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Hardware Hacking Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty
Author: Joe Grand, Ryan Russell, Kevin Mitnick (Editor)

ABOUT THE BOOK "If I had this book 10 years ago, the FBI would never have found me!" --Kevin D. MitnickThis 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 existin... more »g 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.

...Many more hacks and modifications inside!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 DevicesLee Barken, Wireless enthusiast Wireless 802.11 HacksMarcus R. Brown, PS2 game developer Hacking the PlayStation 2Job de Haas, Mobile phone expert Can You Hear Me Now? Nokia 6210 Mobile Phone ModificationsDeborah Kaplan, Repetitive task automation expert Operating Systems Overview Coding 101Bobby Kinstle, Macintosh reliability engineer Terabyte FireWire Hard Drive Case Mod Macintosh HacksTom Owad, www.applefritter.com Macintosh HacksRyan Russell, Computer security guru and HTPC visionary Home Theater PCsAlbert Yarusso, www.atariage.com Hack Your Atari 2600 and 7800 Hack Your Atari 5200 and 8-Bit Computer Hacking the iPodAndrew "bunnie" Huang Foreword

ISBN-13: 9781932266832
ISBN-10: 1932266836
Publication Date: 1/1/2004
Pages: 576
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Publisher: Syngress Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
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Charlene W. (cwroblew) reviewed Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty on 9/19/2007 + 3 more book reviews

The only chapter I found to be of interest was the one on the 1.2TB FireWire RAID. I didn't have any of the other devices that could be hacked.

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