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Welcome to Spritesmods. At this site, I'll document my more interesting hacks for your viewing pleasure. While it's not updated that regularly, I try to add an article about every month.

Ow, by the way: all the pictures are thumbnails. You can click on them to get the originals, straight from my camera. If you want to comment on an article, there's a discussion area at the last page of every one of 'em.

I just finished adding a Flattr-button to all the articles, and I'll be using the next few weeks or months to see if it's worth keeping there. If you have an account at Flattr and like an article or the site in general, feel free to use the button to send a few cents my way. If it makes me enough money, I might even think about getting rid of the Google Ads on the site...

I also resetted the amount of Paypal-money: I've been spending quite a bit of money on a new personal fileserver. Ofcourse, it won't be just any yer-olde-gray-atx-case-kind of server, but something more interesting. You'll get something in return too: I'll be posting a new article as soon as it's done, with all steps I took documented and sources for all the firmware I built for it.

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Last added projects:
Aug 25 2010: DiskGenie review
May 25 2010: Dumb to managed switch conversion
Apr 26 2010: CP/M on an AVR
Mar 18 2010: Hacking the VPx500

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95 comments

Sprite_tm wrote at 15 Aug 2010, 1.29:

Eugene: Sorry, I'd rather spend the little amount of free time I have on the design of new things. Aside from that: I don't have a Wind myself, so I have no way to test any cables I make. I'd suggest you go find someone in your are who's good at soldering: building such a cable isn't that hard in itself.

Eugene wrote at 13 Aug 2010, 20.28:

Hey. I found your site from your friend's Make article on adding a Pixel Qi screen to his Wind. Would you be interested in selling these cables? I'd be pretty happy to buy one or two. Interested?

Fan wrote at 27 Jul 2010, 13.08:

Hey nice stuff!

Ubergeek85 wrote at 4 Mar 2010, 4.03:

I've followed you site for a while and I really like it, and I admire what you do. I've reached deep and sent a few euros your way, I hope it helps

Sprite_tm wrote at 12 Nov 2009, 13.48:

Yeah, I really oughtta... perhaps later, I've got one or two projects in the queue first before I blow the dust off of that one.

NrDesign wrote at 10 Nov 2009, 4.11:

Are you going to post the documentation for the 10$ 3D-Monitor? :D

JoeJpe wrote at 7 Sep 2009, 22.55:

Nobody's perfect.

Sprite_tm wrote at 7 Sep 2009, 10.02:

Nope. I'm a fan of the GPL because I tend to hack some things which in theory could become a commercial project. I'd hate not to be able to hack a device which even ended up containing my own code. If a company would like a commercial license for my code, we could always discuss that, but every non-trivial piece of code I write is going to end up being under the GPLv3.

JoeJoe wrote at 7 Sep 2009, 4.46:

For this new project, would you considering using the BSD license instead of the GPLv3?

Sprite_tm wrote at 6 Sep 2009, 16.16:

Working on it; there's a project in the queue which I really like. The hardware for it is almost finished, the software should be a doozy and writing the article will probably eat up most of my time. ETA is 10 days or so, at least I hope it is.

2d5df wrote at 4 Sep 2009, 5.19:

No moar? :-(

JoeJoe wrote at 7 Aug 2009, 16.30:

Yay! Hacks!

Sprite_tm wrote at 5 Aug 2009, 20.43:

* Sprite_tm munches on some chips...

JoeJoe wrote at 3 Aug 2009, 17.43:

After long discussion, we've agreed to allow you to eat 1 bag of potato chips each day.. no more, no less.

JoeJoe wrote at 3 Aug 2009, 2.49:

We your loyal fans demand daily hacks, without any regard to your daily living requirements.. like work, food or sleep.

ironkey wrote at 13 Jul 2009, 17.32:

It would be extremely interesting to see if you can hack IronKey or at least give us some thoughts about its claimed military level of security.

wannabe wrote at 3 Jul 2009, 23.26:

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately I usually get held up by: more important stuff, the long way to a pcb (no nice eda), limited programming genius, even more interesting/important projects, complicated problems :-( But I'm working on it :-)

Sprite_tm wrote at 20 Jun 2009, 0.05:

Thanks :) I have a 32-hour job, which leaves 3 days a week free for me. Usually, one to one-and-a-half of these is filled with boring stuff like cleaning, keeping the house in shape, scouting etc, but the rest I can use for interesting projects. Unfortunately, about half of the projects fail in a more or less early stage, so there's some time I don't spend on any projects which will make it to the website. (I'll maybe post them sometimes; even if not completely finished, there still are a couple of interesting things in between.) All in all, it's still enough time to do one project a month; my productivity is more limited by a lack of inspiration than by a lack of time.

wannabe wrote at 19 Jun 2009, 20.09:

I'm amazed by your hack-productivity. How much time do you spend planning, researching, soldering, programming to output a project roughly each month?

JoeJoe wrote at 15 Jun 2009, 3.59:

Yay! looking forward to it.

Sprite_tm wrote at 15 Jun 2009, 0.01:

Working on it. This month, I had a bit less time due to me having to give a workshop in Madrid, so I spent a whole week there. Tons of fun (thanks, Obsoletos!) but not too productive. I did get an idea there which I just finished building (hint: youtube -> spritetm) so expect a new article in a few days.

JoeJoe wrote at 13 Jun 2009, 4.11:

Give us hacks, or give us death.

M31H4X0R wrote at 28 May 2009, 1.04:

Good Job Man

chandpriyankara wrote at 9 May 2009, 18.56:

Hey, guys! y couldn't i found this site earlier???????? that the blame to you! your work on reading optical mouse sensor is really gret idea. i was using an optical mouse in PS/2 mode to get the possition of a path guide robot. but now i'm removing all my LDR and IR sensors for few older optical mouses! thats a great idea! thanks! chandpriyankara@gmail.com

spazb wrote at 6 May 2009, 16.03:

hey sprite, great fan of your mods keep em coming!

Sprite_tm wrote at 11 Mar 2009, 11.41:

The tip-jar-button is fixed now: you should arrive at an English paypal-page when you click it.

Sprite_tm wrote at 10 Mar 2009, 23.42:

Hmm, paypal seems to be 'nice' enough to send you to the Dutch page instead of to the English page I selected when I copypasted the link-code. I'll look into it when I've got the time; if you want to donate money you can do it directly to my account at paypal at jeroen dot ietsmet dot nl.

David wrote at 10 Mar 2009, 5.32:

I'd tip your tip jar a bit, but unfortunately I only grok english and there's an unrecognizable error on the paypal/tip jar page. I considered just paypaling your email address but then it wouldn't go to the jar. :/ david@blue-labs.org

Sprite_tm wrote at 15 Feb 2009, 12.28:

I'd love to :) I seem to be one day late for it, though. Moved to my new house yesterday.

JoeJoe wrote at 14 Feb 2009, 22.27:

Will you be my valentine?

bobclifford wrote at 30 Jan 2009, 9.15:

thank you for your fine work, it is appreciated, never stop (using converted wskp-100)

strider_mt2k wrote at 26 Dec 2008, 15.01:

I've recently become a fan of your work via hackaday.com. Your site has been bookmarked! Happy Holidays!

JoeJoe wrote at 26 Dec 2008, 3.26:

Merry Christmas, you awesome hacker you. :-)

Sprite_tm wrote at 5 Dec 2008, 11.16:

Fixed now. I kinda accidentally inverted a bot-check; you could only send me mail if you were a spambot :X

Robin wrote at 2 Dec 2008, 15.33:

hey man your contact page isnt working anymore

JoeJoe wrote at 17 Nov 2008, 23.52:

YAY! you sure know how to make a girl happy.

Sprite_tm wrote at 15 Nov 2008, 0.05:

And as you may have seen, stuff has settled a bit and I'm publishing projects again. 2 done and I'm working on some more; as long as nothing comes up I'll be publishing once every month or so again.

Sprite_tm wrote at 13 Sep 2008, 23.18:

JoeJoe: I seem to have this thing called a 'life' which consists of work and other people and stuff like that. I'm not quite sure how I came to own one, but it sometimes does take up some of my time. At the moment, the time-uptaking properties of it kinda have pushed the article-writing to the background: I still do have one or two things lying around, but can't seem to get the time to document them :/

JoeJoe wrote at 31 Aug 2008, 16.58:

Why has thou abandoned us. :(

Holden wrote at 29 Aug 2008, 12.57:

Hi. I was able to acquire some Acer WT300s. I want to use them as thin clients. Can you share with me your LinuxBIOS+PXE image? Or share with me your Linux BIOS configurations? Thanks. holdenhao at gmail dot com

Walter wrote at 28 Jul 2008, 22.55:

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idaho wrote at 20 May 2008, 22.39:

Hey Sprite. I love the article on your digital keychain hack. Have you come across any smaller-form digital photo frames? If not, got any idea of the components needed to make the smallest digital photo frame known to man?

JoeJoe wrote at 3 May 2008, 20.05:

@julia howard, You just asked a question, a very redundant one.. don't be silly.

julia howard wrote at 2 May 2008, 19.44:

Please could you inform me as to how I can ask a question on this site. email: juliarachel_howard@yahoo.co.uk

Scanboostar wrote at 1 May 2008, 9.19:

Just got 2 free scanners and a printer on Queensday ;->

dave_at_ironkey wrote at 25 Apr 2008, 23.56:

Hi. You can get an IronKey in Europe from our UK resellers AllPoint and Complete Source. http://www.allpoint-security.com/ http://www.secure-usb-flash-drive.co.uk/

Sprite_tm wrote at 6 Apr 2008, 0.03:

No prob :) Atm, I'm working on two things which both are large-ish projects, so they take some time to actually finish. In the mean time, I'll see if I have something that's published elsewhere that I can put online here too; if I find something, I'll try and put it online tomorrow. Indeed, this site has been without updates for too long ;)

JoeJoe wrote at 5 Apr 2008, 17.31:

Sorry to bother ya, but are you planning to release anymore articles soon? :) - I haven't been able to find another site even remotely like your own, which is kinda sad. :(

Tom wrote at 31 Mar 2008, 17.58:

They probably don't want you (sprite) to get one in your hands, because you'll probably crack this device too :P

Sprite_tm wrote at 25 Mar 2008, 12.33:

The IronKey sounds like a secure device. Unfortunately, they seem to be restricted to export it to Europe, where I'm based, so I have no hands-on experience to see if the security is real or not.

JoeJoe wrote at 24 Mar 2008, 8.16:

Hey Sprite_tm, A friend of mine has been gloating about the "IronKey", from their site description is sounds secure. (Although Windows/OSX only..) Have you seen it? https://www.ironkey.com/

Sprite_tm wrote at 18 Mar 2008, 11.11:

Done. Please be more carefull about where you fill in your email-address next time, tho'.

pramod wrote at 17 Mar 2008, 17.43:

hey site-owner please remove the email in the first comment at the bottom dated 3rd oct 2006!!!!!!!

michu wrote at 4 Mar 2008, 10.41:

check out the wiki: http://picframe.spritesserver.nl/wiki/index.php/Main_Page you could send the hacks to me or Bifferos to add. cheers

Jesse wrote at 3 Mar 2008, 2.05:

I hope you're still alive, haven't seen anything of late.

MRX wrote at 2 Mar 2008, 22.20:

The picframe email address you supplied does reject all emails... where to send hacks to?

michael wrote at 24 Jan 2008, 0.12:

wonderful hacks! why not make these comments in reverse order?

JoeJoe wrote at 26 Nov 2007, 1.56:

Instructables is so lame Matt, please stop trying to recruit intelligent people.

Matt wrote at 5 Nov 2007, 19.37:

Your hacks and tutorials are intense. Pulsing an RGB LED to run a POI display is just brilliant. I work for Instructables.com and have to say there's a keen lack of clever hacks like your own represented on the site. Would you consider posting there?

Sprite_tm wrote at 4 Nov 2007, 12.01:

And again a move problem :) All fixed now, thanks for notifying me.

Eugene Cuprin wrote at 2 Nov 2007, 18.11:

Your mail server refuses to accept e-mails. Kindly e-mail me to eugene(at)n-trance.com Thank you in advance

Sprite_tm wrote at 1 Nov 2007, 22.03:

Hmm, must be a result from moving between servers. I've fixed it.

JoeJoe wrote at 1 Nov 2007, 17.36:

Hey, Your RSS feed is broken.. :(

Alexsandro wrote at 30 Oct 2007, 8.55:

I once read about the 'electronic stamp' than 'the knock to open' rig and now I realize they are from the same blog as the "LED fan clock" ! Congratulation , man ! All of these well documented also. BTW I like paper sketches. A.

Sprite_tm wrote at 20 Oct 2007, 12.33:

Nope, I'm still alive. There are a couple of good articles coming up, but I'm involved in other projects too and the articles that I'm going to publish are things in cooperation with other sites, so they unfortunately take a lot longer to arrange. ETA til a new article is about 2 weeks, so stay tuned :)

JoeJoe wrote at 14 Oct 2007, 17.58:

Did you die? :(

dilan wrote at 19 Jul 2007, 15.53:

i enjoyed your article on Secure sticks! Very much happy more Tronic Hackings!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Matt wrote at 12 Jun 2007, 4.13:

Thanks, I enjoyed Knock To Open! Also, nice IBM Model M Keyboard :)

joppe wrote at 8 Jun 2007, 12.37:

nice work on the usb-sticks

likebike wrote at 26 May 2007, 15.25:

Wow! I love this site. I especially like the gp2x USB hack. Have you tried using a wireless USB adapter with this? Did it work? Also, can you recommend the best place/books to learn all this neat stuff? Thank you.

Sprite_tm wrote at 15 May 2007, 15.40:

An RSS-feed sounds OK, I'll try and implement it. I'm not sure about e-mail-nodification, but I'll see what I can do.

geekabit wrote at 15 May 2007, 14.39:

Luka; great idea, sign me up too

Oli wrote at 15 May 2007, 14.38:

How about an RSS feed, and great site.

Luka wrote at 15 May 2007, 12.09:

Hey mate, keep up a good work! One small suggestion, make a mailing lists or announce list where ppl can sign in and you can broadcast your new stuff! :) Best regards from sunny Belgrade Luka

julio wrote at 13 May 2007, 3.37:

Very Good. The softaware is very interesting. I realy want know what it is developed.

Zwaai wrote at 27 Apr 2007, 13.48:

Like your work! What do you do for a living?

mohammad wrote at 26 Apr 2007, 21.49:

good and i think it well be most popuoler for other

steve wrote at 23 Apr 2007, 18.09:

awesome your'e a real pr0 with electronics and software

iztehsux wrote at 15 Apr 2007, 7.14:

what an awesome site! you are a truly creative individual. i salute your skillz.

Savenkov Alex wrote at 26 Mar 2007, 19.21:

Want good luck, I simply delighted

Markus wrote at 5 Mar 2007, 22.56:

No problem. I'm glad i could help.

Sprite_tm wrote at 4 Mar 2007, 23.07:

Damn, I noticed. Seems my provider changed my login details behind my back some time ago :/ Seems to work now tho'. Thanks for the info.

Markus wrote at 4 Mar 2007, 18.39:

Hi Sprite I think your email server is broken. greetz

Billy wrote at 15 Feb 2007, 17.48:

About the usb mod...you can email me at bferguson@centurytel.net

Billy wrote at 15 Feb 2007, 17.45:

I have an old Compaq Aero 2180 palm size pc running Windows CE Net v2.11. I want to add a usb port so I can connect a Delorme GPS Earthmate. I was wondering if you could tell me first of all if its possible and if so do you know of any reading material and/or websites that might be helpful.

fletch.tool@googlemail.com wrote at 2 Feb 2007, 20.12:

You never uploaded my schemac... i fear there is no love ='( :P... you seem to have been busy anyway ^_^ i like the beer tallier =)

Sprite_tm wrote at 22 Jan 2007, 17.47:

Pictures are fixed now. I've had two (yes, two) HD headcrashes in my server, and seemingly not all permission bits came back from the backup OK.

Anonymous wrote at 20 Jan 2007, 21.43:

I think your picture links are broken. Great article on the GP2X USB mod though. :)

Martyn wrote at 17 Jan 2007, 10.57:

Again, but why?

fletch.tool@googlemail.com wrote at 16 Jan 2007, 4.37:

Hey, I tried emailing but it didn't go through. I drew some schematics for a circuit, please email me so i can get it to you, it's much easier to read than your handywork ;) Fletch

Andrew wrote at 30 Oct 2006, 9.06:

I love the GP2X mods and I have a question: Have you tried/been able to get a usb wifi module working from the built in usb host port? Keep up the fun projects!

Paul wrote at 27 Oct 2006, 1.29:

Found your website! I like to read about your projects. there are fun to build (if only I had spare time!)

julian wrote at 11 Oct 2006, 3.34:

You had a great idea registering the new domain. Pleas keep your site updated. There are a lot of people (like you and me) who like to spend time doing these kind of things ;) regards

Alex wrote at 8 Oct 2006, 18.46:

Tree - House ?

geeneeyes wrote at 3 Oct 2006, 20.14:

keep up the good work and jazz up this website a little puts some ads too ;)

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