A few weeks back while dissembling an old DVD-ROM drive (to harvest it’s red laser diode), one decided to take out the camera and an LED flashlight. Going into a dark room, the optic unit of the DVD drive was placed on a white surface. Then the flashlight was placed on top of the unit, [...]

A good friend, JD, posed about his favorite home built computers since his first in 1997. So, one thought it would be appropriate to share one’s computing history.
Let’s start back, a long, long time ago, in the year 1997. That was the year one received one’s fist computer. It was nothing special, a salvaged embedded [...]

With the changing of years, months, and the forthcoming changing of seasons a change in design and accompanying style is immanent. Originally, these changes were to take affect last summer. Yet, somehow they were delayed, as have other projects. This comes from a desire to separate more professional content and personal content (well, it would [...]

Ok, so it has been a few weeks since the last post, and even longer since Breadcrumb NavXT 3.4.0 was supposed to be released. That said, last Saturday the translators were notified that the SVN trunk was ready for translation updates. At the moment, all but two of the translations are ready to go. Once [...]

After mtekktux met an untimely demise, one did not have working parts to replace it. Once the new Atom 330 board arrived on Saturday, work commenced on fitting it into the Gateway FLEXATXSTC case of mtekktux. Yes, a little modding took place.
The back of the case does not have a standard IO shield hole, so [...]