Hardware Hacking: Have Fun while Voiding your Warranty

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"If I had this book 10 years ago, the FBI would never have found me!" — Kevin Mitnick This book has something for everyone—-from the beginner hobbyist with no electronics or coding experience to the self-proclaimed "gadget geek." Take an ordinary piece of equipment and turn it into a personal work of art. Build upon an existing idea to create something better. Have fun while voiding your warranty! Some of the hardware hacks in this book include:
• Don't toss your iPod away when the battery dies! Don't pay Apple the $99 to replace it! Install a new iPod battery yourself without Apple's "help"
• An Apple a day! Modify a ...

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Overview

"If I had this book 10 years ago, the FBI would never have found me!" — Kevin Mitnick This book has something for everyone—-from the beginner hobbyist with no electronics or coding experience to the self-proclaimed "gadget geek." Take an ordinary piece of equipment and turn it into a personal work of art. Build upon an existing idea to create something better. Have fun while voiding your warranty! Some of the hardware hacks in this book include:
• Don't toss your iPod away when the battery dies! Don't pay Apple the $99 to replace it! Install a new iPod battery yourself without Apple's "help"
• An Apple a day! Modify a standard Apple USB Mouse into a glowing UFO Mouse or build a FireWire terabyte hard drive and custom case
• Have you played Atari today? Create an arcade-style Atari 5200 paddle controller for your favorite retro videogames or transform the Atari 2600 joystick into one that can be used by left-handed players
• Modern game systems, too! Hack your PlayStation 2 to boot code from the memory card or modify your PlayStation 2 for homebrew game development
• Videophiles unite! Design, build, and configure your own Windows- or Linux-based Home Theater PC
• Ride the airwaves! Modify a wireless PCMCIA NIC to include an external antenna connector or load Linux onto your Access Point
• Stick it to The Man! Remove the proprietary barcode encoding from your CueCat and turn it into a regular barcode reader
• Hack your Palm! Upgrade the available RAM on your Palm m505 from 8MB to 16MB

· Includes hacks of today's most popular gaming systems like Xbox and PS/2.
· Teaches readers to unlock the full entertainment potential of their desktop PC.
· Frees iMac owners to enhance the features they love and get rid of the ones they hate.

"If I had this book 10 years ago, the FBI would never have found me!" -- Kevin Mitnick This book has something for everyone---from the beginner hobbyist with no electronics or coding experience to the self-proclaimed "gadget geek." Take an ordinary piece of equipment and turn it into a personal work of art. Build upon an existing idea to create something better. Have fun while voiding your warranty! Some of the hardware hacks in this book include:

Editorial Reviews

Library Journal
While most of us are content to use our technical toys as provided, hardware hackers constantly search for bigger, better, and more interesting ways to modify their equipment. Hardware Hacking Projects lives up to its title by outlining how to carry out various projects, from building an aquarium inside a Mac, to hacking a video periscope for your car, to building an Internet coffee maker. Cost, time, and difficulty are estimated for each, and project downloads are available online. Appendixes provide additional information on topics like creating schematics and different types of power sources. A clearly written, illustrated, and fun guide for larger libraries serving do-it-yourselfers, tinkerers, and power users. Hardware Hacking provides a similar step-by-step project approach, but projects differ in type and scale-find out here, for example, how to create a paddle for your Atari 5200, build a UFO mouse, and add a larger hard drive to your iPod. The last section includes an OS and coding overview, while beginning sections cover tools and electrical engineering basics. Appropriate for larger libraries. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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Hardware Hacking starts by going over the basics of electronics, just enough so you can understand what is happening later in the book. This gentle beginning means the book is great for people who work with computers on the software side, or people who like to play with electronics. You do not need to be an electrical engineer to understand what they are talking about in this book.... If changing hardware to better suit your needs sounds like something you would like to try, but you don't know how and are worried about what might happen, then this book may just be able to convince you go for it, along with enough information to make your next warranty-voiding attempt a success.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781932266832
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science
  • Publication date: 2/22/2004
  • Pages: 448
  • Sales rank: 899,147
  • Product dimensions: 8.02 (w) x 9.22 (h) x 1.15 (d)

Meet the Author

Kevin Mitnick (Technical Editor) is the most famous computer hacker in the world. Since his first arrest in 1981, at age 17, he has spent nearly half his adult life either in prison or as a fugitive. He has been the subject of three books and his alleged 1982 hack into NORAD inspired the movie War Games. Since his plea-bargain release in 2000, he says he has reformed and is devoting his talents to helping computer security.

Table of Contents

Joe Grand, Grand Idea Studio, Inc., Technical editor, hardware hacker, and electrical engineer
Introduction
Tools of the Warranty Voiding Trade
Electrical Engineering Basics
Declawing Your CueCat
Upgrading Memory on Palm Devices

Lee Barken, Wireless enthusiast
Wireless 802.11 Hacks

Marcus R. Brown, PS2 game developer
Hacking the PlayStation 2

Job de Haas, Mobile phone expert
Can You Hear Me Now? Nokia 6210 Mobile Phone Modifications

Deborah Kaplan, Repetitive task automation expert
Operating Systems Overview
Coding 101

Bobby Kinstle, Macintosh reliability engineer
Terabyte FireWire Hard Drive Case Mod
Macintosh Hacks

Tom Owad
Macintosh Hacks

Ryan Russell, Computer security guru and HTPC visionary
Home Theater PCs

Albert Yarusso
Hack Your Atari 2600 and 7800
Hack Your Atari 5200 and 8-Bit Computer
Hacking the iPod

Andrew "bunnie" Huang
Foreword

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 22, 2004

    Very cool book if you've got the guts

    The title explains it all: how to get your hardware to do things it wasn¿t designed to do. This is a really cool book, a very interesting read, and a primer in basic electronics. It covers topics as varied as how to install a bigger hard drive in your iPod, how to add more memory to your PalmPilot, and how to build your own media center PC. But the book gets into some really interesting modifications, like re-housing your old Macintosh into an entirely Lego case, updating the audio and video outputs of your Atari 2600 system, and how to make your Atari 7800 play 2600 games. Since you¿re dealing with sensitive electronics, which damage very easily, the theme carried through this book is ¿do not have fear¿. Once you overcome any fear about damaging any of your equipment, these hacks become very entertaining and a good way to pass the time. Moreover, if your hack is actually successful, you¿ve got something to brag about to your buddies. What¿s more, the various hacks covered will provide the skill to move to increasingly complex projects. The book begins with a very useful introduction to basic electronics. You learn the difference between capacitors, transistors, resistors, etc. The chapter then proceeds to discuss the basics of soldering and other electronics basics. This is a very fun book to read, and it contains a lot of fun projects. If you like taking things apart and have no fear, this is a book you certainly want to get your hands on.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 20, 2004

    Hard core hacking

    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.

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