Items Tagged With hack

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...

Quinten Uijldert (lets just call him by his IRC name - "Q") has documented how he has converted an old laptop into a digital photo frame. He has used Damn Small Linux as the OS...

"If you take an old IBM Thinkpad 560X, a £7 beech frame, some glue and a bit of patience you can make yourself one of these :). The OS is Damn Small Linux and the slideshow software is Feh...

The O'Reilly series of "Hacks" books, in their own words 'reclaims the term 'hacking" for the good guys--innovators who explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools, and come up with fun things to try on their own.', sounds like a pretty good description of a UK Home Automater to me, so I was a little excited to see O'Reilly had published 2 books in the series for home automators..