Eblo

Hacking, the Legal Kind

First off, let me acknowledge - long time, no blog/podcast. You know the excuses. Topic closed.

Re: the subject of this post, it's not so much hacking (yet) as kit-building, but I just bought a MiniPOV 3 kit in order to make Mitch Altman's Brain Machine. I remember seeing "Brain Wave Machines" or "Hypnosis Machines" at Sharper Image stores in the malls back in the 80s, and I've always been into altering my mind without drugs (I once stayed up so late looking at the fractal demo that came with my Cyrix 387 floating-point math coprocessor that I seriously mind-tripped and STILL remember the dream I had that nigh circa 1992) so this really caught my interest. I, of course, first heard about this project from the 2600 Off the Hook podcast (08/08/2007) from Chaos Communication Camp in Germany.

I've done some light soldering before, though never on a Printed Circuit Board (PCB). This should be fun. I nearly dropped $60 on a new soldering iron and other tools, but decided to hold off on that until I see if my current iron is up to the task (perhaps with a new/hacked tip) and see if this phase lasts more than a few days.

If the brain machine project goes well, I just might step up to building a cool MIDI interface from the MIDIsense kit. That would be where the true hacking would begin. We'll see.

Wish me luck!

BTW, a little bird told me you can expect a new podcast soon. Really. I swear. Unless the recording didn't take this morning. . . .

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