HACK-A-DAY extra

I posted the first part of my Xbox 360 iPod dock build on Engadget yesterday. regrettably commenting was still off when it went up due to maintenance so I haven’t gotten any feedback yet. just three Digg stories that aren’t going anywhere.

The action to my job posting has been pretty incredible. I was only expecting to to get one qualified person but this decision is going to end up being really tough.

Team Hack-A-Day has completed another million points bringing the total up to 7M. We’ve also managed to shake loose our previous overtake threats. identified on the forum: [omniboggle]’s vertical rackmount case, [PocketLnt]’s THaD flash intro.

Więcej linków po skoku.

Have you seen the fake 360 hacking vid yet? [via Digg]

I pointed out Diana Eng‘s inflatable dress last week, but failed to say that it was a collaboration with Emily Albinski.

Michael Steil will be presenting his paper “17 mistakes Microsoft made in the Xbox safety system” next week at CCC.

Recent upgrades to the Honda Asimo have enabled it to steal your girl and run circles around you in the process. I’m still betting on Sony’s QRIO which recently added a third eye… that sees through time. [via Core77]

BlogFS is based on FUSE and lets you mount your WordPress blog as a filesystem.

When judge Gwin ruled that source code is not protected by the first amendment, Leevi Marttila wrote the program c2txt2c to translate blowfish’s C source code into readable English, making it first amendment compatible.

Download Squad has a idea for using Google’s language tools as a proxy.

X-DSL v0.5 was recently released. It’s a a Linux distro for the Xbox based on Damn small Linux. [via Xbox-Scene]

I get some silly hack requests in the mail, but it looks like the ones sent to DVDJon have a little a lot more effort put into them.

Tim Berners-Lee started a blog recently. I hope you know who that is. [via Waxy]

[Liquid Khaos] recommends using “gun bluing” if you want to stain you white iPod headphones black.

MAME cabinet built in 24 hours. [THERINGMASTA by means of Joystiq]

Open DMX USB interface I love when MAKE unearths things I’ve always wondered about.

[eecue] picked up a new generation Furby to hack. They’ve got a guide for how to skin one.

iRobot released their long awaited serial control interface for the Roomba. recently produced Roombas have the needed bits built in already. It’s great to see a maker adding hacker features with each generation instead of crippling them. [leadingzero and rotzog]

Ramsinks Nvidia overclocking guide and BIOS reset switch. [domyślna]

Bracelets from guitar strings [Spud the Ferret]

Reality Hacking interesting art installations [exparrot]

Disassembling the HTC Blue Angel in Arabic [Moses]

[N] seems to be having problems with his Nintendo DS.

[Adam]’s company had a Christmas ornament competition. His didn’t win though.

Someone suggest this Sharper image product must be made into an automobile turret. “What’s that they’re flinging at us?!”

[KIWIDOGGOE] I don’t know why you keep sending your site in on the idea line. All I see is text stolen from us.

This internal UPS looks familiar for some reason. [abshnasko]

Build your own fallout meter. [joe]

Accord car computer install [Kyle Dewald]

[TomTheGeek] added Bluetooth to his laptop using [tnkgrl]’s guide.

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HACK-A-DAY extra

ShmooCon starts in two days and? uh? I’m sure I’ll be caught up with work by then. (UPDATE: [Tom] has an interview with Bruce and Beetle from the ShmooGroup) On a more important note: Yehoshua’s borg seems to have gotten lost on its way home from a new Year’s party and our Folding team has taken a hit. We’ve got sitemeter stats now in case you’ve ever wondered. It has only been active for two days, so the math is a little off.

more links after the jump (you should grab a beverage).

Instead of getting my work back on track, I’ve been
making motivational posters using
Motywator. [przez
Screenhead]

If you frequent mini-itx.com you’ve seen a lot of motherboards stuffed into
model automobile chassis. A company is now selling Compucars
komercyjnie. [via TRFJ]

Linux distribution chooser, I tested positive for Gentoo after
answering “yes” to “Do you hate your free time?” [przez
Download Squad]

DVDJon has already parked DeAACS.com in preparation for the
new, sure to be bothersome technology.

BoingBoing has a really interesting
thread/request about bone conduction
technologia.

How to program a bootloader
[Steve]

Palm T|X hacks: making a voice recorder and
adding a vibration alarm
[t3h]

Converting an optical mouse to IR [brad]

[Rlanctot]’s guide for building a
cord organizer

[snorkle256] upgraded his m:robe using [matt defenthaler]’s guide.
Then he was able to load it up using Adrian Stutz’s m:robe loader.

If you thought the original PSP hotswap trick was silly,
you haven’t seen this Xbox 360 video.
[autotoxic]

You could laugh at [Tom Allred]’s cordless phone mod
too, but he says the reception is great.

[Giantkillerrobot] got some mini Cooper slot automobiles for Christmas and has
started adding some non-factory
options.

[401] added the Hack-A-Day logo to his flash drive. [Derwin]
had it on his OLED Network Walkman, but his site seems to be down.

Older iMacs have an IDE controller, but use SCSI connectors for the CDROM drive.
[Abbie Gonzalez] came up against this when installing 10.3, but
it didn’t prove much trouble.

Jak
free up hotel bandwidth, It isn’t that nice, but some of us have to get work done.
[Steve]

[Oliver Wittwer]’s
quick fix for bad remote buttons

Michael Naimark’s guide to blinding cameras [David]

It may be patched now, but IronGeek’s guide to the
WMF vulnrability is still interesting. [Steve]

Modding Aussie pay-tv antennas for WiFi [masked]

Nintendo DS homebrew development tutorials
[leadingzero]

Hombrew for JAMMA arcade cabinets [Caveman Joe]

[miknix] added an external
antenna adapter to his PCMCIA wireless card. It’s in Portuguese but the pictures are decent.

[epooch] has been playing around with external
character displays and found out that
switch plates make really
good housings.

[darkmoon]’s
experience with initng, the next
generation init system for Linux.

[Stefano Palazzo]’s LEGO iPod nano dock

[derJan] has been abusing the
German McDonald’s kids play pcs.

[Frogz] sent in this overclocking guide
with a joke about drilling holes in your skull to increase oxygen flow. Masz na myśli
trepanning?

Use a floppy stepper motor to pan your webcam.
[Michael Wagner]

The LDBD has been experimenting with paintballs and high speed
fotografia. They got the instructions from MAKE.

I’m sure you’ve seen [jared]’s vibrating
lockpick by now, it was everywhere today (at least in my inbox).

I’ve completely lost track of the PSP scene, I guess
Tetris on 2.50 is new, wait,
no, they just broke 2.60.
[Glina]

[thoughtfix] has picked up a Nokia 770 and is blogging the
doświadczenie.

[pillowcase] continues to repurpose old tech as wall art. His latest
is the emate clock.

Android world looks creepy despite its technicolor. [Richard Johnson]

[Tod E. Kurt] cleaned of the color wheel and sensor in his DLP projector and
thought we would like to see the internals.

Computer generated holograms [DogHouse]

Thank you for all of the tips.

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