CyberZeroCool.com http://cyberzerocool.com Hacks, Mods, and Scripts Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:42:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Control Your Locks and Garage Via Phone http://cyberzerocool.com/2008/05/control-your-locks-and-garage-via-phone/ http://cyberzerocool.com/2008/05/control-your-locks-and-garage-via-phone/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 18:39:04 +0000 zerocool http://cyberzerocool.com/?p=8 I’ve been working on this project where I use my smartphone/iPhone/iPod Touch to log into a secure site and choose a link that connects to a web server Autoit script I made. From that it initiates the relay board that completes the circuit on the garage door and/or powers a Lego Mind storms motor that unlocks the deadbolt.


Demo iPhone Webapp I made: http://cyberzerocool.com/home

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Video Demonstration
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More details, photos, and source code soon. . .

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Welcome back viewers. If you were a member on the old site sign up again. This blog style will work much nicer now. Any comments are welcome.

]]> http://cyberzerocool.com/2008/04/new-format/feed/ Comcast Signal Monitor http://cyberzerocool.com/2008/04/comcast-signal-monitor/ http://cyberzerocool.com/2008/04/comcast-signal-monitor/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:47:40 +0000 zerocool http://cyberzerocool.com/blog/?p=7 This program was made to have full access to your modem and your cable’s signal strength. It refreshes every three seconds. It allows you to reset your modem, restore your modems factory defaults, refresh the cable stats, and it allows you to view the modem’s configuration screen.

Screen ShotMotorola Surfboard sb5101

It is compatable with only Motorola Surfboard sb5101

Known Bug: It can get corrupted data which would just need a refresh

Download

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]]> http://cyberzerocool.com/2008/04/comcast-signal-monitor/feed/ Remote Controlled Door http://cyberzerocool.com/2008/04/remote-controlled-door/ http://cyberzerocool.com/2008/04/remote-controlled-door/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:41:37 +0000 zerocool http://cyberzerocool.com/blog/?p=6
I have gotten a lot of requests on how my door opener worked so I decided to post a small tutorial and story about it. I love electronics and computers and I wanted a way to easily yet, effectively make something that used both together so I decided to make this.

At first, I started by figuring out how the mechanics of it would all work. I didn’t have counter weights or motors at this point. I didn’t plan this out at all, I started placing eye hooks on the wall of the close position of the door and the open position of the door. I also put eye hooks on the door it’s self. I placed all these eye hooks at the top of the door where it would be best out of the way. After manually opening and closing the door with the fishing line I used, I wanted to be able to still freely open and close the door. So after about 30 minutes I discovered counter weights and how they would be the base of the entire project.

Check out the video demonstration.

I filled two water bottles with water then popcorn seed to be able to better measure the counter pull of the door so the door would not always want to stay open or stay closed. So the bottles had to be equal to each other, light enough that it wouldn’t kill the motors, and heavy enough that they would keep tension on the line and keep the motors unwound.

As for the motors, I used two Lego motors form a Lego Mindstorms kit. I put them on a thin Lego platform and geared them to about 1/15. I’m not good with gear ratios but it had way more power and it was a bit slower. I took about 7 seconds to pull up the counter weight and open or close the door.

The controller that allowed my computer to give power to each motor was a PC Relay Driver Board - K74V2. You can get it at, http://www.electronickits.com/kit/complete/elec/ck1601.htm, where I got mine. It was about $60 for me but now it’s $35 assembled or $30 as a kit. It comes with software to make batch files or you can use the small GUI.

Here is a short video of the door opening and closing. Download

]]> http://cyberzerocool.com/2008/04/remote-controlled-door/feed/ Hacking the FON Router http://cyberzerocool.com/2008/04/hacking-the-fon-router/ http://cyberzerocool.com/2008/04/hacking-the-fon-router/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:39:07 +0000 zerocool http://cyberzerocool.com/blog/?p=5 Get the hack kit here: DOWNLOAD

You get the SSH files, full instructions,  useful tools, and DD-WRT V24 Beta

Well, this is the second time typing this because it timed out on me and I freaked out!!! so it may be a little simpler.

Basically, connect your PC directly to your La Fonera Router, use either a cross over cable or a standard one. set your PC network card to

IP: 169.X.X.X ie: 169.1.1.1 and the Subnet to the default: 255.255.0.0.

once that is set wait for the error that says that you have limited or no connectivity open your Firefox and connect to:

http://169.254.255.1/   (Reference)

Limited Connection

Once connected you will be prompted for a user name and password, use the following,

User: root

Pass: root

or  admin

From there you can change the language, the IP settings, SSID’s for the secure & public AP, the security settings for the secure AP.  It should look like:

 

Fon GUI

 Here is an image of what the SSID’s look like (”Joe’s Network” is my other AP):

Fon APs

 

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