Joby used the Bus Pirate SPI sniffer to extra zombie graphics from an IM-ME. Yesterday, Travis Goodspeed wrote a good post about bitmapped sprites on the IM-me. As a teaser of his upcoming ZombieGotcha game, he released a binary for a demo and challenged people to extract the images and recreate the startup animation. And […]
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Hack the MD80 firmware to remove the date display
Villamany got a cheap MD80 video camera from eBay. It has a really annoying feature, it prints the date on the video with no apparent way to disable it. Armed with a Bus Pirate, he dumped the firmware, removed the date, and reprogrammed the camera. Original in Spanish (machine translation). What are you hacking with […]
Papilio barcode genie, a barcode scanning kit
The Gadget Factory, co-designer of the Open Logic Sniffer, has a new portable barcode scanning kit based on the Papilio FPGA platform. It is called the Papilio Barcode Genie kit or Barcode Genie for short. It is a kit for the Papilio One that makes it easy to capture barcodes and save them to a […]
A PIC/AVR burning robot
RoboProgrammer is a robotic microcontroller programmer. It’s an Arduino-heavy design – a GRoboduino is used to control the robot, and a Duemilanove is used to program the AVR chips. Via Hack a Day.
Tweeting coal stove
This twittering coal burning stove tweets the room temperature every ten minutes. An update that measures the actual fire temperature with a thermocouple is planned.
MSP430 low power experiment
Kenneth’s low-power microcontroller experiment tests how long will an MSP430 microcontroller can run on 20F of charged capacitors. Via Hack a Day.
Constant temperature crystal oscillator
Crystal oscillators generate pretty accurate frequencies, but the output varies a bit depending on the operating temperature. The crystal oven heats a crystal to a constant temperature to get the most accurate and consistent frequency possible. Via Hack a Day.
RIGOL 100MHz hack verified for firmware 2.04
There’s been a lot of interest in hacking the 50MHz Rigol DS1052E oscilloscope to work at 100MHz. The hack takes two parts. First remove a low pass filter, and then (see comments, thanks for the correction) Just modify the firmware to get it working at higher speeds. Forum member IPenguin just confirmed that this hack […]