Kindle hacks

Old Kobo Mini Finds New Life as a Sailplane and Paraglide Computer

10 August, 2016 // 5 Comments

We've seen any number of re-purposed hacked Kindles over the years, including as a weather station, fridge magnet, and wireless monitor, but all of those projects pale in comparison to one hack i [Read More ...]

Kindle + Bike + RasPi Equals Bike Computer

22 August, 2015 // 1 Comment

For the past several years E-ink has been talking up possible niche uses for E-ink screens, including sunlight-readable displays for motor bikes and bicycles. To the best of my knowledge, no gadget [Read More ...]

Kindle Plus Raspberry Pi Equals Fridge Magnet

5 August, 2015 // 1 Comment

We've seen ereaders repurposed as weather stations, a netbook, and even a project status board, and now one has made its way to your refrigerator. Last week a hacker by the name of Peter Vojtek [Read More ...]

Raspberry Pi Cuts the Cable, Now Works With a Kindle as a Wireless Monitor

1 May, 2015 // 5 Comments

The Raspberry Pi is a cheap single-board computer designed for hacking and DIY projects. It's been used as a weather station, a laptop, and most importantly a computer with a Kindle screen. In [Read More ...]

Hack Turns a Kindle into an Expensive Thermometer

3 June, 2014 // 2 Comments

The Amazon Kindle was originally designed to let you read for weeks on end on a single battery charge, but as with most consumer electronics that idea went by the wayside once it got into customer's [Read More ...]

Kindle Plus Legos Plus Mac Equals DIY Scanner (video)

6 September, 2013 // 4 Comments

Do you like Rube Goldberg machines? Do you like to bypass DRM? Then you'll love this DIY project. One hacker with too much time on his hands has built a one-of-a-kind book scanner out of a Lego [Read More ...]

Meet the Kindle: eReader, Audiobook Player, Weather Station?

18 September, 2012 // 7 Comments

The new black Kindle has been out for not even a couple of weeks and it has already been hacked for a new project. This weather station is the work of a hacker by the name of Matthew Petroff. He [Read More ...]

The Amazon Kindle Gets a Torrent Client

17 September, 2012 // 1 Comment

As a general rule I'm not one to hack my ereaders, but I'm almost tempted to pull out my K3 just to install this hack. One member of MobileRead Forums has just posted cTorrent, a new way for you to [Read More ...]

KindleBerry Pi – Mobile E-ink Computing at its Finest

12 September, 2012 // 0 Comments

Do you know what you get when you take a computer the size of a business card and add a keyboard and a Kindle? That-> Earlier this year a new cheap DIY computer kit launched to much fanfare. It [Read More ...]

Kindle DX Hacked to Act as a Second Monitor (Video)

3 April, 2012 // 2 Comments

For the longest time I've wanted to know what it would be like to have an E-ink monitor, and now it looks like I will finally have the chance. A hacker going by the name of TinyApps has posted [Read More ...]

Kindle Touch Does Streaming Video

28 March, 2012 // 2 Comments

The hacker who played a video on his Kindle Touch is back again and he has a new trick up his sleeve. His latest video shows a Kindle Touch playing a video stream from a webcam. There's little [Read More ...]

Updated: Kindle Touch Hacked to Run Video

26 March, 2012 // 6 Comments

The Nook Touch can do a fast refresh (and even play video) and the Kobo Touch can play Tetris, so today's news that the Kindle Touch has been hacked to play video probably shouldn't come as a [Read More ...]