Comments on: Staples Easy Button hacking

By: Benzmx5

Benzmx5 — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:20:44 +0000

This should be part of a 2 part hack. First you have to hack a wireless keyboard, so that you can insert the SHIFT + DEL keys and the wireless function into the EASY BUTTON. Then you hack the easy button to use the shift + Del and send it wirelessly to the usb dongle. Now you have a recipe for EVIL.

By: rdriver

rdriver — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:23:33 +0000

I see a couple already hacked on ebay.

By: jim

jim — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:11:35 +0000

This rocks!

I would have mine give off a evil laugh… after doing a shift+delete!

By: colonel62359

colonel62359 — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:01:48 +0000

In Canada we send the proceeds to special olympics (yes I’m a staples sales associate). I proposed this mod to one of the guys in furniture, who wants to mod one and keep it around in the area… I think some of the female colleagues in the store will WTF at this. You’d be surprised at how many of those tricks we sell though…

By: Frogz

Frogz — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 06:10:50 +0000

‘that was sleazey’ all i gotta say

By: uncle joe

uncle joe — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:27:55 +0000

boring hack (more like a case swap)
still some for someone to reflash or something else creative.

By: eVAN

eVAN — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:26:29 +0000

its not that they hate staples, just the button. Its annoying and pretty much mocks you.

By: MIke

MIke — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:26:14 +0000

I would like to let every one know staples does not make any money off of the easy button. Staples donates the proceeds to the boys and girls foundation. So they are doing a good deed. I have always had great service there my self.

By: conor

conor — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:36:33 +0000

#16 You’re right…my bad grammar…I just meant in the n00b sense of the word permanent

By: Professor Bagelwood

Professor Bagelwood — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:54:01 +0000

Ehh, no, it’s not permanent. Shift-Delete has the same result that emptying the recycle bin does (it just deletes the thing that points to the data). Data is almost always not permanently deleted.

By: conor

conor — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:43:05 +0000

shift+delete permanently deletes files

By: dan

dan — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:29:52 +0000

what does the shift-delete sequence do?

By: Matt Sandy

Matt Sandy — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:14:40 +0000

Good job man… you made the front page of digg.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:00:19 +0000

This is the most worthless thing yet on hackaday that I’ve seen.. there’s something to be said for a site that has a build your own CNC router one day and the next day they’re hacking easy buttons

By: Pick

Pick — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:42:51 +0000

#7: An easy button is made by Staples, when you press it, it says “That was easy” (“That was easy” is Staples slogan.). Go to http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?prodCatType=0&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&productId=130700&cmArea=SEARCH to see the page for it on Staples web-site.

“My roommate thought it would be funny if someone wired it to generate the shift+delete key sequence.”
It seems easy to do, all you have to do is wire a button to the contact points on the keyboard. Look at http://www.mameworld.net/emuadvice/hack.pdf for more info, yes, it maybe for MAME arcade machines, but it will tell you how to do it.