I was pretty sure this could be done, but hadn’t seen anyone pull it off till now. Bird603568 managed to stumble upon this write up
Month: July 2005
Hackaday Lazy Afternoons
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
Hacking Blackjack
This is a change of pace for us. Probably because this day next week I’ll be in sin city at DEF CON 13 and
Hackaday Links
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]
DS Serial Interface
natrium42, the original PassMe designer, has released a guide for building a serial interface on the Nintendo DS. It does require you to flash a new firmware on the Passme, but other than that it is just a matter of soldering wires to the RX and TX. He’s tested it with a keyboard, a bluetooth module, and a USB adapter. If you want to hook it to a computer you’ll need the level converter he suggests. There is a lot of potential here.
In other news: StoneCypher has offered a bounty for an open source TCP/IP implementation on the DS; it’s already broken $1100.
[thanks pete]
Hackaday Lazy Afternoons
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!
Risc OS Laptop
No there aren’t a lot of good reasons for building your own laptop. If you’re an Acorn enthusiast you don’t really have an alternative. It’s got a nice metal case and the hinge has been designed to balance the screen. It looks pretty slick; the only unfortunate thing is that the LCD has to be plugged in externally.
[thanks MSg]
