Here’s an hack that takes on the challenge of burning a visible image into a CD-R. Data on a CD, or any optical media, is stored as a sequence of pits of varying lengths. To be precise, a 1 is represented by the change from pit to no-pit or the change from no-pit to pit, […]
racketboy has a great roundup of NES console options. These include Nintendo Entertainment System work-alikes. You should be able to plug most of your old 8-bit game cartridges right into one of these and be up and running right away: I received a friendly email the other day asking what NES clone I would recommend. […]
Some of the iPhone Dev Team, an international team of folks working on hacking the iPhone, are here at Chaos Communications Camp 2007 and they’ve got an NES emulator and Terminal among other things running on an iPhone. – Link
I’ve been a big fan of the Mini-ITX systems, using them in the past as silent, dual-purpose, storage and wireless router servers as well as a set-top media system for playing back transcoded DVDs. So I’m pretty excited to see the positive reviews that are starting to pop up for VIA’s new Pico-ITX motherboard, which […]
People are always asking me if you can really tell that much from a component datasheet (if you’re not an electrical engineer). Greg Lipscomb shows how to figure out what a chip can do by reasoning through a datasheet’s pin-out diagram and schematics. Here he uses the datasheet for the Maxim Max756 DC/DC step-up converter […]
We continue our impromptu series on tin can tech with this scratch-built condenser mic housed in a food tin. The ultra-lowtech condenser microphone – [via] Link Related: Fire-powered, bean-tin battery charger – Link
Over at the Make blog, Bre wrote: Today in Germany the Hacker Tool Law goes into effect. With the official name of Paragraph 202C it states that it is illegal to possess, use, produce, or distribute a “hacker tool”. In theory, law enforcement could come and arrest everyone here at Chaos Communications Camp. A group […]
