Hacks

There’s a neat article over at Ars Technica that takes a look at 280 North’s 3-person development team, their recent release of a keynote-like web application called 280 Slides, and the framework that they constructed to make the application. Some time before 280 Slides was developed, the team created an Objective-C-like superset of the Javascript […]

There are so many WYSIWYG editors for html forms, it’s about time someone put together a decent web version of the Vi editor. JSVI is written in Javascript and seems to be fairly cross-browser compatible. With a few tweaks to your code, you can now make any textarea behave exactly like Vi. How cool is […]

Sebastian Tomczak has been playing around with controlling VGA output from an Arduino. Using Max/MSP to process audio and send data to the Arduino and a standard VGA output to send sync data to the monitor, he’s been able to put together some cool video effects. In these examples, i am simply using three pins […]

There are products available that will overlay flight data into a flight camera’s video stream, but here’s a clever and simple hack to do it on the cheap(er). To provide in-video flight data for a first person view aircraft, just build a mini flight instrument panel and position it in front of the camera. One […]

Berlin hacker Julius von Bismarck invented and patented the Image Fulgurator, a device so awesome that it can remotely insert images into other people’s photos. You aim the device at the same subject that another person is photographing, and when they snap a photo the resulting image will be manipulated with a separate, overlayed photo. […]

You may have dug the videos of past DEFCON conferences that we posted back in May, but there’s a whole other infosec conference, Shmoocon, which is held in D.C. every February. ShmooCon is an annual East coast hacker convention hell-bent on offering three days of an interesting atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software & […]