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Hack a USB port into your 2010 Prius

Posted: October 7th, 2009, 4:00pm MDT by Mike Szczys

[Rosenberger31] did a nice job of adding a USB port to his 2010 Toyota Prius. He removed the access door on the console where the traditional “cigarette lighter” 12 volt port is located. A Dynex 12-volt to USB adapter was piggy-backed onto the power lines and the USB connector was then fit into the blank [...]
Center speaker amp for an iPod

Posted: October 7th, 2009, 3:00pm MDT by Mike Szczys

A few weeks ago we saw [Jaroslaw's] universal credit card spoofer. Now he’s sent in a project that incorporates an amplifier into a center speaker for use with an iPod or any device with an audio jack. The build has two main components; an LM4950 audio amplifier and a center channel speaker he picked up for [...]
The subway never sounded so good

Posted: October 7th, 2009, 2:00pm MDT by Mike Szczys

Reader [Philippe] tipped us off about this video showing a set of subway steps being turned into a piano keyboard (english translation). The creators wanted to make taking the stairs rather than riding the escalator a bit more fun. They added pressure sensors to each step, then covered them with white and black keys to [...]
TV-B-Gone-zilla! Rar!

Posted: October 7th, 2009, 1:00pm MDT by Phil Burgess

TV-B-Gone: antisocial nuisance or harmless prank? Whatever your feelings, there’s no denying this device has become a staple of the DIY hacking crowd, as evidenced by the countless derivatives since hatched. This latest mutation crushes them all. [manekinen] from the Polish electronics blog Elektroda (“Electrode”) wasn’t satisfied with high-power TV-B-Gone designs using multiple 5mm infrared LEDs, so he [...]
Hardware HD decoder in a netbook

Posted: October 7th, 2009, 12:00pm MDT by Caleb Kraft

[banzai] wasn’t happy with the performance he was getting out of his Samsung netbook. He decided it was time to do something about it. He noticed that Dell and HP both sell an optional HD decoder card for their netbooks. After a short search, he found one on ebay for only $24. He had to [...]
Scare ‘em silly with a moving pumpkin

Posted: October 7th, 2009, 11:00am MDT by Mike Szczys

Halloween is a scary time for the little ones. It’s dark, they can barely see through their injection molded Spiderman masks, but it’s all worth it for the candy. Our friends over at Evil Mad Scientist Labs have produced a pumpkin that moves on its own. The little pumpkin was disemboweled from the bottom and its [...]
Barcode challenge

Posted: October 7th, 2009, 10:00am MDT by Mike Szczys

This morning we logged into Google to find a Barcode instead of the normal logo (how strange that Google would change their graphic!). Apparently today is the anniversary of the Barcode. This method of easily labeling items for computer scanning is used for every type of commodity in our society. But do you know how [...]
eD, the electric DeLorean

Posted: October 7th, 2009, 9:00am MDT by Jakob Griffith

Who wouldn’t want a DeLorean, honestly it has to be the one of the coolest cars around, what with its gull wing doors and stainless steel siding. Joking aside [Tom Neiland] and [Dave Delman] went even further, creating eD, the electric DeLorean. It contains around 910 pounds of deep cycle lead batteries, custom transmission adapter [...]
Record eight 1seg stations at once

Posted: October 7th, 2009, 7:23am MDT by Mike Szczys

[Aaron] tipped us off about a project over at mobilehackerz. They built something of a PVR for 1seg broadcast stations (Google translation). The 1seg broadcast standard is aimed at mobile video service and available in countries like Japan and Brazil. Their terrestrial TV signals (ISDB-T) are divided into 13 segments per channel but the HD [...]