Name that Ware

posted Jun 12th 2008 8:15pm by Juan Aguilar
filed under: contests

Guessing games are fun, especially when unnamed hardware and prizes are involved. [bunnie] holds a Name that Ware contest on his blog once a month; he posts an image of hardware components like the PCB above (which is May’s mystery ware) and asks visitors to try to guess the machine it came from or at least its function. Aside from the prizes he gives out, winners get the most coveted of all rewards: bragging rights. He’s been running the monthly contest for quite some time and it’s not always PCBs; past wares have included this micron thickness guage (internal) and an xray of a crystal oscillator.

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tagged: bunnie, bunniestudios, contest, contests, namethatware, pcb

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NOT A HACK

Posted at 10:05 pm on Jun 12th, 2008 by not a hack

man why dont you all lay off so what its not a hack live with it its there web page they can do whatever the fuck they want hell i like this i need a way to find shut that i dident know about and i have used hackaday for years so back the fuck off
and i dont wanna hear no smart mouth fucker making fun of my spelling and grammar if you wanna be a jackass go punch an old lady

Posted at 10:16 pm on Jun 12th, 2008 by alex mccown

I agree with #2. Trolls go home, please… if you are at home, at least refrain from pointing out what is/is not a hack?

Posted at 10:31 pm on Jun 12th, 2008 by vsnine

This is A blackberry… look at the IC… it’s the RIM logo

Posted at 10:46 pm on Jun 12th, 2008 by Ryan A

he hacked the case open if that counts ;)

Posted at 10:57 pm on Jun 12th, 2008 by thegimpster

sorry for the rant i just think someone needs to bring it up b4 hackaday thinks that we all h8 non hacks

Posted at 12:33 am on Jun 13th, 2008 by alex mccown

I would much rather have interesting stuff like this to look at than nothing at all…

Posted at 2:39 am on Jun 13th, 2008 by ReKlipz

I agree with alex. I’m tired of hearing people bitch about having interesting not-hacks, especially if they’d only investigate further they’d probably have fun. Not to mention the crucial skill of hackers software and hardware alike, being able to identify parts with limited information and then being able to implement that knowledge to actually do the hacks these people so desire.

And if you’re one of the ones bitching, why don’t you submit something? Go hit your monitor with a hammer and build something out of the parts, that’d solve both problems.

Posted at 4:29 am on Jun 13th, 2008 by Joshua

i agree with “not a hack” and at the same time with “alex mccown”
i miss the old hackaday. but swearing or trolling is not the way to sort it out.
and (alex mccown) down with spelling !!!!! :)

luke

Posted at 7:45 am on Jun 13th, 2008 by luke

i dont think its a black berry. as there is a switch on the back in the middle… and there is non smd parts and heeps of space on the PCB… hummmm

Posted at 7:52 am on Jun 13th, 2008 by luke

christ alex, are you daft? you need a way to find shit like this? there are hundreds of places that are dedicated to showing you random tech shit that aren’t called hackaday. try digg tech, or hackedgadgets, or hacknmod, or engadget, or any other blog like that. they should be able to fill your desire to “find new shut”

until recently hackaday was the only place you could come to find articles that are always technical projects that i could attempt. i’m glad so many of you are happy to see more articles, but stuff like this and iphone and random projects that are only for purchase do not fit the feel that was previously created here.

Posted at 9:32 am on Jun 13th, 2008 by Toe

Looks like a Sony Discman PCB

Posted at 10:52 am on Jun 13th, 2008 by Lowry Stiles

I see a simple solution to this. We need a full view and a classic view.

The full view pulls up everything posted.

The classic view only pulls up one hack post each day(perhaps mini-extras).

Some days I only have time to pull up and checkout one hack. Other days I have way too much time on my hands and look through the comments.

Posted at 10:59 am on Jun 13th, 2008 by Techyguru

may be one of those wristwatch walkie talkies? i took one apart and i remember it looked similar to that.

Posted at 1:07 pm on Jun 13th, 2008 by Zack Wilson

@techyguru: If you are looking for the old hack-a-day style, consider changing your bookmark to:
http://www.hackaday.com/category/daily/

Or for the rss feed:
http://www.hackaday.com/category/daily/rss.xml

As for myself, I’ll be sticking with the new hack-a-day, but if you’re only up for one or two things a day, check out the ‘daily’ tag.

Posted at 1:29 pm on Jun 13th, 2008 by carlsonmark

That is a wireless receiver for a Logitech wireless keyboard (or mouse)

Posted at 2:33 pm on Jun 13th, 2008 by orb360

Well, it has a DRAM chip and some sort of freescale micro controller on it. Looks like its part of some type of hand held computer. Might be a phone, if there is an entire board missing, though I don’t see any RF components or shielding. I’m going to lean towards a palm or some kind of organizer.

Posted at 5:35 pm on Jun 13th, 2008 by Joe DiPrima

@7: no, that is not a RIM logo, that is a Freescale logo. There’s a microprocessor and some Micrel RAM on there, Intel flash… hard to say.

Posted at 8:16 pm on Jun 13th, 2008 by andrew

Its the pcb of a Atari Jaguar controller.

Posted at 8:27 pm on Jun 13th, 2008 by Balthezor

credit card machine?

Posted at 11:58 pm on Jun 13th, 2008 by chris lees

it looks an awful lot like my old nomad jukebox. Could be the nomad jukebox3.

Posted at 5:50 pm on Jun 14th, 2008 by Digital

i’ll agree with orb360. looks like a wireless kb/mouse reciever i just bought. that looks like the sync button in the middle, that red thing.

Posted at 11:49 am on Jun 17th, 2008 by mark

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