There’s a new Bay Area hacker space, NoiseBridge, in the Mission District: We want to provide infrastructure and collaboration opportunities for people interested in programming, hardware hacking, physics, chemistry, mathematics, photography, security, robotics, all kinds of art, and, of course, technology. Through talks, workshops, and projects we encourage knowledge exchange, learning, and mentoring. As a […]
Hack food or kitchen tools and win great prizes! The Instructables Hungry Scientist Contest will be running through October 27th. Official rules are here. Yum!
Hack-a-Day has a how-to piece on modifying/improving/circuit bending the ThingamaKIT from Bleep Labs. How-To: Hack a ThingamaKIT More: Retro ThingamaHat ThingamaHat ThingamaKIT ThingamaKIT build photos
Andrew Q Righter of HacDC writes: As you may know HacDC will be holding it’s second training event, June 28, 2008.We are inviting Bow Sineath to HacDC to teach our members (and even non-members, bring your friends!) about the intricacies of reversing binaries using some of the latest tools in the field. The following is […]
Dino shares some details on his hacking methodology for an Ardueeno-toy-bot. This is a Rumble Robot I’m hacking and turning into an autonomous exploration robot with the Arduion as it’s central controller. This is stage one, getting the motors to drive it. Looks like fun! In the Maker Store: Arduino Diecimila
Interesting piece on AfriGadget about mobile phone hacking in rural Africa: One of the more interesting innovations is the development of a dual SIM card hack so that users can access multiple carriers. This product has two SIM card slots in a single phone – primarily to support price sensitive/prudent consumers who wish to optimise […]
Thomas writes – DorkbotPDX 0x01 will be taking place on March 30th at the PNCA Graduate Studios building (1432 NW Johnson St.). We are planning to start things around 6, though there will probably be time to socialize a bit before the talks start. There will also be time to meet others in the Portland […]
