What (non-PC) Hardware Do You Hack?

Lis writes "Mike Langberg at the Merc News interviewed Scott Fullam - Scott wrote the book 'Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks' which includes things like a video periscope for your car, an Internet toaster, Cubicle Intrusion Detection Systems, and talking Furbys. (Instructions for the toaster and coffeemaker are up on the O'Reilly site.) Almost any kind of consumer electronic equipment can be modified to do things it wasn't intended to do. Ok, you'll probably void your warranty in the process, but you could end up with something even better than the original. Or not. But it's just gotta be interesting. So what have you hacked, and into what?"

Comments

Re:my coolest 'hack'

[wittyesotericmoniker]

That was you?

After that incident I fell of the ego building pedestal of jockdom and retreated into the world of solitary geekdom and then further into the socially isolating depths of the slashdot community, the only place where my disgusting lustful habits would be accepted as humorous adolescent anecdotes.

Please restore my ego by modding +5 Funny.

Phreaking and Social Engineering

[SphericalCrusher]

Besides hardware and software (of course) -- the main two other things I find myself hacking would be my phone and... well.. people.

I don't want to disclose what I do to my phone.. but let's just say that it makes it easier to non-PC hack #2 (Social Engineering) ;)

Hacking people is fun though. They will believe anything...