Crazy Hacks

Wicked Lasers Stinger Magnum

This Laser Stinger Magnum uses two lasers, one being the amazing $1500 250mW Spyder from Wicked Lasers. Watch the VIDEO. “We did a trade with Hack for 2 Spyders for one of his ultra-cool looking polished steel handle gun mount. Now, little did I expect that there would be not one, but 2 lasers, (one perhaps a 5 or 15mW), and the other a 300mW Spyder, plus there is a

LEGO Full Auto Book Scanner

  The best inventions are ones that eliminate repetition, this automatic book scanner does just that. Believe it or not it was constructed using LEGO. ” After the invention of hyperpaper, I began to scan my books. Soon I found out that what I expected was true — It was awesomely BOREING! If this drudgery were to be automated! Scanning a book involves picking up the book from the scanner

Pop Can Art

Some people are much more artistic than I am. Here is a large example of can art that I would have no chance of pulling off. Very impressive work!

Hacked Coke Machines

Looks like the average joe can now read about Coke machine programing. Seems that the service manual is now readily available. When are companies going to learn to guard this material better? Go here to see a video of someone getting into the machine menu. “COIN PAYOUT ROUTINE This function allows you to dump coins from the coin mechanism. Press select button 4 to enter mode and the lowest coin

ATM Hack

  When the manuals are provided online and the default passwords are not changed on most system when installed you are just asking for problems. I think the main problem with this system is that you can enter programming mode straight from the keypad, this is convenient however it would be much more secure if the operator was required to unlock the front of the machine and flip a service

Fish Controlled Robot

  We have all seen the roach robot, well not fish also have a chance to control a robot! “Seth Weiner’s art project is a vehicle called Terranaut. This interesting vessel is driven by the motions of a parrot cichlid in a fish bowl. A camera mounted above the tank tracks the fish’s movement and relays that information to a computer, which then drives the robot in the direction the

Drive your Roomba with your cell phone

  As we all know the Roomba was designed to clean floors, but it can do much more. Tod Kurt has created a phone controlled Roomba. “Ever since Bluetooth adapters for Roombas appeared, I’ve wanted to control my Roomba with a cell phone. All my recent phones have had Bluetooth. But getting a devkit for a phone was expensive and phone-specific. Trying to develop J2ME (aka “JavaME”) applications for cell