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What (non-PC) Hardware Do You Hack?

Posted by michael on from the needle-nose-pliers dept.

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?"

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  1. I hack my shaft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and I like it

  2. I hack toasters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    TOASTER/.asdf.

    Can you say TOasT#r?

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  3. FAILURE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you fail it

  4. Re:Not from a Pc but used with it... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    3541

  5. LOLOLOMG TEH $ MAKES IT FUNAY +5 FUNAY!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  6. FAILURE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You FAILED it bigtime DT.

  7. Hacking the back 9 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald . . . striking. So I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one -- big hitter, the Lama -- long, into a 10,000-foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier. . . . So we finish the 18th and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. Oh you mean the other kind of hacking - nevermind.

  8. TELL ME THIS ISN"T THE PLACE by tyrani · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    For the term Beowulf Orgy to be coined!

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  9. Re:How to hack the American woman culture. by Naito · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    damn, I used up all my mod points earlier today. Someone mod this guy up!! Well said!