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External GPS for iPod and iPhone

Posted: October 9th, 2009, 3:00pm MDT by Mike Szczys

Ever wish your iPod touch or older generation iPhone had GPS capability? Now it can by using a Bluetooth GPS module along with the roqyGPS app. In April we saw a pretty creative way to add GPS to an iPod by using a homebrew accessory. The new app is a better solution because it utilizes the [...]
POV fan EEPROM hack

Posted: October 9th, 2009, 2:00pm MDT by Mike Szczys

Hacking with Gum got their hands on one of the persistence of vision display fans that Cenzic was giving away at Blackhat this year. It’s not the biggest fan-based POV display we’ve seen but it’s still a fun device to tinker with. They hacked into the EEPROM on the device in order to change the [...]
Safelock: biometric typing security

Posted: October 9th, 2009, 1:00pm MDT by Mike Szczys

We’ve seen some ways to bypass biometric security measures but here’s a new offering that we think will be hard to fool. The Safelock system is used in conjunction with a password to identify a specific user. This software records your typing style including the time between keystrokes, the time keys are held, and key [...]
Portable, digital stereoscopic image viewer

Posted: October 9th, 2009, 12:00pm MDT by Caleb Kraft

[madaeon] couldn’t find a digital viewer for his stereoscopic 3D images. He felt that he could probably build one, so he did. He found two identical digital picture frames and made a custom rig to hold the two frames. The method he is using involves polarized lenses, so you do have to put glasses on [...]
$4500 book about a car you can’t afford

Posted: October 9th, 2009, 11:00am MDT by Mike Szczys

The folks over at Kirkham Motorsports have turned out two things of beauty. The first is a sky’s-the-limit milled aluminum car. The second is a book about the making of the car that runs $4500 per copy. Why so much for a book? The binding is milled out of a 35 pound aluminum billet. The project [...]
Metal Race combines operation and calculator game

Posted: October 9th, 2009, 10:00am MDT by Mike Szczys

[Greg] was feeling nostalgic about the game RACE for to TI-83 graphing calculator. In the game, your car is stationary with controls to move the scrolling maze from side to side in order to avoid a crash. He set out to build a physical version of the game with a don’t-touch-the-side concept that reminds us [...]
Adding a keypad to a key card lock

Posted: October 9th, 2009, 9:00am MDT by Phil Burgess

[Colin Merkel] had a little problem: he was continually forgetting his electronic key card, locking himself out of his own dorm room. Like any normal Hack a Day reader, rather than getting in the habit of always carrying his card, the natural impulse of course is to build this elaborate rig of electronics and duct tape. Right? The result [...]
Hulu Desktop for Linux . . . finally

Posted: October 9th, 2009, 8:00am MDT by Brett Haddock

The folks over at Hulu Labs have been busy it seems, as they have just released a version of their desktop client for Linux. Windows and OSX versions of the desktop client have been out for some time now, but Linux has been left in the dark. Functionality wise, it operates and plays videos identically [...]
Beauty in Destruction

Posted: October 9th, 2009, 7:04am MDT by Phil Burgess

This is not a hack. In fact it’s a promotional montage for a collection of scientific equipment that few of us could likely afford. But like yesterday’s giant marionettes over Berlin, sometimes even a costly and delicately-orchestrated achievement transcends its own not-a-hack-ness, fulfilling our brains’ lust for wonderment all the same. Kurzzeit of Germany produces ballistics measurement equipment. The [...]