January 15, 2007
MisterHouse - Open Source Home Automation with web interface
Check out this open source home automation software that you can mess around with. Garrett found this site while trying to make some of his home automation DIYs. Cool! Thanks Garrett! MisterHouse is an open source home automation program. It’s fun, it’s free, and it’s entirely geeky. Written in Perl, it fires events based on t ... More
PSP HACK - uClinux on your PSP!
Check out this cool PSP hack! Someone ported uClinux to a PSP! :p uClinux is a open-source linux for small embedded applications. You have no royalty to pay for after you develop an application which is the benefit over the royalty attached RTOS (Real Time Operating Systems). Micrium has some cool RTOS but I think you have to pay like $10,0 ... More
January 13, 2007
HACK - Changing Your MAC Address In Window XP/Vista, Linux And Mac OS X
Remember we found a MAC Address HACK for Windows the other day? Well, here’s more ways for hacking your MAC Address that includes Windows XP, Vista, Linux, AND MAC OSX! I think these are simpler than the ones before. BSD 1) Bring down the interface: “ifconfig xl0 down” 2) Enter new MAC address: “ifconfig xl0 link 00:00:00:A ... More
OpenMoko - World’s First Integrated Open Source Mobile Communications Platform
Wow, tight ass iPhone like cellphone that you can hack using the open source mobile platform! We have all seen the new Apple iPhone that was just released at CES. Now have a look at the new OpenMoko open source phone that has some similar sexy lines. The specifications sound impressive, what do you think? Have a look at the presentation (PDF). ... More
January 12, 2007
List of Free Linux Games
Check out this list of games that are free for Linux! via wagthis Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Entertainment, Entertainment, free-games, free-linux-games, Games, Games, linus-games, Linux, Linux, linux-games, linux-version, Online Games, Online Games, Ubuntu, Ubuntu, ubuntu-games, wagthis, Zedomax ... More
Cool Free Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial
Here’s a cool free linux shell scripting tutorial for all you Linux hackers! via wagthis 101, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, HOWTO, Linux, Linux, linux-shell-tutorial, shell-scripting, tutorial, Ubuntu, Ubuntu, wagthis, Zedomax ... More
January 9, 2007
Video of Tux Droid!
View This Video on You Tube Remember the Tux Droid couple articles back? We found a video! Yipee! via UPDATE: 2 more videos from Andy, thanks Andy! View This Video on You Tube Cool voice dude…. View This Video on You Tube avr-droid, avr-robot, Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, ... More
January 8, 2007
Tux Droid - Robot programmble with Linux
Here’s a cool Tux droid robot for all your Linux robotics pleasures! Tux Droid is a first generation 2.4 GHz wireless robot specially built for Linux®. Tux Droid will be your favorite smart companion. Connect him to your PC and make him flap his wings, dance around, talk, blink his eyes, and all the other stuff you can imagine… • Let T ... More
January 7, 2007
Hacking your wireless router
This has been around but it’s good to know you can always run a better Linux OS on your router. via wagthis Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Hack, Hack, linksys, Linux, router, wagthis, Wireless, Wireless, Zedomax ... More
December 27, 2006
Wii HACK - Christmas Wii-remote xmms hack
View This Video on You Tube Cool XMMS hack for linux or ubuntu users using the wii remote! The funny thing is he doesn’t even own a Wii console, just the Wii remote! Well, we’d probably give it some good hacks if we just had some Wii remotes too. Two thumbs up for doing XMMS on Ubuntu! But I don’t own a Wii console. So I hacked a ... More
December 26, 2006
Wii HACK - Wiimote + FlightGear = Ultimate Flight Simulator?
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Remember we made a sixaxis controller for PC the other day? Well here’s a cool one using wii controller and a Linux flight simulator, tight! via Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, digg, digg, Entertainment, Entertainment, flight-simulator, flightGear, Gadg ... More
December 15, 2006
Make your Linux box look like a MAC
I don’t know what it is lately, MACs have been very appealing to me lately. Maybe because the new MACs are unix based or what… Regardless of how much money I don’t have in my pocket to buy one, here’s a way you can make your PC look like a MAC and fool people if you have Linux installed… Apple, Consumer, Consumer ... More
December 9, 2006
DIY HACK - Build a Skype Server for Your Home Phone System
Here’s a detailed instructions on building your own skype server for your home phone system. One irritating feature of Skype is that it must be running on a computer for you to make and receive calls. That is, when your computer is off, Skype doesn’t work. Moreover, when you run Skype on the computer you use day in and day out, Skype& ... More
December 4, 2006
CNET’s James Kim and family missing — have you seen them?
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Help us find James Kim by watching the video on ipod and more! Every click will help the video get on top of YouTube. We’ve received word that a respected member of our tech community, James Kim (whom many of you may know as CNET’s senior editor of ... More
November 30, 2006
Philip Torrone Spotted!
We caught Philip Torrone from Make on his new video review of open-source products. via Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Hack, Hack, Linux, Linux, make, makezine, Microcontroller, Microcontroller, Motor, Motor, open, source, Video, Video, Zedomax ... More
November 27, 2006
HACK - Hacking the PS3
There are way to hack the PS3 via Linux: You can now dump your BlueRay images into ISO format using Linux on your Playstation 3. All that is required to drop the images onto your 60GB hard drive is to run the following command “dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/imagename.img”. So far there is no way to play your backed up games, but this is a good ... More
November 26, 2006
DIY HACK - More wii web browser hacking exposed!
Here’s another wii hacking for web browsing using some dns hacks via View This Video on You Tube More wii web browser hacking exposed! Fred, the winner of our put MAKE on a Wii request sent in how you can get to websites on your Nintendo Wii… He writes:Basically it’s very easy but it didnt work until i restarted my computer. Mos ... More
November 25, 2006
Windows XP Running on PS3
Someone got Windows XP running on PS3 via emulator via Linux OS. Well, if we wanted to run windows apps, we’d just rather use wine. But we give a thumbs up for the news. View This Video on Google Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Games, Games, goog, Google, googlevideo, Hack, Hack, Linux, L ... More