PARKING violation LEADS TO MALWARE download
It seems some enterprising individual in Grand Forks, North Dakota has been placing fake vehicle parking violations on cars. If the recipient visited the URL on the flyer, they would be told to install a toolbar to view pictures of their vehicle. That piece of malicious software would then attempt to install several more. The …
JUICEBOX customized LINUX CART
The JuiceBox is a personal video player that was sold by Mattel that no one cared about. It was capable of playing MP3s off of an SD card and this summer you could pick them up for low-cost as sellers disposed their stocks. [prpplague] has been hard at work creating a customized bootable rom cartridge. …
HACKERSPACE develops ways TO get PEEPS TO SPILL THEIR secrets
Whether you call it enhanced interrogation or torture, the subject is a lot less serious when the victim is a sugary confection. The LVL1 Hackerspace in Louisville, Kentucky recently held an event focused on getting Peeps — the bunny-shaped sugar-covered marshmallow treats — to spill their guts. participants developed a range of tongue-in-cheek torture devices then demonstrated …
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CAN YOU build AN E-INK display FROM SCRATCH?
modern displays are fascinating little things. In particular, the E-Ink displays employed in modern E-books achieve mesmerising paper like contrast with excellent standby power consumption. Many of us at some point have had a go at experimenting with diy displays, but been discouraged by the miniature scales involved. Driving them is hard enough, but building your own? …
COLOR NTSC video directly FROM AN AVR CHIP
We’ve seen composite video out from AVR chips lots of times before. but we can’t remember coming across one that managed to produce a color signal. This project does just that, producing a color video signal from an ATmega168 without using external integrated circuits. [CNLohr] is seen here showing off his accomplishment. You’ll remember him from the …
MAKERBOT shows OFF 3D SCANNER
We’ve stated our piece over Makerbot as well as their interpretation of what open source means, however the truth stays if you’re sourcing a 3D printer for a high institution shop class or a hackerspace, you truly can’t do much much better than a Makerbot Replicator. obviously Makerbot is looking to broaden their 3D style …
CONDENSER MICROPHONE building
browsing around today, this job caught our eye. mainly because of the visual similarity to, well, personal massagers. As it turns out, it’s a house made studio condenser microphone. We would generally prefer to link directly to his personal page, that has a somewhat more in dept compose up, however it has popups as well …
MASSIVE ETCH A SKETCH FROM TV screen
[Jeri] put together an absolutely enormous Etch A Sketch for The FatMan and Circuit girl show. She had removed the DLP chip from an HD rear projection TV and chose to repurpose the 52inch screen. The movement mechanism uses pulleys from screen doors with nylon lines. The two sets of lines are fed in a …
FPGA EMULATES NES CART; PROTOTYPE SO CYBERPUNK
By now, most of us have had some experience getting ROMs from traditional video games to run on new hardware. Whether that’s just on a personal computer with the keyboard as a controller, or if it’s a more fine-tuned RetrioPie in a custom-built cabinet, it has ended up being fairly mainstream. What isn’t mainstream, however, is …
RASPBERRY PI used TO build A smart television
In the title of his post [Donald Derek] calls this a Google TV you can build yourself. That’s certainly an over-reach. but the project is still a very excellent smart television developed using a Raspberry Pi. The open source project starts with the Rasbian OS, an RPi version of Debian Linux. functionality is developed up by installing …