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https://hackaday.com/2007/12/08/super8-automatic-film-scanner/ | Super8 Automatic Film Scanner | Will O'Brien | [
"digital cameras hacks",
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"bluetooth",
"lego",
"mindstorm"
] | [edocronian] sent in
this
interesting mindstorm hack. [Harri] had several Super8 reels that he shot during the 80s. His kids put together this mindstorm NXT transport mechanism, and he did the rest with linux. The lego’s pull the reel across an Epson scanner, and some linux hacks run the scanner, identify the frames, a... | 18 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "30209",
"author": "Dave Eaton",
"timestamp": "2007-12-09T09:45:17",
"content": "The results are pretty stunning, too. He has some examples on his blog, and I am amazed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "30210",
"author": "abun... | 1,760,377,856.971309 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/12/07/open-an-axa-bike-lock-with-a-blank-key-doh/ | Open An AXA Bike Lock With A Blank Key (Doh) | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"AXA",
"bike locks",
"BikeLocks",
"lock picking",
"lockpicking",
"Netherlands"
] | [Barry] sent in his
writeup
and
video
about a serious vulnerability in the AXA bike lock. (One of the most popular locks in the Netherlands.) It turns out that quite a few of them can be opened with a blank key. [Barry] demo’s the hack, and has some comments about the lame efforts of the manufacturer. If you enjoy inte... | 18 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "30196",
"author": "vr4",
"timestamp": "2007-12-07T19:58:10",
"content": "Why did this make it to hack a day?thoes locks are just for show anyway.From what i remember about my trip to amsterdam – (and it isnt too much) I think they are designed to be held on with plastic zip ties.oh ... | 1,760,377,857.423213 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/12/06/obfuscate-your-power-switch/ | Obfuscate Your Power Switch | Will O'Brien | [
"Playstation Hacks"
] | [] | Just in time to keep your friends from sharing your toys, [l0rdnic0] brings you
this
simple mod: replace your power switch with a reed switch. Of course, now you’ll need a magnet every time you want to use your PSP. Of course, if my older brother did this, I’d build a big electromagnet and start firing it whenever he s... | 15 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "30181",
"author": "AndrewNeo",
"timestamp": "2007-12-07T07:32:19",
"content": "That would be nice for a computer. My friend’s dad would always turn off his computer while it was still running, by holding the power button down.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": ... | 1,760,377,857.129209 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/12/05/cornell-final-projects-2007/ | Cornell Final Projects 2007 | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [] | The latest crop of
final projects
from Cornell Universities ECE576 course went up a while ago. This round focuses on FPGAs. They’re all fairly impressive projects. My favorite is this
real time spectrograph
. With the decreasing cost of FPGAs, this
Digital Oscilloscope
could become a popular one. Putting this
UDP netwo... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "30170",
"author": "twistedsymphony",
"timestamp": "2007-12-06T17:24:19",
"content": "I’d love to learn more about FPGAs, I’ve never used one but I see them used in lots of cool projects and they seem like quite powerful tools. I seehttp://fpga4fun.comreferenced a lot and it seems li... | 1,760,377,857.01401 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/12/04/silence-your-mouse-no-clicky/ | Silence Your Mouse: No Clicky. | Will O'Brien | [
"computer hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"clicky",
"mouse"
] | [PaulJ] sent in this older, but excellent little hack to
silence your mouse
. Don’t like the click that your mouse makes? If your mouse has the right kind of switch inside, it can be quieted down with a quick soldering job. Just remove it, turn the upper half around and re-assemble.
permalink | 27 | 25 | [
{
"comment_id": "30146",
"author": "Wolf",
"timestamp": "2007-12-05T07:39:41",
"content": "With or without the sound, I’d think the lack of tactile feedback would be extremely annoying.If he could find a way to maintain the clicking threshold of the mouse button, but remove the associated noise he’d... | 1,760,377,857.077738 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/12/03/day-o-guitar-hero-mods-with-a-bonus/ | Day O’ Guitar Hero Mods (with A Bonus) | Will O'Brien | [
"cnc hacks",
"home entertainment hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [] | I’ve already gotten a pile of tips on Guitar Hero controllers today, so here we go. The
first one
is already making the rounds. [Mark] replaced strummer with a touchscreen LCD and a magnetic switch. [Mark]s ultimate goal is to add some optical sensing and make the guitar self playing. For details, hit the
acidmods thre... | 20 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "30127",
"author": "Patrick",
"timestamp": "2007-12-03T20:54:56",
"content": "LAMELAMELAMERetards who play Guitar Hero are just LAME.I’ve got an idea – How about playing a real Guitar !!!Do you remember the game – Simon?Thats what Guitar Hero really is – Simon on a stick.LAMELAMELAME... | 1,760,377,857.368321 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/12/02/wireless-keyboards-easily-cracked/ | Wireless Keyboards Easily Cracked | Eliot | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"27mhz",
"crack",
"encryption",
"keyboard",
"mouse",
"wireless"
] | We first covered breaking the commodity 27MHz radios used in wireless keyboards, mice, and presenters when [Luis Miras]
gave a talk at Black Hat
. Since then, the people at Dreamlab have managed to crack the encryption on Microsoft’s Wireless Optical Desktop 1000 and 2000 products (and possibly more). Analyzing the pro... | 69 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "30085",
"author": "alex",
"timestamp": "2007-12-03T03:48:06",
"content": "unsurprising, but nice work and cool demoobviously this could be fixed with better encryption… but in most cases why even bother?? just use a damn wire, its not the end of the world. you have to be close enoug... | 1,760,377,857.514019 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/12/01/reader-how-to-wiimote-horse-controller/ | Reader How-To: Wiimote Horse Controller | Will O'Brien | [
"how-to"
] | [] | I linked the Wiimote horse controller in yesterdays extra, but today [Mark] sent us a short and sweet How-to. Essentially, he’s using the Wiimote taped to the horse as a joystick to play Need for Speed on the laptop connected to his big screen. Hit the read link for his write up.
Here’s how to but together your own Wii... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "30080",
"author": "CalcProgrammer1",
"timestamp": "2007-12-02T08:41:59",
"content": "Lol…Nice! It looks like a very unique idea for making use of Wiimote/PC control. I haven’t found many “good” uses for it, but this looks promising…now if you could convert the horse into a more “c... | 1,760,377,857.312685 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/30/friday-i-want-a-ball-pit-extra/ | Friday I Want A Ball Pit Extra | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [] | [rmunroe] of the notorious xkcd made
his own ball pit
. I’m now completely, totally jealous.
[-] sent in this
Commadore 64 Guitar Hero
project.
[Jock] sent in
this
uh, marriage of a Wiimote and a rocking horse. It’s actually a great idea if you’ve got a kid and some duct tape handy.
[warthox] sent in this
XBox 360 tilt... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "30071",
"author": "Colin",
"timestamp": "2007-12-01T02:05:19",
"content": "that ball pit is awesome. I’m looking forward to his scalable method of ball cleaning… lolif only it weren’t so damn expensive",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment... | 1,760,377,857.271047 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/30/diy-scuba-tank-boost-pump-for-mixing-gases/ | DIY SCUBA Tank Boost Pump (for Mixing Gases) | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [] | No love for that sweet old NES controller? Fine, here’s a bonus hack for you.
This
home-built boost pump is designed to take in a volume of gas (like oxygen) and compress it with a hydraulic style air powered cylinder to raise the pressure. With the increased pressure, the O2 can be added to a SCUBA tank that contains ... | 46 | 37 | [
{
"comment_id": "30039",
"author": "JimXugle",
"timestamp": "2007-11-30T10:21:30",
"content": "I thought Hackaday adopted a no DIY-Scuba gear policy a while back?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "30040",
"author": "Chemikal",
"timestamp":... | 1,760,377,857.227794 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/29/nes-inside-a-controller-with-cartridge-compatibility/ | NES Inside A Controller With Cartridge Compatibility | Will O'Brien | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [] | [Tony] sent in
this
Nintendo hack. It’s a fully functioning NES with Composite output inside an old school controller. On the back it’s got a cartridge connector, so you can play normal games, there’s a port for a second player/light gun, and for extra bling, the Nintendo logo is backlit. To pull it off, he stuffed a S... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "30029",
"author": "war6763",
"timestamp": "2007-11-30T07:57:39",
"content": "Man, this hack is a couple months old, at least!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "30030",
"author": "thethirdmoose",
"timestamp": "2007-11-30T0... | 1,760,377,857.559766 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/28/mic-preamp-in-an-ipod-touch-dock-connector/ | Mic Preamp In An IPod Touch Dock Connector | Will O'Brien | [
"ipod hacks"
] | [] | [Marian] sent in his sweet little
Mic preamp
that he built for his iPod touch. He built
the circuit
on the legs of a TLC272 OP-Amp with SMD components. The whole thing actually fits inside the cover of a standard iPod dock connector.
Bonus: [tnkgrl] added a
USB bluetooth adapter
to her eeePC after her
circuit tracing e... | 29 | 28 | [
{
"comment_id": "30019",
"author": "frank",
"timestamp": "2007-11-29T07:53:39",
"content": "What’s the point of this? I don’t have an ipod touch – is it anything different to the plug-in mics you could get for the older ipods?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,377,857.622673 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/27/pen-size-polonium-detector/ | Pen Size Polonium Detector | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [] | [cartufer] sent in this sweet little
Polonium detector
. It’s fundamentally similar to the Geiger counter the other day, but the circuit is simpler by several orders of magnitude. No exotic parts for this one, just some basic metal working skills. (This might be handy when I visit my in-laws.) The
page
is loaded with s... | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "30007",
"author": "jose lope",
"timestamp": "2007-11-28T08:04:49",
"content": "hmmm.. I wonder if you could get this through airport security…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "30008",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "200... | 1,760,377,858.100335 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/26/python-web-based-serial-control/ | Python Web Based Serial Control | Will O'Brien | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [] | [Benjamin] sent in
his efforts
to use Python to provide a web interface for his Aurdino. Python is usually pretty easy to manipulate, so it might be just the thing for someone looking to add a web control to a project with an open serial interface.
If you’ve got a hack you want to share, use the
tips line
.
permalink | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "30000",
"author": "Aten",
"timestamp": "2007-11-27T08:46:43",
"content": "Wow I was just talking to a friend about doing something of this sort",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "30001",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "200... | 1,760,377,857.96586 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/26/google-as-a-password-cracker/ | Google As A Password Cracker | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"cracker",
"hacked",
"haha",
"password"
] | Usually we’re into hardware hacks, but once in a while I run across something that’s just too good. [Steven]’s blog was cracked a while back, and while he was doing forensics, he was trying to crack the md5 hashed password for the unauthorized account. Eventually he slapped the hash into Google, and guess that it was ‘... | 24 | 24 | [
{
"comment_id": "29976",
"author": "Jeroen Domburg",
"timestamp": "2007-11-26T19:20:12",
"content": "And this is why you should salt your hashes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29977",
"author": "Skyler Orlando",
"timestamp": "2007-11-2... | 1,760,377,858.305555 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/25/slr-lenses-on-your-digital-video-camera/ | SLR Lenses On Your Digital Video Camera | Will O'Brien | [
"digital cameras hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"analog slr",
"AnalogSlr",
"camera",
"canon ae-1",
"CanonAe-1",
"SLR",
"video"
] | Considering all the attention we give digital cameras, I wanted to find an interesting hack for those old school analog SLR cameras. (I spent a fair share of time behind one; I’m fond of the classic Canon AE-1) [Joshua]
mated
his Sony VX-2000e video camera with a Canon FD lens mount and created this monster. With the n... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "29969",
"author": "Terry",
"timestamp": "2007-11-26T08:34:41",
"content": "Hmm… It’s been a while since I’ve used a 35-mm camera. Are digital cameras pushing the costs down on the older film-based camera lenses or does this create some expensive niche?",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,377,858.503945 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/24/loooong-weekend-extra/ | Loooong Weekend Extra | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [] | It’s been one long holiday weekend for me. I’ve got a few interesting tidbits on the tips line, and it’s time to clear em out. (Thanks to my Father in Law who came to visit and re-painted my kitchen while I hauled no less than 800 lbs of scrap lumber from my driveway)
If you’re a Nintendo DS fiend, you might dig
this a... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "29965",
"author": "t0ny",
"timestamp": "2007-11-25T10:32:12",
"content": "Crap, the remote cable does not work for the E-500 even thou it has the same cables. :(I was hoping that would be easer to build for an trigger for my time lapse project. Off to buy a cheap rm1 remote to wire ... | 1,760,377,858.005664 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/23/rio-receiver-slimp3-emulator/ | Rio Receiver SLIMP3 Emulator | Will O'Brien | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [] | [Roo] sent
this
in, and it took me a few minutes to see what’s so interested about a deprecated digital audio player. The Rio Receiver originally sold for about $350. Today it’s a dead product, but thanks to some software mods, it can be hacked to acquire the abilities of the SLIMP3(A.K.A.
Squeezebox
) player. So score... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "29955",
"author": "medix",
"timestamp": "2007-11-24T09:56:37",
"content": "Nice hack.. it’s good to see that there’s a way around having an old 386 chugging away just to play music..However..Does this mod allow for streaming of Pandora radio stations? That has been my main interest ... | 1,760,377,858.14282 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/23/roboexotica-highlights/ | Roboexotica Highlights | Eliot | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"cocktail",
"roboexotica",
"roboexotica2007",
"robot",
"vienna"
] | After the break are some of our favorite bits of machinery from
Roboexotica
so far.
To us the BF Ice Cube Gun, you first place your glass below the the target.
Then you load your ice chunk into the CO2 powered cannon and fire. When it strikes the target the ice shatters and falls into the glass. If you hit the target a... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "29951",
"author": "Attackula",
"timestamp": "2007-11-23T22:52:48",
"content": "Thanks for the great pics. Wish I were closer to Vienna. Also, thank God for *color*! I appreciate the dark aesthetic, but I just",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,377,858.048398 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/22/hackit-cocktail-robotics/ | Hackit: Cocktail Robotics | Eliot | [
"HackIt",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"cocktail",
"HackIt",
"roboexotica",
"robot"
] | Here is a special edition Hackit in honor of
Roboexotica
. Ever since making the decision to attend Roboexotica we’ve been speculating on the type of machines we’d like to see at such an event. Here are a handful of ideas:
Iceware via rapid prototyping: As we type this post, [
Bre
] is in the background attempting to b... | 19 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "29933",
"author": "zawen32",
"timestamp": "2007-11-23T03:20:27",
"content": "ice? so much work for something that’ll melt away within minutes? youd have to make RAPID prototyping a lot more rapid. anyways Roböexotica was great. unfortunately i had to leave before i saw any of the r... | 1,760,377,858.363696 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/22/roboexotica-2007/ | Roboexotica 2007 | Eliot | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"cocktail",
"roboexotica",
"robot",
"vienna"
] | Tonight marks the kickoff of
Roboexotica
in Vienna. It’s the world’s leading festival for cocktail robotics. The event aims to explore the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the increasing integration of technological innovations into human lives. It also explores the explosion of radical hedonism in man-machine... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "29929",
"author": "ed",
"timestamp": "2007-11-22T18:48:35",
"content": "first",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29930",
"author": "zawen32",
"timestamp": "2007-11-22T19:50:43",
"content": "hey, thats like 20 minutes fr... | 1,760,377,858.407301 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/21/real-robots-from-movie-designs/ | Real Robots From Movie Designs | Will O'Brien | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [] | Thanks to
Star Wars
, Plenty of people have
built their own
R2 units. Pixar’s
next movie
has been running trailers for a while, and there’s already
a group
(free membership required) devoted to building real versions of the SGI robot star: WALL-E. I guess I’ll have to call it reverse-forward engineering. WALL-E has so... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "29917",
"author": "phunkphish",
"timestamp": "2007-11-22T10:44:50",
"content": "Nice. This shows up my, everything pretty much. 1st comment, so fresh",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29918",
"author": "Michael",
"timestam... | 1,760,377,858.456535 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/20/asus-eee-pc-trace-hunting/ | Asus Eee PC Trace Hunting | Will O'Brien | [
"laptops hacks"
] | [] | There isn’t anything hacked into it yet, but [tnkgrl] spent some time
hunting
around her
Eee PC
for some handy hackable extras. I’d been ignoring them, but now I want one. Oh yes, I do. Hit the writeup for details, but [tnkgrl] identified some semi un-used USB connections, an accessible 5v supply and a spare mini-pcie ... | 16 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "29901",
"author": "M1st3rG0n3",
"timestamp": "2007-11-21T18:23:25",
"content": "Man, i really need to get one of these… then just figure out how to mod so the evdo card will work….oh, yeah, first post–WOOT!!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"c... | 1,760,377,858.598522 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/19/digital-geiger-counter/ | Digital Geiger Counter | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"diy",
"geiger counter",
"GeigerCounter"
] | Worried about radiation levels? I’m not, but I still want to build one of these.
Mr. Fission
here was built by the same guy that’s behind the
OpenTracker
project. [Scott] based it on the
Bargraph Geiger counter
built by [Russel E. Cliff]. Both use a standard Geiger tube like the LND712. The tube works with high voltage... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "29891",
"author": "steve diraddo",
"timestamp": "2007-11-20T07:40:54",
"content": "sites down",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29892",
"author": "Peter Walsh",
"timestamp": "2007-11-20T08:40:06",
"content": "There’s l... | 1,760,377,858.671633 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/18/hackit-frsgmrs-portable-radios/ | Hackit: FRS/GMRS Portable Radios | Will O'Brien | [
"HackIt",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"frs",
"gmrs radios",
"GmrsRadios",
"HackIt"
] | FRS
and
GMRS
radios have the performance that we wished walkie talkies had when we were kids. I find them interesting because they aren’t quite as tied down as amateur radio bands. (They’re freaking cheap and you can give them to unlicensed users.) I’ve been surprised by the lack of hacks for these little guys. Garmin ... | 98 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "29855",
"author": "jaded",
"timestamp": "2007-11-19T09:38:52",
"content": "Just a correction, transmitting on GMRS radio frequencies does require a license. It’s not a “proof of competence” license like a ham license; the only test is whether or not the FCC can cash your check.Ther... | 1,760,377,858.92473 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/18/morse-code-usb-slide-keyboard/ | Morse Code USB Slide Keyboard | Will O'Brien | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"ham radio",
"HamRadio",
"morse code",
"MorseCode"
] | Today, I stumbled across
this
morse code keyboard. I couldn’t find any sign on the promised schematics or code, but I like the design. It’s not that hard to train yourself in Morse code, and it’s nearly impossible to send an erroneous code thanks to the unique slide=dash tap=dot physical interface.
permalink | 20 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "29823",
"author": "VonSkippy",
"timestamp": "2007-11-19T07:46:25",
"content": "Wow, I can’t wait for you to stumble across a USB powered Butter Churn, or perhaps a article on repairing buggy whips with old Cat 5 cable.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
... | 1,760,377,858.784793 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/17/spread-spectrum-freq-hopping-usb-rf-modem/ | Spread Spectrum Freq Hopping USB RF Modem | Will O'Brien | [
"computer hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [] | Since I mentioned
Sparkfun electronics
in the
parts finding how-to
, I started poking around their forums and stumbled across
this
interesting USB RF modem. It uses an off the shelf Semtec DP1205 RF module that’s controlled by a PIC 18F2550. The really interesting thing is that it uses spread spectrum frequency hopping... | 17 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "29807",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2007-11-18T07:21:11",
"content": "FHSS actually isn’t too uncommon a feature in COTS 900 MHz transceivers, precisely because of the FCC rule. Still, that’s an awesome little project. Handy, too. Who needs the wireless USB standard when we’ve... | 1,760,377,858.723356 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/16/friday-night-pyro-extra/ | Friday Night Pyro Extra | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [] | Well, not quite so much a pyro, but this setup rocks for cooking some good steaks.
[Tony] sent in this
mp3 doorbell hack
. I’m thinking… Star Wars theme song.
[Joey] let me know about this odd hack that adds
guitar foot pedals to every button on a gameboy
. (It makes sense if you remember that they’re popular for 8-bit... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "29801",
"author": "eldorel",
"timestamp": "2007-11-17T09:23:48",
"content": "The link to the mp3 doorbell isn’t working. Use this one instead:http://popsci.typepad.com/how20blog/2007/11/build-it-hack-y.html",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"com... | 1,760,377,858.967492 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/16/how-to-where-to-find-parts-for-your-projects/ | How-To: Where To Find Parts For Your Projects | Will O'Brien | [
"cnc hacks",
"how-to"
] | [
"digikey",
"feature",
"howto",
"mouser",
"parts",
"radioshack",
"salvage",
"sparkfun"
] | Hunting down the right parts usually takes more time than soldering everything together. I can’t count the number of projects that I tried to build and couldn’t find some key component that’s no longer made. You can help put together a list of suppliers at the end, but the idea is to have a quick reference to get your ... | 78 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "29742",
"author": "Chris J",
"timestamp": "2007-11-17T06:22:55",
"content": "For discontinued or hard to find parts contacthttp://www.unicornelectronics.com. I use them for the MM5314 clock chip that hasnât been made in 15 years as well as discontinued 74 series logic.",
"pare... | 1,760,377,859.188364 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/15/automatic-projector-calibration/ | Automatic Projector Calibration | Will O'Brien | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Portable Video Hacks"
] | [] | [Johny Lee] sent in
his
(pdf) awesome projector calibration project. By adding embedding some optical fiber that feed into a set of USB connected light sensors, his groups software can determine the exact pixel position of each sensor. Once the positions are determined, the projected image can be dynamically adjusted t... | 40 | 40 | [
{
"comment_id": "29707",
"author": "simon",
"timestamp": "2007-11-16T02:06:57",
"content": "That is bloody amazing, especially the demo with the car! Great Job!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29708",
"author": "Jake",
"timestamp": "200... | 1,760,377,859.092464 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/14/toilet-terror-level-indicator/ | Toilet Terror Level Indicator | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"haha",
"terror level",
"TerrorLevel",
"toilet"
] | Normally,
this
wouldn’t quite make my radar, but [sprite_tm] built it, and it’s funny as hell. He created a Terror Level indicator for… his toilet. Rather than create an exotic smell detector, he simply uses a photo diode to measure the amount of time that the light has been on in the ol’ water closet. As time progress... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "29696",
"author": "entropy",
"timestamp": "2007-11-14T21:36:52",
"content": "a motion sensor of some kind combined with some fancy code could be used to determine if someone was in the bathroom too. it would have to determine the difference between motionless(room empty) and motionl... | 1,760,377,859.01545 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/13/simple-vga-test-box/ | Simple VGA Test Box | Will O'Brien | [
"Portable Video Hacks"
] | [] | Sometimes it may seem like I suffer from goldfish memory. [Chris] sent
this
in a while back and I’d almost forgotten about it. He built a simple VGA test box using a PIC 18F452. I’d probably be more interested in using it to add simple VGA output to another project than use a test box, but it can definitely be handy if... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "29690",
"author": "werejag",
"timestamp": "2007-11-14T09:21:49",
"content": "this needs to be in a small vga hoodie. way to big for what it does",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29691",
"author": "skot",
"timestamp": "200... | 1,760,377,859.227267 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/12/blowable-computer-interface/ | Blowable Computer Interface | Will O'Brien | [
"computer hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [] | Remember
Christopher Reeve’s
blow controlled wheel chair? [
Shwetak
] sent in his blowable computer interface. It doesn’t require anything but an on-board microphone and a decent set of lungs. It works by taking audio fingerprints to determine the location on the screen that you’re exhaling on. The
demo video
(avi) sho... | 18 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "29674",
"author": "thethirdmoose",
"timestamp": "2007-11-13T07:56:42",
"content": "arrrrghwhy is his site so sloooooowwwwwww…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29675",
"author": "Dean Putney",
"timestamp": "2007-11-13T08:3... | 1,760,377,859.388766 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/11/hackit-new-life-for-old-laptops/ | HackIt: New Life For Old Laptops? | Will O'Brien | [
"contests",
"HackIt",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [] | Last time
, I challenged everyone to shout out with new ideas for those old TiVo boxes. The response was fantastic. I’m not feeling too exotic tonight, so I’ll make it easy: The laptop. Years ago I found an article on using old laptop screens to make an electronically dimmed window. At tie time, LCD panels were $1000 i... | 161 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "29523",
"author": "Davse Bamse",
"timestamp": "2007-11-12T09:49:42",
"content": "The old laptops, depending on the age of the laptop can be used as:Install linux, and you got a cheap web/print/ftp/file serverOr, to play the games from the old times, before the dark times, before the... | 1,760,377,859.472421 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/11/upgrade-your-in-ear-headphones/ | Upgrade Your In-ear Headphones | Will O'Brien | [
"ipod hacks",
"Portable Audio Hacks"
] | [
"apple",
"etymotic",
"headphones",
"ipod"
] | I’m a fan of my Etymotic er6i (which have mysteriously vanished…) headphones, so
this
simple hack caught my eye. [James C] sent in this simple method of upgrading the more affordable apple in ear headphones. The idea is simple, use a small hole punch to cut out the center of some cheap foam earplugs. Then replace the s... | 25 | 24 | [
{
"comment_id": "29501",
"author": "Babau",
"timestamp": "2007-11-12T06:17:15",
"content": "Great idea, and like all great ideas I can’t believe I didn’t think of it already. Looks especially handy for motorcyclists. Blocks out more wind noise than the default rubber and makes for a more secure fit ... | 1,760,377,859.528808 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/10/laser-camera-tracking/ | Laser Camera Tracking | Will O'Brien | [
"computer hacks",
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [] | [ashish] is still having fun with his lasers. His latest hack is a
dual laser based tracking camera
. He mounted his camera to a simple
parallel port controlled stepper motor
. Essentially, if the camera loses track of either laser, it tracks to locate the lost edge of the object. I’d probably go with IR to reduce the ... | 15 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "29488",
"author": "Jeroen Domburg",
"timestamp": "2007-11-11T03:39:00",
"content": "I wouldn’t. Red lasers make you look away if they shine into your eyes. IR ones just burn away your retina without you noticing. I know which one I’d prefer…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,377,859.581271 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/09/wiimote-ir-finger-tracking/ | Wiimote IR Finger Tracking | Will O'Brien | [
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Nintendo Wii Hacks"
] | [] | Just in case you needed another way to pretend that you’re in
Minority Report
, [Johnny Lee] sent in
this video
showing how to track your hands using the Wiimote’s IR camera,an infrared LED array and a bit of reflective tape to improve the gain.
permalink | 17 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "29473",
"author": "John",
"timestamp": "2007-11-10T02:18:55",
"content": "Anyone have any more info on this? Wiimote software for PC’s and the like? This could lead to alot of cool stuff",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29474",
... | 1,760,377,859.722583 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/08/how-to-replace-a-mini-usb-port-on-your-cellphone/ | How-To: Replace A Mini USB Port (on Your Cellphone) | Will O'Brien | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"how-to"
] | [] | At some point, just about everyone manages to mess up their precious electronics. In this case, someone (not me) somehow managed to totally demolish the mini USB port in their new Motorola cell phone. Surface mount repairs can be challenging without some serious tools, but it’s possible to replace parts without a re-wo... | 53 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "29456",
"author": "Dane",
"timestamp": "2007-11-09T06:08:50",
"content": "i did the same thing on an external hard drive my younger brother broke, awesome writeup!http://rpi.edu/~kouttd/03/fixing%20an%20external%20HD.html-Dane",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies":... | 1,760,377,859.672453 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/08/gyro-controlled-video-via-rc-plane/ | Gyro Controlled Video Via R/C Plane | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Portable Video Hacks"
] | [] | [Mark] couldn’t resist sending
this
in, and I can see why. It turns out that this is made from off the shelf parts, but the functionality is awesome. The pilot wears a video headset – igoggles, etc, and has a gyro/accelerometer sensor mounted on it that outputs commands to the R/C transmitter. On the plane, a
servo pan... | 21 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "29436",
"author": "Carl Trott",
"timestamp": "2007-11-08T23:30:29",
"content": "That is quite possibly one of the coolest things that I have seen in quite some time. rather simple, but breathtaking.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id"... | 1,760,377,859.778853 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/07/inexpensive-pic-based-obd-2-interface/ | Inexpensive PIC Based OBD-2 Interface | Will O'Brien | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [] | OBD-II became the mandatory I/O
diagnostic port
on cars starting around 1996 in the US. Considering that the interface consists of a couple of I/O lines, serial/usb adapters have been ridiculously expensive for quite a while – especially newer USB versions. [Renan] sent in
this
PIC18F2450 OBD-II interface. The designer... | 48 | 45 | [
{
"comment_id": "29399",
"author": "jimmythecow",
"timestamp": "2007-11-07T23:05:51",
"content": "wowzers!!! if only this worked for cars in 94/95 when they had “hybrid” data ports. Id be down to buy one if there was a link, not because I need one, but to help this guy out and say thank you for the ... | 1,760,377,859.856204 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/06/gvif-prius-display-hacking/ | GVIF (Prius) Display Hacking | Will O'Brien | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [] | This is almost a lack of hack, but it bugs me. In 2006, Toyota changed the video interface on the Prius LCD display. The new system uses
GVIF
(Gigabit Video InterFace) rather than RGBs as before. So far success has been limited to some early commercial devices. Considering the number of guys that like to hack their car... | 19 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "29391",
"author": "ThatMonkey",
"timestamp": "2007-11-07T08:31:54",
"content": "I’d really like to know what the screen unit the guy used at that spasalon link. He’s sparse on details. Anyone recognize it?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comm... | 1,760,377,859.908431 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/05/rfid-guardian-v3-released/ | RFID Guardian V3 Released | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"major malfunction",
"MajorMalfunction",
"rfid",
"security"
] | [fbz] wanted to make sure that everyone knows that
RFID Guardian
has released the
latest version
of their design. I had a hard time finding a good shot of the hardware, so I went with the Nokia phone
control application
. There’s a short explanation of the project
here
. I’d point at the
use examples
on the site, but i... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "29386",
"author": "Frogz",
"timestamp": "2007-11-06T06:44:52",
"content": "http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200711/200711060005.htmlhttp://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9028763http://gigaom.com/2006/12/17/google-phone/http://ww... | 1,760,377,859.946161 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/04/presenting-hackit-got-a-better-idea/ | Presenting Hackit – Got A Better Idea? | Will O'Brien | [
"HackIt",
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [] | I came back from a quick road trip with a trunk full of hackable hardware. After grabbing a little caffeine this morning, I thought we’d try something different for those slow Sundays. I’m going to come up some interesting hacking kit, point out a few classic hacks for it, and challenge you guys to come up with somethi... | 56 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "29331",
"author": "Monkeyman8",
"timestamp": "2007-11-05T07:30:37",
"content": "you could use two cheap TIVOs for VOIP/Video chat, or 3 or more for a conference call",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29332",
"author": "Will O\... | 1,760,377,860.295682 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/04/simple-usb-plug/ | Simple USB Plug | Will O'Brien | [
"computer hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [] | I’m more into
this
one just for the simple USB plug than the joke that it’s used for. I’ve seen similar on extra small USB flash drives, but those are generally pre-etched. The idea is to use a piece of proto board to make a USB plug an mount a superbright LED on it. Pie indeed.
permalink | 19 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "29312",
"author": "Jay",
"timestamp": "2007-11-05T05:32:24",
"content": "you gotta love bored people with a soldiering iron. Something is going to get melted or built.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29313",
"author": "Bird6... | 1,760,377,860.213224 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/03/sms-pin-sentry-reader/ | SMS PIN Sentry Reader | Will O'Brien | [
"Cellphone Hacks"
] | [
"cell phones",
"CellPhones",
"pin sentry",
"PinSentry",
"sms"
] | [Mr G] in London sent in
his pin sentry hack
. He wasn’t pleased that the device looks like an old calculator, so he rigged up a SMS board to send him his pin on demand. He multiplexed the output of the display driver to the SMS board. When he authenticates from his phone, the board sends a message with the latest code... | 39 | 39 | [
{
"comment_id": "29284",
"author": "crapface",
"timestamp": "2007-11-04T04:17:55",
"content": "Wow, great write-up!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29285",
"author": "bazginge",
"timestamp": "2007-11-04T04:20:13",
"content": "That wa... | 1,760,377,860.158989 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/02/pysight-post-halloween-entertainment/ | PySight Post Halloween Entertainment | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"halloween",
"homestarrunner",
"marshie"
] | [John] sent in this setup that he hacked together for Halloween. He used a MacBook Pro with built in camera, a projector, a bed sheet, a kid friendly laser pointer and a hacked together combination of PySight and PyGame. The result was a fairly easy game of shoot
Marshie
. Nice!
permalink | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "29274",
"author": "alex mccown",
"timestamp": "2007-11-03T05:58:30",
"content": "that is so simple yet so cool also the use of the macbooks camera is nice thinking i cant afford a projectors so i gota try something like this next year but hell if he could afford a macbook he could a... | 1,760,377,860.626995 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/01/investigating-the-leopard-firewall/ | Investigating The Leopard Firewall | Eliot | [
"Mac Hacks"
] | [
"apple",
"firewall",
"leopard",
"mac",
"software"
] | Our friend [Rich Mogull] has been flipping the switches on Leopard’s new firewall and scanning it to see
what’s actually going on
. There is some good and some bad. The new application signing is a mixed bag. It
breaks Skype
and a commenter pointed out that automatically trusting Apple installed apps like NetCat isn’t ... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "29269",
"author": "TechPagan",
"timestamp": "2007-11-02T06:33:55",
"content": "Software firewalls yuck!First post W00t!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29270",
"author": "cde",
"timestamp": "2007-11-02T09:08:09",
"co... | 1,760,377,860.426775 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/11/01/diy-servo-motor-controller/ | DIY Servo Motor Controller | Will O'Brien | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"encoder",
"overlords",
"robots",
"servo",
"sweet"
] | [Jim Fong] sent in this demo of
his version
of the
UHU servo motor controller
. [Uli Huber] has actually shipped over 2500 controllers for the servo. He doesn’t charge much for the chips, and only asks for something like a token beer in return for his work. I used [Jim]s boards in
my mini mill controller
, so I know he... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "29258",
"author": "Johnny B. Goode",
"timestamp": "2007-11-02T00:13:10",
"content": "That’s pretty stylin’.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29259",
"author": "Alex McCown",
"timestamp": "2007-11-02T01:17:05",
"conten... | 1,760,377,860.473198 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/31/happy-halloween-extra/ | Happy Halloween Extra | Will O'Brien | [
"LED Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"led",
"photo",
"pumpkin",
"scanner",
"thad"
] | Happy Halloween! I’m in the mood for an extra, and I’ve got some stuff that’s been turning to zombies from the
tipline
.
Pictured above is a nice simple
LED pumpkin
sent in by [John]- perfect for the hacker with less than stellar art skills.
Let’s not forget [mastershake]s Hack-A-Day pumpkin from last year. Where’s the... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "29252",
"author": "Mindbleach",
"timestamp": "2007-11-01T06:36:11",
"content": "Is “budget” really the right word when it costs 50% more than the controller + game bundle?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29253",
"author": "B... | 1,760,377,860.51542 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/ | Ion Cooler 3.0 (return Of InventGeek) | Will O'Brien | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"ion cooler",
"IonCooler",
"silent pc",
"SilentPc",
"wookie"
] | [Jared]s been taking a bit of a hiatus, but he assures me that he’s gearing up for a bunch of new projects. The first sign that he’s awakened from his slumber is his
latest take
on the Ion Cooler. This time he’s built a CPU specific version. The cooler is made from off the shelf materials – heap pipe heat sink, copper ... | 30 | 30 | [
{
"comment_id": "29222",
"author": "Tom Needer",
"timestamp": "2007-10-30T18:38:07",
"content": "I have all the parts lying around right now to build this! i will jump on it and see how well it performs!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29223",
... | 1,760,377,860.581539 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/29/diy-ultra-wide-band-radar/ | DIY Ultra Wide Band Radar | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [] | [Andy] sent in
this
pdf (
mirror
) describing a simply diy UWB Radar project. It’s not intuitive, but by using a wide frequency range for low power, short distance purposes, the system should avoid interfering with other radio systems. The paper has a complete circuit schematic, and offers some suggestions for adding c... | 27 | 25 | [
{
"comment_id": "29203",
"author": "Dennis",
"timestamp": "2007-10-30T06:43:07",
"content": "Hmmm… I *do* have a kick-ass oscilloscope.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29204",
"author": "Aten",
"timestamp": "2007-10-30T06:46:03",
"c... | 1,760,377,862.693411 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/28/usb-gameboy-cartridge-project/ | USB Gameboy Cartridge Project | Will O'Brien | [
"Nintendo Game Boy Hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [] | [Jose] thinks that the
Little Sound DJ
is too expensive and hard to find. Now he’s
trying
to build an inexpensive USB programmable GameBoy cartridge. Currently he’s working with a
LPC2148 development board
. It’s not quite clear where he’s going with this. He certainly wants to add USB programming, but it seems that he... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "29192",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2007-10-29T04:26:30",
"content": "I’ve built a couple of GB carts for development, but they were all EPROM based (not EEPROM, EPROM). Combined with a little logic, I could make the thing scroll down whatever image I wanted, then flip to the... | 1,760,377,862.359922 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/28/followup-soldering-how-to/ | Followup: Soldering How-To | Will O'Brien | [
"how-to"
] | [] | The response to the
soldering How-To
was fantastic. You guys seem to want more and we’re looking forward to bringing you more How-Tos in the near future. If there’s a specific topic you’d like to see,
let us know
and I’ll see what we can do.
[justin] suggests picking up a flux pen with your next electronics order. I’ll... | 30 | 30 | [
{
"comment_id": "29165",
"author": "Bones",
"timestamp": "2007-10-29T01:19:53",
"content": "I’m a fan of metcal soldering stations myself. Used them for years at work. Also wanted to mention using distilled water in your sponge vs. tap water. It will help your tips last longer.",
"parent_id": nu... | 1,760,377,862.582611 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/27/speaker-as-a-microphone/ | Speaker As A Microphone | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [] | [Nathan] sent in his
speaker microphone project
. Speakers and microphones are physically similar – usually mics are much smaller to allow decent high frequency response. In this case, [Nathan] wanted something to pick up kick drums or bass guitars, without the cost of a commercial version like the
subkick
. It’s built... | 24 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "29147",
"author": "lonas",
"timestamp": "2007-10-28T05:53:29",
"content": "i once saw a guy from Shure re-wire an sm58 as a tiny speaker as a demonstration of this very concept.I especially like that he’s wired it up to be more than just a mic.Doing cool shit with junk is awesome.",... | 1,760,377,862.417384 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/26/stroboscope-led-fan-clock/ | Stroboscope LED Fan Clock | Will O'Brien | [
"computer hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"clock",
"stroboscope"
] | [sprite_tm] sent in one of his
latest
little adventures – and I love it. To create his
stroboscope
fan clock, he put a couple of red and green clock hands onto a standard PC fan(I love Panaflo fans), then he built a circuit to strobe a RGB LED to create a set of virtual clock hands on the spinning fan. An ATTiny2313 d... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "29140",
"author": "pelrun",
"timestamp": "2007-10-27T07:22:17",
"content": "That is one nifty hack – I think I’ll have to replicate this one… :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29141",
"author": "hitch",
"timestamp": "20... | 1,760,377,862.455466 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/26/how-to-introduction-to-soldering/ | How-To: Introduction To Soldering | Will O'Brien | [
"how-to"
] | [
"amp",
"breadboard",
"circuit",
"headphoneamp",
"howto",
"solder",
"soldering",
"solderingiron",
"wire"
] | It’s been a while since we’ve had a fresh How-To on the Hack-A-Day, and frankly we’ve missed them. To get things rolling, [Eliot] and I wanted to build a good knowledge base to help you hack your own stuff. I know that soldering won’t be new to many of our readers, but everyone has to start sometime. Our hope is simple... | 54 | 49 | [
{
"comment_id": "29091",
"author": "Eaterofpies",
"timestamp": "2007-10-26T18:46:16",
"content": "If you can’t get something decent to hold the PCB / things keep dropping out when you’re trying to solder them in place I recommend using blue tack to hold the components in place.Just put the component... | 1,760,377,862.876458 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/25/high-power-tvbgone/ | High Power TVBGone | Will O'Brien | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [] | [Ladyada]’s been busy lately. [bladdo] wrote in to tell me that she put together an extra powerful
kit version
of the TVBgone. This one’s supposed to be good for over 100 feet. If you really, really want to get your ass kicked during the super bowl, this baby in a sports bar should do the trick. There’s an optional pro... | 20 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "29072",
"author": "alex mccown",
"timestamp": "2007-10-26T07:43:44",
"content": "its a bit oldu can also replace the ir led of a ninja remote with a transistor and have that trigger like 50 ir leds and have a fucken huge one",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []... | 1,760,377,862.633674 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/24/1-wire-thermostat-control/ | 1-wire Thermostat Control | Will O'Brien | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"1-wire",
"pc thermostat",
"PcThermostat"
] | For some reason, computer controllable thermostats are
pretty
freakin’ expensive. I found a reference to a 1-wire thermostat in
this
(
mirror
) sample senior project on home automation. It turns out that Dallas Semiconductor put one together a while back as an application for their
TINI platform
. (web-application serv... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "29064",
"author": "Calvin",
"timestamp": "2007-10-25T10:18:57",
"content": "Great… I love the web archive wayback machine. It is so helpfull for finding old stuff.. you might want to know that othe pages (such as the cell phone jammer) are also on there (death to the 404 :) )",
... | 1,760,377,862.509227 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/23/cell-phone-taser/ | Cell Phone Taser | Will O'Brien | [
"Cellphone Hacks"
] | [] | I’m not going to reccomend it, but [cameron]
modded
his Sony Ericsson k800i to tase people as well as take pictures. Apparently, the k800i has a xenon flash – meaning that it’s got a high voltage potential available to drive the flash. He added a pair of 16uf caps and scored a good 300 volts to share with the unlucky.
... | 27 | 27 | [
{
"comment_id": "29039",
"author": "Metalwolf",
"timestamp": "2007-10-24T07:07:21",
"content": "I sorry, I just have to do this. anyone who has read digg the last few weeks will understand the joke.“Dont taze me, Bro!”(Woot, first post, havent had that in a while :3)",
"parent_id": null,
"de... | 1,760,377,862.787794 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/23/toorcon-9-retrieving-wep-keys-from-road-warriors/ | ToorCon 9: Retrieving WEP Keys From Road Warriors | Eliot | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"toorcon",
"toorcon9",
"wep",
"wifi"
] | [Vivek Ramachandran]’s Cafe Latte attack was one of the last talks we caught at ToorCon. I’ve found quite a few articles about it, but none really get it right. It’s fairly simple and deals with cracking WEP keys from unassociated laptops. First your WEP honeypot tells the client that it has successfully associated. Th... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,377,862.726024 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/22/tengu-clone/ | Tengu Clone | Will O'Brien | [
"Portable Audio Hacks"
] | [] | [Alex] sent in
his clone
of [Crispin Jones]’ tengu. The tengu is essentially a funky visual sound meter that looks like it’s lip syncing. [Alex]’s version is built around an ATMega48 microcontroller, an electric mic with a LM386 audio circuit and the required LED matrix display. There’s an example tengu video
here
– bu... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "29036",
"author": "davr",
"timestamp": "2007-10-23T10:03:49",
"content": "Thatâs pretty neat use of a LED matrix. I might see about doing something like that myself. I currently have a 8Ã8 bicolor LED matrix hooked up to an AVR, so far Iâve written a simple pong game.A video is... | 1,760,377,863.228142 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/21/fiber-optic-flash-ring/ | Fiber Optic Flash Ring | Will O'Brien | [
"digital cameras hacks",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"ccfl",
"inverter",
"led",
"photography"
] | Ring lights that surround the lens are generally used for macro photography – they’re not cheap, but they’re one of the few ways to get shadowless photos.
This
fiber optic flash diffuser is based on the same ideas of
this
one. Rather than use a few large optic strands, [Joris] is using many, many more to decrease shado... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "29030",
"author": "gj",
"timestamp": "2007-10-22T18:27:03",
"content": "Offtopic: could you guys give some more explanation about some hacks like the toorcon, i didnt understand what it was at all. So make it a little understandable for noobies like me.",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,377,863.338718 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/21/toorcon-9-uri-use-and-abuse/ | ToorCon 9: URI Use And Abuse | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"toorcon",
"uri"
] | [Nathan McFeters] and [Rob Carter] gave a presentation on the problems with URI handling. URIs are used to send commands to external applications from a web browser. itms:// for iTunes for example. Any application that registers a URI has the potential to be abused through this route. For their first example they showe... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "29029",
"author": "Napul",
"timestamp": "2007-10-24T15:09:27",
"content": "Informated Article… Appreciated!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,863.507025 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/21/toorcon-9-cdma-unlocking-and-modification/ | ToorCon 9: CDMA Unlocking And Modification | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"cdma",
"evdo",
"unlock",
"verizon"
] | [Alexander Lash] gave a short overview of what you need to unlock a CDMA phone. He strongly recommended
Howard Forums
for finding most of the info you need. You’ll probably need
BitPim
and the Qualcomm PST (product support tools). Using the PST you can flash your new carrier’s firmware and then activate the phone on th... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "29024",
"author": "Drew",
"timestamp": "2007-10-22T06:31:28",
"content": "what is that a picture of?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29025",
"author": "hal hockersmith",
"timestamp": "2007-10-22T18:26:07",
"content":... | 1,760,377,863.47349 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/20/drive-bay-poe-adapter/ | Drive Bay PoE Adapter | Will O'Brien | [
"computer hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [] | Sure, we’ve seen Power over Ethernet
before
– I even whipped up a
simple adapter
for my
modded wrt54gs
.
This
is a nice clean setup, and it’ll save you from yet another power brick. (I’ve got a power strip dedicated to the things in my tiny home data center.)
permalink | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "29016",
"author": "Urlax",
"timestamp": "2007-10-21T13:44:23",
"content": "why did he run the cable back to the front?he’d better let it run trough the pc, so it’s connected to the NIC at the back.. now its a cable just from the front to the back of the same pc!why didn’t he inserte... | 1,760,377,863.587982 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/20/toorcon-9-real-world-fuzzing/ | ToorCon 9: Real World Fuzzing | Eliot | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"iphone hacks",
"Uncategorized"
] | [] | We dropped in on [Charlie Miller]’s
fuzzing
seminar at the end of the day yesterday. Fuzzing become a fairly popular topic in the last year and essentially involves giving a program garbage input, hoping that it will break. If it can’t handle the fake data and fails in a non-graceful fashion, you could have found a pot... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "29012",
"author": "alex mccown",
"timestamp": "2007-10-21T02:24:06",
"content": "i thought fuzzing was dead but wow",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29013",
"author": "link",
"timestamp": "2007-10-21T05:12:47",
"conte... | 1,760,377,863.633225 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/19/toorcon-9-crypto-boot-camp/ | ToorCon 9: Crypto Boot Camp | Eliot | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"aes",
"crypto",
"des",
"rsa",
"sha"
] | [Rodney Thayer] gave a 2 hour seminar on cryptographic technology. It was designed to give the audience a working knowledge for dealing with vendors. He gave some rules of thumb for choosing encryption. In order of preference, when doing symmetric key crypto: use
AES
with a minimum 128bit key, if not that 3-key Triple-... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "29009",
"author": "Dom De Vitto",
"timestamp": "2007-10-20T12:42:57",
"content": "What about ECC ? ECC384 or larger, is stronger than 3DES and RSA1024, and is now getting old enough to be trustworthy….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment... | 1,760,377,863.547877 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/19/optical-headphone-amp/ | Optical Headphone Amp | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Portable Audio Hacks"
] | [
"amplifier",
"audio"
] | It looks like
this one’s
been out there for a while, but it doesn’t make it any less awesome. [Andrija] built this combination portable DAC/headphone amp. It takes optical audio input, feeds it through an analog devices AD1866 16bit/96khz decoder. After that, the audio is brought up to volume by an op-amp style headpho... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "29002",
"author": "aleex mccown",
"timestamp": "2007-10-19T20:53:26",
"content": "whats the point?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "29003",
"author": "Wolf",
"timestamp": "2007-10-20T00:52:11",
"content": "I can’t hel... | 1,760,377,863.674366 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/18/speaker-power-detection-circuit/ | Speaker Power Detection Circuit | Will O'Brien | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [] | This is an interesting way to monitor your speakers. [Keith] put together
this
speaker line monitor after a commenter requested it on his blog. It’s designed to check for power on the speaker line and drive a logic/led output. Apparently there’s some risk of shorting your amp, so he’s planning to redesign the input sta... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "28995",
"author": "HeBD",
"timestamp": "2007-10-19T08:32:12",
"content": "now if it could determine the max power the speaker could handle and adjust the amp power to match…. well its not what i thought it was :(does anybody know how to do that?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth":... | 1,760,377,863.767187 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/18/toorcon-9-this-week/ | ToorCon 9 This Week | Eliot | [
"News"
] | [] | We’re sitting in Chris and bunnie’s awesome
silicon hacking workshop
at
ToorCon 9
right now. It’s going really great and we’ll be posting updates from the conference through the weekend. Let us know if the comments if your going to be here too. | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "28981",
"author": "Jonathan",
"timestamp": "2007-10-18T23:34:54",
"content": "Is that Glenda the /cylon/ Plan 9 from Bell Labs Bunny?-Jonathan",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "28982",
"author": "pedro",
"timestamp": "2007... | 1,760,377,863.72417 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/17/quarter-shrinker-can-crusher-follow-up/ | Quarter Shrinker (can Crusher Follow-up) | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"dimes",
"high voltage",
"highvoltage",
"money hacks",
"MoneyHacks",
"quarters",
"toroid"
] | [
Paul Anderson
] sent in
this
classic quarter shrinker after seeing the can crusher the other day. It’s another high powered pulse shot into a coil system, but uses a solenoid actuated spark gap switch to swith those sweet high voltages. The results are quite
impressive
.
permalink | 11 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "28971",
"author": "CaliRaisin",
"timestamp": "2007-10-18T07:56:21",
"content": "50,000-100,000 amps… 3.5-6.3kJ dissipated in 20us… i think the “danger” sign is an understatement :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "28972",
"au... | 1,760,377,864.158079 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/16/home-brewing-beer-brewery/ | Home Brewing Beer Brewery | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"beer",
"homebrew"
] | I saw
this
last month in Popular Science, but it wasn’t online for a while. This (nearly) all-in-one brewery was built by [John Carnett]. It does everything but requires malt extract for now. It boils wort, cools it for fermenting, delivers the brew to the kegs and most interestingly to me – uses cold plate cooling to ... | 16 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "28957",
"author": "Brian",
"timestamp": "2007-10-17T08:17:41",
"content": "Awesome stuff..props to this one.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "28958",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2007-10-17T14:39:11",
"cont... | 1,760,377,864.209503 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/15/electromagnetic-aluminum-can-crushing/ | Electromagnetic Aluminum Can Crushing | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"awesome",
"electromagnetic",
"weapons"
] | This has been around for a while, but we never covered it – and it’s friggin’ awesome. [jesse] sent in
this
crusher, but I featured
this one
due to a sort of draconian copyright notice on the former. The latter also uses some easier to find, hackable parts. They’re both built on similar concepts – use a large bank of c... | 15 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "28942",
"author": "Peter",
"timestamp": "2007-10-16T06:59:11",
"content": "Your comments: My personal favorite can crusher is Peters (a different peter) athttp://tesladownunder.com/CanCrushing.htmAltair’s doesn’t really have enough energy to give the full effect if a crushing can, a... | 1,760,377,864.301459 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/14/usb-driver-hacking/ | USB Driver Hacking | Will O'Brien | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"game",
"software",
"usb"
] | [qDot] sent in
his
efforts to hack the oddest USB interface I’ve seen. The game is played by relaxing, so the controller senses biometrics. His notes on his adventure in hacking a driver are a bit entertaining, and definitely interesting if you’ve considered doing a little USB driver hacking of your own. If there’s eno... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "28932",
"author": "PHilip Freeman",
"timestamp": "2007-10-15T09:03:45",
"content": "YOu know…. you could turn this into a lie detector as well, if only you know how, as i dont, if anyone figures it out, let me know i think that would be real cool.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth... | 1,760,377,864.251973 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/14/3d-video-with-consumer-cameras/ | 3D Video With Consumer Cameras | Eliot | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"3d",
"camera",
"crystal",
"sony",
"sync",
"videocamera"
] | While perusing our photos from the
Hooptyrides, Inc. tour
you may have noticed [Eric Kurland]’s two handed stereoscopy rig. It’s constructed from two consumer grade Sony DV cameras. The problem with using two separate cameras to make stereo images or video is that a lack of clock sync will make objects appear out of th... | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "28918",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2007-10-15T03:27:53",
"content": "No example video? :(",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "28919",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2007-10-15T06:32:16",
"content": "yes example ... | 1,760,377,864.352367 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/14/side-project-cncbadges/ | Side Project: CNCBadges | Will O'Brien | [
"cnc hacks",
"News"
] | [] | Want something different for your latest PC? I’m starting to offer
custom CNC cut case badges
made on my mill. I’m starting off with 1″ x 1″ badges made from .125″ thick 6061 aluminum alloy. The test cuts above should give you a decent idea of what I’m talking about. (The edges are a bit rough because I need to order s... | 114 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "28804",
"author": "Weclock",
"timestamp": "2007-10-14T23:43:00",
"content": "This sounds really friggin’ cool, if I wasn’t strapped for cash right now, I’d get one.Also, this is my first comment here, at hackaday.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,377,864.518515 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/14/hooptyrides-inc-open-house/ | Hooptyrides, Inc. Open House | Eliot | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"dyno",
"hooptyrides",
"ipod",
"make"
] | We didn’t even pause for a second when offered a chance to tour Mr. Jalopy’s studio. Even if it meant a 600 mile roundtrip, we’d be there. You’ll probably recognize Mr. Jalopy as the author of
Hoopty Rides
and as a frequent
Make Magazine
contributor know for his
giant iPod
and
guerilla projector
.
Dorkbot SoCal
organiz... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "28799",
"author": "Nate",
"timestamp": "2007-10-14T17:45:23",
"content": "OMG Finally, pictures that are in color (Please keep color)! Very interesting writing by the way. The stuff in the pictures is very neat.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,377,864.606688 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/13/diy-coil-winding-machine/ | DIY Coil Winding Machine | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"hack",
"mod",
"pedometer",
"tools"
] | This
will probably be more useful to custom speaker builders, but coil winding has always been a bit tedious. [iwicom] put together a simple coil winder using a hand drill, a magnet, a reed switch that triggers a pedometer. Aside from the coil winder, I love the idea of using the pedometer as a cheap event counter.
per... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "28789",
"author": "tony",
"timestamp": "2007-10-14T08:47:05",
"content": "great device, probably will make one myself if i can get around to it. also, i think you spelt Pedometer wrong the second time.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_... | 1,760,377,864.436242 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/12/computer-controlled-lawn-defender/ | Computer Controlled Lawn Defender | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"visual processing",
"VisualProcessing",
"water cannon",
"WaterCannon"
] | I found this thanks to [Mark
Frauenfelder] on
BoingBoing
. The ‘
Waterhobo
‘ is a computer controlled sprinkler that fires upon anyone who’s cutting across the owners lawn. The
video
is pretty amusing. An infrared camera is mounted up top, and the computer measures motion in the image to determine if it should start fi... | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "28776",
"author": "smilr",
"timestamp": "2007-10-13T10:26:07",
"content": "Now the neighbor needs to ask him to build a second of these to put on the other side – full coverage of the grass between the houses = no more kid problems.Although if it was me I’d got with a standard PIR d... | 1,760,377,864.562295 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/11/nobel-prize-hard-drive-hacking-roundup/ | Nobel Prize Hard Drive Hacking Roundup | Will O'Brien | [
"computer hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"News"
] | [] | Ironically, high end gear is moving toward solid state hard drives, but I think it’s time for a hard drive hacking roundup in honor of the
Nobel prize for physics
being awarded for the technology behind todays magnetic hard drives.
We recently saw this awesome
hard drive clock
– which uses the actual drive hardware to... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "28771",
"author": "Dids",
"timestamp": "2007-10-12T08:15:02",
"content": "Yay! Hack A Day now has 100 pages of hacks, sweet job guys!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "28772",
"author": "waggy",
"timestamp": "2007-10-12T10... | 1,760,377,864.389038 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/09/26/make-your-own-jacobs-ladder-and-other-hv-fun/ | Make Your Own Jacobs Ladder And Other HV Fun | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [] | We’ve covered a few
tesla coils
, but somehow we never hit this classic – making your own
jacobs ladder
. The spark climbing the increasing gap between a pair of electrodes is easy enough to create – just get a high voltage transformer (like a neon sign transformer), make a set of insulated electrodes and wire things u... | 16 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "28533",
"author": "alex mccown",
"timestamp": "2007-09-27T09:49:32",
"content": "FINELY more hv fun i love hv and have several Tesla Coils",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "28534",
"author": "Scott",
"timestamp": "2007-09-... | 1,760,377,864.890428 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/09/25/convert-a-dvd-r-drive-into-a-lab-scanner/ | Convert A DVD-R Drive Into A Lab Scanner | Will O'Brien | [
"Laser Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"cdr",
"dvdr",
"laser scanner",
"LaserScanner"
] | [bodiby] was first to send in
this
New Scientist article about converting a DVD drive into a lab scanner. I did some digging and came up with the details. Here’s
the paper
describing the process and results. Here’s a basic
schematic and description
of the mod. A set of samples is placed onto a CDR. A photo sensor is us... | 17 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "28521",
"author": "Tony",
"timestamp": "2007-09-25T22:29:07",
"content": "Now that’s a nice hack.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "28522",
"author": "michael mcwilliams",
"timestamp": "2007-09-26T00:52:07",
"content":... | 1,760,377,864.841559 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/09/24/serial-output-for-your-weather-station/ | Serial Output For Your Weather Station | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"AVR",
"serial",
"weather"
] | I spent part of my weekend with some sort of stomach virus, so Eliot stepped in for me yesterday. I’m taking next week off, so we’ll have a special guest starting Friday – but I’m not revealing who just yet.
[Fickara] sent in his
AVR interface
(in Italian) for an Oregon Scientific remote weather station. Thanks to the ... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "28514",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2007-09-25T15:31:29",
"content": "“…we’ll have a special guest starting Friday – but I’m not revealing who just yet.”please be Ben Heckendorn!!highest profile hacker I could think of.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"repli... | 1,760,377,865.076885 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/09/23/fon-mp3-streaming-router/ | FON Mp3 Streaming Router | Eliot | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"fon",
"fonera",
"router",
"wireless"
] | I was looking for streaming solutions the other day. Little did I know that [John] would be sending in a hack for
adding an mp3 decoder board to the La Fonera
. The final device has both a web and command line interface which let you connect to any shoutcast/icecast streaming server. John has even gone so far as to pro... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "28509",
"author": "atrain",
"timestamp": "2007-09-24T07:41:40",
"content": "can’t get to the site, but looks like a great idea!Missed out on all the fon fun, had one originally before people started doing really cool hardware hacks with them. Had mine running DD-WRT through a serial... | 1,760,377,865.031514 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/09/22/timing-attack-xbox-360-kernel-downgrade/ | Timing Attack XBox 360 Kernel Downgrade | Will O'Brien | [
"Xbox Hacks"
] | [] | [Xantium] let me know about the latest from the XBox Scene. The attack that was just a
proof of concept
is now a fully released hack. [Robinsod] released
details
on how to perform the ‘Timing Attack’ in order to downgrade the 360s kernel to a hackable version. The hack requires an infectus mod chip, a
PIC interface
bui... | 15 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "28499",
"author": "dave",
"timestamp": "2007-09-23T19:01:03",
"content": "I have a modded xbox (not 360). I love it, xbox media center allows me to put games, videos, emulators, anything I want on it. With a 250 gb hard drive upgrade, it is a home media pc.I’d buy a 360 immediatel... | 1,760,377,865.132936 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/09/21/hybrid-robot/ | Hybrid Robot | Will O'Brien | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"hybrid",
"hybrid robot",
"HybridRobot",
"jetpack",
"overlords",
"robots"
] | [Coley] sent in
this
port of jetpack for the propeller uc, but when I started poking around I discovered this sweet
hybrid robot
platform. A four stroke Robin/Subaru 35cc motor drives a car alternator, providing virtually unlimited (in the robot world) power on demand. Hit the video after the break for a quick R/C demo... | 20 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "28479",
"author": "Frogz",
"timestamp": "2007-09-21T23:05:49",
"content": "hmm… i wonder what i can do with that 4 hp engine i have…suggestions? maybe it’ll be the next cool hackits a 4 hp briggs and stratton upright 4 cycle lawnmower engine",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,377,865.261159 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/09/20/in-bag-usb-cable/ | In Bag USB Cable | Will O'Brien | [
"laptops hacks",
"Mac Hacks"
] | [] | Ever had a USB cable sticking out of your laptop bag? I’ve done it many time while I’ve been traveling. James built a
simple right angle USB cable
so he could keep things tucked away and damage free. He epoxied a connector to some proto board, then soldered things back together.
permalink | 29 | 29 | [
{
"comment_id": "28452",
"author": "Adam",
"timestamp": "2007-09-21T00:04:21",
"content": "What passes for hacks these days sure is weak",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "28453",
"author": "twistedsymphony",
"timestamp": "2007-09-21T00:44:... | 1,760,377,865.200871 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/03/breathing-walls-with-shape-memory-alloy-wire/ | Breathing Walls With Shape Memory Alloy Wire | fabienneserriere | [
"home hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"architecture",
"flexinol",
"interactive",
"movement",
"shapememoryalloy",
"sma"
] | When you need something quietly bending or moving, don’t underestimate SMA’s (or
Shape Memory Alloys
). The Living Glass project by architects [David Benjamin] and [Soo-in Yang] catalogs an experiment in building interactive, flexible, “breathing”, walls out of SMA wire and microcontrollers. Although they use Basic Sta... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "28606",
"author": "Mike Witt",
"timestamp": "2007-10-04T02:38:01",
"content": "For anyone that wants some Flexinol(TM) Wire (that’s the SMA wire) you can find it at Jameco.I had seen it in their catalog before, and now I might just have to get some.",
"parent_id": null,
"dep... | 1,760,377,865.307411 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/02/interactive-textile-construction/ | Interactive Textile Construction | fabienneserriere | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"buechley",
"e-textile",
"etextile",
"leah buechley",
"leahbuechley",
"lilypad",
"microcontroller",
"sparkfun",
"wearable"
] | The e-textile construction kit by [Leah Buechley] consists of stitch-able sensors and microcontrollers. Stitch-able refers to the fact that these parts can be sewn with a needle and thread into wearable clothing or other fabric-based housings. A
paper
(PDF) on the e-textile construction kit project contains the first v... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "28603",
"author": "hsvsunshyn",
"timestamp": "2007-10-02T18:59:50",
"content": "-obligatory-All fine and good, just do not go to Boston wearing it. Especially the wearable LED stuff…This is pretty cool, though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,377,865.391813 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/01/openbeacon-active-rfid-platform/ | OpenBeacon: Active RFID Platform | fabienneserriere | [
"Uncategorized"
] | [
"ccc",
"openbeacon",
"OpenSource",
"privacy",
"rfid",
"sputnik",
"tracking"
] | The OpenBeacon project is an open source hardware and software active RFID device. OpenBeacon tags consist of 2.4GHz transceivers and a PIC16F684. One use of the project was to create
CCC Sputnik
to show the downsides to information culled using data mining from large tracking systems. People who chose to participate a... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "28593",
"author": "CaptainQueeg",
"timestamp": "2007-10-01T18:53:16",
"content": "A question for you RFID’ers out there….Are RFID ping response times consistent enough to use the total round trip time of a ping and reply as a measure of distance, good to an inch or so?",
"parent... | 1,760,377,865.353663 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/09/30/read-every-bit-on-a-dvd/ | Read Every Bit On A DVD | fabienneserriere | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks",
"Xbox Hacks"
] | [
"bit",
"bits",
"cypress",
"data",
"dvd",
"raw"
] | If you are curious about reading all the bits on a DVD, [tmbinc] has
devised a hardware hack
that uses a Pioneer DVD drive with leads soldered onto it and a Cypress FX2 microcontroller board to grab the flow of bits and push them over USB2.0. My favorite part of this tutorial is when you slow the spinning DVD down very... | 16 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "28580",
"author": "james",
"timestamp": "2007-10-01T01:19:47",
"content": "hmmmmmm this could help in making xbox 360 backups",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "28581",
"author": "steve",
"timestamp": "2007-10-01T02:45:32",... | 1,760,377,865.827327 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/09/29/automatic-jtag-pinout-detection/ | Automatic JTAG Pinout Detection | fabienneserriere | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"handhelds hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"automatic",
"firmware",
"jtag",
"jtag finder",
"jtag tools",
"JtagFinder",
"JtagTools",
"pinout"
] | Figuring out the JTAG pinout on a device turns out to be the most time consuming hardware portion of many hacks. [hunz] started a project called
JTAG Finder
to automatically detect the JTAG pinouts on arbitrary devices using an 8bit AVR ATmega16/32L microcontroller. Check out the
slides
(PDF) from the talk as they brea... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "28570",
"author": "Myself",
"timestamp": "2007-09-29T19:00:20",
"content": "ABOUT DAMN TIME, is all I can say! (and that would be all caps, if this infernal site didn’t make all my first-person pronouns improper along with slaughtering my grammar!)Seriously, good job, guys! I’ve tos... | 1,760,377,865.874151 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/09/28/fnordlicht-rgb-mixing-led-light/ | Fnordlicht: RGB Mixing LED Light | fabienneserriere | [
"LED Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"color",
"colormixing",
"fnord",
"fnordlicht",
"led",
"light",
"mixing",
"rgb"
] | While [Will] goes and hides in his offshore datashelter, Hack-A-Day is happy to welcome back our veteran foreign correspondent [fbz]. She promises future posts will have far less ‘German by example’. -[Eliot]
The
Fnordlicht
is a color mixing LED platform with free hardware schematics and open source firmware initially ... | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "28556",
"author": "steve",
"timestamp": "2007-09-28T22:57:23",
"content": "leds are rubbish get some decent hacks on this site for god sake",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "28557",
"author": "twistedsymphony",
"timestamp"... | 1,760,377,865.980548 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/09/27/usb-20-fpga-based-24-channel-logic-analyzer/ | USB 2.0 FPGA Based 24 Channel Logic Analyzer | Will O'Brien | [
"computer hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"awesome",
"fpga",
"logic analyser",
"logicanalyser"
] | [lekernel] sent in his USB logic analyzer. I might just have to build this one for my work bench. It’s based on an Altera Cyclone 2 FPGA and he’s provided full schematics, source and a quick and dirty Linux driver to get things going. The board is nearly all surface mount, but he points out that the entire thing was so... | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "28544",
"author": "Eddy A",
"timestamp": "2007-09-28T06:56:16",
"content": "sounds like you’re going to Grand Cayman. I’m living there right now for Medical School (i’m from S. Fl). Great diving here.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_i... | 1,760,377,865.927802 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/10/joule-thief-led-driver/ | Joule Thief LED Driver | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [] | [Bird603568] sent in
this
sweet little LED hack that’ll drive a white LED from just 1.5 volts. The circuit consists of a pair of coils wound on a ferrite core, a resistor and a NPN transistor. He notes that the circuit still functions even at .35v. The version pictured is even small enough to fit inside a normal flashl... | 30 | 29 | [
{
"comment_id": "28753",
"author": "Ben Jackson",
"timestamp": "2007-10-11T09:02:28",
"content": "I made one of those (from the linked instructions) a long time ago, and it didn’t work for me. In fact, I just found it on my desk in a cleanup and threw it away.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": ... | 1,760,377,866.040641 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/09/pulse-soldering-iron/ | Pulse Soldering Iron | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"diy",
"pulse soldering",
"PulseSoldering",
"soldering",
"transformer"
] | I’m always interested in
new ways
to solder. [SPman] sent in this diy pulse soldering iron. It heats up in 5 seconds on demand, then cools in about 15. The writeup is a bit terse (since it’s translated from Russian), but it would definitely be handy for larger wiring jobs. The transformer is hand wound, and an oscillat... | 28 | 28 | [
{
"comment_id": "28715",
"author": "FlyingAvatar",
"timestamp": "2007-10-10T06:40:43",
"content": "Isn’t this the same as those “Cold Heat” soldering irons which pretty much suck for real soldering?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "28716",
"a... | 1,760,377,866.364334 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/08/build-your-own-car-from-scratch/ | Build Your Own Car… From Scratch | Will O'Brien | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"builld your own",
"BuilldYourOwn",
"diy car",
"DiyCar"
] | Most of us settle for modding the latest car we’ve bought. [Steve Graber] took another approach and
built his own
car from scratch. [John] sent in this impressive project. The original was built around Toyota MR2 parts and
the body
was made from fiberglass after the design was hand made from a wooden support frame, foa... | 42 | 42 | [
{
"comment_id": "28682",
"author": "Steffen Hunt",
"timestamp": "2007-10-09T06:13:09",
"content": "I was looking at the battery charger circuit and I saw it had a 7805 which if my memory services right, is a linear voltage regulator. I avoid those now, because they are typically very inefficient. ... | 1,760,377,866.442825 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/07/25-head-mounted-display/ | $25 Head Mounted Display | Will O'Brien | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Portable Video Hacks"
] | [
"eyeglasses",
"headset",
"vr"
] | [Jake] sent in his source for a
cheap head mounted display
. In his writeup he notes that the
spy video car
comes with quite a pile of handy electronics – video tx/rx, camera and this simple black and white monocle head mounted display. (Which happens to be available as a replacement unit for a mere $20) The screen is ... | 29 | 29 | [
{
"comment_id": "28658",
"author": "Weirdguy",
"timestamp": "2007-10-08T07:08:56",
"content": "Do you know what this means? Crap, I can think of about 100 ideas for this off the top of my head! Let me buy this buy a beer!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comme... | 1,760,377,866.161894 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/06/back-from-belize-extra/ | Back From Belize Extra | Will O'Brien | [
"computer hacks",
"handhelds hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"Nintendo Game Boy Hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks",
"Portable Audio Hacks"
] | [
"audio recorder",
"AudioRecorder",
"gameboy",
"hackaday tatoo",
"hackaday tattoo",
"HackadayTatoo",
"HackadayTattoo",
"preamp",
"tattoo",
"usb flash",
"UsbFlash"
] | Yesterday, I was standing on a tropical island off the coast of
Belize
. Vacation rocked with lots of SCUBA diving, spearfishing and snorkeling. I’m back home, shaking off the jet lag and clearing up my inbox. Thanks to [fabienne] for filling in and letting me unplug for a while!
[Darkrom] has set a
new standard
for Ha... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "28646",
"author": "Peter",
"timestamp": "2007-10-07T04:10:46",
"content": "man, I say we get posts like this every day!I particularly like the cartridge cleaner hack. Guess everything does look like a hammer when you have a nail ;-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"rep... | 1,760,377,866.207953 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2007/10/05/roasting-pan-audio-amplifier/ | Roasting Pan Audio Amplifier | fabienneserriere | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"Portable Audio Hacks"
] | [
"amp",
"amplifier",
"audio",
"cooking",
"pan",
"roasting"
] | When you need a rigid, vibration-free chassis for your amplifier, look no further than a
roasting pan
. I’ve used cast cement for subwoofers, but using a cooking pan bolted to a heavy wooden chopping board is a cheap way to get a rigid surface on which to build audio gear. The amp circuitry used by [Mark] is not comple... | 17 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "28630",
"author": "...",
"timestamp": "2007-10-06T01:54:44",
"content": "I fail to see how a solid state amp could be affected in any way whatsoever by vibrations that would be stopped by using a beefy chassis… Seriously, are you worried about getting voltages induced by minute vib... | 1,760,377,866.09364 |
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