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ESP32 Life

https://benbrown.com/txt/read/2026-05-11
As I continue to try to unbundle my hobbies from the iphone, these ESP32 devices have played a really big role. An open product like this promises a tinkerer like me much more than a useful gadget - it can become MY gadget, something modified and tuned to my specific needs and aesthetic quirks. There is no corpo telemetry tracker sneaking onto my gadget, only the stupid shit I put there!! And when I get tired of that thing, I can always flash it with something else. I can't say that about my phone.
#diy #esp32 #hacking #hardware
archive.org #38542

Mount / Unmount Android System images | My Cellar Door

http://javigon.com/2012/09/04/mount-unmount-android-system-images/
There are many reasons for wanting to unpack Android’s system image. The most obvious is modifying it. System.img is in the end an ext4 loop file system (such as the Linux system image), that can be mounted, modified and repacked in order to be burned afterwards in an embedded system. Android’s system image can be obtained from the google factory images.
#android #hacking #imported:pinboard #linux
archive.org #31777

Mount / Unmount Android System images | My Cellar Door

http://javigon.com/2012/09/04/mount-unmount-android-system-images
There are many reasons for wanting to unpack Android’s system image. The most obvious is modifying it. System.img is in the end an ext4 loop file system (such as the Linux system image), that can be mounted, modified and repacked in order to be burned afterwards in an embedded system. Android’s system image can be obtained from the google factory images.
#android #hacking #linux
archive.org #25173

Descriptive Camera

http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/
The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera's settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don't output any information about the content of the photo. The Descriptive Camera only outputs the metadata about the content.
#amazon #cameras #hacking #imported:pinboard #mturk #nifty #photography #to:fb
archive.org #32952

Descriptive Camera

http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera
The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera's settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don't output any information about the content of the photo. The Descriptive Camera only outputs the metadata about the content.
#amazon #cameras #hacking #mturk #nifty #photography #to:fb
archive.org #21491

Building a computer around a 6502 processor - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/11/30/building-a-computer-around-a-6502-processor
When it came time to try out some old-school computing [Quinn Dunki] grabbed a 6502 processor and got to work. For those that are unfamiliar, this is the first chip that was both powerful, affordable, and available to the hobby computing market back in the 1970′s. They were used in Apple computers, Commodore 64, and a slew of other hardware.
#6502 #diy #hacking #nifty #tech
archive.org #20088

The Life of Kenneth: So You Want to Build Electronics

http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/2011/06/so-you-want-to-build-electronics.html
So here is a gigantic list of everything I would buy right now to replace my entire workshop if mine were to disappear. I'm going to try and separate it into some sort of reasonable order as far as importance, but the point is that you see all of this, and use it as inspiration to put together your own collection.
#electronics #hacking #tinkering #wishlist
archive.org #17380

Sensor tutorials - IR remote receiver/decoder tutorial

http://www.ladyada.net/learn/sensors/ir.html
IR detectors are little microchips with a photocell that are tuned to listen to infrared light. They are almost always used for remote control detection - every TV and DVD player has one of these in the front to listen for the IR signal from the clicker. Inside the remote control is a matching IR LED, which emits IR pulses to tell the TV to turn on, off or change channels. IR light is not visible to the human eye, which means it takes a little more work to test a setup.
#arduino #electronics #hacking #remote
archive.org #16695

Hackers Don’t Tinker Because They Got Invited | Smarterware

http://smarterware.org/4941/hackers-dont-tinker-because-they-got-invited
"Because while we're all ranting about how closed the iPad will be, the jailbreak community is planning competitions to see who can crack it first. The sun isn't setting on tinkerers; their desire to crack things open intensifies when faced with something that's closed by design. The challenge is part of the appeal."
#apple #hacking #hacks #ipad #mobile #tinkerers #tinkering
archive.org #12770

Locus Online Perspectives: Cory Doctorow: Cheap Facts and the Plausible Premise

http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2009/07/cory-doctorow-cheap-facts-and-plausible.html
"These facts were a currency in my social circle. We'd trade them like baseball cards. I'd show you my payphone trick and you'd show me your gag for turning the cellophane on a cigarette pack into a smoke-ring machine. Social capital accrued to everyone who could show or explain something that gave you power and insight into the mysterious workings of the world."
#culture #diy #hacking #ideas #invention #scifi #socialcurrency #technology #tricks
archive.org #12398

MAKE: Blog: The Visible Hand

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/the_visible_hand.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
"The DIY mindset celebrated in this magazine must again become an essential life skill, rooted once again in necessity and practicality. Our future security lies in knowing what we’re capable of creating, and how we can adapt to change by being resourceful."
#creation #diy #hacking #hacks #make
archive.org #11654

TechFreaks v2

http://www.techfreaks.org/articles/modxbox.shtml
"Using code exploits in certain games, a user is able to load a phony gamesave that will boot into a Linux based operating system and allow a user to mod his Xbox... in under ten minutes."
#hacking #hacks #xbox
archive.org #5548

USB to TTL

http://www.avitresearch.co.uk/usb_to_ttl.htm
"The cable contains a USB to serial converter chip and is terminated in a standard 0.1" pitch header. The serial data is at standard TTL levels allowing it to interface directly to the micro-processor of the intended application."
#gadgets #hacking #ipod #ipodlinux #linux
archive.org #5272

Help a Geek in need!

http://www.livejournal.com/users/constants/113120.html
"On February 19th I was suspended from school for a computer infraction. Which was making an account on the network. I made this account so I could save my files so when the computer rebooted, it wouldn't erase them."
#hacking #law
archive.org #2200

Hack This (Please)

http://andykessler.com/wsj_hack_this_please.html
"There is a new breed of users out there, computer-literate consumers who don’t think twice about altering the look, feel and functionality of a product."
#hacking
archive.org #2139