So using a drill to drill OE hole is hacking.

Wow. let’s just set that bar on the ground guys.

Posted at 11:18 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by farthead

Wow, if drilling a hole is a hack then there are a lot of 1337 haxxorz in this world…

Posted at 11:22 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by toodles

Revisit this when he has hacked it to film traffic instead of sky.

Posted at 11:23 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by Ivan

Verry usefull as a camera that iphone.
How many times did you had to do the drive without someone calling you?
I too hate that multitask problem it has.
is it possible to tilt it down more?
That’s a lot of air and feww license plate’s.

and ow First!
(first first post ever)

Posted at 11:23 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by Oler

Why filming the sky when he could film the road? :P

Posted at 11:24 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by Nextuz

Yes give me the FAIL.

Posted at 11:24 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by Oler

Wow, I should submit my “hack!” I used a hole puncher to make the mic and earpiece openings larger on my phone pouch….

While the cool factor is certainly there, I just don’t consider basic drill usage hacking.

Posted at 11:26 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by Skitchin

If he attached one of those wide angle stick on lens’ from ebay it would almost be a hack. This although cool, it not a very good one.

Posted at 11:29 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by John Griffin

Hahaha Steve lives in Whittier. In the first part hes driving south on painter.

Posted at 11:32 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by Rivetgeek

@John Griffin

That’s a good idea.

Posted at 11:35 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by barry99705

Mike,
You are really a hit or miss poster. Some of your posts are great. Others (like this one) not so much. I think you’ve got a good eye for innovation, but you should incorporate a simplicity check for your articles before you publish.

Posted at 11:37 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by Spadefinger

i guess it is a “hack” because he hacked away at the plastic with a drill bit…

i suppose all of the hacks have been done.. the earth is hacked out… no more hacks

Posted at 11:38 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by arcnemisis

or a complexity check?

whatever\\

just drop the obvious stuff and I think most people here would give you less crap

Posted at 11:39 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by Spadefinger

thats not a hack, thats a joke..
not a good one though

Posted at 11:43 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by schlomo

That looks like the dumbest place to mount it, how much of his view is blocked. Try telling the cops its a dash cam and your not watching videos, surfing the web, playing with the latest app on your way to work.
And why is it pointing at the sky?

Posted at 11:46 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by Paul

I agree with Paul. Where’s the video of the cops pulling him over?

===Jac

Posted at 12:11 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by Jac

somewhat interesting but too simple and as others have said y the sky?

Posted at 12:14 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by monkeyslayer56

I don’t understand the flames. It costs you nothing for someone to post this stuff on this site, so why cry?

I for one sometimes think simple ideas are great, not because someone demonstrated they could re-purpose a hands free kit using a drill, but because these may generate follow-on ideas.

Not only that, but we have no idea who reads this site, kids might use this site for ideas for simple projects.

Allow me to demonstrate the former point I made about generating new ideas.

I want 2-4 cameras in my car recording to a hard drive, covering the four sides, or front and back at a minimum.

I was considering buying some of those tiny “spy” cams and putting the rest of the kit together using an old laptop.

Instead, based on what I have seen here, I may consider using mobile phones (I get a new one each year and therefore have about 6 Nokias gathering dust).

I had already over engineered a solution in my head, but some ‘back to basics’ hacking has helped me realise I already have all the components I need.

I can’t say that I disagree with the fact he is filming mostly sky, which does suck :)

I must say I enjoy hackaday.com, if nothing more than for the random stuff that gets posted, it can’t all be arduinos and cyborgs.

Take it easy fellas, I can see the veins popping out of your necks.

Posted at 12:21 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by Teh Gringe

awesome,now DRILLING A SINGLE HOLE in a piece of plastic is a hack.

seriously guys? i mean wtf,REALLY ????? did you guys make some kind of bet with someone to see how completely lame and worthless you could make the site ?????

Posted at 12:31 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by bobob

just because it says iphone doesn’t mean it MUST be posted. not-a-hack

Posted at 12:41 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by walt

omg today I hacked this piece of wood like 20 times then I used a 1337 hammer and nail hack

Posted at 12:49 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by mikula

@Rivetgeek i thought that building at the beginning looked familiar! the courthouse or police station or whatever it is…

by the way this is not worthy as a hack for the site. but you have to think — this post has “iphone” in it, so you KNOW its generating more traffic… and that means cold hard advertising duckets for hackaday!

Posted at 1:04 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by samurai

Umm I thought it was prereq to use arduino in the hack somehow.

Posted at 1:08 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by BuudhaFW

You people that come on here and bitch are pathetic.

This website cost you nothing to visit, and you give nothing back to the website in any form.

A hack is a hack no matter what you do to modify it, to do something it wasn’t intended to do.

Any hack is a good hack no matter how easy it is.

And software posted here can be hacked also.

So get off the bitchfest and contribute to this wonderful website.

Its time to flush these Trolls out of here and make people register an account. Or better yet pay to comment.

Posted at 1:22 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by Atrocity

To do:
1. Mount camera so that it points at traffic and not at the sky.
2. Write program that uses the phone’s GPS to record speed, location and compass data while recording the video.
3. …
4. Profit!

Posted at 1:25 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by dan

thats the way the americans have learned to deal with critic: branding people with unpatriotic behaviour. hey come on this post is not a hack, its a mod, the 8 bit counter post was a joke, the twitter thingie…

hey and instead of calling us trolls, why is there no official statement from had crew? comments are getting worse and more cynic every day.
first we laughed a bit about the arduinoish way of hacking which eventually became a running gag. but things dont get better.
in the last couple of weeks two authors left the (sinking?) ship.

not only that the quality goes down (why not a single post if there is not enough material for 5 ones?), there are NO WRITEUPS anymore. hey remember the posts oh ian? they were really long and packed with tons of information, really deep stuff. and now? no information really just a quick teaser.

hackaday you are so much better than that!
at least do it for the kids
xD

Posted at 1:35 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by european

Nice nice..
I need to replace my method
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LWNQk3OwnU

:)

Posted at 1:48 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by Tiago

Nice Video, Tiago, and mod or hack, it is useful I thank you, Mike Szczys

Posted at 2:10 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by Dennis Booth

Even a hack with just one drill hole is a hack. Not everything has to be complicated and difficult, this kind of thing is easily accessible to a lot of people. Not everyone has the time to spend on hardcore hacks with a lot of soldering. Hacking’s about building something or modifying something to do something that it either wasn’t supposed to before hand or there wasn’t anything that could do what you wanted on the market.

If it only takes one go with a drill to do what you want then bingo, a cheap easy hack.

Posted at 2:14 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by Spanky

not
a
hack

Posted at 4:00 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by andrew

admittedly i didn’t read all of the posts as there were a lot of them but if you did this with some augmented reality it would be a cool “hack” gps/business info/etc as you were driving around. i’m sure the actual cops wish they had it to run tags whenever the camera picked one up ;)

Posted at 4:25 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by dustin

Interesting – it looks like the traffic lights at the RH of screen (@ 26 secs) are PWM controlled, but others om the route are not (that I could see).
Flickering – the PWM frequency aliasing with the scan rate of the iPhone camera.
I wonder if there is something we can use that as more lights go to PWM

Posted at 4:27 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by bunkie

Ya know, I couldn’t hear My GZ-one phone ring when it was on the hip clip, so I drilled a series of holes on the clip at the speaker, choosing the size and placement is crucial so as not to compromise the integrity of the clip. It’s not something you might think important, and most of you would probably reply “Well DUH” but getting ANYTHING right the First go around deserves recognition.

Good job, good mod

Posted at 5:36 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by aztraph

He Drilled a hole… this has to be one of the most complex hacks I have seen to date ! Comgrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 6:06 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by Bill Hates

This website has turn into a freaking FULL ON FLAME WAR.

Everyone needs to just shut up. Just please shut up.

Posted at 8:34 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by miked

Wow … brutal crowd.

People were “hacking” long before the term was coined. Just because this is created from a tennis ball, an arduino and three pringle cans doesn’t disqualify it as a hack.

We self-declared hackers should embrace all manners of hacking. I think it is great when someone uses things in ways they were not originally designed to be used.

There is WAY to little thinking on the part of people today. most people would sit on their fat butts and say “I wish someone would invent a mount so I could use my iPhone as a dash cam …” then they go back to watching American Idol.

I am thankful for the submission and invite any and all manners of hacks. I may not find the hack immediately useful, but I may need that piece of knowledge one day.

You should offer some constructive criticism and help build the community.

Just my $0.02

Posted at 8:54 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by Rob

Yes .. I know … it should have said “… isn’t created from …”.

I’ve never claimed to be able to type ;-)

So, the post was actually only worth $0.015

Posted at 8:56 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by Rob

….um….

1) Video cameras are old technology.
2) OMFGPWNZOREDWTF VIDEO CAMERA IN CAR!!!

Old ideas are old. Tilted camera is fail.

Nuff said.

Posted at 9:57 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by W T F

i just took a power drill and drilled a randomly placed hole in my computer’s case!

now i’m an uber leet haX0r!!!!!

Posted at 10:23 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by bobob

Normally I’m not with the hating-things-that-aren’t-hackaday-worthy crowd, but this and a few other recent posts are waaaay below the bar. Simple rule maybe, if it doesn’t involve a soldering iron and/or a bit of coding, it ain’t a hack worthy of this site.

Posted at 10:59 pm on Sep 17th, 2009 by Stormrider

I just put my camera on the dashboard! PWN3D!

Seriously though, you guys are too harsh. For the Macolytes, drilling their own hole (and transfering measurements!!1!) really is 1337 H4X0Ring.

Posted at 8:05 am on Sep 18th, 2009 by spiny norman

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Posted at 11:50 am on Sep 18th, 2009 by W T F

Not super sophisticated, but a nice trick nonetheless. Half you haters are drilling your winshield mounts right now.

Hey, simple hacks rule. The simpler and the easier, the better. You don’t need an arduino for everything!

Posted at 12:07 pm on Sep 18th, 2009 by PocketBrain

For all the negativity here – I’d like to point out my earlier post – which embodies the essence of ‘hacking’ in it’s truest form. Observing the traffic lights flickering (aliasing) with the cameras scan rate is a simple observation that may lead to better understanding or exploitaiton of that anomaly. Simple. Hacks don’t have to be something whizz-bang successful in themselves, but the unique observation or extrapolation of a fact that allows us to get more from something than was originally intended. Also simple. But perhaps too complicated for the wannabe doomsayers out there to keep up with.

Posted at 4:45 pm on Sep 18th, 2009 by bunkie