Items Tagged With hack

Submission by Mark Goodwin - Scenario, I am leaving my house, pat down pockets, glance at exposed surfaces and scream to SWMBO "Has anybody seen my keys?"...

An interesting card from the US to transmit FM from your PC. An easy way to distribute your own music to radios all round the home, although we're not sure of the legal aspects of this (export only?)...

Bored sitting around eating all those Turkey leftovers? Why not Hack your hand by implanting your own RFID tag! This is certainly one way of tracking people round your smart home, we're just not sure we'd want to try it...

Submission by Paul Gale - Following a post by one of the members of the UKHA_D mailing list, I recently bought a home brew product that enables control of a Sky or Sky+ box from a PC (Windows or Linux) and ultimately, the Internet. I've been looking for something to do this for years so thought I'd share my findings with my fellow HAers...

"Our 128 x 64 Serial Graphic LCD Display Terminal provides an outstanding MCE remote front panel display for Windows MCE. Not only does it display the current MCE state, it also allows you to control MCE using the membrane switch overlay...