I have been meaning to try this out for a while and finally got around to it. It is extremely easy to set everything up and works just like the video shows.
For easy to follow instructions visit the DS Music Interface website.
How awesome is that? Unfortunately the project costs approx. $600 and there are no real instructions. Check out the original source for more info.
This years Comic-Con was an amazing site. I haven’t been to the convention in over ten years and things have changed quite a bit. The last time I went there were about 15,000 people, this year there were 125,000 people! That is an insane amount of people for a comic convention. I actually planned on buying a few things but the amount of people was so overwhelming, I ended up wandering around for hours never even seeing anything I planned on buying. I ended up spending $12 total.
Since I wasn’t spending much, I decided to try to get as many free promotional things as I could. I’m usually pretty laid back, but apparently when people are handing out free junk I turn into an excited little kid. Every time I saw a booth giving away something decent, I plowed my way over to claim my item having no regard for kids, moms, or other nerds.
As if going to a comic convention isn’t nerdy enough, I spent the majority of the time at the video game booths. I tried a lot of games, many of which aren’t out yet. I was going to buy most of these anyway, but getting to see them in person sealed the deal.
Puzzle Fighter HD - plays as expected; I didn’t spend a lot of time with it.
Contra DS - I thought the gap in between the dual screens would be annoying but it didn’t cause any problems with the game.
Castle Crashers (360) – I didn’t play it much. It plays smoother than Alien Hominid. Support The Behemoth.
The Eye of Judgment (PS3) – Never even played it but I must have it.
Anyway, enough of my rambling, here are a few pictures of the event.
Do you know anyone that uses a MAC address filter without using a WEP key to protect their router? I did, and to prove how insecure it was… I used my Nintendo DS.
That’s right, using a homebrew DS application called wifi_lib_test, I was able to scan all the access points around me, giving me the channels they were using and their MAC addresses. Using the same application I was then able to view the packets being sent on a certain channel. Since this router was the only one in range on that channel, all I had to do was look for the MAC address that didn’t belong to the router.
Once I obtained the MAC address using my DS, I changed the MAC address on my PC and connected to the router. If you want a quick and easy way to change your MAC address in Windows, use Macshift.
Everything I did on the DS can be done with a laptop using the appropriate software, but using a DS to prove how insecure someones wireless setup is gives me a tingling sensation. At the very least, the DS proved to be a great portable way to find hotspots.
