Make a creepy ghost phone that brings back the sounds of the dead. Thanks go to Greg MacLaurin for the original article in MAKE Volume 16. To download The Ghost Phone video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Ghost Phone article in MAKE Volume 16 or you can see it in […]
Make a creepy ghost phone that brings back the sounds of the dead. Thanks go to Greg MacLaurin for the original article in MAKE, Volume 16. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend.
For many of us first-gen hacker types (yes, I’m that old. Shut up.), blue boxing was our introduction to hardware hacking. It was never the illegal, rip-off aspects for me, it was proving that you could build something that exploited a vulnerability in a system; to trick it to do something it wasn’t intended to […]
Surprise! A classic pull-toy phone that really works. By Frank E. Yost…. I remember making pretend phone calls on my Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone when I was 7 or 8, and wondering if it was possible to turn it into a real phone. That question stayed with me, and when I saw a Chatter Telephone and […]
Interesting piece on AfriGadget about mobile phone hacking in rural Africa: One of the more interesting innovations is the development of a dual SIM card hack so that users can access multiple carriers. This product has two SIM card slots in a single phone – primarily to support price sensitive/prudent consumers who wish to optimise […]
This is a well-documented solution for storing unlimited caller ID phone numbers. The site contains schematics and the software needed to decode and store the data. Some time ago, I subscribed to the Caller Id service to know who is calling me without being required to pick-up the phone. Unfortunately, my basic caller id display […]
This is a great way to recycle those old cordless phones into something really useful and in only 5 relatively easy steps. Here we are going to make a simple radio controlled device using supplies from your local dumpster. This project should cost less than a dollar to make. If you spend more than a […]
