[Eliot] and I hit [Major Malfunction]‘s talk about RFID hacking. He’s put together a set of python scripts to read – and write RFID tags. He demo’d cloning a few tags – along with someone’s implanted RFID that’s used to lock and unlock a laptop. (It looked like the reader in the kit from ThinkGeek.) He’s kind enough to … Read the rest
RFIDIOt – RFID IO tools
March 25, 2007 By 11 Comments
Add text to speech to a Garmin C510/530 GPS
March 24, 2007 By 8 Comments
[josh] pointed out this hack for Garmin C510 and C530 GPS units. The newer C550 and C580′s feature text to speech directions. [Phil Hornby] put together a walk through that will add this valuable feature to the older units. He took advantage of the firmware similarities of the various Garmin units and got it working. The hack requires some compromises … Read the rest
Make your coffee with a laser
March 24, 2007 By 34 Comments
[Mr Beam] sent this in yesterday, but I didn’t have a chance to get it up til now. These guys are using a 2Kw laser to heat up their instant coffee and tea. Sure, it’s not a hack, but [Eliot] wanted it up, and who doesn’t want their own 2Kw Laser?… Read the rest
New bling for shmoocon!
March 23, 2007 By 15 Comments
[Eliot] and I are in D.C. at Shmoocon for the weekend. We’re armed with the latest Hack-A-Day sticker. Find us here and we’ll hook you up. Right now we’re checking out [H1kari]‘s talk on using FPGA’s for high speed encryption key cracking. By using dedicated FPGA hardware, they’re smoking dual core Intel’s left and right for the calculations. He also … Read the rest
Nokia LCD in a laptop
March 22, 2007 By 6 Comments
I was poking around and ran across this interesting mod in progress. It’s mostly a study in customizing an old laptop, but embedding a Nokia LCD in the palm rest is an interesting little hack. The LCD was taken from a Nokia 3310 and modded to connect to the parallel port. (Probably with a circuit like this one)… Read the rest
Make a small coilgun (aka coilosapien update)
March 21, 2007 By 8 Comments
Remember the coilosapien? I hopped over and found that [marcus] wrote a tutorial on his mini coil gun. He beefed up a disposable camera charging circuit with some extra capacitors to drive the coil, and used a small servo for his automatic reload mechanism. Everything you need to arm your robots.… Read the rest
Bonus: Buffalo Terastation hacking
March 20, 2007 By 13 Comments
Just a bonus hack in honor of my new toy: a 1GB 1TB buffalo Terastation NAS. These puppies run embedded Linux, and have a decent user base. Mine came with 128MB of ram, four Samsung drives (each with their own IDE bus), RAID support, gigabit ethernet, USB 2.0 and a Motorola Sandpoint cpu. (Putting it on par with my … Read the rest
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