hackaday links

hackaday links

if you liked today’s spy-lamp-mic-amp for the electronics, check out the portable minty headphone amp that also uses the cmoy amp design.
if you liked it for the lamp mod, check out the linux honeypot case mod.

more info on chu moy amps

mini-maglite led conversion [grimtrekkie]
get 6 times your normal flashlight battery life.
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covert desk lamp mic

spy mic
hackaday reader john young writes:

This is a beautiful hack.  Australian grad student Scott Mitchell turned a (pedigreed, as it turns out) sixties desk lamp into a parabolic microphone, a la Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation.”  If that movie had spy-desk-lamps, that is.

the result is a really nice looking, covert, directional mic with integrated amp.  the cmoy amp circuit … Read the rest

xbox landing lights mod

xbox light mod

in response to last week’s basic stamp howto, steve ries sent in a nice looking xbox mod.

I recently made that crazy “light mod” you spoke of at the end of the article, except it was for my xbox.  Check it out and let me know what you think. I even have video links on that web page, as

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rfid dartmail

dartmail

in a last ditch effort to avoid thesis work, tony tang and eric pattison hacked together dartmail, a ballistic file transfer protocol.

The head of the Dart contains an RFID tag. By waving the tag over the reader, the ‘shooter’ can attach a handle to any electronic file (located in a shared file system) to the dart. After being shot,

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homebrew mac mini dock

mac mini dock hack

hackaday reader lazzwaldo writes:

I’m too impatient to wait for someone else to come up with this, so here’s a quick’n’dirty (working) prototype of a Mac Mini Dock so I can use it in my truck or Jeep as a CarPuter, then be able to unplug it and take it elsewhere.

It consists of milled aluminum stock (perforated for ventilation),

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hackaday links

hackaday links test 2

superhero makes car boot hack irrelevant [aienan]

ladyada (of minty mp3 fame) made a personal cellphone jammer called the wave bubble as part of her masters thesis.

i mentioned that a wifi jammer would also be neat.  here’s a link to a prototype that jams everything but your own connection. [simon]

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hacking a car boot

car boot

what a drag, your car got booted… Read the rest