1. hmmmmmm this could help in making xbox 360 backups

Posted at 6:39PM on Sep 30th 2007 by james

2. more rubbish can we have some r/c hacks

Posted at 7:46PM on Sep 30th 2007 by steve

3. more rubbish can we have some bl00 led's????/?//??????

if you want better do something and submit

Posted at 10:40PM on Sep 30th 2007 by monster

4. lets do more hacks with massively bright leds.

Posted at 2:28AM on Oct 1st 2007 by werejag

5. High quality hack guys!

Posted at 3:06AM on Oct 1st 2007 by Ben

6. I like this one :)

Posted at 9:31AM on Oct 1st 2007 by Henry

7. unless I'm mistaken, you can already read every bit from a DVD (or any other block device) with dd(1) ... I'm using this right now to make bit-for-bit images of all my DVDs, storing the resulting ISOs on my storage array, mounting the ISOs over the network and playing them back with VLC. Voila; instant online DVD library.

dd if=/dev/rcd0c of=/storage/SomeDVD.iso bs=4096

(bs=2048 is standard; I'm experimenting to see which block size numbers give the best performance)

(Also, hackaday needs to toss their non-RFC compliant email address validation code - a plus sign ("+") in the userpart is perfectly valid, even though there's a depressing number of code libraries out there that are not compliant with the specs. See RFC768.)

Posted at 11:25AM on Oct 1st 2007 by darkuncle

8. What is this, slashdot? :P

Anyway, read the article darkuncle. dd will not give you every bit on a DVD, only the decoded bits. tmbinc is after *every* bit, including the sector headers, error correction, and sync signals. This hack is about as low level as you can get. Any lower are you're working with analog signals.

take a hint: this can be used to break disk copy protection schemes, which are nothing more than poorly formed disks used to confuse dvd players. dd just doesn't cut it.

Posted at 1:36PM on Oct 1st 2007 by pc486

9. could this be used to read wii disk?

Posted at 7:09PM on Oct 1st 2007 by jeff crowell

10. The problem I have with this entry is how it's presented in a context that gives the impression that we all didn't know you could tap bus traces. The actual entry is cool though.

This has already been done with the x360 by the way. There is even instructions for adding a second chip and custom firmware for certain drives. It can be done with any drive, there just isn't instructions for other models.

I think we all know this stuff, we just forget we learned it at some time.

Posted at 8:54PM on Oct 1st 2007 by TJhooker

11. what about writing your own bitstream to the blank DVD?

Posted at 1:29AM on Oct 2nd 2007 by RusH

12. steve.. r/c Resistor and capacitor hacks?! hah
okok, im not an idiot.. but radio control is boring. theres no brains to it.
its like.... attaching a hammer to an rc car and calling it a 'bot. I commend your duct-tape engineering skills, but a robot maker you are not.

Posted at 9:45AM on Oct 2nd 2007 by MRE

13. This is a really cool hack, I love doing projects like this myself, but I usually run out of steam before I can finish.

Posted at 3:10PM on Oct 4th 2007 by 3d graphics