aeTIos found this awesome website that has a lot of video game box scans that you can print and assemble yourself. I made this super metroid box using glossy photo paper. The paper is not as sturdy as real snes boxes, but it looks awesome!

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I bought some thin client pc's a while ago. They're full fledged x86 pc's that can be used as small dos or linux boxes.
The reason why I built is to run 64hdd which is essentially a 1541 emulator. You can stuff the harddisk/cf card with games and load them on your Commodore 64. Before I had this I used a large bulky pc that made a lot of noise. This thing is silent because it is cooled passively.





There is plenty of room in this enclosure for harddrives and that kind of stuff.

I recently picked up two thinclients to mess around with. I installed freedos on one of them and it works quite nicely. I installed drivers so I can go online with it. These things can run small linux distro's even with gui. These older thinclients can be bought for a very low price second hand. The older ones have many useful interfaces for hardware hackers such as rs232 serial and printer ports!


This is one of the thinclients I got. The other one is missing the case. I will post a pic of it in a bit.

These things are designed to be low power, so don't expect amazing performance from these.

Specs of the Netvoyager Thin Client LX-1020 :
Cpu: 533MHz x86
Ram: 128MB (can be expanded to 512MB using regular laptop ram)
Harddisk: 128MB compact flash card (I think it will take larger cards too, but this came with it. Dos takes just 6MB, so it's fine)
Has an IDE interface, but did not come with a harddisk.
Max resolution : 1600 x 1200 x 32 - bit colour
Interfaces: 4xUSB, 10/100M ethernet, printer/parallel, rs232 serial
Soundcard and built in speakers
Power :
12V 3.5A (label)
Off : 9W Running : 23W
Dimensions H x W x D (mm) : 173 x 237 x 37

It is expandable with laptop card thingies (no idea what the interface is called)

Inspired by haroldbot, regular expressions and javascript applets for converting hex to decimal I introduce: Calculator applet generator.


I have not coded it up but this is what is might look like.
Example: Relative jump calculator applet:
1x(0..65535)  "Jump From:",
2x(0..65535)  "To:",
0x(-127..128) "Offset:"
:$2 - $1 [ ! - 2]

This describes the following applet:

Jump From:
[Hexadecimal input] (range 16 bits)
To:
[Hexadecimal input] (range 16 bits)
Enable -2? [Yes]

Offset:
[Hexadecimal output] (range 8 bits signed)

The url to this applet would look like this: mypage.com/?d='1x(0..65535)  "Jump From:",2x(0..65535)  "To:",0x(-127..128) "Offset:" :$2 - $1 [ ! - 2]'

What do you think?

I wrote a script that logs the cpu temperature of my server. This is a frontend for it written in javascript. It uses the html5 canvas tag.

Dark theme(default):
http://cookiecraft.eeems.me:81/stats/sensors.php?theme=dark

Light theme:
http://cookiecraft.eeems.me:81/stats/sensors.php?theme=light


Features:
+ Awesome solarized color palettes.
+ Graph zooms in on data.
+ Graph division scales to y-axis range.
+ Lines indicating normal and critical temperature (not seen in these images. My server is stable at the moment)

Proof of concept:

I guess you could state that this project forked from the z80-like portable computer.
http://ez8tut.sourceforge.net/?p=ez8os.php

Github repository:
https://github.com/keoni29/eZ8OS

This operating system consists of a kernel with a shell slapped on top and some built-in applications. There is no scripting language available for it yet. Willrandship was looking into creating a forth-type interpreted language.

I bought this portable dvd player at a flea market a month ago. Today I finally took it apart, ripped out the dvd drive and stuffed an NES clone in it. It has a large battery at the bottom, but I am not sure how long it will last. My guess is: long enough to watch a movie, so definitely long enough to play some games!


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