Not the hack o’ the day, but you guys might have noticed that I’ve been pretty quiet on the engadget How-To front. I’ve been spending all my spare time in my garage working on a CNC conversion for the mini mill I bought a few months ago. It features pic based microstepping controllers that handle up to 54 volts and … Read the rest
Everybody needs one
April 18, 2007 By 12 Comments
Ben Heck’s Xbox 360 Laptop Mk II
April 17, 2007 By 17 Comments
I’ve known this was coming for a while. [Ben]‘s been working hard on this for a while. He’s built his second Xbox 360 laptop. But this time he’s putting up a three part How-To series on building it for engadget. Here’s a nice gallery of hi-res project pics. As usual, I’ll let you know when they’re … Read the rest
IR decoding with your… guitar
April 16, 2007 By 25 Comments
[Benjamin] sent in the craziest thing I’ve seen lately. He’s using the magnetic pickup in his electric guitar to sense IR signals. The guitar is hooked to a preamp that’s feeding into his computer. By capturing the pulses with something like audacity, you can grab samples of the codes without building any specialized hardware.
If you’ve got something for Hack-A-Day, … Read the rest
Ben Heck’s six axis 360 controller
April 16, 2007 By 6 Comments
This is not the most difficult mod ever, but digg loved it enough to kill Ben’s site before I could post it yesterday. Ben’s been doing a slate of consignment mods lately. This time he stuffed the guts of a PS3 six axis controller into an Xbox 360 controller body. Ben’s starting to act like a XBox 360 borg… His … Read the rest
Sunday wifi RC car extra
April 15, 2007 By 9 Comments
Just a heads up for the linux guys before I hit the hack. If you’re using madwifi drivers, make sure you update em. A remote exploit was released. the researcher played nice and got with the development team before releasing the details.
I’ve been pondering a wifi controlled RC car robot project. I’m thinking of an onboard motherboard and a … Read the rest
Webcam laser rangefinder
April 14, 2007 By 18 Comments
This has been around for a while, but I thought it deserved some attention. [Todd] used a laser pointer, a webcam, some trig and (sigh) some windows development tools to create his own laser range finder. Given the position of the beam strike and that the camera is located at a right angle to the laser, calculating the distance … Read the rest
Ham radio modding
April 13, 2007 By 24 Comments
I was pondering our archive and noticed that we’ve never given attention to some of the more interesting amateur radio hacks. I’d say that most of the amateur radios on the market are susceptible to modding. The mods generally result in a wider band of transmission or reception. I used to own an Icom 706MKII – a serious mobile rig … Read the rest
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