Off Topic Hack: Staples "Easy" Button HACKED!
I love my "Easy" button. I keep it on my bar at home, ready for when I work on a difficult problem or just have a need to hear "That was easy!" They're under $10 and really make a difference! BUT what if you want to hack it? Make it say something like "your work sucks" or "network's down, let's go get bagels!" - you can!
Check out the following hack from HackADay:
Hack-A-Day reader [al cohen] was pretty perturbed by Staple’s Easy Button campaign since nothing in business is
easy. So he decided to modify their cute button (PDF). He
replaced the guts with a cheap recording circuit from RadioShack. He also added a 1/8 inch jack so you can record
directly from the computer. The new button doesn’t need a separate mic either; you can record by speaking into the
speaker. As a final touch Al ground off the easy, polished it and made the button evil. You can watch a video of the
button declaring his distaste for Spam. You
might have seen Jeff Caylor’s previous abuses of the Easy Button on
Make. My roommate thought it would be funny if someone wired it to generate the “shift+delete” key sequence.
Check out the hack here. (requires Adobe Acrobat 'cause it's a PDF)
Thanks to Josh for the heads up!