Make your own version of the audience polling system used in such game shows as “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and “Power of 10″ with your old Apple II. Although this hack is old, it still rings true to our heart about resurrecting old technology and putting it to good use such as in […]
A few days ago at the 24th Chaos Communication Congress a Wii hack was demonstrated that allows arbitrary software to run on the Wii console. Previously, the console was only available via the Gamecube emulation mode. This new hack will allow folks to write homebrew software that can take advantage of the Wii’s full capabilities. […]
Here’s a short video in which Joshua Wright demonstrates how a Bluetooth headset can be hijacked, allowing audio to be captured or sent to the device: Few users realize that Bluetooth headsets can be exploited granting a remote attacker the ability to record and inject audio through the headset while the device is not in […]
Some classmates (Byron Lahey and Ryan Brotman) and I just finished up a project where we used wireless handheld electronic devices to control Max/MSP instruments. It’s called sGloTaT (sensor Glow-object Trumpet and Tambourine): The sGloTaT sonic environment allows participants to originate sound by moving physical objects. It encourages novice users to play by naturally gesturing […]
This robot, designed by Jeff Terrell consists of dense PVC plastic piping for the body, its head moves 180 degrees left and right, and a strip of red LEDs under his mouth light up when it is speaking. The bot also uses a head mounted video camera and tracking software to integrate computer vision. We […]
Trax writes – It might be “yet another” «device» controller that operates over phone-line, but this one works for sure :) The task was to build a device that connects to the phone line and has a relay as an output switch. It should also sense if the connected «consumer» is turned-on or off and […]
A German hacker dusts off his plasma globe from the ’80s and hooks it up to an ATMega8 MCU and serial PC interface so that he can tune it. Large plasma Globe Tuning – [via] Link Build site (in German) – Link
