"timestamp": "2008-06-10T04:31:41",
"content": "It’s cool in its own way but honestly, its the most useless thing I’ve seen today. Actually, a motor on a stand is kinda just that to me, a motor…on a stand.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"repl... | 1,760,377,822.035798 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/09/rfid-reader-denial-of-service/ | RFID Reader Denial Of Service | fabienneserriere | [
"cons",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"denial of service",
"denialofservice",
"dos",
"rfid",
"rfid reader",
"RfidReader"
] | While in Vancouver, Canada for
CanSecWest
we had a chance to catch up with [Marc]. He showed off a very simple Denial-of-Service attack that works for most commercial RFID reader systems. He worked out this physical DoS with [Adam Laurie], whose
RFID work
we
featured
last year. | 17 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "36540",
"author": "happy gilmore",
"timestamp": "2008-06-10T02:57:08",
"content": "that’s a hack? not really. he’s taped a non-valid a rfid key to a reader. wow. NEXT!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36541",
"author": "D... | 1,760,377,822.360578 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/07/dns-spoofing-with-ettercap/ | DNS Spoofing With Ettercap | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"dns",
"ettercap",
"irongeek",
"router",
"switch"
] | [IronGeek] has published his latest video how-to:
DNS Spoofing with Ettercap
.
Ettercap
is designed specifically to perform man in the middle attacks on your local network. It can do ARP poisoning, collect passwords, fingerprint OSes, and content filtering. For DNS spoofing, you just need to edit a config file that def... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "36430",
"author": "Hello1024",
"timestamp": "2008-06-08T03:46:58",
"content": "Videos seem broken :(I only see “This video presentation is sponsored by…” forever.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36431",
"author": "Irongeek",... | 1,760,377,822.108453 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/07/more-hardware-music/ | More Hardware Music | Eliot | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"floppydrive",
"harddrive",
"hardware",
"music"
] | today and tomorrow
found a few more projects using computer hardware to create music like our earlier Radiohead post. Above is a rendition of The Imperial March using a 3.5 inch floppy drive. Two more projects are embedded below.
harddisko
is a collection of defective hard drives from various manufacturers, repair shop... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "36423",
"author": "yert",
"timestamp": "2008-06-08T00:39:52",
"content": "Nice.That floppy drive idea seems like it shouldn’t be very hard at all. And i’m sure i have a few drives laying around here somewhere…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"... | 1,760,377,822.210593 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/07/ir-controlled-relays/ | IR Controlled Relays | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"home hacks"
] | [
"diy",
"home automation",
"HomeAutomation",
"pic controller",
"PicController"
] | If you’re thinking of building some DIY home automation,
this
looks like an interesting idea. At the heart is a PIC16F84 that decodes IR signals and controls six outputs – in this case, relays to activate various appliances. The PIC is dirt cheap – if you get a deal on some relays you should be able to build a small lo... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "36420",
"author": "Bolle",
"timestamp": "2008-06-08T01:01:13",
"content": "How is this thing powered? I’ve build something like this myself with a smaller PIC and I would like to replace a light-switch with it, but where do you get the power? You could use batteries, but if they are... | 1,760,377,822.164708 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/06/tips-on-picking-the-right-case/ | Tips On Picking The Right Case | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"button",
"buttons",
"case",
"casemod",
"cases",
"enclosure",
"enclosures",
"sparkfun"
] | Finding the right enclosure to house your latest project can be tricky, so
Sparkfun wrote up some handy tips
on the how to pick the right one.
The most important tip is to have your components measured before acquiring a case; even being a few milimeters too small can put you back at square one. To do this right, it’s ... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "36409",
"author": "BigD145",
"timestamp": "2008-06-07T05:16:18",
"content": "I recommend needle files for cleaning up holes. It takes time, but looks nice.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36410",
"author": "thegimpster",
... | 1,760,377,822.409395 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/06/how-to-binary-clock-using-a-freeduino-sb-21/ | How-To: Binary Clock Using A Freeduino SB 2.1 | chriskiick | [
"classic hacks",
"how-to",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"Atmel",
"atmelavr",
"AVR",
"binary",
"boarduino",
"clock",
"freeduino",
"solarbotics"
] | Solarbotics
recently released its own
version of the Arduino microcontroller development board
. They based their board on the
Freeduino
design. We thought this would be a good opportunity to review the new board as well as present a How-To about building a simple binary clock. Along the way we’ll cover some basics on ... | 10 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "36403",
"author": "Tom",
"timestamp": "2008-06-07T02:11:42",
"content": "great write up, inspiring and to the point.informative!thank you",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36404",
"author": "bokubob",
"timestamp": "2008-06... | 1,760,377,822.468472 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/06/wheels-and-weed-whackers/ | Wheels And Weed Whackers | Juan Aguilar | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"bicycle",
"bike",
"motor",
"rollerblades",
"rollerblading",
"weedwacker",
"weedwhacker",
"weedwhackermotor"
] | Perhaps you’ve
seen this image before
: a young kid tooling around on a pair of inline skates, pushed forward by a weed whacker cycle. While the instructions for this device would seem fairly obvious (attach wheel to weed whacker) the writeup appears to be nonexistent. If you have any information, do let us know, but i... | 21 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "36388",
"author": "Christopher Finke",
"timestamp": "2008-06-07T00:08:42",
"content": "Well, I know what I’m building when I get home.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36389",
"author": "bolke",
"timestamp": "2008-06-07T0... | 1,760,377,822.618066 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/06/flipstart-hsdpa-mod/ | Flipstart HSDPA Mod | Eliot | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"3g",
"evdo",
"flipstart",
"hsdpa",
"oqo",
"oqo02",
"tnkgrl",
"vulcanflipstart"
] | Our friend [tnkgrl] has successfully
added HSDPA to a Vulcan Flipstart
. The
Flipstart
is a palmtop Windows machine with 1.1GHz Pentium M, 512MB RAM, 30GB hard drive, and an EVDO option. Before starting, you need to come up with a mini-PCI Express HSDPA card. Instead of trying for a random bare mini-PCIe card on eBay, ... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "36386",
"author": "fartface",
"timestamp": "2008-06-06T21:31:17",
"content": "Cool hack, the Flipstart is kind of neat but moot when you can get an EEE that is bigger and more useable for less than 1/4 the price.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,377,822.513863 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/05/soft-start-your-flashlight-for-longer-bulb-life/ | Soft Start Your Flashlight For Longer Bulb Life | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"diy",
"flashlight",
"scuba"
] | [Reinhard] has a
great collection
of DIY SCUBA projects. One interesting hack he put together is a
soft start circuit
to improve the life of the bulb in a flashlight. Despite LEDs getting cheaper, MR16 halogens are dirt cheap and put out some serious lumens.
permalink | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "36304",
"author": "rm -rf *zoink*",
"timestamp": "2008-06-05T15:25:26",
"content": "yes, zoinks, there’s a flippin’ schematic. happy now?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36305",
"author": "tekunogekai",
"timestamp": "20... | 1,760,377,822.555993 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/04/3-liter-homebrew-beer-keg/ | 3 Liter Homebrew Beer Keg | Sean Percival | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"3liter",
"beer",
"bottle",
"diy",
"homebrew",
"homebrewing",
"keg",
"kegging"
] | Beer kegs are several things. They are expensive, heavy, but most importantly delicious. We found a nice guide for creating your own
3 liter beer keg
. This is an inexpensive solution for
homebrewers
looking to keg their own beer.
The guide goes into detail on assembly and parts needed to create the bottle adapter. Mos... | 15 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "36289",
"author": "zoinks",
"timestamp": "2008-06-05T05:53:30",
"content": "at least there is a schematic.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36290",
"author": "pedro",
"timestamp": "2008-06-05T12:33:09",
"content": "je... | 1,760,377,822.672057 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/04/reprap-universal-constructor-achieves-self-replication/ | RepRap Universal Constructor Achieves Self-replication | Juan Aguilar | [
"News"
] | [
"3dprinter",
"3dprinting",
"plastic",
"rapidprototyping",
"reprap",
"universalconstructor"
] | RepRap, the self-replicating universal constructor has had our attention since it first started
spitting out globs of shapeless goo
, but its speculative potential turned in a real benchmark recently when a
RepRap machine made parts for an identical machine
in a few hours (a child, in other words), then the second RepR... | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "36275",
"author": "Jack",
"timestamp": "2008-06-05T05:04:52",
"content": "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
... | 1,760,377,822.916177 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/04/gaming-with-roombas/ | Gaming With Roombas | Sean Percival | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"irobot",
"roomba",
"smurv",
"telepresence"
] | Yesterday we looked at the
Pac-Man Roomba casemod
. In the video, creator [
Ron Tajima]
expressed interest in seeing Roombas participate in real life games. So we did some digging around and found some used in
an interesting augmented reality game
. From Brown University, these modified Roomba Create units play various... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "36273",
"author": "zoinks",
"timestamp": "2008-06-05T05:27:54",
"content": "no writeup?no schematic?NOT A HACK!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36274",
"author": "Skyler Orlando",
"timestamp": "2008-06-05T14:30:44",
... | 1,760,377,822.733429 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/04/arp-poisoning-is-still-a-problem/ | ARP Poisoning Is Still A Problem | Juan Aguilar | [
"News"
] | [
"arp",
"arppoisoning",
"arpspoofing",
"hdmoore",
"layer2",
"metasploit",
"mitm"
] | You’ve no doubt heard that the site hosting Metasploit, the exploit framework, was
hacked earlier this week
, but what you may not have heard is that it was done
using a layer 2 attack
. Though
Metasploit.com
was not actually cracked, a server on the same VLAN was compromised and used to ARP poison the gateway.
ARP poi... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "36268",
"author": "Taylor Alexander",
"timestamp": "2008-06-05T01:20:28",
"content": "Man, it blows me away how much we keep learning about this stuff!-Taylor",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36269",
"author": "Chris",
"t... | 1,760,377,823.011516 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/04/hydrophone/ | Hydrophone | Juan Aguilar | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"diy",
"fish",
"hydrophone",
"microphone",
"solder",
"underwater",
"vegetableoil"
] | Chances are you’ve never wondered what your goldfish is trying to say, but if you have (or if you just want a project), check out this
DIY hydrophone
.
You will need a computer microphone, vegetable oil, plastic wrap, scissors, solder, and a small unused plastic bottle. Solder the mic capsule to an appropriate length o... | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "36254",
"author": "Solenoidclock",
"timestamp": "2008-06-04T23:10:28",
"content": "I’d use mineral oil. Vegetable oil goes rancid after a while.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36255",
"author": "Taylor Alexander",
"time... | 1,760,377,822.967263 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/04/diy-slingbox/ | DIY Slingbox | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"diy",
"home theater",
"hometheater",
"ht",
"mac",
"quicktime",
"quicktimebroadcaster",
"slacker",
"slingbox",
"stream",
"streaming"
] | [David] took some interesting steps to
put together his own Slingbox-ish setup
. He used a Mac mini running
Quicktime Broadcaster
to capture the stream from a Firewire video camera which his cable/satellite receiver is plugged into. You’ll have to use an OS X machine, but that’s not too difficult
these days
. Broadcast... | 19 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "36235",
"author": "Liam",
"timestamp": "2008-06-04T16:11:00",
"content": "Are you genuinely multicasting? Post up info if you are.I’ve been doing a lot of work with multicast and the term is often used completely incorrectly",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []... | 1,760,377,823.065894 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/06/wii-dual-nand-flash-hack/ | Wii Dual NAND Flash Hack | Eliot | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"firmware",
"flash",
"nand",
"nintendo",
"nintendowii",
"tsop",
"wii"
] | [ChipD]
successfully installed two NAND flash chips into his Wii
. He can keep the stock firmware on one and then flip a switch if he wants to boot using the other chip with a modified firmware. This hack is fairly straight forward. All it took was someone with steady hands to try it out. The new NAND chip is identical... | 13 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "36375",
"author": "tiuk",
"timestamp": "2008-06-06T20:03:12",
"content": "nice to see a real hack",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36376",
"author": "Solenoidclock",
"timestamp": "2008-06-06T20:42:45",
"content": "Thi... | 1,760,377,823.116632 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/06/crt-blinkenlights/ | CRT Blinkenlights | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"ccc",
"pic conttroller",
"PicConttroller"
] | [Julien] sent in his group’s
twist
on the now classic
blinkenlights project
. Oddly, the writeup is entirely in jpg form, so I can’t know if he’s finished it yet. One of them promised to send it in during our
New uses for old CRT monitors HackIt
, so it’s nice to hear something about it. While the classic blinkenlights... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "36371",
"author": "Julien Brouchier a.k.a. Aqntbghd",
"timestamp": "2008-06-06T15:55:45",
"content": "The project is functional as of now, the team has made one mainboard and 5 daughter boards so they can controll 25 screens (a 10*10 matrix). It’s running smoothly animations (we can... | 1,760,377,823.159099 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/05/bionic-senses/ | Bionic Senses | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"blindness",
"cochlearimplants",
"cybernetic",
"deafness",
"med-el",
"retinal",
"retinalimplants",
"secondsight",
"sensory"
] | Various cybernetic limb and organ replacements
were recently featured in IEEE’s flash demo called The Bionic Body Shop, but we were most interested by the bionic eye and the cochlear implant (we already discussed the featured powered exoskeleton). These are notable for the fact that they are not merely high-tech prosth... | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "36357",
"author": "fozz",
"timestamp": "2008-06-06T09:26:30",
"content": "although retinal implants would be FRIGGIN SWEET, my pessimism can’t help but think of how we’ll be constantly fed advertising through our wireless implants.the future: potentially very awesome, most likely go... | 1,760,377,823.290019 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/05/obsolete-technology-band/ | Obsolete Technology Band | Sean Percival | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"audio",
"band",
"harddrive",
"music",
"Radiohead",
"remix",
"scanner",
"sinclair",
"zxspectrum"
] | Radiohead held a contest for fans to
remix the single
Nude
from their album
In Rainbows
. Frontman Thom Yorke mentioned on NPR that the contest was essentially a joke, since the
Nude
track is recorded at 6/8 timing and 63bpm, much slower than traditionally mixed music. The above video from [James Houston] is one of the... | 31 | 31 | [
{
"comment_id": "36329",
"author": "Karu",
"timestamp": "2008-06-06T05:26:27",
"content": "This is sincerely badass.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36330",
"author": "Jack",
"timestamp": "2008-06-06T06:12:45",
"content": "That was a... | 1,760,377,823.398687 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/05/hp-color-laserjet-2600n-teardown/ | HP Color LaserJet 2600n Teardown | Juan Aguilar | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"disassembly",
"emsl",
"evilmadscientistlabo...",
"evilmadscientistlabs",
"HP",
"laser",
"laserjet",
"laserjet2600n",
"lasers",
"printer",
"printers"
] | In the ongoing quest to
find parts for new projects
by
scavenging old devices
, the curiously sane and benevolent team at
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories took apart an HP Color LaserJet 2600n
. They wanted to see what makes it tick and what parts can be culled from it for later use.
Using nothing more than a phillips h... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "36322",
"author": "Rob Ristroph",
"timestamp": "2008-06-06T02:24:30",
"content": "I would be particularly interested in the accuracy and precision of the humidity sensor. I had no idea one was in there, and I can think of several uses for one. It would be interesting to collect da... | 1,760,377,823.451607 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/05/one-handed-controller-available-for-pre-order/ | One Handed Controller Available For Pre-order | Sean Percival | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"benheck",
"benheckendorn",
"controller",
"controller mod",
"controllermod",
"heckendorn",
"onehanded"
] | You are probably familiar with the work of [Ben Heckendorn]. His latest commercial project, the one handed Access Controller,
is now available for pre-order
. A well known modder, he has created several unique video game console adaptations including a scratch built
one handed Xbox 360 controller
.
A unique feature of ... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "36317",
"author": "murrow",
"timestamp": "2008-06-06T05:38:41",
"content": "hackaday has become just another news blog that just pulls shit from digg/slashdot/engadget. if this is really what it is going to change into, you will lose (and i know you have already lost) a lot of reade... | 1,760,377,823.626139 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/05/building-a-midibox-sid/ | Building A MIDIbox SID | Juan Aguilar | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"c64",
"commodore",
"Commodore64",
"midi",
"midibox",
"midiboxsid",
"sid",
"subatomicglue",
"thorstenklose"
] | We’ve discussed MIDIboxes before
(and
once before that
), but we’ve never really told you what goes into them or how to build one. We’ll take you through the process after the break.
This particular MIDIbox
by [Subatomic] is built on the MIDIbox SID specs
originally conceived by [Thorsten Klose]
(check out the great so... | 7 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "36311",
"author": "thegimpster",
"timestamp": "2008-06-05T23:15:29",
"content": "It looks cool, but I would hate to hack up one of my C64’s. I only have 4 after all, and you never know when you will need one to save the day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []... | 1,760,377,823.495479 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/02/recent-news-followup/ | Recent News Followup | Sean Percival | [
"News"
] | [
"biggestdrawingintheworld",
"bittorrent",
"gps",
"hoax",
"mars",
"md5",
"oink",
"phoenix mars lander",
"PhoenixMarsLander",
"position based art",
"PositionBasedArt",
"torrent"
] | Last week we talked about a
single rumored arrest
over the OiNK torrent tracker. Since then, there’s been a
confirmed report
of 6 arrests. The arrests appear to be the result of users uploading pre-release music to the now defunct site. For some time, police have had access to the OiNK user records minus the passwords ... | 18 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "36137",
"author": "killerpiggypie@gmail.com",
"timestamp": "2008-06-03T03:35:07",
"content": "HACK A DAY YOU ARE STARTING TO FAIL COME ON IT WAS GOING GOOD FOR A WHILE STOP GIVING US SHITTY NEWS COME ON NOW",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"com... | 1,760,377,823.731399 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/02/defcon-ctf-qualifier-results/ | DefCon CTF Qualifier Results | Eliot | [
"cons"
] | [
"1@stplace",
"ctf",
"defcon",
"defcon16",
"kenshoto",
"nopsrus",
"octf",
"openctf"
] | Kenshoto
held qualifiers for the
DefCon
‘s Capture the Flag competition last weekend. The
top seven finishers
: Routards, Pandas with Gambas, Guard@MyLan0, Shellphish, Taekwon-V, WOWHACKER, PLUS, and last year’s winners, 1@stPlace, will be invited to participate in the final this August in Las Vegas.
The qualification ... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,377,823.767232 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/02/diy-ballistic-glass/ | DIY Ballistic Glass | Will O'Brien | [
"classic hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"acrylic",
"bulletproof",
"glass",
"guns",
"polycarbonate"
] | [Glenn] hasn’t put up action shots, but he did write up how he
made his own
“Bulletproof” glass. The idea is simple: make a composite sandwich of Acrylic and Polycarbonate plastic. Automotive grade uses a combination of glass and Polycarbonate. Great, now we’ve got one more thing on my list of stuff to shoot.
permalink | 12 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "36126",
"author": "Dave",
"timestamp": "2008-06-02T15:54:15",
"content": "Sure would be nice to see some test results on this one.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "36127",
"author": "unomi",
"timestamp": "2008-06-02T16:09... | 1,760,377,823.674122 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/01/touchscreen-kit-for-eee-pc/ | Touchscreen Kit For Eee PC | Juan Aguilar | [
"computer hacks",
"Netbook Hacks"
] | [
"Asus",
"Asuseeepc",
"eee",
"EeePc",
"touchpanel",
"touchscreen",
"touchsensitive"
] | We’ve featured
hacks for the Eee PC 701 before
, but nothing so easy as
this touchscreen kit
.
This kit includes everything needed: the touchpanel, a USB controller card, and the correct connectors. The touchpanel is placed inside the frame in front of the screen. The controller is plugged in line with the USB webcam. ... | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "36114",
"author": "monster",
"timestamp": "2008-06-02T08:04:08",
"content": "but how hard would it be to add touchscreen capability to the 900 series? i’m saving up to get a black one soon.also, is it possible to use the trackpad and touch screen at the same time? if i have the 900 ... | 1,760,377,823.823263 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2008/06/01/parasitic-power-devices/ | Parasitic Power Devices | Sean Percival | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"electricity",
"electricityout",
"green",
"parasitic",
"parasitic generator",
"parasiticgenerator",
"parasiticpower",
"power"
] | Aside from having a very cool name, parasitic power is an innovate way to recapture already spent power. This power can come in the form of wasted heating or cooling of a building for example. Last week the Southern Methodist University
activated the first commercial Green Machine
from
ElectraTherm
. The unit recycles ... | 25 | 25 | [
{
"comment_id": "36089",
"author": "dax",
"timestamp": "2008-06-02T03:53:50",
"content": "what a terrible name.. parasites cause damage to the host. In the name of efficiency and thermodynamics, most of the listed devices don’t harm the energy source..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"r... | 1,760,377,823.895406 |
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