in response to last week’s basic stamp howto, steve ries sent in a nice looking xbox mod.
I recently made that crazy “light mod” you spoke of at the end of the article, except it was for my xbox. Check it out and let me know what you think. I even have video links on that web page, as well as the source for the stamp if anyone wants to try it out.
the lightshow he was able to create is pretty fantastic. someone hack this to start up every time one of the controllers is set to vibrate!
using an xbox controller, a small lcd screen (found at compusa for under $20) you can control the media center pc, for example–change songs, pause, change volume etc
if you ever wanted to do a really really weird hack, here’s one of the oddest ones. the good news is, you don’t need to crack up your xbox to do this, it’s all software, the end result is an xbox running apple’s mac os x.
this step by step shows softmodding the xbox, getting the software, disk images, configuration and the install.
with xboxes being so cheap, there’s no reason not to get one _just_ to mod. but if you can’t or don’t want to solder stuff, there are a lot of solderless mod chips and a lot of ways to do it. here’s one way
