hear hear!
if you guys have gotten your buttons and or stickers, we want to see them in action! so throw us links in the comments to your pictures of you and your swag!
hey there readers. it’s a beautiful saturday so let’s get these links done so we can eat em!
ooh, beforehand I have a request. a challenege even.
on monday, july 25th, david letterman (CBS) is having the all american rejects play on his show. i don’t have cable, or TiVO, or any way of capturing it. This makes me sad. So! If one of you guys can manage to get the show digitally, cut out the entire clip of their performance, and send it to me, then you’ll get hooked up with a hackaday prize pack. courtesy of out of my wallet too mind you.
I <3 you for it. Plus, try getting the show off your Tivo, and onto your computer. That’d be pretty cool wouldn’t it? Yeaaah. Just keep that in mind. You could win some prizes! In fact, it’s 2:30pm almost. Let me go check my mail. Any envelopes that come today will get stickers!
Power hand washing! Nice idea! [trevor]
Floppy DIY motor. Amazing. I can’t believe it was done. [pat]
Build a cheapy CNC machine for doing projects with. [modul8]
A pretty awesome algorithm used for converting your phone number into words! [imanuel]
mobilize your WRT54g. drive that sucka. [yasha]
what hackaday looked like in the 1980s. we were stylin’. [zelot]
i saw the island last night. it was a great movie despite that the trailer makes it look horrible. go check it out. it’s like brave new world and THX 1138 combined sorta. also up, was the v for vendetta trailer…looks amazing. check it out right now.
2 more links.
#1. for a price, you can hang onto that WD-40 straw.
#2. even better phishing schemes are out now. watchout.
it’s insanely hot and humid out. the only thing i wanna do is laze around my apartment with the A/C on full blast and Tom Cruise on my TV
Drooling yet? Thought so. They’ll be here just in time for Defcon on July 26th.
And no. Don’t request them. These will be awarded for special people/robots/organisms.
we have 60 coming. by the time we’re done, there will be a little over 50 hopefully left. so start impressing us. do graffitti on a cop car. anything. we’ll take it.
Link time.
Guy uses Google Maps to get out of a ticket in court. My hero.
astronomy hacks are totally like, in man.
guy makes a car that talks and junk. what a blast. [bird]
Silly Colleges. USC got their database hacked. Wonder if they have OJ’s grades….
linux distros that go on floppy disks. oh wait, no one uses those anymore. [xytec]
pc keyboard on a psp. oh my god how aweso-wait no. i’m being a bit too sarcastic today aren’t i?
buy a volkswagon and make your own biodiesel fuel.
this guy made himself a “pink floyd computer” after obviously tripping out for 5 days straight. [jimmy]
make a regular engine run on water. [kyle]
cute little solar powered robot that powers itself with the sun (microsystems omg). [h4rm0n1c]
oh my gawd. i’m so beat.
why? because of you guys!!!
I’m almost out of buttons. We’ll re-order obviously, but today alone I got 80 SASEs in my little mailbox. I sent them all out of course and my tongue has lots of papercuts. It’s been so hectic. And it’s gonna get even nuttier. Know why? Defcon. It’s coming. I’ll be there about 11am on the 28th of July, a day before the event starts.
so here, bite into some links before i pass out and sleep for 50 hours.
a cute list of portable usb programs [xytec]
a death star home-theater subwoofer. hardcore!
these guys made an underwater robot. give em a hand [anuj]
save some fuel. yeah right…..well, i dunno. you try. [bandit]
Linux on your HP-PPC. Kind of cool? I happen to like Windows for PPC…. [raleigh]
Belkin Tuncast2 mod. Very nicely done I think. [brian]
nitro cool your pc like a monstrer truck jam. [gaarie]
you guys will be excited to know that from about july 28th to august 2nd, we’ll be having insane extensive coverage of defcon and vegas happenings. so expect anywhere from 5 to 500 posts a day. yes i am embellishing.
if you want merch though, get the SASEs out! quick!
just giving you guys a heads up.
i checked my mail today and found about 50 letters. wicked. so i drank a beer and got them all done and they’ve been mailed out with buttons. expect them by friday at the latest and thanks for reading guys. we appreciate it.
so we got hacked. whatever. ::sips coffee::
stickers and t-shirts have been shipped and they’ll be here before we leave for defcon….so that’s awesome. i’ve also noticed that a ton of you are international readers. i’m trying my best to think of ideas for you guys since you cant get postage and we have to take care of it. we’ll get it done. no worries. defcon should be very interesting after getting hacked. in a good way of course.
today my friend needs bluetooth installed in his computer. you can bet that it won’t be installed without being done in some messed up way with lights and cabaret.
lemme throw you dogs some hot sausage links though.
nigerian scammers are being punished. oh my god yes.
great guitar modding site. tons of content. [ed]
monitor consumption of your home power. pretty sweet deal if you ask me.
yet another cellphone to handset mod. this one is a bit different. [jake]
one could hardly call this impressive feat of mechanics a “case mod”. [azog]
now this i really love. someone scanned an old LP record in and used a “digital needle” to get the sound off it. how insane. [cosmo]
gen x and the clash members have this new band right? and get this: they want you to download their music for free.
as for hackaday t-shirts, this is what we have:
5 small, 20 medium, 20 large, 15 x-large.
i can say off the bat that 5 of those will be given to certain people which include eliot and i and others. that means there are 55 left. after defcon who knows how many will be left. after that, they will be awarded, not given out. t-shirts cost money to make and we can’t take your money. so thus, expect to see some contests popping up very soon. speaking of which.
today is the end of the contest for a sub-$100 laptop. who has done it? if you have, e-mail (a link to if possible) pics, an about page, and a price list of parts used. we want to see what’s up. the winner will get hackaday fame, some good prizes which will include a t-shirt, stickers, and buttons, and other stuff. you have until 11:59pm to submit submissions. good luck.
i don’t know about you guys, but insomnia can be a deadly thing at times. other times, it’s interesting.
anyways, I’m glad you guys have questions to ask! the stickers and t-shirts have been shipped today! so rock! i can’t wait to give them out.
as for international readers who can’t send a SASE to us, just contact me about the merch. we’ll figure out something. maybe you can hook us up with some pictures of your surroundings or something interesting.
potatoes power the internet. scary huh? [leandro]
the ultimate mods for your car. very nicely done. [xytec]
i’m also feeling this pink lego flash drive. pink is like, so hot. [joe]
going to disneyworld? i wish i was, but your fingers won’t anymore.
spreadfirefox got 0wned. bout time. konqueror rules man!!!!111one
“redneck” xbox live……so sad. really. [tom]
another nice guide to lockpicking. we like seeing these. [jaw]
disgusting lifehacking like this is gross…not to mention insanely creepy.
anddddd make a couch. chia pet style. weirdo.
i hope to see some SASEs come next week. these buttons won’t just mail themselves! they’re like
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