PSP Go Gets Patrially Owned
What’s the thing been out for? 4 or 5 days? and it already has been partially owned. This has to be a record somewhere.
It looks like your typical save game exploit, but it also seems that it doesn’t allow enough access to the hardware yet to install something like custom firmware. If the great team [...]
RockBand For Those Over 40
Over 40 and wonder what the whole RockBand or Guitar Hero crazy is all about? Want to jump in but don’t know how to? Maybe you would be better off with Dan’s mish-mash of sound and electronics. This guitar has been stripped of all it’s internals and has a CPU and all sorts of cool [...]
Put Your Old Gamecube To Good Use
This crafty UK hacker decided to put his old Gamecube to good use and cram a PC into it. It took him over a year to put it all together. It’s not exactly a powerhouse of a machine, but it is one of the cleanest casemods using a Gamecube I have ever seen.
PicoCube is based [...]
Portable N64
It’s truly amazing that the hacking community in the benheck forums continues to provide quality hacks like this portable N64. Darth 64 is a portable N64 that uses parts from a N64, PSx, GameCube, and a Lazer Doodle (that’s the case).
List of features:
Psone screen with original backlight.
Flush mounted headphone jack.
5000maH Li-Poly batteries with quick charger [...]
Oscilloscopes Hacked To Run Tetris
Sure, you could always use a scope to do some trouble shooting or displaying various electrical signals, but why would you ever want to do that when you could play tetris on a machine that costs a1000x the cost of an original GameBoy.
Created by engineer Lars Pontoppidan, this hack essentially uses the ATMega 32 micro-controller [...]
OS X Mod-Chip EFi-X Spotted In The Wild
Looks like the EFiX USB dongle that is suppose to relive all of the hackintosh headaches isn’t living up to expectations. The EFiX is designed to let you install and run OS X unmodified on x86 hardware, not any hardware, but the hardware that EFiX claims is compatible. You should even be able to run [...]
How To: Prevent Airplane Seats From Reclining
Picture this: you’re sitting in coach on a discount airline (you know us bloggers are starving artists) when you decide to pull out your laptop to get some work done only to have the person in front of you decide to recline their seat and smash your screen into your hands. If this has ever [...]
How To: Make A Water Gun Alarm Clock
Having trouble waking up in the morning? If you are anything like me then anything short of an earthquake just doesn’t cut it. I know that shooting yourself with a water gun to wake you up might not be the smartest of ideas, but then again you could always keep some soap near the bed [...]
How To: Build A Giant Floor Mat NES Controller
Who need’s Wi-Fit when you can get some aerobic exercise 8-bit style. Put your feet to work with this giant floor mat NES controller. Here’s what you will need to get the job done.
an NES system and controller (of course)
3×5 foot piece of cardboard
46 feet of insulated wire
a roll of aluminum foil
clear packing tape
32 sheet [...]
Portable Packman
Pacman, the video game of my youth. I spent many an hours (and money) at the local coffee shop when I was a kid trying to master this game (I don’t think I ever did). sam_thornley over on the benheck forums came up with this great little project. It uses the guts of a JAKKS [...]
PS3 Games Running Via HDD
There seems to be some sketchy details released about a hack that allows you to run PS3 games via the hard drive. Hacker StreetskaterFU seems to have no trouble getting confirmation from others that this method of running Blu-ray games from the PS3 hard drive actually worked. So far it has only been reported to [...]
Custom iPhone Light-Up Apple Logo
With Apple selling upwards of 3 million iPhones already I bet you are looking for that extra little way to stand out in a crowd. Why not light up the Apple logo on the back of your iPhone. iPhones.ru has a teaser of an iPhone hack that causes the Apple logo on the back to [...]
Tun A $4 Flashlight Into A Torch
I absolutely love Kip Kay’s tutorials, they are quick, effective, and fun to do. Take this simple hack. With a $4 flashlight and a super powerful bulb you can make yourself a super powerful flashlight, much like the one’s you would spend $80-$100 on.
Best of all, this hack can be done without any soldering skills. [...]
DVD On A Wii
Wii fanboys rejoice, you can now watch DVD’s on your Wii with some Homebrew software developed by a crafty hacker named Erant. The homebew software allows the Wii to read DVD’s and come bundled with a media player program that let’s you play DVD movies as well as view video files stored on an SD [...]
