here is a great hack that stella sent to us. mark craig pulled off a really nice looking alarm clock robosapien mod using a couple pic-micros, an lcd panel, and a text-to-speech synthesizer. i don’t think he’s finished the breakfast-in-bed software yet, but i’ll keep my fingers crossed for an update. nicely done!
apparently, greg miller is a class ‘a’ dumpster diver and high voltage hacker. aside from the image intensifier tube found on ebay, this night vision scope is made almost entirely from other people’s junk. something like this would add the perfect touch for creeping out friends with your silence of the lambs impersonations.
the rockstars over at engadget posted a fairly comprehensive how-to on using your mac mini as a home media center. what do you think — will mac mini hacking be as common as the crazy stuff people do with mini-itx boxes?
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microwave oven + metal = fun
our pal barb dybwad from the unofficial apple weblog sent us this link. (Wayback Machine) david reid discusses a cheap and easy method for melting and casting metals in a common microwave. apparently, this method requires only very minor modifications to the oven and is able to reach temperatures of around 1000 degrees celcius, thereby melting small amounts of cast iron. i find this amazing since i still can’t figure out how to thaw the center of a frozen burrito of similar external temperature. it looks like there is still some hacking to be done to find a process capable of melting steel, so i’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
when you are done making pewter army men, you may also want to check out the detailed photos of barb’s new mac mini. lucky!
a hardware hack, a software hack, and a case mod all rolled into one. here is how you can turn an actiontec router into an smb/cifs honeypot that’s contained inside a lamp
hackaday reader dan really made my day by sending us a great hack that shows you how to turn a microsizer/bitchar-g/zipzap micro r/c car into a 2 channel airplane for a total cost of $35.
those cars cost about $10, are incredibly tiny, and you can find them everywhere. that’s definitely worth considering next time you want some sort of r/c functionality in your own hack.
update: page has moved to a new url. i’ve linked to it below.
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somebody over at spark fun decided that those 1980s zach morris cell phones just weren’t retro-cool enough. keith swett sent us the link to this hack which involves retrofitting an old 1950s at&t rotary phone with modern day tri-band cell hardware.
make sure to turn it off when you are in the theatre.
