Gio Gutierrez

Hacked Big Mouth Billy Bass Fish For Tweets

// Friday, September 25th, 2009 11:00 am GMT -5 // No Comments » // Random

Just when I thought that singing Big Mouth Billy Bass fish couldn’t get more annoying some guy hacks it to say Twitter updates. An ARM microcontroller was implanted in his head enabling him to read tweets aloud.

When you look past the annoying voice of the fish, the technology is pretty cool. Dan Ros implanted a MBED chip in the fish and added an SD card with .wav files. But having the fish say recorded phrases was just boring so he came up with the Twitter idea, attached an Ethernet wire and wrote some MBED code.

Hack Apple TV With a Thumb Drive, Set It Free | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

// Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 12:09 pm GMT -5 // No Comments » // Random

Hack Apple TV With a Thumb Drive, Set It Free | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

So I hacked my iPhone in line waiting for the new one last Friday when a gentleman from Finland was asking if anyone had their old iPhone’s hacked for sale. So I immediately volunteered and hacked my phone and sold it to him which paid for my new one.

// Friday, July 18th, 2008 09:53 pm GMT -5 // No Comments » // Personal

Hi,

Greetings from one happy Iphone owner! Our Florida vacation is now over and we are back in Finland. The phone works here perfectly and it also roamed at Paris and Stockholm airports. Youtube started working yesterday after I found (in the installer) a Youtube patch for ver 1.1.4. Iphone has not been sold in Finland until now. It is sold only by one carrier and it is not the carrier my employer uses – so getting one from the US was in fact the only way for me to get an Iphone.

I didn’t know that it was this easy to fix the Iphone. The people in the 3G-line didn’t really know if their phones would work with another carrier, so I got unsure whether it was at all a good idea to buy a unit. Luckily you were there and had all the information. It was impressive to see all that text flashing on the Iphone screen when you did the update right there on the street :-)

I still got next week off. After that it is time to return to work. I take care of media research projects. Right now we are doing eye-tracking on websites and magazines. It is interesting stuff so returning to work actually doesn’t feel that bad.

Thank you again for the Iphone. I hope you are satisfied with your new 3G unit and wish you all the best.

12 Volt Battery Hack!

// Friday, October 19th, 2007 08:53 am GMT -5 // No Comments » // Random

12 Volt Battery Hack!

StarCraft 2 Ridiculous Large Hordes

// Monday, August 6th, 2007 02:20 pm GMT -5 // No Comments » // Random

StarCraft 2 Ridiculous Large Hordes

Now I don’t know about you guys, but my favorite method of testing new units is to mass them into ridiculously large hordes and go to town. Here is the result of an hour of concentrated unit massing, with hordes of Battlecruisers, Marines, Colossi, and Motherships wrecking havoc on helpless AI opponents.