Mobile Electronic Signs

[streetlegend94]

Anybody ever go up to one and type in some crazy message or type in your name so it will display on the sign? They have a box on the base of the sign that has a keyboard punch pad that controls the messages. I noticed they never lock em either.



http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/7751/trafficsignne4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Proper]

LOL, Awesome.

[Baron]

I will abuse this new skill.

[TASR]

Did you do that or is it shoop'd?

[AVANDALNAMEDGNAR]

yeah i didnt know they made exclamation points that big..im just saying..

[Vagrant]

most pictures of these signs are photoshoped.
but it is possible to change it.
usually you have to get lucky and hope they didn't lock it though.
sorry for being pessimistic but i doubt they would leave it unlocked.

[C-Lurk]

most pictures of these signs are photoshoped.
but it is possible to change it.
usually you have to get lucky and hope they didn't lock it though.
sorry for being pessimistic but i doubt they would leave it unlocked.

This and the fact that often workers are present nearby somewhere.

[Koolaid]

my friend used to do this all the tiem i never got lucky enough to find one.. :(

[Mime1]

This is cool , but probably fake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpyQrmiibHE

[streetlegend94]

I got this pic off of the net just to use as reference.... I don't know whether this particular sign is photoshoped or not.


lol....I've always thought of doing this but have yet to do it. All the ones that I have seen have been unlocked... I have opened the box before and saw the actual keypad used....and there are usually no workers around. These signs are usually posted a mile or so away from the work site because they are to warn oncoming traffic of detours or whatnot. I'm definitely going to fuck with the next one I encounter..... and take some pics of whatever messages I get it to display.

[FLIP FLOP]

didn't some guy off totse do something like this?

[snap_pxc]

i was looking into this when i saw a another video similiar to this that caught my eye. apparently you can change traffic lights from red to green and vice versa with just a universal remote.
gonna have to try that one

[Vagrant]

fake. (changing lights with universal remote)

[MARTYRaz]

This is cool , but probably fake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpyQrmiibHE
it would be cool if i could understand wat hes saying....

[Bazer]

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/7751/trafficsignne4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

this is fake. i forgot the name of the website but its a generator....

[Bazer]

found it.

http://atom.smasher.org/construction/

[emaf816]

fake. (changing lights with universal remote)

if you hack an solder a wav->ir converter onto an ipod you can play the exact frequency mp3 on your ipod and it'll be converted into infared light to change the lights


say fake all you want, this isn't something i read, it's something i've done

[MARTYRaz]

if u dnt want us to say fake then show us how....ie a tutorial

[NEGROSWITHKNIVES]

here is a tutorial.

"Hacking" into these things are really easy.
I will give you a breif idea how.

I am not liable for any damage you do. This is for education purposes. I'm sure this is considered a crime somehow, probably vandilism, and these days the'll probably add two or three more charges just because the fuzz likes to make money.
Or who knows maybe they can't do anything.

Well anyways, I'm just not liable for anything.

I'll try to get pictures of the thing sometime but its hard since I don't want to be spoted and my camera doesn't like night time things. The picture above was hard to get because unless the lighting is perfect, the camera I was using will have VERY long exposure with the flash off, and with the flash on, all the reflective crap around the sign (cones and roadblock-ish stuff) gets really bright and distracts the camera (it was a digital camera obviously).

Moving on already.

Materials
Almost none.
Hands.
Sign.
Thats it.


To start, there should be a "box." on the end of the trailer.
Walk to the box.
There should be a handle on it. Turn it. If it won't budge thats either not a handle or its locked and you probably can't do this.

When I opened the one pictured above up this is what it looked like:

|.....***|
|.....LCD|
|KEY/////|
|\\\BOARD|

* = Toggle switches (sign up, sign down, power, charge battery)
... = Empty space
KEY/////
\\\BOARD = Keyboard

Note: Just so you know, the ESC key is the back button

Press the a letter on the keyboard and a light should turn on. I don't think the login matters but to be safe just type in xdot (x being whatever letter your state has there, for example, oregon's would be odot). I didn't try not typing anything. The letters don't show up so it probably doesn't matter. Hit enter, and then type in the password.

This shows how retarded odot is.
The password is the default password.
On the inside of the door panel there is a giant sticker (takes up the whole panel) with a giant spread sheet on it. I didn't bother trying to find out what that was for. But on the right side of the spreadsheet was instructions. The first instruction was to type in the password. Then it lists the default password.

The default password is 22222222

The reason why xDOT uses the default password is because these things go all over the state.

You'll be greated by two options.

[1]Sequences
[2]Messages


--not done---

[NEGROSWITHKNIVES]

Sequences allows you to change the order of the pages (messages) displayed.
Messages allows you to change the pages that are being displayed

The up and down arrow keys alow you to scroll through them.
I decided to leave page 001 and 002 alone to give xDOT a break.

When you find a page you want to edit, hit enter.
It'll ask you to enter a number between 0 and 2.
In this case I am going to edit page 5.
Type in 0 and hit enter
It'll ask you to type in a number between 1 and 9
type 5
It will now display the current page and whats on it.


*_HAPPY__*
*HOLIDAYS*
*________*

_ = blank space

You'll also see things at the bottom of the screen.
F1 - Aligns the current line to the left
F2 - Centers the current line
F3 and beyond I didn't bother to read but I'm guessing F3 is right.

The reader board itself is an 3X8 grid, which is pretty limiting.
To delete leters, hit space, as the delete key. It is also set up for type over mode.

Lets make our message this:


*SNAKES ON*
*_MOFOING_*
*__PLANE__*

_ = Space

So here we go


SNAKES<space>ON<enter>
MOFOING<F2><enter>
PLANE<F2><enter>

Hit escape, it'll ask you if you want to make the changes.
y = yes
n= no
press y

Now hit escape a couple times until you get to that menu again.

[1]Sequences
[2]Messages

This time press 1
Since I'm going from memory, and this part was the most confusing part (actually the whole thing was hard to figure out but I just got lucky), my instructions may be unclear or unaccurate.
Press 0
It should prompt you to enter which sequence
default is 8
hit enter since if you change it it won't display messages
You should have a screen where on the top it looks like this


[001] [002] [000] [000]
The system can only playback 4 messages at a time

[000] means not to display a page. Right now it shows only page 1 and 2 should play. We want to add page 5.

Hit enter to skip the first two and change the third one to 005.
It should look like this now:

[001] [002] [005] [000]
Hit escape, save changes, and hit escape a bunch of times until the overhead lamp switches off indicating you are logged out.
Close the door and turn the handle so it locks and step back and enjoy your work.


-done-

[MARTYRaz]

well i guess i got wat i asked for...thanks negroswithknives

[calculating infinity]

this is so awesome
im trying this next week

[Subconcious]

This. Is. Motherfrickin. Sweet. This is going to be my new hobby, digital graffiti.

[gunsofbrooklyn]

i noticed on the bus ride home today that there installing a huge electronic sign by the gym
perfect time hey?

[NEGROSWITHKNIVES]

yea yea your welcome

[PeeInTheShower]

hey everyone, does this god damn shit work shit damn it?

[Tears Da God!]

I'm going to check all of these shits now to see if they're unlocked. Even if it is a hoax i want to seeeee what the business is...

[noseteeth]

Fuckin hope this shit works. been eyin one for a few days now. brb.

[TrandomnesstwO]

Cant seem to find one accessible around here...

[EGO31]

Hmmmmmmm Is Xdot the default program? Any idea about overseas?

[CrustOner]

http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/274/1/

you're welcome.

[8732]

didn't some guy off totse do something like this?

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/3/36/Totsetelegraph.JPG

[EGO31]

totse FTW

[JayAyDubZed]

Rofl thanks for the tip. thats fukin awesome.

[Lunchbox]

Anon shall enjoy this.................

[Marke]

Theres one of these unlocked really close to my house. I don't know wheather to just put my tag up or write somethin funny.

[Lunchbox]

Both