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With a little know how you can have one of your own.
http://www.hackaday.com/2005/09/21/robotic-sentry- gun/

prepare to revert, hackaday has an autogun project hmmmm time to Mcguyver the camera tripod!

Couldn't get it to work on there either...

The only big flaw with the console is, and this is a highly controversial point that has sparked many a flamewar, the fact that it runs off of AA batteries instead of a rechargeable one.

Very good point. Take the following web site for instance it actually shows how rfid can be compromised.

http://www.hackaday.com/2005/02/19/sniffing-and-cr acking-rfid-crypto/

This web site has been out for some time so it appears that if you have a contact-less method of reading something then it's eventually going to be cracked. It is very easy to get close such as sitting next to or just brushing past a the potential victim without them being aware of any evil intent and 1m is a huge distance to play around with.

It is allot harder to get info off something that requires physical contact with a reader since that means physically touching that something (normally a card) and that would normally alert the victim.

But honestly, this is not the kind of article were you can learn how-to do a linux-running: it simply says how they use it, but you are not going to find anything "usable" from there.

Try digging in HackADay or Make instead.

It was posted on hackaday 3 days ago.

Hack a Day suggests putting the battery in the freezer as a resurrection method.

http://ipod.hackaday.com/entry/1234000563068565/ if someone can get teh ipod to load an OS (with out DRM), we can connect an ipod to linux.
just get freespire.... install itunes via cedega..... stfu noob... *troll troll troll*
is that easy enough noob?

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000427059760/

Or how about the mouse-embedded screen. Kinda hard to watch DVDs on.

I believe that came first.

Like one of these?

http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?s t=1&c=31
http://www.tribbeck.com/computers/stork/
http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/NC.html#NewsPAD
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000090050610/

Any of these could use solid state storage, and the OS is always in ROM. The last machine in that list was designed with flash storage in mind.

I had the opportunity to hold and use a NewsPad in 1996 at a computer show, and it was well ahead of its time. TFT touchscreen, camera, voice recognition, and all in a small package the size of current day "tablet PCs". Running off an ARM, too!

This is a good starting point: Looky here

I'M ruling it out. That's like saying a mouse with a ball and a 200 PPI resolution could be used as a scanner.

http://www.hackaday.com/

The write-up of their equipment hasn't been published in hack a day yet, so it doesn't count!

Don't forget to find yourself extra sources of entropy to get maximum performance. /dev/random can run out of characters and stall, which is why there's also /dev/urandom. However /dev/urandom is unsuitable for this because the authorities will actually be checking it and would find the pseudorandomness.

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000957024222/

I think they are using this.

Make a 9volt USB battery charger

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000520028239/

Or a WIND UP charger

http://www.edirectory.co.uk/pf/pages/moreinfoa.asp ?pe=CBHJGEGQ_+mobile+phone+wind+up+charger&cid=880

or a WIND TURBINE PHONE CHARGER

http://www.bytesurgery.com/gearedup/2006/02/a-wind -powered-phone-charger.html

Hackaday.com recently had an article about converting a 4 GB iPod nano to an 8 GB. Apparently apple only uses 1 flash chip in the Nano to make up the entire 4 GBs, but in fact it has a second spot on the board to attach a second 4 GB flash chip. It wouold be pretty cool to have an 8 GB iPod Nano though. http://ipod.hackaday.com/entry/1234000233073484/

I found this neato LED interface the other day from hackaday
Some more links to projects like this can be found on the story on hackaday.

I found this neato LED interface the other day from hackaday
Some more links to projects like this can be found on the story on hackaday.

I guess you must only play your IPod through the standard hearing loss ear buds. But if you want to play the IPod downloaded music on other devices, and in other places, here are a few links where you can buy crap to do that.

The point that the French are making is consumers should not have to do this, and I for one agree, they shouldn't. That is just like MS trying to foist the WMA crap on us, and then only provide a one way convertor, MP3 to WMA of course.

Can you imagine what it would be like if the TV signals were like the IPod, with no government regulated mandates and standards. HD TV would never get off the ground, and the sets would still cost $20K, much like the IPod. And no long term assurance that it will still be around tomorrow.

http://ipod.hackaday.com/
http://www.tomdownload.com/dvd_software/super_dvd_ to_ipod_converter.htm
http://www.m2convert.com/ipod-converter.htm
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1866732,00.as p

Gov't sole access to technology? Just make one of these!

Theres lots of robots designed for this purpose.

Of course, they are just toys and the big deal is this will be rolled out, but heres a couple of things I thought of:

USB Air Darts

Controllable from the computer :D

Automatic sentry gun
Uses a built in camera to detect and aim at moving targets.

Its all very half life ish, but plenty of fun.

First, install a used graphics card. Then reprogram the graphics card to do other stuff.

Any time domain project might work.

eg,
Audio Card. (Yes, you can produce audio on a graphics card).
Signal Generator (All kinds of repetative signals you can generate)
TV Remote (Just connect to a IR led on the output port).
Digital TV Modulator. http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000113073480/ This is the Best idea made practical.
Transmitter (on MANY different frequencies).
Ultrasonic transducer driver for driving 3 ultrasonic transducers. (Spot sound)

Just keep in mind you have 3 Digital to Analogue Controllers,
Programmable clocks
Memory (and a means of moving it to the DACs)
and two other digital outputs,

ALL PACKED NEATLY INTO A VIDEO CARD FORMAT... and it even works with AGP. :)

GrpA

Am I reading it correctly that CNet doesn't understand the difference between launching an executeable stored on an external media device, and somehow running it "on" the media device? Am I the only one who thinks Mr. Usher could have been clearer, but intentionally wasn't? Or that both are playing it as "plug an ipod in, instantly hack a machine", like in the movies where magical devices "hack" systems?

I wouldn't bet on that. Hardware really can magically and (near) instantly hack a host: Don't trust your hardware

"The company recently released a free VMWare Player which could only run but not create virtual machines."

Sure you can. Take a gander at http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000153064739/

What you don't get with VMware player is the nifty GUI to help you with the setup.

What you said doesn't invalidate the bit you quoted. The original quote didn't say you weren't able to create your own virtual machines; it said that the VMware Player isn't capable of doing it, which is indeed true.

"The company recently released a free VMWare Player which could only run but not create virtual machines."

1. Google topic.
2. Link first or second link. Never mind that comment 20 already linked it in the original article page.
3. ^_^
4. Karma!

Well, thanks to google, I found a link to the story.

and just like the scanner mouse, this has just been on http://www.hackaday.com/. cheap ripoffs....

http://hackaday.com/

Doesn't anyone else see why this would be useful to the Police when they're passively monitoring EVERY VEHICLE?

See http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/15/21 59244&tid=158&tid=219 if you don't remember!!

I wonder if its worth building a GPS Spoofer like the one on http://gps.hackaday.com/entry/1234000843061178/

DugUK

It coud be done with just a racing 'coolsuit'. Plus. extra geek points if instead of a large cooler of ice, you get a small cooler with a Peltier device! http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000083048949/

Hack A Day had this up on their site a few days ago here. In the comments on that page, there is a link to this really creepy hack that someone did with one of those Santas.

Hack A Day had this up on their site a few days ago here. In the comments on that page, there is a link to this really creepy hack that someone did with one of those Santas.

How about several Roombas playing musical accompaniment to Drunk animatronic Walmart Santa?

The GC also runs linux http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000457069215/

ANCIENT.
Why the hell do I have to view the same crap over and over? Why do I have to see the same thing on /., digg, and hackaday, then on boingboing, then on the makeblog... research your stories, editors.
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000523065961/
http://diggvsdot.com/

Posted Nov 1 on hackaday.com
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000523065961/

Yeah, not news here. Cutting open a harddrive to install an acrylic window is a good concept. Knowing that it ruins it should be reason enough not to.

And, proof that it is at least one year old, November 8th of 2004 begs to disagree. I even have proof!

Something similar was featured on hack a day a few days ago, someone brought a 20GB laptop hard drive back from the dead, after first practicing on a pair of 160GB drives.

here are a few more good NES controller hacks i've seen.

Enjoy!

If you liked Seti At Home, try Folding At Home. Help cure alzheimer's among other diseases with your spare cpu cycles. Check it out: http://folding.stanford.edu/ http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000673058540/ http://teamhackaday.com/

It just needs a little focusing to make it work....
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000933037362/

Speculation? No really... shouldn't this be posted on Hack-a-day? It could probably be put along with those wireless hacks (you know, same place you can find plans for tx/rx antenna mods)

You could always build one