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Take This Stuff & Hack It! Transform Everyday Electronics Into Modern Techno Wonders
Hack into common household products
and convert them into really cool stuff!
This true hacker's guide shows how 30 common
household items can be hacked and tweaked into
products totally different than what the manufacturer
intended. Garage and basement tinkerers will get
fully illustrated
step-by-step coverage of exactly which
products are hackable, how to hack them, and how
to convert them into some unique, fun stuff. You
will learn how to hack a telephone solicitor zapper
that hangs up on phone spammers, create a robot
that's a digital plaything for Fido, and hack their
home into an abode that would make a security
expert envious.
CONTENTS:
Disclaimer
Dedication
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1. The Fine Art of Hacks, Mods, and Expansions
Chapter 1: Baby You Can Mod My Rod
Chapter 2: Twist Dem Nuts
Chapter 3: Power to the People
Chapter 4: Shuttered But Not Shackled
Chapter 5: Smile, Say 43-68-65-65-73-65
Chapter 6: Eat to the Beet
Chapter 7: Put Your Finger on This Pulse
Chapter 8: You Stud Muffin
Chapter 9: High Five, Wi-Fi
Chapter 10: You Are Mow Wonderful, To Me
Chapter 11: Wanna Play House, Doll?
Chapter 12: Recycle, Reuse, Redux
Chapter 13: Knit Wit
Chapter 14: Google(plex)
Chapter 15: Some Heavy Petting
Chapter 16: Harem Scare 'em
Chapter 17: Beat Your Beat
Chapter 18: One Way, Feng Shui
Chapter 19: Courage! I'd Rather Not
Chapter 20: 'Tis the Season
Chapter 21: Tail-e-Essen
Chapter 22: Perk Me Up
Chapter 23: Call Me
Chapter 24: Get da Case on Deez Goods
Chapter 25: Red Flag, Top Gun
Chapter 26: Tattoo You; and Me, Too
Part 2. Case Studies
Case Study 1: iRobot Roomba -- A Clean Room Makes a Dirty Mind (Especially with Mind Control)
Case Study 2: WowWee Robotics Robosapien and Friends (The WowWee Factor)
Case Study 3: Apple Computer iPod -- Hack to a Different Drummer
Case Study 4: Sony PSP -- Make Your PSP Happy, Hack it into a Sony Mac OS PSP and LocationFree, LocationFree, LocationFree TV
Epilogue
Appendix A: Things to Know, Places to Go (Text and Links supporting the text)
Appendix B: DIY Death (An examination of how manufacturers are designing not to be hacked)
Index
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