My desktop PC gets bogged down as a web server, database, code repository and file server. I would like to buy a small PC to offload these duties and have it on 24/7. I was thinking of buying an ASUS EEE Box when they come out. I wouldn't mind building my own but most low power PCs seem quite pricey. Any suggestions?...
I would really like to see a proportional font IDE, even if I have to build it myself (perhaps as an extension to Visual Studio). What I basically mean is MS Word style editing of code that sort of looks like the typographical style in The C++ Programming Language book: I want to set tab stops for my indents and lining up function si...
I'm interested in building a little (commercial) device on top of Arduino. I want it to be able to interface with network. Network as in standard Ethernet, Cat5, RJ-45, etc. I know that there is an Ethernet Shield, but it costs even more than the Arduino itself, and it's pretty big. Naturally, I want my device to be as small and as chea...
As a side-project I'm trying to create an app that scans license plates from passing cars from my living-room window. I have hooked up a high resolution camera to my system to capture (moving) images into my c# app. Now all I need is a way to interpret these images into something readable. I´m thinking about some sort of OCR-solutio...
What I want to create is a huge index over an even bigger collection of data. The data is a huge collection of images (and I mean millions of photo's!) and I want to build an index on all unique images. So I calculate a hash value of every image and append this with the width, height and file size of the image. This would generate a very...
I've seen the many different ways I can build a function/service to generate short URLs which I can then control via my own domain. This sounds like a great idea; however, as I look at the advantages such as being able to control these URLs long term, adjusting the end location if needed have more tracking over where they wind up, etc. ...
I recently ran across this great article by Chad Parry entitled "DIY-DI" or "Do-It-Yourself Dependency Injection". I'm in a position where I'm not yet ready to use a IoC framework, but I want to head in that direction. It seems like DIY-DI is a good first step. However, after reading the article, I'm still a little confused about obje...
I've recently built a Tweet A Watt (http://www.ladyada.net/make/tweetawatt/) wireless power monitor, which uses XBee for data transfer. I'm attempting to get the Tweet A Watt data into Processing for use in creating some visual energy feedback prototypes. Using the XBee API Library for Processing (http://www.faludi.com/code/xbee-api-li...
I'm working on a DIY google streetview for mountain biking. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how I might best get decent results? I'm looking for help with everything from what kind of cameras to use to get as much imagery as possible and how I might stitch images together. Thanks! ...
Hey guys, I'm building a middleware that sits between a mobile phone and other remote systems to provide a generic service thru a thin software layer on the device/remote systems. Prior to choosing a particular mobile platform (OS + hardware) to use, I wanted to see my options as I don't want to be tied to any particular system like Andr...