7. Nerf Maverick Crossbow



This crossbow mod on a NERF gun (‘The Evil Killer’) is a photo for inspiration. But looking at them, you can make your own one that shoots safe darts.

6. Nerf Maverick Steampunk Gun



This is a mod equivalent of two ages coming together. The artsy Net Maverick Steampunk gun is a hybrid of classic design modded with a futuristic touch.

5. Nerf SuperMaxx 5000



The Nerf SuperMaxx seems to have come out from Flash Gordon’s universe. A gun with good range and accuracy, it will turn you into a backyard space warrior.

4. Nerf Longshot Paintjob Mod



A cool green and metallic steel paintjob transforms this Long Shot into a snazzy shooter.

3. Remote Controlled Nerf Gun Tank

This tutorial from our archives takes a Nerf Gun and puts it on a mobile platform. The Nerf Vulcan gun fired remotely using a remote controlled servo attached to the gun.

2. Steampunk Nerf Vulcan Cannon
   



Take a standard NERF issue Vulcan and mod it to fire 500 rounds per minute. This chain gun mod is for the serious shooter who wants to mow down the opposition. We’ve featured this gun on HacknMod before.

1. Gears of War



A few hacks here and there and a dark paint job gives you the Gears of War inspired rifle. There’s just the photo but the gun looks menacing. We had the similar Gears of War Lancer on HacknMod.com a while back with a detailed working.

Bonus:

Extreme Cubical Warfare Nerf Gun Battle!

These are the top mods we’ve found so far, but who knows what might still be out there.  Leave a comment below to let us know if we missed anything! Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss out on future posts.

The Innards:

Dimensions:
- 23.5 x 21.65 x 2.5 cm

Technical Specs:
- 320 GB 2.5″ HDD
- PW-200-V PSU
- TSOP flashed with iND-BIOS
- Motherboard v1.4

The case itself is made up of 3mm thick polycarbonate sheets glued together with epoxy and plastic welder. The shiny sleek look comes from a few coats of primer and Krylon Fusion. The shrunken size means that the motherboard and components have to be packed together. But the end result is amazingly functional and eye-pleasing.

We have covered plenty of case mods…but few which have squished such a large console into such a small space.

Don’t miss out on these other Xbox Mods:

• Xbox 360 Hellboy Case Mod
• Simple Xbox 360 Case Mod using Bondo
• Xbox – Rapid Fire Mod

via HackaDay

School is back in session shortly for most college students.  While you could be an average Joe and and buy all your back to school goods, you’ll be far better off building your own DIY projects to pimp your bland dorm room.  These fantastic tutorials will walk you through creating custom, outstanding dorm rooms to show off your DIY skill.

Incredible Lighting:

1. The Emergency Party Button will help make friends quickly.
2. How to Display Audio as Light (Make LEDs Flash to Music)
3. Make Custom RGB Mood Lights
4. DIY Abilight for your PC, TV and more
5. Need more inspiration? See all of our LED and Light projects.

DIY Security:

1. How to Use RFID to Protect your Beer, Valuables
2. DIY Motion Sensing Laptop Security Cam
3. Build your own Laser Security System
4. RFID Door Lock Mechanism
5. All of our security projects

Save Money:

1. DIY Continuous Ink Printer = Unlimited Free Printing
2. Get Free Internet by Making a Wifi Repeater
3. Build Your Own Open-Source DVR

Gaming Hacks:

1. Rapid Fire Mods Make you the Halo King
2. Burn copies of PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360
3. Play all your favorite NES games online, and emulate the Wii and other consoles.
4. Select a console from the categories on the right for more.

Custom Transport:

1. For the outgoing types:  Setup and make your own custom transportation like the Enicycle and iShoes.
2. Video Tutorial: Build your own Self-Balancing Segway
3. Build a Speedy Motorized Shopping Cart

DIY Entertainment:

1. Make your own HD Projector (another version)
2. Stylish High Quality DIY iPod and iPhone Speakers
3. Stream any Video to your PS3, Xbox 360, or Wii
4. DIY Wireless Music Remote

Extra Awesome!

If you’re ready to go all out and stand out you need to go the extra mile:

• Beer Launching Fridge
• iPhone Controlled USB Missile Launcher
• Shut Down your PC with a Cell Phone

Helpful Tips:

1. Hack College always has plenty of great tips to help you survive the year.
2. Check out this fantastic dorm layout and use of space for inspiration
3. Put all those extra beer bottles to good use. (another option)
4. Access your PC from Anywhere on Campus for Free

As always, be sure to subscribe for free to receive our hacks for daily.  Be sure to send in your projects and earn cash too!

• Pick up LEDs, servo motors and project supplies in our DIY store.
• Don’t miss our famous Top 40 Arduino Projects of the Web

30. Easily Connect a Wiimote to your PC
29. Firefighting Robot
28. Control a Modular Synth
27. Make Custom DJ Beats
26. Wiitar: A Wiimote Based Guitar
25. How to Graphically Visualize Wiimote Data
24. Airsoft Gun Remote Control
23. Control Your House with a Wiimote
22. Use the WiiMote as a mouse (method 2)
21. Old School Powerglove

20. Use a Wiimote to control your Keynote presentation
19. Graphic Visual Interaction with eMotion
18. The Self Balancing SegWii
17. Wiimote Rapid Fire Gaming Mod
16. Theremin DIY Music
    
15. Level, Protractor and Measurement tool
14. Auto Aiming USB Missile Launcher
13. How to Play Counter Strike, CoD, any PC Game with a WiiMote
12. Wiimote Virtual Air Drums
11. Control an RC car (another method)

10. Interfacing Google Earth with a Wiimote
9. Industrial Robotic Arm Control
   
8. Wiimote controlled Hexapod Robots
7. Finger Tracking and Image Sorting
6. Control a Canoe, Servo Motors with the Wiimote Joystick
5. Arduino and NunChuck = Real Time DIY Pan & Tilt Camera
4. Head-tracking with the Wiimote
3. Create your own Multitouch Whiteboard Display
2. Wiimote Controlled Lawn Mower
1. Foldable Display Tracking using the Wiimote

That’s the best of the best.  You can subscribe to HacknMod for future posts.  Did we miss any? Let us know in the comments.

• An onboard laser and a wireless camera for sight targeting.
• A remotely operated Nerf gun for ‘eliminating’ targets.
• Dual speakers with an amplifier and an iPod Nano for some sound blasting.

The tank runs on four wheels turned by two 24V Valco gear motors. The power comes from a 24V 3000mAh ‘Battlepack’ Nickel Cadmium battery. Movement is controlled by a Sabretooth 2X10 speed controller remotely operated through a standard Futaba 7 channel unit set at 75Mh. The Nerf Vulcan gun is fired using a remote controlled servo attached to the gun. The steps to build the chassis and the frame to house the gun and the electronics can be followed in detail at Instructables.

• Don’t miss our other Robot Projects and Airsoft Hacks

Make an airsoft shooting range for your home or office minus the frills (and cost) of a professional gallery but with all the fun. The idea of the guys at Mana Energy Potions was to reproduce the feel of a shooting gallery using commonplace materials. They used a foldable, angled board, a cut of carpet and a clothesline. The board serves as the target with the attached carpet cloth functioning as a damper.  See all of our airsoft and gun projects.

• The same crew built this rapid fire nerf machine gun which is definately worth checking out.

Basic Matierials:

• 24″ by 60″ board – 1
• 22″ by 60″ precut carpet – 1
• Offset hinges – 2
• Chain – 1
• Gate hook – 1
• Cup hook – 2
• Pulley – 2
• Clothespins – 4
• 50′ clothesline – 1
• 11″ Zip ties – 8
• Drywall screws
• Short screws

A couple of airsoft guns should complete your recreational range. The great thing about this is the ease and the low cost and the fun though is unlimited. For a complete rundown on how to build your own shooting gallery check out the illustrated steps at Manapotions.com.

Learn to hack a top of the line Nerf Vulcan machine gun, gut it’s innards, install rapid fire circuitry, and even learn to give it a fantastic paint job. Â Ã‚ They have detailed pictures and video to guide you through the build process cranking it up to 500 RPM and attaching a round counter.

Do not miss out on these other fantatsic Nerf gun projects:

• Make Gears of War Lancer from a Nerf Gun
• Office plus NERF Gun Arsenal equals Cubical Warfare

Related Wii Hacks:

• Make your own WiiFit Balance Board
• Auto Aiming USB Missile Launcher with the WiiMote
• Wiimote Rapid Fire Mod

You’ll also enjoy:

1. Wiimote Modding 101 Tutorial
2. Wiimote Gun Mod – Pop a Cap in Your Wii
3. Auto Aiming USB Missile Launcher using the Wiimote
4. Track Fingers with the Wii Remote

Top 15 Security/Hacking Tools & Utilities

1. Nmap

I think everyone has heard of this one, recently evolved into the 4.x series.

Nmap (Network Mapper) is a free open source utility for network exploration
or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although
it works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to
determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application
name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS
versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use,
and dozens of other characteristics. Nmap runs on most types of computers and
both console and graphical versions are available. Nmap is free and open source.

Can be used by beginners (-sT) or by pros alike (packet_trace). A very
versatile tool, once you fully understand the results.

Get Nmap Here – http://www.insecure.org/nmap/download.html

2. Nessus Remote Security Scanner

Recently went closed source, but is still essentially free. Works with a client-
server framework.

Nessus is the worlds most popular vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000
organizations world-wide. Many of the worlds largest organizations are
realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical
enterprise devices and applications.

Get Nessus Here – http://www.nessus.org/download/

3. John the Ripper

Yes, JTR 1.7 was recently released!

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many
flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different
architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect
weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly
found on various Unix flavors, supported out of the box are Kerberos AFS and
Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hashes, plus several more with contributed patches.

You can get JTR Here – http://www.openwall.com/john/

4. Nikto

Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive
tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3200 potentially
dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 625 servers, and version specific
problems on over 230 servers. Scan items and plugins are frequently updated and
can be automatically updated (if desired).

Nikto is a good CGI scanner, there are some other tools that go well with Nikto
(focus on http fingerprinting or Google hacking/info gathering etc, another
article for just those).

Get Nikto Here – http://www.cirt.net/code/nikto.shtml

5. SuperScan

Powerful TCP port scanner, pinger, resolver. SuperScan 4 is an update of the
highly popular Windows port scanning tool, SuperScan.

If you need an alternative for nmap on Windows with a decent interface, I
suggest you check this out, it’s pretty nice.

Get SuperScan Here – http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm
subnav=resources/navigation.htm&subcontent=/resources/proddesc/superscan4.htm

6. p0f

P0f v2 is a versatile passive OS fingerprinting tool. P0f can identify the
operating system on:

- machines that connect to your box (SYN mode),
- machines you connect to (SYN+ACK mode),
- machine you cannot connect to (RST+ mode),
- machines whose communications you can observe.

Basically it can fingerprint anything, just by listening, it doesn’t make ANY
active connections to the target machine.

Get p0f Here – http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/p0f/p0f.shtml

7. Wireshark (Formely Ethereal)

Wireshark is a GTK+-based network protocol analyzer, or sniffer, that lets you
capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of
the project is to create a commercial-quality analyzer for Unix and to give
Wireshark features that are missing from closed-source sniffers.

Works great on both Linux and Windows (with a GUI), easy to use and can
reconstruct TCP/IP Streams! Will do a tutorial on Wireshark later.

Get Wireshark Here – http://www.wireshark.org/

8. Yersinia

Yersinia is a network tool designed to take advantage of some weakeness in
different Layer 2 protocols. It pretends to be a solid framework for analyzing
and testing the deployed networks and systems. Currently, the following network
protocols are implemented: Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), Cisco Discovery
Protocol (CDP), Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP), Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol (DHCP), Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), IEEE 802.1q, Inter-Switch
Link Protocol (ISL), VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP).

The best Layer 2 kit there is.

Get Yersinia Here – http://yersinia.sourceforge.net/

9. Eraser

Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to
completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several
times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT,
2000, XP and DOS. Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under
GNU General Public License.

An excellent tool for keeping your data really safe, if you’ve deleted it..make
sure it’s really gone, you don’t want it hanging around to bite you in the ass.

Get Eraser Here – http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/download.php

10. PuTTY

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms,
along with an xterm terminal emulator. A must have for any h4. 0r wanting to
telnet or SSH from Windows without having to use the crappy default MS command
line clients.

Get PuTTY Here. – http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

11. LCP

Main purpose of LCP program is user account passwords auditing and recovery in
Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. Accounts information import, Passwords recovery, Brute
force session distribution, Hashes computing.

A good free alternative to L0phtcrack.

LCP was briefly mentioned in our well read Rainbow Tables and RainbowCrack
article.

Get LCP Here – http://www.lcpsoft.com/english/download.htm

12. Cain and Abel

My personal favourite for password cracking of any kind.

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It
allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network,
cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis
attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing
password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.
The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could
not be fixed with little effort.

Get Cain and Abel Here – http://www.oxid.it/cain.html

13. Kismet

Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion
detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw
monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic.

A good wireless tool as long as your card supports rfmon (look for an orinocco
gold).

Get Kismet Here – http://www.kismetwireless.net/download.shtml

14. NetStumbler

Yes a decent wireless tool for Windows! Sadly not as powerful as it’s Linux
counterparts, but it’s easy to use and has a nice interface, good for the
basics of war-driving.

NetStumbler is a tool for Windows that allows you to detect Wireless Local Area
Networks (WLANs) using 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g. It has many uses:

Verify that your network is set up the way you intended.
Find locations with poor coverage in your WLAN.
Detect other networks that may be causing interference on your network.
Detect unauthorized rogue access points in your workplace.
Help aim directional antennas for long-haul WLAN links.
Use it recreationally for WarDriving.

Get NetStumbler Here – http://www.stumbler.net/

15. hping

To finish off, something a little more advanced if you want to test your TCP/IP
packet monkey skills.

hping is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer. The
interface is inspired to the ping unix command, but hping isn’t only able to
send ICMP echo requests. It supports TCP, UDP, ICMP and RAW-IP protocols, has a
traceroute mode, the ability to send files between a covered channel, and many
other features.

Get hping Here – http://www.hping.org/

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