Ed Paradis has put some thought into a couple of hacks for the Hot Wheels toy radar gun: The Hot Wheels Radar Gun is a real radar gun currently (Feb 2007) available from Walmart and other retailers for about $30 (USD). It is a real radar gun, operating at 10.525 GHz capable of clocking cars, […]
Here’s one of my favorite portable gaming hacks, the GBA GPS. It’s a project that always comes to mind whenever I hear about some piece of homebrew development hardware falling under legal scrutiny. People are always creating amazing things when closed hardware is hacked open for amateur development. I own Magellan meridian GPS, many efforts […]
Over at the iPhone Dev Wiki, people are taking a crack at hacking the iPod Touch. The discussion so far is that Apple has encoded the firmware image differently for the iPod Touch. Because of this, there is currently no working jailbreak method that will allow you to get 3rd party software onto the deivce. […]
An article today in New Scientist discusses two quantum computers, independantly built by two different research teams, that are capable of running Shor’s quantum factorization algorithm. The current machines are only large enough to factor a small number–in this case, the number 15–but assuming the engineering challenges can be overcome and a larger quantum computer […]
The Wii Nunchuck communicates with the Wiimote over I2C, constantly sending little 6-byte packets that describe the anolog stick, accelerometer, and button values. You might remember that Brian posted about how you can hook the Nunchuck up to an Arduino board and read accelerometer data from it. Chad from Windmeadow Labs, who was responsible for […]
Today was a busy day for iPhone hacking. First, example exploit code that unlocked the iPhone was released by the iPhone hacker Zappaz. Shortly thereafter a full iPhone unlocking utility became available at the iPhone Dev Wiki, along with step-by-step instructions for making it all work. The source is available for both codebases, so it’s […]
With some conductive fabric and spirit gum, you can make a simple binary switch that attaches to your eyelids. Andrew Schneider used some of these to make a polaroid camera that takes a snapshot when you blink. When I first saw these, I was reminded of cyborgs in television and film and how they typically […]
