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Title: Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty by Joe Grand, Ryan Russell, Kevin Mitnick (Editor) ISBN: 1-932266-83-6 Publisher: Syngress Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Hard core hacking
Comment: The subtitle about voiding your warranty is only half joking, if even that. Most of the projects/hacks described will probably do just that.
To the tinkerer in you, perhaps the best allure of the book is the chance of serendipity. Surely some hacks will not be of interest, or not relevant to you. The latter may be in part because the authors provide hacks for a wide range of hardware; from a recent Playstation 2 to the venerable Atari 5200 (which dates from 1982) to 802.11 to an iPod and others. So if you lack an iPod, say, and have no intention of getting one, then the chapter on it may be purely theoretical. But the sheer range of hardware increases the odds that there will be somethings to pique your fancy.
The final chapter sticks out. It is not a hack but the modicum of programming. A minimal walkthrough to let you get the gist. But if you find that this chapter is new to you, perhaps you should either pick a hack that does not require it, or consult a programming book for more comprehensive coverage.
The 8 (!) authors and presumably you seem to be hardware fanatics.
Rating: 5
Summary: More Fun Hacking Your Toys
Comment: This book in effect carries on where the O'Reilly book Hardware Hacking for Geeks leaves off. Not only does it detail a number of interesting products to hack, it also contains detailed instructions, figures and pictures to further illustrate its how to directions.
Among the projects listed here? Hacking your old Atari computers, or the Playstation 2, or replacing the battery on your Apple Ipod, or even turning your old ClueCat into a bar code reader. There's also a chapter on electronics basics. And near the end of the book are chapters on the basics of various operating systems and programming concepts.
This is another excellent book of "hacking" projects for those who enjoy tinkering with products to improve or tailor them for a user's particular needs.
Rating: 5
Summary: A "how to" book for the computer savvy
Comment: Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty shows just how to take an ordinary piece of computer equipment and transform it into something bigger, better, faster, and more fun. This compendium of tips, tricks and techniques ranges from modifying a standard Apple USB Mouse in a glowing UFO Mouse; create an arcade-style Atari 5200 paddle controller for retro video games; boot PlayStation 2 code from the memory card or adapt PlayStation 2 for homemade game development; design, build, and configure Windows or Linux-based Home Theater PC; remove proprietary barcode encoding from CueCat, and so much more. Clearly a "how to" book for the computer savvy (and one which the industry probably wishes didn't exist!), Hardware Hacking is a veritable and highly recommended repository of interesting things to do with "off the shelf" components!
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Title: Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks by Scott Fullam ISBN: 0596003145 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Wireless Hacks by Rob Flickenger ISBN: 0596005598 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: 123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius (TAB Robotics) by Michael Predko, Myke Predko ISBN: 0071413588 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Pub. Date: 23 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius : 21 Build-It-Yourself Projects (TAB/Mastering Electronics Series) by Robert E. Iannini, Robert Iannini ISBN: 0071426094 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Pub. Date: 12 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Security Warrior by Cyrus Peikari, Anton Chuvakin ISBN: 0596005458 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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