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don’t take off your tinfoil hats quite yet, but just when you thought rfid tags were all about the man wanting to track you, somebody has come up with a more positive application.
dividuum figured that since some rfid tags can store a kilobyte of data, he should be able to gzip a sid audio file and squeeze it onto … Read the rest
jim younkin is at it again. earlier this month he created a pair of cordless ipod shuffle headphones. now he’s out with an upgrade: shufflephones 2.0 – new hotness edition.
what i like about the second hack attempt is that he added another audio connector. this could be used to connect to a stereo or to share music with a … Read the rest
whirlyman sent us a link to instructions for turning a usb flight stick into a realistic helicopter flight control system for use with your favorite flight sim.
steve, the project’s creator, did something really interesting here because his control system externally manipulates the stock ms flightstick. the stick wasn’t disassembled or altered to connect the realistic controls for the pedals, … Read the rest
this is really fantastic. christiana yambo over at censtron wanted to show us how to make a wave vessel — a television-turned-audio oscilloscope machine.
their documentation shows you how to take an old television set and hook it up to your stereo for audio/visual effects the likes of which most people only see in winamp. a switch on the side … Read the rest
here is a slick hack involving a bicycle wheel and a persistence of vision toy.
one thing that’s really cool about this one is there is a second led row that blinks out bitmaps backwards on one side of the wheel. this lets you print out text messages and have them be readable from both sides. it appears to work … Read the rest
some of you are probably rubbing your eyes, but you read it correctly. unix on a motorcycle.
a fellow by the name of ben installed a freebsd powered pc into his kawasaki z1000. a webcam on his helmet connects to a video capture board in the pc, which he uses to record movies of trips to the burrito store. … Read the rest
since we are on the topic of rubick’s cube hacks, i would probably be derelict in my duties if i didn’t mention the manhattan sculpture that a crew of hackers briefly transformed into 512-cubic-feet of rubick’s goodness.
this one definately ranks right up there with the mit media lab srubbing bubbles. art hacks are so incredible. they have … Read the rest
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