if you liked today’s spy-lamp-mic-amp for the electronics, check out the portable minty headphone amp that also uses the cmoy amp design.
if you liked it for the lamp mod, check out the linux honeypot case mod.

more info on chu moy amps

mini-maglite led conversion [grimtrekkie]
get 6 times your normal flashlight battery life.
another cool persistence of vision led toy [koft]
use 32 times the leds.

same great google flavor but without the ads [FloridaSage1]
alternate h@x0r flavor [oxcid3]

an imac fish tank conversion [kokoliso]

install a bluetooth module in a powermac g5

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in a last ditch effort to avoid thesis work, tony tang and eric pattison hacked together dartmail, a ballistic file transfer protocol.

The head of the Dart contains an RFID tag. By waving the tag over the reader, the ‘shooter’ can attach a handle to any electronic file (located in a shared file system) to the dart. After being shot, the victim can pass the dart over his or her reader (although invariable this is a guy’s thing), and see the file on the screen.

in the video they also propose using the rfid file handle in the form of a business card.  but really, 9 out of 10 business contacts would just prefer the pleasantry of being shot with a dart.  thanks for the link b-rad.

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superhero makes car boot hack irrelevant [aienan]

ladyada (of minty mp3 fame) made a personal cellphone jammer called the wave bubble as part of her masters thesis.

i mentioned that a wifi jammer would also be neat.  here’s a link to a prototype that jams everything but your own connection. [simon]

make a hotplate out of old cyrix cpus [eakthekat]

david gould went on a hack rampage over the last week and sent in a kabillion hack links:
turn a hard drive into a set of wind chimes
a continuation on the BoingBoing DRM coffee machine hacks
mac mini hdtv hack
bluetooth enabled star trek communicator
fix bluespoon ax’s flashing led

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phrack had a howto a little while ago on a diy gps jammer.
needless to say, it ruffled a lot of feathers.
slate ran a similar editorial on cell phone jamming.

In the United States, actively jamming a cell-phone signal is illegal

i’m working on a hackaday podcast and it only seems appropriate that i hear from the hackaday community.  i’ve received some really great messages so far (thank you!), but i know there are a lot more of you out there.

i’d like to hear stories about your favorite hackers.  just call in and mention your favorite hackaday hacker and why you liked their project.  even better, tell us a story about someone or something that inspired you to become a hacker.  or tell us something else.  it’s up to you.

don’t worry about making mistakes

take a look at these bow spring shoes.
i am pretty sure i need a pair of these.
there’s a movie of a guy literally flipping over a car.
uc berkeley also tried to make the better pogo stick.

‘un-drming’ a senseo coffee maker by making your own pods.
boingboing found a link to a commercial refillable pad.
we need more coffee hacks.  it just makes the world a better place.

digital rebel ‘upgrade’ hack

free tech support.  what a neat idea.

use the google calculator from your unix command line.

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if you’re set on pringles cans, you can build the deep dish from one as well
there are pictures of other people’s dish reflectors here
homemade omni-directional antenna howto
chinese parabolic cookware antenna
the traditional cantenna

hacker pranksters attack burger king wireless intercom and perform valuable public health service

you may have already seen this on slashdot, but it’s really quite a nice hack:
pc controlled popcorn popper to coffee roaster hack

people really love the usb battery and have been sending me their own creations:
this one on ebay is cool.  an on/off switch and led have been added.
altoids tin 9 volt phone charger
i cant believe how popular those altoids tin cases are.

snorkelson macburp sent us a link to some cool diy science toys and also won the prize for wierdest handle ever.

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