myztikal47 has posted a complete warranty-voiding HOWTO on disassembling and reassembling your T-Mobile Dash over at Howard Forums. (The photo shown here is from the FCC OET web site) – Link Related: FCC Office of Engineering and Technology Page on the HTC Excalibur – Link (PDF with teardown photos)
The nice thing about console platforms is that they tend to get better with age, at least from a hacker’s perspective. Discount prices, reverse engineered hardware, a mature development community, and still-available components make the slightly-aged console an armchair game programmer’s best friend. Before you retire your GameCube to the basement closet, take a stab […]
Riad has everything you need to make your own Mooninites (Gerber files, schematics and layout). He writes — By now everyone’s heard about the 2007 Boston Mooninite Scare. Unfortunately, as far as I know, no one has put any thought into mass producing more of these guys. Well, no more. Thom, a now-buddy of mine […]
One of the cool things about Vista is its ability to resize partitions using diskmgmt.msc. This works great for those times when you need to shrink or grow a partition. Unfortunately, if you need to move things around as I did this weekend, you won’t be able to use the built-in tool. I needed to […]
A lot of progress has been made toward porting the GTK+ library to OS X, and recently intructions went up on how to build Gimp for native OS X operation. That’s right, without X11 getting in your way. It’s still not ready for prime time, but I’m really excited about where it’s going. If you’re […]
Nick writes – I noticed you posted a previous project of mine and I thought you might be interested in my latest update to it. Same idea (RFID enabling your front door), only this time it is done completely standalone using the Parallax Basic Stamp 2e and the 13.5 MHz APSX RW-210 RFID reader. Response […]
Peter writes – Part of the advantage of open hardware is that you can modify products to be whatever you want. David Phipps of the “electronica jam band” Sound Tribe Sector 9 wanted his own Monome controller for manipulating live music mixes with Ableton Live, but he also wanted twice the number of buttons as […]
