Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks
Put a hacker in a room with a Furby for a weekend and you'll hear a conversation that's fairly one-sided in its originality. Toss in an 802.11b network card, a soldering iron, wire cutters, a logic probe, and a few other carefully selected tools and materials and you'll have potential. Add a copy of Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks and by the end of the weekend that Furby will be saying things you never imagined.\ From building an Internet toaster to creating a cubicle intrusion detection...
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Fullam, who has two degrees from MIT and includes Thomas Edison and Ben Franklin among his hacking heroes, provides detailed instructions and materials lists for 15 projects. Each is rated in terms of cost to build, level of difficulty, and time needed (usually a weekend, although a few will take several weekends). The projects include a cubicle intrusion detection system, a car-mounted video camera for seeing around SUVs, a digital video recorder, an arcade game, and an Internet-enabled toaster that imprints the weather forecast on toast. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Library Journal While most of us are content to use our technical toys as provided, hardware hackers constantly search for bigger, better, and more interesting ways to modify their equipment. Hardware Hacking Projects lives up to its title by outlining how to carry out various projects, from building an aquarium inside a Mac, to hacking a video periscope for your car, to building an Internet coffee maker. Cost, time, and difficulty are estimated for each, and project downloads are available online. Appendixes provide additional information on topics like creating schematics and different types of power sources. A clearly written, illustrated, and fun guide for larger libraries serving do-it-yourselfers, tinkerers, and power users. Hardware Hacking provides a similar step-by-step project approach, but projects differ in type and scale-find out here, for example, how to create a paddle for your Atari 5200, build a UFO mouse, and add a larger hard drive to your iPod. The last section includes an OS and coding overview, while beginning sections cover tools and electrical engineering basics. Appropriate for larger libraries. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
PrefacePt. IBasic Hacks, Tools, and Techniques1How to Build a Portable Laptop Power Supply152How to Build an Aquarium Inside a Macintosh253How to Hack 802.11b Antennas454How to Build a PC Water-Cooling System555How to Hack a Furby (and Other Talking Toys)716How to Hack a Video Periscope for Your Car103Pt. IIAdvanced Hacks, Tools, and Techniques7How to Build a Digital Video Recorder1298How to Hack a Building-Size Display1459How to Build a Cubicle Intrusion Detection System17910How to Build an Internet Toaster19511How to Build a Home Arcade Machine21312How to Build a Remote Object Tracker23313How to Make RC Cars Play Laser Tag24714How to Build a Wearable Computer26715How to Build an Internet Coffeemaker289Pt. IIIAppendixesASchematic Capture Software309BCommunication311CEasy-to-Use Microcontroller Boards317DPower Sources319E: Resources325Index327
\ Library JournalWhile most of us are content to use our technical toys as provided, hardware hackers constantly search for bigger, better, and more interesting ways to modify their equipment. Hardware Hacking Projects lives up to its title by outlining how to carry out various projects, from building an aquarium inside a Mac, to hacking a video periscope for your car, to building an Internet coffee maker. Cost, time, and difficulty are estimated for each, and project downloads are available online. Appendixes provide additional information on topics like creating schematics and different types of power sources. A clearly written, illustrated, and fun guide for larger libraries serving do-it-yourselfers, tinkerers, and power users. Hardware Hacking provides a similar step-by-step project approach, but projects differ in type and scale-find out here, for example, how to create a paddle for your Atari 5200, build a UFO mouse, and add a larger hard drive to your iPod. The last section includes an OS and coding overview, while beginning sections cover tools and electrical engineering basics. Appropriate for larger libraries. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \ \ \ \ Slashdot.org\ Overall, I was very impressed with this book. Fullam has given the geek community a valuable resource that will provide inspiration for aspiring and veteran hackers alike. It covers many projects that I have personally wanted to build or learn more about, and presents concepts that would be of interest to many fellow Slashdotters. ...I highly recommend Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks to anyone with an interest in those fun projects that only nerds can understand.\ \
