Hack-A-Day Extra
posted Feb 9th 2006 7:00am by Eliot Phillipsfiled under: Uncategorized
I told my friend that I would promote his radio show, but we would probably DOS the streaming server. He said, “Go for it!” If you are interested in dance/electronica, listen to You are so beautiful, beautiful robot every Thursday, 7-9PM CST. Click for the live stream.
[Sean Hillmeyer] notified us that DC480 will be handling the TCP/IP Enabled Contest at Defcon again this year. The contest rules are on their site. We saw at least one of the entries last year.
It has been nearly a month since I put one of these posts together. Which means our Team Hack-A-Day folding team has produced over 12.5 million points and are now in the top 50. Watch out team “Linux”?! Continue reading for lots of links.
[scout] pointed out another wireless mod for Austar antennas.
[Chris Martin] still needs to add fiber optics to light up the laser on his Death Star thumb drive.
CalPolyPomona is working on Generic Interpreter, a program that creates just-in-time interpreters in Java. [Xor_pettit]
Tom’s Networking ran a series of articles on using an Xbox as NAS: Parts one, two, and three [default]
openEyes is pursuing low cost eye tracking and has some information on the software involved. [Alex]
[MAT_THE_W] made a protective acrylic cover for his monitor.
Bad Brothers Racing has updated their site and are continuing to make progress on their jet-bike.
[Standard Mischief]’s guide to zeroing your Google cookie.
Dustin Kirk’s RFID blocking duct tape wallet. Wouldn’t it be better to use foil tape instead of tape and foil? [andrew chiong via Lifehacker]
How-to modify the images on your Mobiblu MP3 player. [blt]
[eric]’s paper clip and rubber band pen holder. I’d hate to be around when that thing explodes.
[Jakeh]’s semi-automatic rubber band gun from a pizza box
Drivers for using the EyeToy as a webcam [Enrique]
Make your own Griffin Powermate. This is on my list of things to build. [GRimo]
Floppy disk striped RAID under OS X [tutejszy]
[shtoink] pointed out that our friend Jason Rollette has been working on version 2 of his underwater ROV.
[n2ei] reminded us that the 19th Annual Winter Shortwave Listeners Fest (SWL Fest) will be March 3-4 in Kulpsville, PA.
[Chris Rybitski]’s LED LEGO bricks
[sprocket] has grafted a LEGO RCX into his Roboraptor.
[Lance]’s joke guide to turning a PocketPC into an iPod.
[fastmhz]’s portable NES
Guide for repairing common laptop problems
Video of opening a lock with a banana [mat]
[Burke] wrote a serial interface for XMMS that will work with our Winamp controller.
Spark Fun’s guide to reflowing solder using an electric skillet [agent420]
[thoughtfix]’s USB power injector for peripherals that can’t get enough power from the host.
[gordon]’s night ops eraser
256bytes demos archive [Daedalus]
[computerguru365] replaces a USB port on his Blackberry.
A couple projects by Hack-A-Day readers were featured on other sites today:
[Joseph] is selling his i-Tablet on eBay.
[Artypete]’s Mac Mini portable
too bad the 8-bit nes doesnt have more pics. but that’s ok
oh and also, why bother shortening your usb drive? half an inch isn’t really gonna make any difference.
the article on google’s cookie is really interesting, I didn’t know about that
great post, eliot, I love the hack-a-day extras.
Posted at 7:21 pm on Feb 9th, 2006 by william