[calhoun] has been scratch building some great mac based MAME cabinets. His first one was a cocktail (pictured above) built from a Powerbook and using an I-PAC to interface with the arcade controls. The motherboard and hard drive are mounted to a fold down plexiglass tray. The speakers come from the Apple “globe” speakers. This is just the first model, he’s built several bar-top cabinets and is constantly trying to improve the design.
You probably thought we had lost that banner. I wasn’t actually planning this for today, but I had a couple projects come in that seemed pretty easy to do.
Aircraft pokia This project is from [Dave Seltzer]. He modified an Avcomm aviation headset so that he could use it with his cellphone. Aviation headsets have odd sized plugs and are wired kinda weird, but the the hack is pretty clear since everything is annotated
[Irongeek] has assembled a good starting point for hacking network printers. It starts with a discussion of stock passwords and how to administrate printers using telnet. Next is finding printers using NMAP. You can actually use the JetDirect boxes as idle scan zombies to scan other systems without exposing yourself. Other topics include setting up direct IP printing, changing the display, and using Hijetter from the Phenoelit crew. The ability to capture and replay print jobs really demonstrates how insecure network printing is.
[Irongeek] is also a great source for making the most of your Zaurus and has video demos of other hacking topics.
Congratulations to [Markie] for making it onto BoingBoing and MAKE with his Hack-A-Day iPod sock. I can Digg it. We know he’s just trying to shake the moniker of “cute bunny photographer“.
Episode 002 of NerdTV is available now, even though they haven’t updated the homepage. Fbz got a little impatient and decided to dig for it. UPDATE: It’s been officially released.
[Jon] downplayed his cd dividers when he sent in the link, but I think they look pretty appealing.
You don’t need a serial number to get a new Playstation AC cord from the recall. [Ozmotear]
[Wiltj] knows that no one will want to steal his Bazooka sub knockoff.
German gallery of UAVS [thanks dad]
[Seth fogie] wrote this roundup of PSP emulators and ISOs. This is actually one of the few reasons I’d buy a PSP since it has the correct number of buttons to emulate a SNES, unlike the GBA.
[sulk] modified his Playgear PSP case so he could use it with USB.
A beautiful gallery of old iron [j. peterson] UPDATE: There might be a trojan on this page. [Anon]
[sega01] saw our spudgun victim and decided to show some pictures from his laptop+fireworks period. What have you guys got against Toshibas? I just take my stuff to hazmat like a good citizen. I wouldn’t have if I had known I’d be hired here a week later.
[Jake] is going to hell for this link.
If you missed it in the comments [dick] sent in his friend’s April fools printer hack.
[jaa] modified his T610 cameraphone for IR.
Google recently rolled out Blog search. We’ve got a Google hack category now; if you come up with something clever/abusive send it in. Read the FAQ to get started.
I hope you enjoyed all of the linkage.
UPDATE: For troubleshooting your F@H setup head to the unofficial Team Hack-A-Day forum.
After announcing the Hack-A-Day Folding Team last week it has become one of the fastest gaining teams. [BillytheImpaler] put together this great guide for not only getting started with folding, but also getting the best folding performance out of your machine. Read on and join the team so we can break into the top 1000!
Folding@home is a distributed computing project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding. The project’s goal is to add greater understanding to protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. Such diseases include BSE (mad cow), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, among others.
Folding@home does not rely on powerful supercomputers for its processing; instead, the primary contributors to the Folding@home project are many thousands of personal computer users who have installed a small client program. The client runs in the background, and makes use of the CPU when it is not busy. In most modern personal computers, the CPU is rarely used to its full capacity at all times; the Folding@home client takes advantage of this unused processing power.
We’ve posted our How-To of the week over at Engadget.com. Take a peep at our cool little mod for embedding a wifi sniffer into a backpack strap or messenger bag strap. Haven’t you always wanted to have squishy switches and LED’s built into your bag? Well, now you can! The How-To even has spiffy Flickr photos for your viewing pleasure.
If you make a cool version of this hack, please let us know. We’re sure you’ll come up with all sorts of ways to make this mod better: super bright LED’s, luminescent wire, fibre optics, etc. Take this How-To and run with it yo
We’ve covered snowboards and longboards on previous Mondays, but it would be a shame not to mention their precursor the surfboard. [biscuitdough] suggested this online book by Stephen Pirsch for getting started with board building. The introduction does a good job of covering why you would want to pursue this and also reasons not to. It even suggests that reading the guide would help you if you plan on ordering a custom board. Make sure you check out the “Helpful Links” section for a description of their small wave design. (photo via)
