- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Syngress; 1 edition (Feb 22 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1932266836
- ISBN-13: 978-1932266832
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 20.5 x 2.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #947,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 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.
* 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.
About 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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Very, very interesting...,
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This review is from: Hardware Hacking: Have Fun while Voiding your Warranty (Paperback)
I bought this book for the "Electrical Engineering Basics" chapter and the HTPC chapter. The other ones, like modifying the NES controller for use on an Atari, I do find interesting but could just as easily find online. The HTPC chapter is the main reason I purchased the book and one of the two chapters I have read so far: it does however have one rather important omission. If you have a cable provider that requires a cable box (or satellite) you will need an "IR Blaster" (a device that sits under your cable box/receiver directly in line of the remote receiver, relaying any and all buttons pushes like channel changes and volume adjustments) to change channels at a particular time to record for instance. As it stands the HTPC described wouldn't do a whole lot of good for the desired purpose. To clarify a post by a prior reviewer the hack in this book is not to make the Atari 7800 backwards compatible with the 2600 (the 7800 already is) but rather to make a few select games which for various reasons don't work on the 7800 compatible (there's a rather concise explanation explaining this in the chapter).
5.0 out of 5 stars
A "how to" book for the computer savvy,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hardware Hacking: Have Fun while Voiding your Warranty (Paperback)
Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty shows just how to take an ordinary piece of computer equipment and transform it into something bigger, better, faster, and more fun. This compendium of tips, tricks and techniques ranges from modifying a standard Apple USB Mouse in a glowing UFO Mouse; create an arcade-style Atari 5200 paddle controller for retro video games; boot PlayStation 2 code from the memory card or adapt PlayStation 2 for homemade game development; design, build, and configure Windows or Linux-based Home Theater PC; remove proprietary barcode encoding from CueCat, and so much more. Clearly a "how to" book for the computer savvy (and one which the industry probably wishes didn't exist!), Hardware Hacking is a veritable and highly recommended repository of interesting things to do with "off the shelf" components!
4.0 out of 5 stars
A very cool book if you've got the guts,
By ueberhund "ueberhund" (Salt Lake City, UT United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hardware Hacking: Have Fun while Voiding your Warranty (Paperback)
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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