From the photo above you can see the holidays have been treating me pretty well. [bugloaf] brought a bottle of pisco back from Peru for me. My parents mounted the laser-cut logo that [smouldering-dog] had sent me. They also gave me a copy of The Radioactive kid Scout: The Frightening true story of a Whiz kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor. I must have it finished by Shmoocon, so if you see me there and ask for it, I’ll gladly give it up (since I don’t have any swag ideal now).
Team Hack-A-Day is still cranking away; turning in over 8 million points in 3.5 months. If you’re worn out of your family you can always come idle in the #hackaday channel on Efnet.
More links after the jump.
Mikey Sklar will be presenting his most current project at Dorkbot in nyc Jan. 4th: Implanting an RFID chip in his hand. I must have seen this coming when he sent me his last project: Making RFID proof pants pockets. BoingBoing has been compiling related links (I had said the pants were for Dorkbot, but was mistaken, they were for Swap-O-Rama-Rama). I’m split between the futurism of this and the reality that I’d have safety weaker than a garage door opener.
The second part of my Xbox 360 iPod dock how-to was posted this week on Engadget. I’m still examining the writer applications.
It seems Microsoft pushed their Xbox 360 kiosks out the door so swiftly that they didn’t lock down the media disk. You can’t mess around with the executable code, but you can replace other files. If you download the kiosk ISO you can unpack it and build your own discs that work on the 360. You can replace the videos with your own and there is a group working on porting flash games considering that the live Arcade games are flash based. If you strip enough files out you can make the ISO small enough to be burned on a CDR and it will still work. Xbox-Scene has been keeping up with the developments.
The most current version of TwonkyVision MediaServer will let you stream music and photos to your Xbox 360 using a Mac, Linux or other system. It serviced my Gentoo box, but is regrettably commercial software. I did get a chuckle seeing the Xbox display “Connecting to Windows PC