Home Hacking Projects for Geeks (Hacks) by Eric Faulkner

by Eric Faulkner

The Barnes & Noble ReviewIs this book for you? Let s find out. Imagine you d like to know what the weather s like outside without leaving your bed. How would you do it? A. Buy a radio. B. Configure your computer to read weather data via automated web service, transform the data into digitized human voice, and transmit it to your bedroom s wireless speakers. If the answer is self-evidently B, buy this book. The inimitable Eric Faulkner and Tony Northrup offer up all manner of projects here. Check your pet across the Web -- or access your entire media collection. Build a home theater PC. Time-shift FM radio. Hey, just reading this stuff s half the fun. You don t even have to do it. But, why not? A few X10 modules, some stray hardware that s surely already in your basement, a few lines of (provided) code, and you re golden! Bill Camarda, from the February 2005 href=" Only

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First published December 16, 2004