Category: hardware

Server Rack

Posted by riscphree – March 31, 2010

I am in the process of building a server rack and while it’s fun and dandy, I don’t think I’d do it again. My first shot my measurements were off, as you can (probably) see below:

I’ve got to redo it, but it’s a work in progress. Still saving money compared to buying a rack. Total investment so far in this I think is around $100-$150.

I’ll probably make a dedicated page on here to the rack building, but I just wanted to update the blog :)

Edit: here is the page http://www.riscit.info/server-rack/

Electronics For Sale

Posted by riscphree – October 9, 2009

Here are some electronics I have for sale, email if you’re interested riscphree at gmail.

Adafruit Arduino Motorshield, completely assembled and working – $10
3v Sparkfun FTDI – $10
3 Sparkfun xbee breakout boards (two have headers I soldered on) – $5 for all three
Tankbot from budgetrobotics.com, with the third deck – $45
two Xbees, 1mW with chip antennas – $20 each
Arduino Pro Mini 328 – 5V/16MHz – $15
5v Sparkfun FTDI – $10
Xbee Explorer Regulated Board – $5
Xbee Explorer USB Board – $15
Parallax RFID reader serial, brand new – $25

newest project: wopr

Posted by riscphree – September 8, 2009

I’m going to attempt to build a functional version of the WOPR supercomputer from the movie Wargames. Well, mine won’t have supercomputer power, but it’ll be really rad.

Here’s my project page I will be keeping updates on: http://www.riscit.info/wopr/

centillion 100 hacking

Posted by riscphree – August 26, 2009

I had bought an old BayNetworks Centillion 100 off ebay and the MCP board came with a password which the seller did not know. So I had to figure this out or I could not use the thing at all. I have included screen captures from this and if you click on the images, you will get full res pictures.

Read more to see the pictures and what not.

More…

technology keeps amazing me

Posted by riscphree – August 22, 2009

I admit it, I don’t keep up with technology as much as I used to. Blasphemy for a geek such as me, I know, so I’m trying to keep up with it more lately. Here are some outstandingly cool things I’ve come across that’s really transforming (or should) our culture.

CBS embedding video into magazines – I see this and think that maybe it’s inspiration came from movies.  Pretty awesome.

Augmented reality on your cell phone – the picture says it all. Read more on HackADay.

sim card reader

Posted by riscphree – August 16, 2009

I saw on ladyada’s site a new SIM reader project she cooked up, it looked cool so I decided to give it a shot. You can view the project here: http://ladyada.net/make/simreader/index.html

If you would like to purchase this kit (or just the PCBs), you may visit Adafruit.

tv-b-gone

Posted by riscphree – March 23, 2009

tv-b-gone is a small electronic device which will turn off tvs. Quite fun in bars and places with banks of tvs. I’ve done some modification to my tv-b-gone. I originally got a PCB for it off of adafruit here.