90′s Tech to The Rescue (network monitor)
Like many of you, I am throttled by the uplink speed of my network. Unfortunately, my upstream router (which also supplies my HDTV channels) is supplied by my ISP, and I do not have root access. The cable company also doesn't release metrics for line usage, data transfer for television shows, etc. Fortunately, it uses standard ip networking over Ethernet. I ended up using a 90's era netgear router and an old Palm V to display link statistics, throughput, etc. The connection was made using paper-clips.... more info after the break!
The littlest famicom
Ok not really. But it's pretty sad anyway. Tired of playing games on virtual console, I set out to construct my own nes (and make use of the carts strewn about my closet).
Leapfrog Crammer – 10$ ogg vorbis/mp3 etc with disassembly
Reccomended to me on the comments of a previous thread, I picked up the leapfrog crammer for 10$ at big lots. I've seen these all over the discount stores (along with didj's, which I have one of Claude's cartridges for and will be porting software sometime soon). For 10$ ogg vorbis support and a touch screen (kind of ..) is a heck of a deal. More info after the jump.
75$, 20 watt blue ray player (with video and kill-a-watt goodness)
Yeah, more technically it's a 20-watt x264 player. But it's an 800mhz CELERON (all caps!) pumping 1080p into a broadcom decoder. More info after the jump
Wallclock 2.0
After a power out blanked my wallclock's memory, I was not eager to go searching through ten year old websites looking for a new terminal emulator. Luckily I found a ten year old NES emulator that loads fine! Behold wallclock 2.0, NES edition! Also be sure to peep the ancient medical tablet that is pulling duty as my new serial terminal. Fun!
Snesaver – Zsnes screen saver for linux
Ok, so here's a fun bit of perl code I wrote last night. It's called snesaver, and you can download it here. Here's how it works,
1. You'll need to be running some flavor of *nix (self=ubuntu), with perl installed
2. You'll need to have xscreensaver set up as your screensaver (though it should be simplicity itself to do this for most any other screensaver)
3. You'll need to have zsnes installed
4. You'll have to supply your own roms (legality), and record your own rom state movies in zsnes (simple simple!)
And that's about all you'll need. Just open up your ~/.xscreensaver file and put an entry for snesaver.pl (should be in your path) under the "programs" section. Then edit the script to point to /your/rom/directory/structure/ and you're all set.
Here's a youtube video of it in action.
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Casey on youtube!
I've uploaded a video to youtube of casey (my pointer hound) doing some tricks. Fun!
Picasa web album – living in LA
Here is a link to the web album full of pictures taken when I first moved to LA earlier this year. http://picasaweb.google.com/HunterGDavis/LivinInLA