All the stories tagged with hack
Starlight 64 portable N64 mod
12/17/2009, Who would have thought that consumer electronics would have advanced to such a pivotal moment, where you are able to turn what was once home-based into a portable form factor? That’s what spiritwalker47 did with the N64, resulting in the [...]
Motorola Droid Gets Multitouch Via Hacked Firmware
12/17/2009, Are you jealous because the folks over in Europe have multitouch on their Motorola Milestone (Droid)? Well, you might not have to be jealous much longer. It seems that the Android hacking community has successfully ported the Motorola Milestone’s firmware [...]
Nook Hacked to Run Pandora
12/16/2009, After Barnes & Noble’s Nook eBook reader was hacked (or “rooted” as they call it), it was only a matter of time before folks started to try installing all sorts of programs on its Android OS. Now the folks over [...]
Wiimote hacked as water level sensor
12/15/2009, The Wiimote is one highly hackable device, but We’ve all been entertained by Wiimote hackery in the past, but William Luxemburg from the Delft University of Technology brings things to another notch by hacking his Wiimote to function as a [...]
IntoDream turns Dreamcast portable
12/15/2009, The Dreamcast is one of those consoles that had everything going for it, and yet it still died an unnatural death to the chagrin of many. Sega fan who prefers to go by the moniker Bacteria has spent the last [...]
Keg volume monitor
12/14/2009, Just how much beer do you have left inside that beer keg of yours? The DIY beer keg monitor might just come in handy then, where it is capable of letting you know the remaining amount of carbon dioxide within [...]
Nook Software Hacked
12/14/2009, If you’re one luckier folks to be able to get your hands on a Barnes & Noble Nook eBook reader, what would you do with it? Well, the folks over a Nookdevs spent quite a bit of effort into hacking [...]
Motorola Droid jailbreak
12/11/2009, It goes without saying that one needs not wait too long for a device to be cracked or hacked – and the Motorola Droid proved to be every bit as mortal as the iPhone. This Android-powered handset has been hacked [...]
Modular 68000 computer
12/10/2009, Flickr user nike6 is currently working on his latest project, which is building a modular computer based on the Motorola 68000 processor using some interesting parts including perfboards, a homebrew header-based interconnect bus and a generous amount of copper wire [...]
H4rdw4re to crack GSM encryption
12/09/2009, Security firm H4RDW4RE from California aims to crack the A5/1 encryption standard that is used to secure GSM traffic from eavesdropping. As it stands right now, the A5/1 cipher is based on a 64-bit key, which means each handset comes [...]
Voice-controlled toy piano
12/09/2009, singing and laughing with the toy piano from ranjit on Vimeo. We know that you can teach dogs tricks, even though they’re old ones, but to have an inanimate object listen to your every command and do your bidding? No, [...]
Keyboard wooden enclosure
12/08/2009, Wish that your keyboard at home had a little bit more organic feel to it? Why not take matter into your own hands literally, as what Matthias did for his Commodore 64 keyboard. The classic keyboard now comes encased in [...]
Fully automatic crossbow
12/08/2009, A gentleman with too much time on his (skilful) hands have come up with his fully automatic crossbow that ought to send a shiver down the spines of those whom it is pointed to. Of course, this isn’t the only [...]
