Greg Miller prides himself on his dumpster-diving ability. To encourage others to take up the terrestrial sport he developed this Tesla coil built entirely from trash (Coral cache link). The power supply is from a neon sign he found behind a frat house. The capacitor bank is constructed from high voltage caps found in televisions. The spark gap is a pair of 1/4 inch bolts. The primary coil is … [Read more...]
Happy New Year
December 31, 2005 By 16 Comments
We hope you have a happy and safe holiday. Thanks for reading! … [Read more...]
Simon Christmas wreath
December 30, 2005 By 5 Comments
Alright, one last holiday hack before we finish out the year. Every Christmas Eve [ryan rose]'s family has a contest with a new theme. The challenge this year was to construct a Christmas wreath. Ryan decided to make a Simon Christmas wreath. He cut up a string of lights to produce the four separate color regions. He triggered the lights using an opti-isolator circuit and built buttons that look … [Read more...]
Couch bike
December 29, 2005 By 10 Comments
Brent Curry had been planning on taking a trip and with previous adventures testing both his endurance and comfort, he decided to construct a new vehicle to for his travels. The couch bike has two independent gear trains and uses a tiller handle to control the front wheels. Brent and his Norwegian cohort Eivind used the bike to explore Maritime Canada. They only drew attention from the cops 3 … [Read more...]
Hack-A-Day Extra
December 29, 2005 By 10 Comments
From the photo above you can see the holidays have been treating me pretty well. [bugloaf] brought a bottle of pisco back from Peru for me. My parents mounted the laser-cut logo that [smouldering-dog] had sent me. They also gave me a copy of The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor. I should have it finished by Shmoocon, so if you see me … [Read more...]
22C3 Day 00 and 01 Round Up
December 28, 2005 By 6 Comments
Today and yesterday's 22C3 included tons of fun hacker stuff. Highlights from day 00 and 01 included a slew of topics from politics to hardcore geekery. We toured the CCC's annual hackfest to bring you the best of the new hacks. We commence our tour with Hack-A-Day's friend Dan "I Like Big Graphs and I Cannot Lie" Kaminsky. Dan presented yummy OpenGL graphics and DNS cache proof of the Sony … [Read more...]
Chaos Computer Club’s 22C3 Congress
December 28, 2005 By 15 Comments
Hack-A-Day is here at 22C3: Private Investigations, the Chaos Computer Club's annual hacker conference in snow covered Berlin, Germany. The CCC's annual Congress is the European answer to Las Vegas located DEFCON. This 22nd annual conference has been lengthened from three days to four to be able to accommodate more talks. We'll be here all week reporting on the coolest hardware hack topics at the … [Read more...]
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