s1axter posted on Fri. August 24th 2007 at 01:36 PM PST
What would yo do with hundreds of discarded CPUs? Why not make a nice looking desk top?
That's exactly what Matt Tovey did what a ton of Intel Itanium processors. The desk top has over 400 chips all polished up and placed under a layer of protective glass. Damn it would be cool to have this desk!
Matt's original site is down so check out the cache Dotcache.com URL
firewire posted on Thu. August 23rd 2007 at 05:56 PM PST
So at work today I was looking around for some cool keyboard mods. Instead of finding any I found this custom case that is optimized for testing and swapping hardware. Its a cool concept and maybe one day when I have a boat load of free time I'll look into making one. The site has a decent step by step of how the case was created with pictures that follow the build. It's not a bad read. I mean all in all its a custom case with easy access and no real bells and whistles.
chip posted on Wed. August 22nd 2007 at 11:22 AM PST
Looks like s1axter wants to open up GI a little bit and allow anyone to make a blog and get some file space. I put up a new poll about this, let us know what you think.
s1axter posted on Wed. August 22nd 2007 at 09:59 AM PST
Quick video post.
This is a fun little project using a PIC 16F877A and a SP0256-017 speech chip chip. It's a clock that speaks the time in binary as well as show it on the display pulled from a microwave. Good use of scrounged parts.
firewire posted on Mon. August 20th 2007 at 05:53 PM PST
So every guy who was a kid watching the movie "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" was looking for a remote controlled lawn mower. I mean c'mon it doesn't get much better than mowing the lawn while standing on the porch. Terry created a remote controlled lawn mower and posted it on hackaday here. It's pretty freaking cool, I mean seriously who doesn't want a remote controlled lawn mower that you can send after the neighbors dog for taking a dump on your lawn or peeing on your mailbox. Only problem is this remote controlled lawn mower doesn't have the servo controlled pop up flag, and its not as pretty as the one in the movie. If your bored and feel like taking a trip back into the 90's I would take a look. You can also view more information on the lawnmower and a disclaimer (which is freakin hilarious) here.
The hack actually uses an old electric wheelchair, you know the kind that all the old people go hot roddin down the sidewalk on. The article shows some cool pictures on how to hack the wheel chair controller. Theres some custom PCBs and stuff as well. All in all an awesome project, and such a great idea. I'd totally make one if I had a lawn.
There is even a youtube video of this thing. I could be so lazy with one of these. I mean you sit there in a lawn chair drink your beer and play with a remote controlled lawn mower. Anyone have a better way to spend a Sunday?
s1axter posted on Wed. August 15th 2007 at 08:59 PM PST
Tonight I booted up MPLAB and started messing around with some assembly for my collection of PICs. While looking for some interesting ways to deal with character arrays I found this site:
It has a bunch of PIC projects dealing with LCDs, RS232 comm and even AT keyboard interfaces. Lots of code to look at if you are just starting PIC programming.
doomerz posted on Tue. August 14th 2007 at 04:44 PM PST
Germany has put into effect the Hacker Tool Law which paragraph 202C states that it is illegal to possess, use, produce, or distribute a “hacker tool”. Now this statement is very vague, and I mean extremely vague... This could even include things such as Nmap or other network monitoring systems.
Is this the end of any German Distribution of Linux? What happens in 3 years when no 'hacker prevention' software is installed on any computer in Germany because the program itself is derived off a hacker tool? This is not smart politics IMHO, and I hope that it is repealed.
s1axter posted on Tue. August 14th 2007 at 09:49 AM PST
After the pcb printer etch a few weeks ago I went looking for a good tutorial on PCB design. When you are working with a homebrew solution it's a little difficult to know how big a signal trace should be verses a power trace etc. I found some good resources around the net and realized i never posted them on GI!
Intel Itanium Desk
S1axter's Tech Log of Crazy Stuff
What would yo do with hundreds of discarded CPUs? Why not make a nice looking desk top?
So at work today I was looking around for some cool keyboard mods. Instead of finding any I found this custom case that is optimized for testing and swapping hardware. Its a cool concept and maybe one day when I have a boat load of free time I'll look into making one. The site has a decent step by step of how the case was created with pictures that follow the build. It's not a bad read. I mean all in all its a custom case with easy access and no real bells and whistles. 
Looks like s1axter wants to open up GI a little bit and allow anyone to make a blog and get some file space. I put up a new poll about this, let us know what you think.
Quick video post.
So every guy who was a kid watching the movie "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" was looking for a remote controlled lawn mower. I mean c'mon it doesn't get much better than mowing the lawn while standing on the porch. Terry created a remote controlled lawn mower and posted it on hackaday 
Tonight I booted up MPLAB and started messing around with some assembly for my collection of PICs. While looking for some interesting ways to deal with character arrays I found this site:
Germany has put into effect the Hacker Tool Law which paragraph 202C states that it is illegal to possess, use, produce, or distribute a “hacker tool”. Now this statement is very vague, and I mean extremely vague... This could even include things such as Nmap or other network monitoring systems. 
After the pcb printer etch a few weeks ago I went looking for a good tutorial on PCB design. When you are working with a homebrew solution it's a little difficult to know how big a signal trace should be verses a power trace etc. I found some good resources around the net and realized i never posted them on GI!
