Archive for the ‘Hacks’ Category
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
The Blog of James Foreman, Fiction Writer and Pittsburgh Blogger
Your shiny new iPhone doesn’t have GPS, and therefore you must actually push buttons in order to advance to the next leg of your journey. Fear not, dear readers, for I have a solution: The Hipster GPS.Inspired by 43Folders’s Hipster ...
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
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Free printable cardboard lens hoods
This site contains PDF documents that can be printed and cut out to make lens hoods for a variety of 35mm and digital SLR camera lenses. Lens hoods give better quality photographs by reducing flare caused by nonimageforming light.
Very cool idea.
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Cool Looking Recumbent Bike
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
CoilOsapien
CoilOsapien video now available on YouTube!
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME...
CoilOsapien is an electric shock hazard. Caution must be taken when dealing with high voltages, laser diodes and fast moving projectiles.
A Robosapien with a rail gun and flame thrower.
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Gauss Pistol Home
A Real Electromagnetic Pistol!
* Two coils are precisely pulsed in sequence
(350 Amp peak) to fire a steel projectile
* Two infrared sensors detect the projectile
position within the firing tube
...
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
The Sect of Rama
This afternoon I gave the homemade smoker v2.0 a run with something relatively quick: smoked chinook salmon. If you haven't read my earlier entry, v2.0 is basically the gutting of the electric internals, and replacing it with charcoal and a Stoker system. It worked *remarkably* well!
Cool and ...
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Undead Santa Snow Globe - a photoset on Flickr
Yay, I won first place in the 2006 Rackspace costume contest :)
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Monday, October 2nd, 2006
Demo: Cloning a Verichip Yourself
This device can read and replay a Verichip's ID. If you can get the antenna close to your victim's shoulder, then your circuit board is electrically indistinguishable from their implanted chip forever after. Full schematics and documentation are given below.
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » “Hotel Minibar†Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines
The access panel door on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine — the door that protects the memory card that stores the votes, and is the main barrier to the injection of a virus — can be opened ...
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006
Hackers can Turn Your Home Computer into a Bomb!
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Sunday, August 20th, 2006
Anyone interested in a Hi-def (1920 x 1200) mod for PB/MBP? - Mac Forums
Cool Power Book mod.
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Upside-Down-Ternet
One of the better internet pranks I've seen in a while. This could be fun to do with a corporate squid account too.
My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun.
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
18 Tricks to Teach Your Body - Men's Health - MSN Health & Fitness
1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear.
When you were 9, playing your armpit was a cool trick. Now, as an adult, you can still appreciate a good body-based feat, but you're more discriminating. Take that tickle ...
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