Getting a Shell on any Android Device

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If you’re an Evil Customs Agent or other nefarious Three Letter Agency Person, you’re probably very interesting in getting data off people’s phones. Even if the screen is locked, there’s a way around this problem: just use the Android Debug Bridge (ADB), a handy way to get a shell on any Android device with...
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Project Lucidity Wants YOU!

Do you lucid dream? Do you want to? [Dinesh Seemakurty] has just started something called Project Lucidity, which is the first(?) open source, developer friendly, fully featured, lucid dreaming sleep mask. And he’s looking for hackers to help! We’ve covered lots of projects on lucid dreaming before, like making...
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Elinchrom EL-Skyport Triggered by Arduino

[Toby] has an Elinchrom EL-Skyport, which is a wireless flash trigger. He decided to see if he could trigger it using an Arduino, and came up with a nice proof of concept. This little device was not meant to be user serviceable, as can be seen in what [Toby] uncovered while taking it apart. But once he had it...
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Taiko no Tatsujin Bluetooth Controller Drum Set

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No doubt, Taiko no Tatsujin is a wonderful rhythm game. If you also like playing the game on your iPhone or iPad, you may like to use the Bluetooth controller drum set for perfect gaming experience. This is a very interesting Bluetooth-enabled drum set designed for Taiko no Tatsujin.As we can see from the images,...
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Felix HandHold iPhone 5s Case

Felix recently released HandHold, an interesting protective case for iPhone 5/5s. If you need a slim iPhone 5s case to hold your iOS device and credit card, let’s go on checking. The HandHold is a cute and practical form-fitting protective case designed for iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s.As we can see from the images,...
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DCF77 Powered Clock is a Work of Art

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[Brett] just completed his DCF77 Master Bracket Clock, intended to be a backup to an old logic controlled clock he made. For our readers that don’t know, DCF77 is a German longwave time signal whose transmitter is located near Frankfurt (Germany). Every minute, the current date and time are sent on the 77.5kHz...
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Tiny 3x3x3 SMD LED Cube

LED cubes are cool, but they’re usually pretty big and clunky. [One49th] set out to make one of the smallest LED cubes we’ve seen yet, and he’s shared how he did it in his Instructable! His first LED cube was the traditional kind, and it turned out pretty nice. But he wanted to go smaller — what about...
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DRM Chair Only Works 8 Times

Download a song from iTunes, and you can only add that song to the music library of five other computers. Grab a copy of the latest Microsoft Office, and you’d better hope you won’t be upgrading your computer any time soon. Obviously DRM is a great tool for companies to make sure we only use software and...
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Wireless Pinball Controller for Tablet Gaming

This wooden box is a wireless pinball controller and tablet stand. The idea is to set it on a workbench to give you some of the thrill of standing and playing the real thing. [Jeff] has been rather addicted to playing a pinball app on Android lately, and started the journey because he needed a way to give...
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Carry a Git server in your pocket

We love using Git for its superior version control. We often host our more advanced projects in a public Github repository. But the bulk of our little experiments are simply local repos. This is fine if you’re always at home, but if we are away from home we find ourselves having to SSH into our server to...
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WiFi & Bluetooth Bot Control

Looking for an easy way to control that Arduino powered robot you built? We just caught wind of a pair of apps for Android that look pretty handy! WiFi Bot Control and Bluetooth Bot Control.So, what are they?  They’re configurable apps that are capable of taking in an IPCam video signal, and sending various...
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Running a Laundromat with an Arduino

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[Hubert] sent us a tip about a friend’s project to rescue a laundromat from its failing electronics. We’re not entirely sure what went wrong with the old control center, but considering a replacement would have cost nearly 25,000 EUR, we think [Stefan] found the perfect solution: he gave it an Arduino and...
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EmuDroid 4: An Android Gaming Controller

[Carnivore] over at Droid Build is working on a very awesome Android Gaming Controller called the EmuDroid 4.It’s a work in progress at the moment, but so far it looks utterly fantastic. He is combining an android tablet with a USB SNES controller, an OTG adapter, and an inductive charging unit. He’s cramming...
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ODB-II Hacking Using an Android Tablet

What a strange message to read on the digital dashboard display of your car. This is proof that [Kristoffer Smith] was able to control the ODB-II bus on his Eagle Grand Cherokee.He’s not just doing this for the heck of it. It stems from his goal of adding an Android tablet on the dashboard which has been a popular...
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External Pinball Controls For an Android Tablet

This hack, which adds external flipper controls to Android pinball, is a great way to cut your teeth at Android hardware hacking.[Ruben] decided to go with the TI Launchpad for this project. The MSP430 dev board offers serial communications via a USB connection, but it’s not quite as easy as just finding the...
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Android Pen Plotter Snaps, Processes, and Prints Pictures

Here’s an Android powered pen plotter that does it all. It was built by [Ytai Ben-Tsvi] to take with him to Maker Faire. He’s the creator of IOIO, a hardware interface module designed to communicate with an Android device via USB (host or OTG are both supported).The physical hardware is simple enough. He draws...
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Wireless Rover With Android Control

[Radu] spend the first portion of this year building and improving upon this wireless rover project. It’s actually the second generation of an autonomous follower project he started a few years back. If you browse through his old postings you’ll find that this version is leaps and bounds ahead of the last.He...
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Turning a Phone into a Geiger Counter

We’re no stranger to radiation detector builds, but [Dmytry]‘s MicroGeiger prototype is one of the smallest and most useful we’ve seen.The idea behind the MicroGeiger comes from the observation that just about every modern smartphone can provide a small bit of power through the microphone jack. Usually...
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Two-way Bluetooth Communication Made Easy

It’s hard to imagine an easier way to set up communications between an Android device and an Arduino using Bluetooth than by following this guide. In the center of the breadboard you can see the cheap and ubiquitous HC-05 Bluetooth module.Having picked up one of these ourselves we can attest that after opening...
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Galaxy Note 2 Gets Three And a Half Months of Standby Time

In the quest for the ultimate Android device, [白い熊] on the XDA developers forum created an awe-inspiring monstrosity that gives his Galaxy Note II 288 Gigs of storage and enough battery to theoretically last three and a half months.First, the storage: the phone can now store movies, videos, apps, and music...
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