We’ve been following Boxee (not Boxxy) considering that its public alpha debut last Summer. We were captivated by it. who expected a project built off of code originally intended for hacked Xboxes would be shown on NBC’s Today Show? We’ve been promised Internet connected set top boxes for years, but it seems like Boxee is […]
Instructables user [Mike Craghead] was in the middle of building a very compact public computer kiosk when he ran into a problem with the processor fan. It was too big for the enclosure and had to be swapped out with a fan that did not allow the motherboard to monitor its rotational speed. Motherboards don’t […]
We won’t call it useless, but we will ask why [Dan] wrote a brainfuck interpreter for the AVR It’s not generating code for the AVR; think of it much more as a bootloader. To run a brainfuck program, [Dan] uploads it to the EEPROM inside his ATMega32, after which the microcontroller takes over and starts […]
As a followup to last week’s post on automated protocol analysis, [Tod Beardsley] has written up how to start analyzing a protocol manually. He walks through several examples to show how to pull out the interesting bits in binary protocols. His first step was sending 10 identical select statements and capturing the outbound packets. He […]
following these instructions you can add an LED matrix to almost any piece of clothing. The whole display can be controlled using one output for each vertical and horizontal thread. The first step is to solder crimping beads onto each surface mount LED you will be using. next sew a grid of conductive thread into […]
As promised in their yellowsnow demo, [pytey], [MuscleNerd], and [planetbeing] from the iphone-dev team presented at 25C3 on their work Hacking the iPhone. The team originally formed in 2007 and this is the most detailed presentation on how the iphone was compromised to date. You can find the full talk embedded above. They opened with […]
inspect out this 20″ iMac. notice anything peculiar? look carefully at the branding above the Apple logo. The only thing that suggestions you off that this iMac is a hacked together system is that Acer logo on the replacement screen. As we’ve so commonly been caught doing, [Flippy] was browsing eBay for deals. It’s a […]
Running a data center takes a great deal of work, as well as even making sure the ambient temperature for numerous boxes is in the appropriate variety is an arduous task. When dealt with with the prospect of installing numerous temperature sensors in an EMC data center, [Vivek] had a much better idea: put just a few […]
[John] has been working with several BlinkM RGB devices. He’s created a controller to talk to each of the BlinkMs wirelessly and change their behavior. The core is an old relay tester box used to test telephone circuits. Each of its four knobs are connected to the analog inputs on the Arduino. The signal is […]
There’s no question that software application piracy is rampant in China. Microsoft attempted to treatment the issue with its new version of Windows authentic advantage anti-piracy program, which will turn the screen black every hour if the system stops working the validation test. Previous versions just notified the individual that they were utilizing pirated software. […]