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Continue ReadingA new name can be added to the list of companies who have been hacked this year…Yahoo. If you know anyone with a yahoo account, there’s a chance you received a strange e-mail from them recently. More than 450,000 username and passwords were compromised in the breach.
Continue ReadingThe developers over at Introversion have made some Uplink game fans very happy with the recent announcement that the classic ’90s hacking game is now available for the iPad. I first discovered Uplink as a free download that allowed me …
Continue ReadingRecently, my friend Mike Doornbos from Evadot got together with the small-satellite crew down at the non-profit Kentucky Space to try to fix an annoying problem. They wanted a standard “mission command” board that could serve as the basis for …
Continue ReadingSince my last mention of the MaKey MaKey we’ve been playing around with it. We’ve recreated a few of the other experiments seen on the MaKey MaKey site, and it’s been a lot of fun to see my daughter and …
Continue ReadingNASA wants some new tools to make life in space — and on Earth — better and they need your help! The International Space Apps Challenge is a two-day hackathon (they prefer “codeathon”) happening April 21-22, 2012. Participants from around the world …
Continue ReadingGood friend and fellow robot aficionado Eric Gregori has hacked a Hexbug Spider to wander about autonomously. Using the Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontoller and a cheap 14 pin DIP motor controller, he took control of the spider’s motors. An Infrared …
Continue ReadingGeekDad: It has been 10 years since Uplink was released and it’s still a popular game — any ideas as to why it’s held strong for so long? Introversion: I think Uplink is very unique. It’s certainly niche, but we …
Continue ReadingWhat do you get when you take the finest in inexpensive Swedish furniture, some lumber, hardware, paint, and a little Geekdad (and Geekfamily) imagination? A fun, efficient space for brothers living in the same room together. [This post was my …
Continue ReadingWowWee appears to be reaching beyond their robotic toy roots, and exploring the worlds of music and food. I can understand music since it can be geeky, and in the case of Paper Jamz, appear to be quite hackable, but …
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