Surfing the Web with a 1964 300baud Acoustic Coupled Livermore modem.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

This hack is so impressive that I had to put it up here. I am really surprised that a dated piece of hardware[circa 1964] can still work with today’s technology. [p]hreakMonkey got his hands on a Livermore acoustic modem and managed to get it online and download a Wikipedia page. What’s really amazing is that [...]

Controlling the Nikon D40 with gphoto2

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

gphoto2 is a neat little command line interface to talk to digital cameras. The Nikon D40 DSLR is also supported. I was not able to find a good guide on interfacing the D40 to gphoto, so I wrote this down for reference. Installing gphoto2 1. I have Fedora10 installed on my laptop. Running the following [...]

Digital Picture Frame Hacking Roundup

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

With all the nice hacks on digital picture frames scattered around the web, I decided to put them all in one place for reference. Due thanks to all the hackers out there who put their work out for everyone to see. It’s the joy in reverse engineering. For some of the hacks I’ve included a [...]

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Welcome to my place on the web. I note down anything interesting most of them relating to my experiences, Tech, To-dos, How-tos and various hacks. Most of my time is spent in tinkering around with hardware, building robots and working with DSPs.More

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