I'm looking to build a media PC attached to the big screen (65"), primarily for Boxee, playing movies, music, and photos, and for occasional web serving / email. Having it act as a DVR for over-the-air HDTV would be a big plus as well. I'm pretty tempted by the Atom based MSI Wind PC as used in this hackintosh. Seems a nice little PC, a...
I'm in the process of building a Home Theatre PC (HTPC), and figured this could give me a small project to learn some more about WPF. I want to build a simple program launcher. It would be an application that would fill the screen with a background of my choosing, and a few large icons/buttons to represent applications. I have an IR rem...
I want to be able to turn my PC on and off using an IR-remote sensor that is connected via USB to the PC. The sensor is a custom PCB implemented with an AVR microprocessor and V-USB software USB-implementation. Now, turning off the PC is no problem with software, but is there any way to turn ON the PC using USB? (Please note, I'm not t...
My colleagues and I have got an interesting little prototype hardware/software project that would follow these loose requirements/specs/implementation details: Hardware: Take simple user input from a couple of buttons, maybe a dial Give some textual output to the user, a 3-line LED would suffice but fancier is OK Powerful x86 CPU requ...