BuffaloFeeds » Hack A Day » August 21, 2009

Hack A Day (7 unread)

Homebrew Wii via the bannerbomb exploit

Posted: August 21st, 2009, 3:18pm MDT by Matt Schultz

The Twilight Princess hack doesn’t work on newer versions of the Nintendo Wii, but thanks to a new exploit for the Wii, homebrew is still possible. Using an SD card and a few files, you can have the homebrew channel up and running in no time. The folks at Lifehacker show us how it’s done. [...]
OpenPogo, an alternative to Pogoplug software

Posted: August 21st, 2009, 2:30pm MDT by Matt Schultz

Many of us heard the news of Marvell’s SheevaPlug plug-in PC being released alongside its consumer solution counterparts. One of the prominent products based on the SheevaPlug hardware is the Pogoplug. The Pogoplug is essentially a no-configuration media server that allows you to plug in a hard drive and network cable to make data readily [...]
Passive infrared (PIR) sensor tutorial

Posted: August 21st, 2009, 2:00pm MDT by Phil Burgess

[ladyada] has a freshly-published and amazingly thorough tutorial on passive infrared (PIR) motion sensors. Most often seen in security floodlights and automatic doors, in creative hands these sensors can be put to other uses—cat flaps, camera triggers and purely artistic applications—as you’ll see in several demo projects and videos. For the curious, the tutorial provides a good amount of [...]
Tunneling IP traffic over ICMP

Posted: August 21st, 2009, 1:26pm MDT by Matt Schultz

We all hate it when we find an unencrypted WiFi network at our favorite coffee shop, restaurant, airport, or other venue, only to discover that there are traffic restrictions. Most limited networks allow HTTP and HTTPS traffic only, or so is the common misconception. In the majority of cases, ICMP traffic is also allowed, permitting [...]
Arduino USB host shield

Posted: August 21st, 2009, 10:57am MDT by Phil Burgess

Circuits@Home has been journaling their development of a USB host mode shield for Arduino, which could bring the platform a veritable explosion of mass storage, keyboard input and countless other peripheral options (and a corresponding raft of new hacks). Currently at the prototype stage, a ready-made shield and library are forthcoming, so keep checking back. Meanwhile, for embedded [...]
CBS to advertise using Video-in-Print technology

Posted: August 21st, 2009, 10:00am MDT by Nick Caiello

In what seems like another move to blur the line between digital and print media, CBS has announced that they will be introducing something called Video-in-Print technology in next month’s issue of Entertainment Weekly. Video-in-Print, or ViP, technology consists of a small LCD screen and circuit board that can be inserted into print media and [...]
Handbot, the shelf climbing bot

Posted: August 21st, 2009, 7:23am MDT by Caleb Kraft

Handbot is one piece of a larger project called Swarmanoid. The aim of the swarmanoid is to replicate the functions we usually desire out of a humanoid bot with a whole swarm of specialized bots. That seems like a silly goal to us, considering the only requirement for a humanoid bot is that it be [...]