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Have a significant other that isn't the best at picking up the phone? [Aaron] was having a hard time reaching his wife, so he hacked up a solution. The Moshi Moshi detects calls from [Aaron], and plays music to get her attention. A remote server running Asterisk picks up the call and uses a Ruby script to log the call. Every ten seconds, an Arduino Due with an Ethernet shield polls a Sinatra … [Read more...]
This snippet of Hello World code lets [Nico Ritschel] turn the Pin 13 LED on his Arduino on and off using Siri, the voice-activated helper built into iPhones. The trick here is using the Ruby programming language to get Siri Proxy talking to Arduino via the USB connection. He calls the project siriproxy-arduino. On one end of the hack resides SiriProxy, a package not approved by Apple which is … [Read more...]
Have you ever wondered what a Tumblr written by a psychotic robot would look like? Wonder no more, because [Lars] has that all figured out. A few years ago, [Lars] stumbled across lowbrow.com (now defunct, but mirrored here), an online confessional and bathroom wall meant to host people's most private thoughts and actions anonymously. [Lars] wrote a script to pull a random lowbrow post down … [Read more...]
We're throwing money at our monitor and nothing's happening! Sometimes we get hacks sent into our tip line that are outrageously awesome, but apart from a YouTube video we've got nothing else to write about. So begins the story of the flying Back to the Future DeLorean quadrocopter. Sadly, the story ends with the video as well. (If you've got any info, send it in!) Fine, we'll throw in … [Read more...]
This image contains a hidden audio track which you're very familiar with. Well, it used to. We'd bet we messed up the careful encoding that [Chris McKenzie] used to hide data within an image when we resized the original. He's using a method called Steganography to hide a message in plain sight. Since digital images use millions of colors, you can mess with that color data just a bit and the eye … [Read more...]
[John] has always loved stock ticker machines. These machines are highly collectible, so short of finding one that wasn't hurled from a Manhattan skyscraper in 1929, a stock ticker is out of reach for the casual enthusiast. There is another way to get a stock ticker-like device though: hack a label printer to print out stuff from Twitter. The build is really quite simple. A Dymo thermal label … [Read more...]
[Dan’s] office is awfully hot, but he needed some real temperature numbers that he could show the building management office to justify opening a maintenance ticket. He had seen some simple temperature probe examples online, and decided to build his own using a small AVR chip. Based off a similar temperature monitoring example called EasyLogger, his temperature probe uses an LM34 temperature … [Read more...]
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