do you have some advanced electronics skills, 50 bucks, a spare altoids tin, and the need to out-cool your ipod toting friends? if so, check out limor’s instructions for building an mp3 player from scratch. it uses compact flash, has a built-in fm transmitter, and smells real nice. awesome!
there are incredible hacks and then there are projects so unreal that the term hack just doesn’t seem appropriate.
this one fits squarely into the latter category and i’m posting it anyway.
art vanden berg details 4 years of designing a balloon launched glider that flies itself to a safe landing point using custom software running on a pc104 setup with a gps receiver, quickcam, 35mm camera, and packet radio. mission control is equally impressive with more custom software that tracks telemetry data, downloads real-time quickcam stills, and provides manual override of normal flight operation if necessary.
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here’s how you can unlock the secret debug menu on many coke machines. you can find out how many drinks have been sold, how much money is in the machine, and, in the rare case the machine is unsecured, get yourself a free soda-pop
this hack goes out to charlie… it’s not for the faint of heart, but with some careful dremeling you can double the capacity of your Rio Karma to 40GB. photos live here. please be careful with this one – you don’t wanna end up with any bad karma. ;>
some untrusting person’s employee. the lobby of a radio station in taiwan. a woman shaving a cat. sleeping mice inside of a research lab – who knows what you’ll find with a quick search. as this becomes more well known, there is a good chance you’ll find yourself wrestling another snooper for control of a camera
do you have one of those aa batteries with the yellow test strip that doesn’t go yellow any more? pierre-philippe coupard put together some great instructions for turning a used aa battery into an analog cpu load monitor for a linux pc.
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This hack is for those of us die hard old skool types still making good use out of our Handspring Visor handhelds. You’ll also need a SonyEricsson phone with GPRS and an IR-port to make this work. This hack comes from Ola Eriksson, distant cousin in the Norwegian branch of the Sony Ericssons.
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