Hackit: What did you get?

posted Dec 25th 2008 11:00pm by Eliot Phillips
filed under: HackIt, android hacks, cellphones hacks, g1 hacks, google hacks

adp1

It’s the season of gift giving. Did you get anything interesting/hackable? What will you work on next?

We gave ourselves an Android Dev Phone 1 (ADP1). We hadn’t really considered getting a G1 until the ADP1 was announced… It’s actually a lot of fun to use as our primary phone. Our favorite app so far is connectbot, the SSH client. The interface is really smart, way better than all of the iPhone clients.

What did you get?

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tagged: adp1, android, cellphone, christmas, connectbot, G1, gift, ssh, t-mobile, t-mobile g1, xmas

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Dell Mini 9 :-)

I’m not too sure I’ll be doing any hacks to it; although I’d love to add a WAN card.

Posted at 11:11 pm on Dec 25th, 2008 by kd5uzz

I got an Arduino Duemilanove! It’s so sweet. I read a LOT about them here on Hackaday, so I figured it was nigh time I broke into embedded development, and I have to say, this makes it incredibly fun and easy!

I’d recommend them to anyone!

Posted at 11:18 pm on Dec 25th, 2008 by Mick

i got a dell mini 9 as well! not going to mod it yet – still working on the eeepc. but i must say, dell messed up xp on it. its all… broken. oh well, re-install time…

Posted at 11:32 pm on Dec 25th, 2008 by seb

i got a new collapsable work bench! No more 18×18 rolling side table!

Posted at 11:45 pm on Dec 25th, 2008 by Xeracy

I got a BlinkM MaxM and an issue of Make with a years subscription. As well as an iTunes gift card for some apps.

Posted at 11:47 pm on Dec 25th, 2008 by Christian

I built myself a variable frequency source + zero crossing detector to audio modulate a tesla coil. Wish I got something hackable though.

Posted at 11:48 pm on Dec 25th, 2008 by aonomus

Aspire One!
Seems like a lot of people got netbooks this year.
Tisk, I wish a Mini-9 was mine.
:(

Posted at 11:50 pm on Dec 25th, 2008 by Cjflashman

I got a toptoy card for my DS. Not so much hackable as it is a tool for doing so. Oh, and some trigram screwdrivers.

Posted at 11:51 pm on Dec 25th, 2008 by Eric

A Roomba, though it was kind of a self-bought thing, as it was a two-pack and only one of them had a home, so I kept it. Can’t wait to make it spit fireballs and defend my home.

Posted at 11:57 pm on Dec 25th, 2008 by Patrick

Arduino Duemilanove, along with a battery pack and a touch screen. im planning on making a quad-copter with it

Posted at 12:07 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by s133p

I got a TomTom one, I’d love to see some hacks where I could update it and then dump the memory to update my brothers.

Posted at 12:32 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by Clay

I got a digital-cam.. pretty uninteresting

but i even get a little osram “dot-it”…
I would like to build a little led strobe out of it, but it’s glued together <.<
maybe i can cut it open…

need to try out my new soldering iron :D

Posted at 1:57 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by Nold

I got a cheap RC car. Odyssey Elite Twister Car. No proportional steering. Just 4 way fwd/rev right/left. The front of the car doesn’t turn, it rotates. Lots of flashing LEDs. It’s underpowered. Most of the time, it won’t flip. So, I’m already thinking about opening it up. Maybe add separate power for fwd/rev and right/left. Or, just rip out the RC and control board. I did a quick Google, and I didn’t see any hacks for this already.

I also got a cheap RC helo. The forums on Woot say it’s hard to fly, it breaks easily, and you can’t find parts for it. So, I’ll have to make it’s one and only flight a good one.

Posted at 4:21 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by paul

Hackable you say? I too got a little remote control car…New Samsung 19″ HD ready tv? Pah no ways am I hacking that.OOh new graphics card?

Posted at 4:45 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by Harry

someone in the household got a Penguin Racer toy without batteries…. we used an old mobile phone charger to supercharge the motor. now 4 times the power and 4 times the fun!

Posted at 4:55 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by jeff

Atom-based 2tb home file server running from a compact flash card. (…with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells the time…)

Samsung Omnia i910.

both from myself, but I was a good boy this year and it’s not like anyone else has a clue what I want at any given time. :)

My wife gave me a great comfy jacket too. -she’s always dead on with that stuff.

We won’t be doing our major “Christmas” until Sunday when we drive up to the wife’s parents place.
_then_ we’ll see what’s in that stocking…

(It’s our way.)

Hope everyone still has a corner under the tree drenched in new electronocs smell this year!

happy happy!
joy joy!

Posted at 5:06 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by strider_mt2k

I got an Arduino Duemilanove as well. Already been using arduino for a while, but I only have had one. Now i have a new one to play with and a pocket piano synthesizer shield to make some nice music using the old one. Also got the 5×5 rubik’s cube, but that isn’t really hackable.

Posted at 5:26 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by Nemo

$650 towards a new laptop.

Posted at 5:27 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by icefox

Didn’t get it yet, but the STK500 AVR board is on its about to be ordered, along with some custom PCBs.

Posted at 5:53 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by tony

An Ipod. Yuck.
I’m trading it in today to get a way more hackable psp phat.

Posted at 6:06 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by X

HP2133-2GB Ram-1.6GHZ-120GB HDD
First thing I did was take Vista off. Installing Ubuntu and XP dual boot and will change the broadcom to atheros wirelss chip and run BT3 on it :-)

Posted at 6:24 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by syale

i got a Zen.

i don’t plan on doing any physical hacking just firmware hacks

Posted at 6:45 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by josh cabico

I got a Nikon D60 SLR. Maybe doing a few firmware hacks. Probably not, because I see minimal room for improvement (to be truthful, I don’t see _any_ problems with the camera, but I’ve only had it for a day now)

Posted at 7:01 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by Michael Witt

A Kindle and an Arduino Duemilanove (and associated Make book)! Yeah, just what I wanted!

Posted at 8:03 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by Clint Laskowski

Beleive this or not, I got a……mini USB hoover, to suck up all the dust in your computer area.

Works really great on keyboards!

Hack wise I think it could have more juice supplied to it, a little more suck!

Posted at 8:05 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by Alex P

Got about $230 worth of Arduino stuff and kits from Adafruit. Hooray LadyAda!

Posted at 8:16 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by Brainiac27

i got a jasper xbox 360… lol fun times ahead…

Posted at 8:17 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by d1nk3r

I got a 80Gb PS3 and a couple games for it. Now just have to wait for my TV to get in. Then I can start trying to get some things running on it with Linux.

Posted at 8:26 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by Erik

I got 2 wireless gamepads for pc, the best present will be the pandora I preordered, but I will have to wait for that one, hopefully I will get it sometime during january, damn economical crisis.

Posted at 8:50 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by njakol

I got a SeV jacket which was pretty sweet… I passed out arduinos for christmas myself

Posted at 8:53 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by Hacker

22 inch monitor, new video card. High def FTW!

Posted at 9:00 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by yoman82

500gb external drive and a Canon 350D. Parents rock!

Posted at 9:15 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by LexicalConverter

Well, i got 2 drawer cabinet things (for components), an electronics “repair” kit, a few shirts from thinkgeek, and money to purchase a SMD Rework Station! :D

Then i bought myself 2 17″ monitors (lcd) for my workbench (ebay), and if i have any money left over after the rework station and monitors, i plan on buying a 0-30v 5A power supply.

Posted at 9:17 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by marks256

I got a dell mini 9 too ( seems like every geek get one today )

will just try to make some change to the interface install linux ( instead of this crappy windows ) and check some more to let it run aircrack suite

Jules
http://www.openprox.info

Posted at 9:23 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by Jules

I got a MSI Wind PC, plan on making a media/drop box server to share and rsync stuff with

Posted at 9:28 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by bear24rw

Amazon Kindle.. LOVE IT! It is apparently quite hackable but I have yet to perform any shenanigans with that. The WhisperNet service is surprisingly fast.

Posted at 9:33 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by Scott

……….. brace for it… Pong! makers kit, haha, get out the soldering iron and off i go, i know i know, but hay, will make me smile…. lots

Posted at 9:47 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by Pip

PSP-3000 :( No firmware hacks out yet, on a plus side googling today, i did find a 16gb memory stick duo flash card for it.

btw as to all the confusion on the screen, it looks fine. I dont notice any problems.

Posted at 10:01 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by Apollo

I got a ATmega128 development board (dev-00037 on sparkfun) so I can finally get started with microcontrollers :)

Posted at 10:04 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by frigolit

I gots me a new soldering station. Hakko 928. It’s a dual iron dealamubub. I’m pretty pumped about it, my iron broke a while back.

Posted at 10:11 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by dirk

didn’t get a new arduino, still have the NG with an atmega8. who needs more than 8kb of memory? :D but i did get a bunch of those shiftbright LEDs. Right now all they do is fade through the rainbow of colors. OOH PRETTY LIGHTS!

Posted at 10:38 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by kaelb

nokia n810 (thinking about hacking it into a robot or some way to control the rovio with.) and a arduino pro mini for my night rider prototype for my rc semi.

Posted at 11:21 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by D4rK n19H7

eeepc 900a. possting from it right now.

its pretty spartan, which just means i haave less to remove when i put the stuff i want in. [gps, amplified wifi antenna, more storage, etc.]

the downside: the new budget ssd is just as slow as everyone dreaded, and this bloated, clunky xandros distro has to go. oh well, you know what they say about beggars and choosers…

Posted at 11:51 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by jsn

Black and decker power monitor, I want to figure out the reciever side and make a pc that dumps the data into excel. or use a digicam against the display and record from there….

Posted at 1:02 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by emockler

I got a 1950s cast steel geiger counter from my brother… trying to decide whether to fix it or hack it..

Posted at 1:38 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by matt joyce

Meggy Jr. from evilmadscience.com and a Garmin Vista HCx.

Posted at 2:06 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by Robotguy

i got a canon digital camera and it already has CHDK and i shot all the pictures yesterday in RAW format while viewing a live histogram! haha

Posted at 3:37 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by TJ

Got a sweet little Inspiron 13 laptop, which my father-in-law promptly knocked off the table and broke. Never even got to boot it :( (But hey, it was an accident. Can’t get too mad at Christmas.)

Posted at 3:41 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by hedg12

Aspire One.
gonna use it to learn linux.

Posted at 3:44 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by J

i got the cutest puppy in the world for xmas… anyone know any puppy hacks? (jk)

Posted at 5:47 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by chr0n1c

A netbook for some mobile wifi hacking

Posted at 6:21 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by Irishman

i got my son a “spike the ultra dinosaur”

it is about 3 feet long and walks, stands on its hind legs, is fully controllable, and uses an IR remote.

its pretty amazing.

Posted at 6:57 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by ACEdotcom

i’m amazed that so many people got arduinos for the holidays. that’s awesome. i got a growler bag. it’s insulated and fits two half gallon jugs of beer. it’s not necessarily something I’d like to have (it’s very well designed). however, it’s extremely useful to have around whilst hacking :)

Posted at 7:03 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by amk

err that should read “not necessarily something I’d like to hack”. obviously I’ve already tried out the growler bag.

Posted at 7:11 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by amk

XFX 9800 GTX+, Core2Duo E8500 and 4GB of OCZ Reaper HPC PC6400 RAM.

I’m also looking at getting an arduino. :P

Posted at 7:16 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by sam

I got a Micro Mosquito II RC helicopter. I also got the crappy version of the robo-sapien (it just goes forward and back, no turning unless your backing up.). I also got a bunch of clothes, a thermal top, and a growler, which I will use to bottle my home-made wine in.

Posted at 7:47 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by underdog5004

i got an Air Hogs helocopter. its styrofoam, but incredibly fun. the charge only lasts for five minutes though. i dont know how i would mod it, cause if i add any wait, it wont fly

Posted at 7:48 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by coleslaw

I got an nvidia 8400GS (cuda capable!), 2 gigs of ram, a new wifi card, a zune 120, and a new smd rework/soldering station (aoyue int 968) with built in smoke vacuum (and a compass in the stock, and a thing that tells time).

Posted at 9:08 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by St.Jimmy

got a see thru (clear plastic) 1/2 scale model harley engine with alot of moveing parts n cool stuff and got bored .. added LED sparkplugs that fire orange each time the pistons hit just past top dead center (gotta keep the ignition timeing on!!!!!) and working on lights to emulate intake (white) and exhaust(red) gas flow

Posted at 10:05 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by DrAvIn

500 gig hard drive, logitech g15 keyboard, 16gb SD memory card for my camera, Flexible tripod for my camera, pelican camera case, (I have a d60) some cash, and a 50 pack of dual layer DVD’s.

Posted at 10:32 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by theweirdness

I got a Beagle Board!
Well, not yet… but it should arrive tomorrow!

I also got Mirror’s Edge, but my father is probably going to return it because it says too many dirty words…(damn near taught him a few new ones since I told him not to get the game to begin with…)

Posted at 10:43 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by anonymitee

I got a tool bat for my PSP, and my wife got a coolpix fujifilm 10.1 MP camera, not allowed to hack it or anything, though I am allowed to borrow it to finally take pics of my creations

Posted at 10:58 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by mykeyFinn

I got my first breadboard this year at the tender age of 19. Let the experimenting begin!

Posted at 11:32 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by Johnnyboy

I got nothing. In fact not only did I get nothing someone ordered a couple of BD movies from my Amazon Wishlist then returned them so they are back on my wishlist once again.

Posted at 12:11 am on Dec 27th, 2008 by Bryan

I get myself GF 9800 GX2 with a H20 block.

Posted at 2:37 am on Dec 27th, 2008 by winsucker

one panasonic camcorder from ‘98, a portable megaphone,an hp pocket pc running windows ce, a box of working windows mobile phones, and a semester at Hawaii community college…so whatever i end up making i think itll probably be pretty damn annoying

Posted at 4:22 am on Dec 27th, 2008 by SoundwaveHi

I got a eee pc 701sd and have already replaced the xanderos I’d with eeebuntu 8.10 nbr :)

Posted at 4:37 am on Dec 27th, 2008 by Krispy

chr0n1c: I know a puppy hack. There’s these two tubes you can snip. Should make your life much easier.

Posted at 5:24 am on Dec 27th, 2008 by paul

I got a Nintentdo Wii, very fun, and a 20 x 4 serial LCD. A PIC parallel programmer too. Should be fun.

Posted at 6:22 am on Dec 27th, 2008 by JH

Got nothing hackable — but I did get some new boots that are snakebite proof.

Posted at 7:20 am on Dec 27th, 2008 by ~cj~

@~cj~ everything’s hackable my friend. even a pair of snakebite proof boots. all you need is the right idea.

Posted at 2:11 pm on Dec 27th, 2008 by amk

@paul
lmao thx ur comment made my day lol

Posted at 10:06 am on Dec 28th, 2008 by josh cabico

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31040609@N02/3143292348/

Pic of my geiger counter.

Posted at 2:12 pm on Dec 28th, 2008 by openfly

Well, I got a new quality soldering iron (rather better than my fire-starters I’ve been using for the last few years) and a cheap-but-nevertheless-useful camera tripod, but the icing on the cake is an older used Estes model airplane, sans controller. I predict many fun hours hacking in a new R/C box and seeing what else I can do with it other than “make it fly”.

Posted at 5:03 pm on Dec 28th, 2008 by TheOneTrueStickman

Arduino pro mini and a 5 gallon home brew beer kit from my sister-in-law. Can’t wait to hack both! Maybe use the arduino for an automated brewing controller?

Posted at 9:42 pm on Dec 28th, 2008 by flyboy

lets see
1.acer aspire one one gb ram i have triple booted ubuntu,xp and vista (i play spore and stuff on it
1. 1 terrabyte external hardrive (whoop lets see what to put on it
1. cheap new printer for school work (i bought i also bought the hardrive with the £205 i got from family )
1 dvd writer 20x with lightscribe(Bought with xmas money)
10.some dual layer dvds(im gonna copy me some xbox games )
5. lightscribe discs (ill by more later both discs bought with xmas money)
and thats it ohhhh wait i also got
£24 left and thats going in my bank account till i get my new job in february to buy rats (wanted one since i was little)
thats everything techno i think

Posted at 9:38 am on Dec 29th, 2008 by oninjao

Wow, looks like all of you got something good to hack. I’m stuck with parents who say that if they found one of my Christmas presents in pieces they would kick me out…And I’m only 14 !

I got a Digital Camera and a printer to go with it.

Posted at 2:40 am on Jan 2nd, 2009 by Sammy

hey im 14 next feb 6 but my dads like me always taking things apart so no probs there

Posted at 4:43 am on Jan 3rd, 2009 by oninjao

bluray burner, 2600 a hacker odyssey book, and some toys (usb plasma ball, time-projecting laser pen, etc). nifty stuff!

Posted at 12:03 am on Jan 4th, 2009 by germanjmg

42″ pioneer plasma tv, a Canon HD camcorder, motorcycle, and a Corvette LS4 engine for my hotrod.

It’s a thin year for gift giving… so we had to cut back.

Posted at 7:44 am on Jan 7th, 2009 by fartface

I got a harmony remote, a logitech webcam, and internet! yay!!! My 5 month old son made out like a bandit too…

Posted at 7:17 pm on Jan 7th, 2009 by Jeff

I got a Duemilanove, a BlinkM MaxM, some jumper wires and a mini breadboard. I already had a bunch of other stuff (linears, ICs, LEDs, etc) gathering dust because there wasn’t a fun, easy way to play with them. Arduino makes it fun and easy!

Posted at 2:28 pm on Jan 9th, 2009 by drew

I got a Dell Mini 9 too. Unfortunately Dell only wants you to have Ubuntu on it. Also watch out for the cheap batteries. After using it for a month, I was on the phone with tech support.

Posted at 6:11 pm on Jan 10th, 2009 by ben

@chr0n1c “i got the cutest puppy in the world for xmas… anyone know any puppy hacks? (jk)”

Well there was this guy Ivan Pavlov that did some interesting stuff about a century ago :p

Posted at 2:20 pm on Jan 16th, 2009 by ebidk

how i can phone with bluetoth

Posted at 7:40 am on Jan 25th, 2009 by jou

daffy cialis let run away 9581

Posted at 10:40 am on Mar 3rd, 2009 by drertiorp

I was given a brand new laptop and i have to say i am made up with this one.

Posted at 1:51 am on Aug 13th, 2009 by Gift

I got one of those tin can robot kits … think i might e bay it!

Posted at 1:52 am on Aug 13th, 2009 by Gifts

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