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[Joe's] wife grew up playing Sega games and he wanted to help her unwind by reliving the experience. Since the work computer she uses when travelling isn't a good place to install emulators he built this plug-and-play emulator inside of a Sega controller. We've seen this type of thing a few times before (even with XBMC in a SNES controller) but there is one thing we hadn't thought of lately. … [Read more...]
We remember several years back, when text messaging was first becoming popular, we went to a bar which had a huge television that would display text messages sent to a particular number. This sounds like a novelty, but in a large group of folks who know one another it's the sandbox of social games. Wanting to tap in on that fun for his New Year's Eve party, [James] built this countdown timer that … [Read more...]
Yeah, it's like Twitter but actually cool Thingiverse - still the best place on the Internet to find cool 3D models to print out - has gone all Web 3.0 with their new Dashboard feature. Basically, you can think of this as Thingiverse's version of Twitter. The dashboard allows you to see the latest updates from people you like, follow people, categories, and tags, and check out your … [Read more...]
[Achu Wilson's] latest creation is a VGA message board which is written to via SMS text messages. This doesn't sound too interesting at first, until you find out he's doing this with a microcontroller rather than a PC. All of the complexity is in the code that drives the VGA. He managed to do it without any jitter while using an 8-bit microcontroller. But first, the cellular side of things. A … [Read more...]
Hack a Day alum [Will O’Brien] recently upgraded his phone, and was trying to find a use for his old one. He always wanted a remote starter for his Subaru Outback, but wasn’t interested in paying for an off the shelf kit. Since he had this old smartphone kicking around, he thought that it would be the perfect starting point for an SMS-triggered remote start system. He started off by … [Read more...]
For some ungodly reason, [Scott] has a friend that wanted a 'sexting themed' Halloween costume. We won't try to make any presumptions of the creativity or mental stability of [Scott]'s friend, but the SMS scrolling LED belt buckle he came up with is pretty cool. The belt is based around a $13 scrolling LED belt buckle [Scott] found online. There was a problem with the belt buckle, though. … [Read more...]
We haven't really covered many hacks having to do with Apple's newest iPhone feature Siri. We'd bet you've already heard a bunch about the voice-activated AI assistant and here's your chance to give it the keys to your house. This project uses Siri to actuate the deadbolt on an entry door in a roundabout sort of way. This is really just a Siri frontend for an SMS entry system seen in several … [Read more...]
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