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Jonathan Zdziarski, the author of O’Reilly’s iPhone Open Application Development, spoke about writing applications for the iPhone–both on jailbroken phones and via the official Apple SDK–at the Cambridge, MA Apple Store! Wade Roush reports on the event: But the really amazing thing about the event was that Apple even let the keynote speaker, Jonathan Zdziarski, […]
John Maushammer who we lovingly refer to as “the hammer” reverse engineered the firmware in all three Pure Digital disposable cameras and figured out how to connect them to home computers, and now he’s messing with…MacBook air USB ports. Other hammer projects: Homemade PONG watch! Rocket-Launched camcorder – Hack a $30, single-use camcorder to make […]
The Illusion PC, part of Microsoft’s Next-Gen PC Design competition via Gizmodo.
Gorgeous Mac Mini mod from Japan called the Mac Mini Pro Related: DeLorean Mac Mini. Mac mini Robot.
This guitar player built a USB-powered pedal switch (with conductive fabric switches) for hands-free scrolling/paging while he’s playing guitar. USB Pedal Page Turner – Link
Here’s a cool port of Arduino and Processing software running on the famed One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). This will no doubt enable lots of new hackers to emerge from the laptop’s growing user base. OLPC runs Processing and Arduino – Link, thanks Gian!
I used to have an old Powerbook before I upgraded to a MacBook and this problem happened to me continuously. My power adaptor was constantly fraying to the point where I had to buy a new one every 3 months. This hack shows you how to repair your old adapter to stop this from happening […]
