[jonboytang] documented his construction of a clone of the famous Tube Screamer overdrive pedal from a set of plans found at tonepad. The tonepad site says you can use the plans to build either a TS-9 or a TS-808, both of which have been classic staples in every guitar player’s setup since the 70s. Although the old parts are … Read the rest
Homemade Tube Screamer clone
August 13, 2008 By 5 Comments
Burning in the Siftables
August 13, 2008 By 5 Comments
[Curiouslee] put up some pictures of his Siftables burn in. He got them in the mail with all their accessories and decided to make a special box to carry it all. He started with an ArtBin parts box and cut out dividers where necessary to make everything fit nice and tidy.
The Siftables are quite interesting. They are an … Read the rest
RGB monome clone
August 13, 2008 By 9 Comments
[Julien Bayle] has posted this great breakdown of building an RGB monome clone. He is a musical performer using Ableton Live. He wanted to do away with the need for a computer screen and found that the monome would have been perfect had it been RGB. So he decided to build his own.
The parts list for the … Read the rest
Arduino Tux plant care
August 13, 2008 By 3 Comments
Some of us need a little help keeping our green leafy friends happy. The Arduino Tux (translated) plant care system was built to make things a little easier.
The author had a broken tux toy laying around and wanted to do something fun with it. He cut a hole in the front to mount an LED matrix and … Read the rest
Black Hat 2008: NIC based rootkit
August 13, 2008 By 11 Comments
While Black Hat and Defcon have both concluded, we’re going to post a few more talks that we think deserve attention. [Sherri Sparks] and [Shawn Embleton] from Clear Hat presented Deeper Door, exploiting the NIC chipset. Windows machines use NDIS, the Network Driver Interface Specification, to communicate between the OS and the actual NIC. NDIS is an API that … Read the rest
Russia vs Georgia, the online front
August 13, 2008 By 19 Comments
While we’re sure that just about everyone has heard about the conflict between Russia and Georgia, few have probably heard about the role of cyber attacks in the conflict. Shortly before Russia’s armed response, Georgian state web servers were attacked by individuals assumed to be Russian hackers. This attack almost completely obliterated Georgia’s online presence by shutting down the website … Read the rest
Possible entrapment scenario in hacking case
August 13, 2008 By 3 Comments
[Brian Salcedo] made headlines a few years ago as a hacker who attempted to break into Lowe’s corporate network. He is currently serving a nine-year prison sentence, one of the longest sentences for a computer hacking offense. Recent events surrounding a different hacking case have revealed that the buyer he worked for, [Albert "Segvec" Gonzalez], was a Secret Service
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