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“How is information technology shaping public space in today’s cities? What opportunities do new technologies offer to empower and activate citizens? And how can we hack these technological systems to do more for us? “
Adam Greenfield at Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin as part of Innovation Dublin 2011.
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Troy Hunt investigated the Park Assist powered car search feature in the Westfield mobile app and found that due to an apparent misconfiguration all the information that was being stored about all the cars in its car park (from 2,550 sensors) was available via a public API.
You can read more on his blog.
(via Dan W)
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The team behind the first ever Brighton Mini Maker Faire talk about what to expect and why they wanted to put on a Maker Faire in Brighton.
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A thermogram of a recently used ATM keypad.
From “Heat of the Moment: Characterizing the Efficacy of Thermal-Camera Based Attacks” (PDF). K. Mowery, S. Meikle john, and S. Savage. 2011. Presented at WOOT ‘11.
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Cardioid and condenser microphones housed in spent 12 gauge shotgun shells.
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In Killer K.I.T.T (1986) Marco Berio, a former employee of F.L.A.G, uses his knowledge of K.I.T.T. to override it’s CPU and turn it against his owner, Michael Knight.
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If this is fake it’s excellent. If it’s real it’s even better.
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More Kinect hacking. This video by Oliver Kreylos has had 1,173,269 views in five days!
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There’s a hive of activity around hacking Kinect but this one really caught my eye. Emily and Theo from Design I/O made this light puppet in a day with the libfreenect Kinect drivers and ofxKinect.
“The system is doing skeleton tracking on the arm and determining where the shoulder, elbow, and wrist is, using it to control the movement and posture of the giant funky bird!”
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The “What is a switch?” classroom project is a Tellart favorite – it is meant to demystify electronics for design students and artists by using low-cost materials and familiar design tools to explore the concept of an electrical connection. By abstracting electronics to the simple concept of “connected” or “not connected”, the project helps to expand their conception of designing with embedded electronics. What happens when you take the switch away from the wall, out of the plastic casing?
