January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
7h 37m
English
Reverse engineering guru works to unlock our personal data.
Most of the tools Kyle Machulis makes are self-justifying. It seems futile, at first, to search for utilitarian rationale in Machulis’ workshop, which he calls Nonpolynomial Labs (nonpolynomial.com). Often he makes things to find out if he can make them, and to learn something, and to have a laugh, and to inspire others.
His robots do things like automatically mix drinks for video game players based on their score. (The higher the score, the stronger the drink, which ultimately leads to a lower score, and, appropriately, a weaker drink.) Or track yo-yos in mid-spin using the Wiimote camera. Machulis also gets deeply into hardware hacking ...
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