My latest project has been unofficially going on for about four years now. When I was in high school I discovered that the Goodwill in the town I grew up in didn’t just have second-hand clothes, it had second-hand electronics. So I bought a Sega Genesis for $10 and an awesome purple tie for $2 …
Author Archives: Bryan
Sue!
One large ongoing project I have is my “old” car. Her name is Sue, and she is a 1989 Nissan Sentra that my dad purchased brand-new in 1988 when I was only a year old. My dad used this car as a daily commuter for about 14 years until he got a new Civic. A …
It has some kind of aesthetics.
Let me start by saying that this is an old and already completed project, but I felt like I needed something other than computers up here to sort-of dial back the “power nerd” thing I had going on. Then again, maybe building a lamp from scraps isn’t the most normal thing, but it’s at least …
MythTV
So my MythTV computer has been down for a while, so I decided to go ahead and try and fix that computer for the thousandth time so I can do the whole DVR thing again. For those that don’t know, MythTV is a free and open-source software project for Linux platforms that lets the user …
Firewall
I’ve built network firewalls before, but this time I’m going to try and go all-out. The hardware I’ll be using to build my firewall on is an old Gateway 2000 with a 233-MHz Pentium II that a friend gave to me. (Yes, that’s a 5.25” floppy drive.) The old setup only had input from the …
Solaris 10
So I’ve been thinking about building some kind of server with Solaris 10. Solaris is a free operating system that’s built by Sun Microsystems and is based on Java. I used Solaris 9 in the first programming class that electrical engineers have to take at Clemson, and since then I’ve heard that the new version …