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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 cannot be learned from a textbook. The hardware hacking community represents an example of nontraditional learning and how the world can be changed for the better by unorthodox thinkers and their experiments. [ continue ]
Hacking, Tweaking, and Bending
Never before has the do-it-yourself ethos been so popular. Bolstered by loose-knit communities of curious tinkerers, hardware hacking has all but reached the mainstream. This fun and light-hearted presentation provides a show-and-tell of some interesting, wacky, and/or curious hardware hacks, and will hopefully motivate you to make technology do things it was never intended to do. [ continue ]
Building Robots with Vintage Computer Parts
There was once a time, before home computers, before the Internet, before mobile phones, PDAs, wireless networking, and video games, when hardware hacking was what every aspiring engineer did with their free time. What better way to spend an evening or weekend than trying to build a robot with pieces lying around in your junk bins? This article presents some ideas related to creating your own robot out of vintage computer parts. [ continue ]
Game Console Hacking
The highly-anticipated follow-up to Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty, this book focuses on modifying video game consoles and accessories to do things they weren’t intended to do. The way we customize our things says a lot about who we are. Who are you? [ continue ]
IT Ethics Handbook: Right and Wrong for IT Professionals
Ethical judgments are no different in the area of computing from those in any other area. Computers raise problems of privacy, ownership, theft, and power, to name but a few. IT Ethics Handbook: Right and Wrong for IT Professionals covers subjects ranging from defensive architecture, offensive issues, privacy, the use of information, and the human element of employer and employee ethics. [ continue ]