Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty 1st Edition by Joe Grand (PDF)

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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

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: 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.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐The first couple chapters are a good start, but the actual projects in the book all involve pretty outdated tech. Some of the skill levels jump up severely to. This thing goes from making a NES controller work on an Atari to jail-breaking a PS2.

⭐fast delivery… very nice book…

⭐Excellent!

⭐great book but dated information at this point.

⭐so good

⭐Just as expected Just as expected …. Zzz z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z zz

⭐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.

⭐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.

⭐The examples are now outdated, but the techniques are not. And excellent read

⭐Wish I checked publishing date before buying 🙂 it is very old (considering how hardware evolved)

⭐様々な機械の改造方法があって、楽しめました。中の回路についての構成・特徴に関する考察があれば更に良かったと思います

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