Engineered Reality: Prototyping Inventions for Television

Get a behind-the-scenes view of engineers hacking hardware and software to create new prototypes within time and budgetary constraints for a new TV show.

Paper: Engineered Reality: Prototyping Inventions for Television by A.G. Brooks and J. Grand

Published by IEEE Pervasive Computing: Special Issue on The Hacking Tradition, …

MAKE Magazine

MAKE, a full-color hybrid magazine/book, comes quarterly from O'Reilly Media, the Publisher of Record for geeks and technology enthusiasts everywhere.

MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology at your …

Awesome Electronics Workshop

Produced by Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio together with Bre Pettis (formerly of MAKE), these video podcasts primarily focus on electronics and engineering skill building tutorials for hobbyists.

Available video podcasts include:

• Intro to the Arduino

This video introduces the Arduino open-source hardware and covers basic

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Best Of Hardware, Wireless & Game Console Hacking

This unique book and DVD contains a selection of our favorite hacks from Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty and Game Console Hacking. Whether you like to get your hands dirty with hacking hardware or whether you're an aspiring video game developer, …

Research Lessons from Hardware Hacking

Want to know how something works? Tear it apart. Along the way, you might learn to improve it or make it do something it was never intended to do. Although unconventional in the typical educational environment, such hardware hacking activities provide hands-on experience and a look into product design that …