thats japanese guy has got some mad cardboard skills!

Posted at 2:36 pm on May 26th, 2005 by Pedro

this is what I do not understand, why aren

Posted at 2:41 pm on May 26th, 2005 by barrny fafarny

REALY old links make me sad…)-:

Posted at 2:44 pm on May 26th, 2005 by rob

Japanese cardboard cases have been around for a while. This link and the others have been around for over 2 years! The pictures are missing a outer box that goes over the case to make it complete.

A year ago I took a cheap Syntax S8601MP and put it inside a hexagonal cardboard bin I brought for $1.49 at one of those Japanese 99c Plus’s in NYC. I cut out holes for the shield and poked two holes out in front for the power button. I was even able to fit a laptop DVDrom drive inside, powersupply, the whole works. If I can still find pictures of it I’ll post it up at my site. OS? Xandros.

Posted at 3:43 pm on May 26th, 2005 by Sean Su

I gave my father the same pendrive as in the usb cassete link (sony microvault), it broke in *exactly* the same place!! What a ‘coincidence’!

Posted at 4:45 pm on May 26th, 2005 by Hans

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Posted May 26, 2005, 2:41 PM ET by barrny fafarny this is what I do not understand, why aren

Posted at 5:22 pm on May 26th, 2005 by craash420

man i really got to get that movie!!!

Posted at 5:52 pm on May 26th, 2005 by Graham.mackie

barrny & craash420,
Vince posts pretty much everything that comes in. If I don’t grab something for a feature it ends up here. That being said, I probably would have used the skype phone if I had seen it in time. I don’t think the rest of the links really need a full post for various reasons: case mods are not hacks, widely covered old links, slashdot covered new links, lazy afternoon simple. The speaker wire tip was the only one I’ve used for a feature recently. If you’ve got quality stuff send it in and I’ll be more than happy to dedicate a post to it. You could also be like Christoffer, who put up the skype phone page because he’s a fan of hackaday and wanted to give something back.

Posted at 6:28 pm on May 26th, 2005 by eliot phillips

my 12 year old sister has this hair braiding thing that makes a braid out of 3 strands. i think it was like 15 bucks. if you could stand the shame of buying one, it might save some time…

Posted at 6:53 pm on May 26th, 2005 by joelanders

The skype phone is cool but very limited, because don’t you have to be at your pc to initiate calls? And surely using a bluetooth dongle and headset would be simpler if not handier as it is hands free?

Posted at 7:40 pm on May 26th, 2005 by chris

yeah, but using a bluetooth dongle is not a hack, where hacking an old phone is. But is it still a hack if I use a scope to do the job properly rather than just poke around with an audio source? I think I’ll actually do this hack, I have an old phone that’s pretty busted.

All the Skype guys need to do to support gear like this, is listen for DTMF tones on the mic input. That would result in homebrew/commercial phones galore, and probably a large popularity jump for the service. Listening, skype?

Posted at 10:43 pm on May 26th, 2005 by rectifier

Re:dtmf tones.

Couldn’t one just make a small program to listen on the mic line for the tones and then interact with the skype app via the api?

Maybe it could listen for a certain combo to initiate a call “555″ and then the rest of the tones for the area code and number

Posted at 12:34 am on May 27th, 2005 by spf15

What would be even more hackier is to make a program that, like said above, listens to the tones. You’d then just type in a phonenumber, and the app would fetch the phonenumber from your adressbook and see if that person is only in skype, if it is, it would connect to it via skype.

If it is not, however, it would figure out what would be the cheapest: using skypout (e.g. if it’s international, or not mobile), or using the standard phoneline (e.g. if it’s local, or mobile), and then connect with the appropriate service. It’d be costsaving!

Posted at 3:57 am on May 27th, 2005 by David

It shouldn’t be hard to recognise dial tones. Just search for dtmf at freshmeat, there are some projects there (like dtmfkit).

Posted at 6:45 am on May 27th, 2005 by Hans

david: Just looked at the skype page and found the API is available now.
http://www.skype.com/community/devzone/SkypeAPIforLinux.html

Not only does it appear easier than pie to use, but it’s so easy that the program probably already exists somewhere ;)

Posted at 12:25 am on May 28th, 2005 by rectifier

plz hacker yahoo emael

password yahoo email from yahoohelper

Posted at 1:32 pm on Jul 3rd, 2006 by ahmed