Archive for July, 2008

Power Suit for paraplegics

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I knew Power Suit could help paraplegics (including a friend of mine) to walk again… So after reading Hackaday’s RSS Feed about the Power Suit they wrote about I thought of sharing it with everyone…

Argo developed a that would enable paraplegics to walk again… Nothing new in their suit, just the DC Motors and the Battery…

Check the video for a demonstration

Here’s the Hackaday Link

Fogged up Kuwait!

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Today around 2:30am… Kuwait was fogged up that I couldn’t see 3m~4m ahead from me…

Well, I only checked Plajat and Al-Ta3awon Streets and it was so foggy…

Took a video and youtubed it… hope you like

Armpit advertising

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Another advertisement concept; Advertising monitor stitched in someone’s armpit *yukk*

I mean like, what the hell? the guys who’s wearing this shirt must’ve been freeked out. And the lady who’s watching the screen must’ve been disgusted

Anyways… Here’s the related link

Apple I BASIC in an old Cassette tape

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I found this while browsing Engadget (too bad their RSS Feed is messy abit);

Some engineers found the first Apple software in a cassette tape. And now, you could hear that software… Click here to download the mp3 file.

You could use it as your mobile ring tone (I’m thinking of that actually… So annoying… I like)

Click Here to follow Engadget’s link related to the article.

SIM Card Reader

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God bless the RssReader v1.0.88.0 … Made my life easier =P

Hackaday published an article about a hardware which can be used to mess around with SIM cards… You can read and write!

Adafruit Industries made their SIM card reader kit which allows you to read and write any SIM card (even though the word “ANY” scares me out… But I’ll use it since Hackaday did)…

As you can see, you can connect it to your Serial Port and connecting a 9v battery. Or connect an FTDI USB cable to the extra pins just like the Boarduino. The FTDI USB provides power from the bus so you wouldn’t need the 9v battery.

Click here to read more about it in Hackaday

Hope 2008: Cold boot attack tools released

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A team called Princeton developed a tool that recovers crypto keys from a turned off computer’s RAM earlier this year.

Now, they developed a new tool that retrieves and mess around with the RAM’s dump…

They even provide instructions to stuff it in an iPod. And there’s this BSD TCP/IP implementation on EFI stack.

Here’s the Hackaday Link related to this article…

Intel turns 40 years old…

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Intel turned 40 years old today… I thought they’re even older than 40 years old… Like, I thought they started since 1940s or something…

Well anyways, they filled us with great technology and stuff… Hope they keep impressing us with what they’ve been impressing us all these 40 years ago…

Friday’s beach cleaning

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There’s a Facebook group that made a “Clean Friday’s beach” event yesterday. I read about it and got abit of excited and kinda more disappointed, excited because it IS a great thing that Kuwaities are actually thinking of cleaning things from their own will, disappointed because I know that not alot of people wouldn’t attend (including me, at first)

The day before the event, my friends Kitsune and eLeeT confirmed their participations so I thought of joining them… It’ll turn to a fun thing since those two are coming.

So we arrived yesterday… And as I expected, from the 50 members in that group that confirmed their arrival, only 4 came (excluding Kitsune and eLeeT)… We were 8 in total; the four admins of that group, Kitsune, his brother, eLeeT and myself… We needed at the very least 10 guys so we could start, Kitsune brought 2 of our friends, Sane and Moshin…

So we started to clean around 18:00 and stopped by 20:30… It was something awful (NOT THE SITE YOU IDIOTS!)…

We cleaned around %40~60 of the beach… We found weird and random stuff… Here’s some that I can remember:
Clothes, underwear, diapers, razors, wood, Sankist (some old skool orange juice), chicken bones (KFC), dishes, functional glasses, estekanat, hair removal cream (WTF?), belts… and the list goes on…

How many bags we’ve collected? 25ish… 20~23 big trash bags to be more accurate… and that was almost half of just that beach!!
10 guys took 2 hours and half just to clean half of that beach… We know for a fact that it’d get ruined the very next day (which is today)… Well, I know… And I assume others does the same…

Anyway, we’re not doing this because we’re forced to… We’re not doing this for money (although offering wouldn’t be bad… j\k =P) We’re doing this because we have to… I mean, this is our country… Our beach… Our environment… It’s not wrong to clean things up just to give something small to the country that provided us with great uncountable things…

We were 8 guys… Later on we’d be more… Even if there wasn’t more, we’ll still be doing this every week (Well, I’m sure my friends will… And might bring more friends along with us)…
Here’s the little joke we made there, if just ONE of us dressed like a girl, took a picture and posted that in that Facebook group, next week we’d be crowded with 28736452874 members to clean things up! Well, its not far from true…

I’m not an environment person, but I love to give something back to the country that made me…

Hope this post reaches people and kick some sense in them so they’d help us out

Here’s pictures I’d like to include:

ATmega88 webserver

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Things are getting more weirder in Hackaday…

Seems like ATmel fans made some webserver in a small chip… so imagine running a webserver in a really small circuit… Interesting…

As small as shown in the picture above… Hope you likie…

Click here to visit the Hackaday Link

DeWalt-16

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This would freek everyone in your workshop out! An M-16 that shoots nails =P

Well this is one of Hackaday’s articles I’ve read today about someone called David Wiggins who made an M-16 power tool that shoots nails..

So imagine, going to some workshop with M-16 nailing some wood stuff… An hour later cops surrounds you thinking you’re a criminal =P~… The look of their faces would be so priceless…

Here’s the Hackaday link