In case you were wondering what industrious hacker [Joe Grand] was doing when he’s not building stuff for Prototype This!, developing Defcon badges, or testifying before congress, it’s this: The BSoDomizer is a VGA pass through device that displays an image of your choice on the victim’s screen. It can do this either periodically or…
TOORCAMP 2009 TO BE HELD AT rocket SILO
After running a successful hacker convention for ten solid years, the people who brought you ToorCon are planning a new event to shake up the us hacker scene. ToorCamp will be held July 2nd-5th, 2009 at a former rocket silo in central Washington state. Hackers will camp on-site for two days of talks complied with…
TWEET-A-WATT WINS GREENER GADGETS design competition
The team behind the the Tweet-a-Watt/Wattcher just won first prize at the Greener Gadgets design competition. The device is a hacked kill A Watt that transmits power consumption using an XBee. After checking out DVICE’s preview of the competitors yesterday, we’re pleased to see a prototype win instead of just a concept sketch.
WIIMOTE controlled RPI ROBOT
[Brian] has brought together a powerful collection of hardware to build a robot. The end goal is to have a robot that’s controlled by a Wiimote. The Wiimote communicates over Bluetooth with a Raspberry Pi, which is running a Python script. This script uses the CWiid Python module to communicate with the controller, and [Brian]…
MODIFYING A SONIC CLEANER FOR THE lab
[Sean] wrote in to tell us about this hack he did to modify a consumer sonicator for lab use. Sonication is commonly used in labs to aid in mixing in tough containers or to add energy for specific events. He’s a chemist on a budget, so he couldn’t necessarily pay for a great industrial one….
DISTANCE DETECTING PC
reader [Joshua] sent in his most current project. using a sonar rangefinder, an Arduino, and some creative programming, he’s made is computer react to his distance from it. As you can see in the video after the jump, he has programmed it to change text size and background color depending upon his distance from the…
LASER KALEIDOSCOPE utilizes much more 3D printing and less SCAVENGING
At very first we believed that [Pete Prodoehl] was utilizing the wrong term when calling his job a Laser Kaleidoscope. We typically believe of a kaleidoscope as a long tube with three mirrors and some beads or glass shards in one end. but we looked it up and there’s a second definition that implies a…
ACCELEROMETER managed PONG
[Adam] sent us this great game he made. It is accelerometer managed pong (translated). The screen is a Nokia 3310 LCD, connected to an ATmega8 for the brains. He’s utilizing an MMA7260 accelerometer for the controls. The whole thing is encased in an iPod nano box. this appears like a quite fun bit game, though…
RETRO GAMING just IN-CASE
You can look and look, but you won’t find a incredibly Nintendo inside of this retro gaming rig. [Webrow] is giving his vintage hardware a rest, and taking this all-in-one game emulator suitcase wherever he goes. The maker at the heart of his build is of course a Raspberry Pi. You really can’t beat the…
HOW-TO: immediately download as well as convert TV FOR YOUR IPOD
The great people at Videora have just recently released the Videora iPod Converter. utilizing this tool you can make almost any type of video iPod ready. They have a handy how-to for ripping as well as transcoding your own DVDs. Our goal is to immediately download TV utilizing Bittorrent as well as convert it to…