DIY: Arduino AppleTV Remote
Not happy with the limited ability of Apple’s remote control? Build yourself your very own by using an Arduino.
Besides the obvious fact that this will act as a remote control for not only your AppleTV but also your Mac, you can easily build projects to automate tasks via the remote control.
This is a great first [...]
Use Your iPhone To Control Your Car
You knew it was bound to happen. With the iPhone already having apps to control everything from your iTunes to a remote computer you knew that someone would come up with an app to control a car.
The Spirit of Berlin team have developed an iPhone app that remotely controls a minivan. They developed the app [...]
Remote Controlled Tissue Box
Yes, you read it right, a remote controlled tissue box. You never know when you might need to blow your nose and feel way to lazy to get up and get the tissue box that’s like 2 feet away. Actually, now that I come to think of it, how many people actually keep their tissue [...]
Remote Control That’s Impossible To Lose
This is gonna be one of the easiest hacks you’ll ever do, at least from an electrical standpoint.
Most electronics like digital camera and cell phones have a loop attached to them so that you can slip a lanyard on to it which in turn makes it easier to find or harder to lose. This guy [...]
iTunes 7.7 To Include Remote Capabilities
In addition to the iPhone SDK beta 8 that come out last night, Apple also shipped a pre-release copy of iTunes 7.7 to developers that are part of the iPhone Dev Program. Apart from being a requirement for the new 3G iPhone and for the iPhone 2.0 firmware it seems to also include a [...]
14 Year Old Hacker Derails Train
I’m sure the media is going to put a nasty spin on this story about how all hackers are bad.
A 14 year old boy has been arrested after hacking into a Polish train system and using it like a giant train set which caused 12 people injuries. Initially it looked like he was being malicious, [...]
Best of the week – Aug 13 -19
Nmap 127.0.0.1 : Flash Style (Rob)
Vista powered Super Nintendo (Frank)
Free File: HTTP File Server (Rob)
Fully mechanical Pong – No TV (Frank)
Free File: Emergent Task Timer (Mike)
Emgeton Mini One – Windows powered iPhone Clone (Frank)
Hack your remote control (Frank)
Free File: PC Decrapifier (Mike)
WhiteDust Gone? (Rob)
Unlocked iPhones available in Hong Kong (Frank)
It’s time to Evolve (Rob)
Hack your remote control
Have you even been sitting on your couch and had to stretch your arm out until your tendons creaked? Ever lean forward in your armchair and fallen off because you were trying to get your remote control to work? Ever have to arm the remote at the TV and wave it around like [...]
Phillips Prestigo Tablet Remote: One remote to rule them all
If you ever lose this remote control, something is serious wrong with you. The Phillips Prestigo is about the size of three normal remotes smashed together, almost a throw back to the click wire remotes of the late 70’s and early 80’s.
The massive tablet-sized remote offers a bunch of physical instead of those wimpy soft [...]
Star Trek Phaser to Control your HD DVD player
There’s a special offer going on right not where each purchase of a Toshiba HD DVD player will come with an original Star Trek phaser remote control. I can see all of the trekies right now debating on who will be the first alien character that they will phase.
There’s no official photo’s yet of the [...]
NES DVD Player: Gaming Style
There are tons of NES modders out there, most of them create portable units out of the NES internals or jam them into the weirdest places. This is the firm mod I’ve seen that uses the actually NES unit. Kotomi crammed a full-sized DVD player — plus the LCD — into an old NES he [...]
Changing traffic lights
Posted by Frank on November 29, 1999 · Leave a Comment
I’m a bit of a skeptic about these whole “Making elevators come fast” or “Changing Street lights quickly” kind of hacks. KipPlay has brought us some interesting videos in the past that have been quite useful, like the Laptop Battery Hack and the Hack Your Remote Control video, but this one leaves me guessing so [...]
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