[Autuin] created the most offensive video game ever. Inside a small cocktail arcade cabinet, he installed his own video game that recreates the experiences of the Space Shuttle Challenger and her crew on their last flight. The build started off by picking up an old cocktail version of Space Zap from The Hackery, a neat little recycling place that turns old computers, monitors, and even old … [Read more...]
Checking network status with a traffic light
July 29, 2012 By 14 Comments
If you've ever dealt with a buggy Internet connection, you know how frustrating it can be. This project takes the guesswork out of mashing F5 over and over, or simply walking over to your router and 'turning it on and off again.' Necessity is the mother of invention, and when the folks at the Bitlair hackerspace in Amersfoort, Netherlands got tired of opening up a terminal to see if their … [Read more...]
Geigers on a plane
July 29, 2012 By 36 Comments
[Thomas] took a Geiger counter he built on a plane. Why? Because he can, much to the chagrin of airport security. [Thomas]' Geiger counter is built around an old Russian SBT-10A detector containing ten separate Geiger tubes. This tube was connected to a circuit containing a LiPo battery, a few high-voltage components, and an audio jack connected to the tubes themselves. When alpha, beta, or … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Dangers of Computer Hacking
July 29, 2012 By 30 Comments
Years and years ago, someone gave me this book as a gift. [John Knittel], a co-author thought I might find it amusing. The book, titled The Dangers of Computer Hacking, is a grade school level breakdown of, well, computer hacking and the dangers thereof. At the time, I thought it was rather fun and amusing. Since then, it has sat on my shelf without much action. Last weekend, however, my 8 year … [Read more...]
Two hard disks and one DJ get down with no delay
July 29, 2012 By 15 Comments
Mixmaster [robelix] built a MIDI controller for DJs that uses two hard drives for scratching and cutting some wicked beats. [robelix]'s project is called Hard DJ and was inspired by this earlier build capable of producing a droning appreciated chiptune music using the motor inside a hard drive. Instead of reading the out of phase sine waves produced when a hard drive platter is manually … [Read more...]
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