Question to hardware hackers. What’s the most practically life-changing hack/mod/build you’ve ever done? (Not the most complex or technically clever or difficult... leverage over real life stuff)
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I do what repairs and handyman shit I can and have to around the house (very limited) but I honestly can’t get motivated to do toy projects like blinking led or door alarm or lcd that says ‘hello’. Need either an art motivation or genuine practical hack value to put in effort
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In the late 90s as a teenage zinester I learned the classic “Kinko’s trick” from reading about it in another zine... felt like a momentous instance of self-perpetuating media hack.
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Rewired my dorm laundry machine to bypass the change counter for free laundry for me and friends :D
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I helped my dad set up an open source hardware artificial pancreas (not my design) - openaps.org - but it’s small batch circuit boards and 3D printed enclosures, etc. really life changing especially for kids.
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Pulled DC motors from GI Joe Tank and stuck it to my GI joe boat in 1995ish. Accidentally built submersible.
Overclocked pentium 2 by flipping some motherboard thingies to run game that costed me 1/2 of the computer.
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I connected 3 lightbulbs to a WiFi smart outlet to use as an alarm. Very high leverage. You can't buy a light alarm with the bulbs I used. In fact, you can't buy the bulbs I used at all anymore since they were too expensive and no one wants them outside of Japan.
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