hmmmmmm this could help in making xbox 360 backups

Posted at 6:19 pm on Sep 30th, 2007 by james

more rubbish can we have some r/c hacks

Posted at 7:45 pm on Sep 30th, 2007 by steve

more rubbish can we have some bl00 led’s????/?//??????

if you want better do something and submit

Posted at 10:39 pm on Sep 30th, 2007 by monster

High quality hack guys!

Posted at 11:19 pm on Sep 30th, 2007 by Ben

lets do more hacks with massively bright leds.

Posted at 2:28 am on Oct 1st, 2007 by werejag

I like this one :)

Posted at 9:29 am on Oct 1st, 2007 by Henry

steve.. r/c Resistor and capacitor hacks?! hah
okok, im not an idiot.. but radio control is boring. theres no brains to it.
its like…. attaching a hammer to an rc car and calling it a ‘bot. I commend your duct-tape engineering skills, but a robot maker you are not.

Posted at 10:31 am on Oct 1st, 2007 by MRE

unless I’m mistaken, you can already read every bit from a DVD (or any other block device) with dd(1) … I’m using this right now to make bit-for-bit images of all my DVDs, storing the resulting ISOs on my storage array, mounting the ISOs over the network and playing them back with VLC. Voila; instant online DVD library.

dd if=/dev/rcd0c of=/storage/SomeDVD.iso bs=4096

(bs=2048 is standard; I’m experimenting to see which block size numbers give the best performance)

(Also, hackaday needs to toss their non-RFC compliant email address validation code – a plus sign (“+”) in the userpart is perfectly valid, even though there’s a depressing number of code libraries out there that are not compliant with the specs. See RFC768.)

Posted at 11:23 am on Oct 1st, 2007 by darkuncle

What is this, slashdot? :P

Anyway, read the article darkuncle. dd will not give you every bit on a DVD, only the decoded bits. tmbinc is after *every* bit, including the sector headers, error correction, and sync signals. This hack is about as low level as you can get. Any lower are you’re working with analog signals.

take a hint: this can be used to break disk copy protection schemes, which are nothing more than poorly formed disks used to confuse dvd players. dd just doesn’t cut it.

Posted at 1:35 pm on Oct 1st, 2007 by pc486

could this be used to read wii disk?

Posted at 7:07 pm on Oct 1st, 2007 by jeff crowell

The problem I have with this entry is how it’s presented in a context that gives the impression that we all didn’t know you could tap bus traces. The actual entry is cool though.

This has already been done with the x360 by the way. There is even instructions for adding a second chip and custom firmware for certain drives. It can be done with any drive, there just isn’t instructions for other models.

I think we all know this stuff, we just forget we learned it at some time.

Posted at 7:50 pm on Oct 1st, 2007 by TJhooker

what about writing your own bitstream to the blank DVD?

Posted at 11:59 pm on Oct 1st, 2007 by RusH

This is a really cool hack, I love doing projects like this myself, but I usually run out of steam before I can finish.

Posted at 3:09 pm on Oct 4th, 2007 by 3d graphics