Hardware Hacking

Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty (2004) amazon.com

# Paperback: 576 pages
# Publisher: Syngress Publishing; 1 edition (January 1, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1932266836
# ISBN-13: 978-1932266832

Grand, president and CEO of a product design and development firm, shows how to modify personal computer and electronics equipment at the hardware level. He describes essential tools for hardware hacking and reviews electrical engineering basics, then gives instructions, illustrated with b&w photos, for modifying the CueCat, building a custom Terabyte FireWire hard drive, taking apart the Mac, hacking Atari and PlayStation 2 systems, and upgrading memory on palm devices. Final chapters overview operating systems and introduce basic concepts of coding.