Book helps you get hands dirty and your mind moving
By Bill Schweber -- EDN, July 22, 2004
What's not to like in a book entitled Hardware Hacking: Having Fun While Voiding Your Warranty? Edited by Joe Grand, this $39.95, 448-pg book (ISBN: 1-932266-83-6) guides you in taking apart, modifying, and enhancing your hard drive, PDA, Apple Macintosh, Atari PC, Playstation, iPod, and cell phone. It starts with the critical and often-challenging step of physically opening the case, identifies both the common and specialized tools you need, and shows how you can extend the hardware and even the software of the device.
As long as you don’t have to necessarily restore the unit to its original function, you can have lots of fun and also learn how other engineers approached and solved some of their design challenges.
Syngress Publishing Inc, www.syngress.com.
