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Hacked Hobbit Pinball Machine Joins IoT, Broadcasts Itself Over Twitch (lachniet.com)
Random web surfers could send a text message or even upload an image to be displayed on the back glass of Mark Lachniet's pinball machine, according to Mael517, while the machine itself webcast footage of both its playing field and backglass using Twitch. Interestingly, all the extra functionality was coded directly into the machine, according to Lachniet, who added only the webcam and an ethernet cord. The Hobbit [machine] has a whole bunch of hardware that I don't really understand and can barely fix... However, it has a computer in its guts, and this I can mostly understand.
After identifying the pinball machine's motherboard, CPU, operating system (Ubuntu) and an SQL database, Lachniet was able to backup its software, and then create his own modifications. He envisions more possibilities -- for example, the ability to announce high scores on social media accounts or allow remote servicing of the machine. Lachniet even sees the possibility of a world-wide registry of pinball game scores with each player's location overlaid on Google Maps "so you could view pinball hot spots and where the high scores were coming from," and maybe even networking machines together to allow real-time global competition."
After identifying the pinball machine's motherboard, CPU, operating system (Ubuntu) and an SQL database, Lachniet was able to backup its software, and then create his own modifications. He envisions more possibilities -- for example, the ability to announce high scores on social media accounts or allow remote servicing of the machine. Lachniet even sees the possibility of a world-wide registry of pinball game scores with each player's location overlaid on Google Maps "so you could view pinball hot spots and where the high scores were coming from," and maybe even networking machines together to allow real-time global competition."
I read comment after comment rooting for the Olympics to be a disaster, with viruses in the water, in the sand, and in the mosquitoes, causing mass sickness. None of that has happened and, aside from some harmless algae in the diving well, things have been pretty good. You were all rooting for the Olympics to be a disaster so you could gloat online about being right and furiously wank as people got sick, but your dream hasn't come true. As a result, you're back to hiding from surveillance and wanting off the grid. Meanwhile, things are going just fine for us normal people, while you whine about wanting off the grid as you're sitting in front of your computer, eating Cheetos and getting even fatter. You dorks are pathetic, and are certainly far too obese to even get up and go somewhere away from the grid. No wonder you hate the Olympics so much, because it's a competition between physically fit people who act normal and do normal things. Take off your tinfoil hats, put down the mouse and the Cheetos, go to a gym, interact with normal people, and perhaps there might be a glimmer of hope for one or two of you to be normal. And if that's too much, at least come back and eat crow for being completely wrong about the Olympics.
very boring
Essentially, upon discovering that the pinball was an Ubuntu machine, he connected it to Twitch?
what am i missing? if it is basically that, it does not appear to warrant too much boasting ...
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde)
>After identifying the pinball machine's motherboard, CPU, operating system (Ubuntu) and an SQL database, Lachniet was able to backup its software, and then create his own modifications.
Make sure to mention Ubuntu too. Now we really have all the facts we need to build are cases.
Fucking idiots. Just kill yourselves FBI.
They can try to burn coils out. But I told them that stuff like this can happen with them going on line with out having timely os updates.
At least they don't have a full PC running a full os in it. Just an ARM board.
High score list based on how it's configured? What about the non software setting configs? Or just glass off cheating.
remotely diagnose? more like remote reports as diagnosing stuff is hands on with pinball as it's the parts them self's that can go bad get out of alignment.
The game is not tied to that 1 MB will work with any PC MB that has right ports.
N/T
Most pinball games are slow to get OS updates and in to days world it's the thing that I really do not want to be on the network 24/7.
Just think of the games on site that get hacked to free play mode and that may be one of least damaging things that can be done to them. Others things that can be done are over driving coils hope that your fuses blow before you burn something out.
Right now updates make your systems more vulnerable, not less.
Windows 10 actually adds new IP addresses to phone home to during updates, in case you blocked them.
Pinball games are MADE IN THE USA!
Get ready for goatse :/
Now this is cool: http://spritesmods.com/?art=twitter1943
Guy hacked a 1987 arcade game by coding up another Z80 "processor" on an ATMega to share bus-mastering duties with the other two already there, in order to periodically mess with the RAM for the purpose of saving/restoring high scores and tweeting. He made a board that just plugs in between the CPU and the board and gives total Ethernet-ready control. It's easily adaptable to other machines, too.
Rest of the guy's site is neat too, like his hard disk controller hack that lets you root a machine by faking the cache read for /etc/passwd and is triggered by writing to a special file.
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Let's just hope they don't make a hobbit of it.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
There is a module to put into your own arcade cabinet to share your scores online. Turning any arcade machine into an IoT device. Currently the arcade machines upload scores, but it is not possible to connect to them from the net.
Atari rules... ermm... ruled.