Matrix Reverse Beep Mod

My 2003 Toyota Matrix has a reverse beep. There, I said it.

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Matrix DRL Mod

I don’t like DRLs. So I killed mine!
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CueCat hack

Remember CueCats? They were the nifty personal barcode device that advertisers were going to use to taylor market to your personal habits and tastes. It was the hardware version of spyware. Well, it failed miserably {1}.
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Footnotes:

  1. CueCatastrophe []

Tungsten T Repair

Many Tungstens out there experience the “drift.” What’s the drift, you ask?

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Handspring Thin Modem Repair

I got a email from a guy in response to a post I put on VisorCentral. He had a broken Thin Modem (Springboard module) — the phone connector had come off.
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Handspring VisorPhone Repair

I got another email from someone with a broken VisorPhone.

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Guild Spice Chest Radio Restoration

A good friend of mine had a beautiful old radio in his attic. He was good enough to let me have a crack at restoring it to working condition.

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Handspring Visor Prism Touchscreen Repair

Matt accidentally dropped his Visor Prism and it can’t get up!

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PC Video Card Mod

I have a GeForce2 MX400 video card.
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PC APM Hack

Advanced Power Management is a feature of most current motherboards and case power supplies.
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Handspring Visor Memory Upgrade

In August of 2001, I got real gutsy. How, you ask? Well, I decided to take a geek-like plunge, and disassemble my Visor.

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PC BIOS Upgrade

In April of 2001, I completed a major (in my humble opinion) hardware mod. I ditched my BIOS chip and replaced it with my own self-programmed version.
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