NationStates Jolt Archive


Great Achievements in Geekery

The_pantless_hero
25-03-2009, 22:48
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/03/engineers-show-off-no-jailbreak-iphone-keyboard-hack.ars

The short version: Two guys with too much time on their hands interfaced a infrared keyboard with the iPhone using a 1200 baud modem via the headphone jack with the iPhone SDK.

Now that is hardcore. Be amazed and share your almost equal findings of achievements in geekery.
Conserative Morality
25-03-2009, 22:51
There was this one time at band camp...:D

I think there was a thread a bit ago where a Finnish guy made his fake finger into a USB flash drive, which was incredibly nerdy.
JuNii
25-03-2009, 23:23
someone created a PC/coffee maker... lemme see if I can find it...
UvV
25-03-2009, 23:31
The guys who implemented RFC 1149 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html) are, I think, in with a fighting chance.

Read about the implementation of the "Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers" here (http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/).
Khadgar
25-03-2009, 23:36
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/03/engineers-show-off-no-jailbreak-iphone-keyboard-hack.ars

The short version: Two guys with too much time on their hands interfaced a infrared keyboard with the iPhone using a 1200 baud modem via the headphone jack with the iPhone SDK.

Now that is hardcore. Be amazed and share your almost equal findings of achievements in geekery.

What's the point in buying an expensive toy, and that's what the iPhone is, if it doesn't do what you actually want to do?
The_pantless_hero
26-03-2009, 00:30
What's the point in buying an expensive toy, and that's what the iPhone is, if it doesn't do what you actually want to do?
Apple is an anti-competitive, elitist asshat company, but that isn't the point of this thread.
UpwardThrust
26-03-2009, 02:16
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/windowsxpbox/

Not only did they design a fully working PC built INTO the box that windows XP shipped with but they ALSO modified it with a mercury switch that based on the orientation of the motherboard with some custom written code will boot that machine into windows or redhat

(So when you put it in the redhat box it boots to redhat and in the windows box to windows)
Rejistania
26-03-2009, 02:39
The guys from this story who made the maybe first PC network: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Damn-the-River.aspx
Kandarin
26-03-2009, 03:25
The geek artist who created Compubeaver (http://www.yourpsychogirlfriend.com/beav/).
Constructedmeanings
26-03-2009, 04:06
The Australian computer scientist who made a working shoe-phone as a prop for a church camp drama that had a "Get Smart" theme (and then published step by step instructions, online, for the benefit of the world at large).
Pope Lando II
26-03-2009, 04:15
That guy who made the NES controller coffee table - that was cool. Thomas Edison - he can probably be considered a geek; while he had a profit motive and was fiercely protective of his patents and rights, research was basically his life and passion, and he did the legwork himself for the most part. Melvil Dewey was another geek for the ages, even if I personally prefer LCC. Lots of other people, I'm sure.