Post Your Personal Projects (Working On or Starting)

[Doramius]

Give yourself some bragging rights here.

I'm almost finished with my Nintendo PC (Personal Creation). All I need is a 9VAC power supply. I'm currently at the stage of turning the cartridge slots into Drive bays. Once done, I will mount the motherboards and work on turning the Bay Blanks into controller ports. I had to get specialty screw risers for the boards, since the bottom of the boards have the funky ports for expansion (which Nintendo seemed to make for virtually nothing that anyone used). However, I may turn them into a specialty cable for the select few who have the worthless add ons. Haven't decided that yet. The NES cartridge slot has been glued into the down/locked position and cut, with my Dremmel, so it is exactly wide enough to fit into a drive bay. But I will have to fashion some sort of faceplate for it. I cut the top of the N64 so I could keep the trap door style for loading the cartridge. I just measured for centering and size of the drive bay. It is pretty simple for cutting, but I haven't figured out How I will mount the Cart Port to the bottom. I don't want to Epoxy it straight to the slot. The SNES is a bit more tricky. I kept most of the top part as it was partly sectional. I wanted to keep the trapdoor on this unit too. So far I have cut the width so it is wide enought to fit into a drive bay, but it's slightly tall. About 1 1/2 Drive bays in height. I'm going to wait until I have a drive box assembled with the Cart Port, before I decide wether or not I'm going to cut it to the Drive Bay height. I might just use fiberglas and wire mesh to form it into a full 2 bays in size and put the controller ports right below. The Controller ports just came right out of the case. I did have to cut off part of the board with the power LED and resistor to make space for the controller ports to fit Drive Bay width, but I'm redoing the power light in another area, so it isn't going to be a problem.

The whole thing will be Composite out, though I have found a way to add a digital/analog converter to make it S/PDIF or S/Video, though it's not going to do anything for quality. Thus the reason why I'm just going to leave it composite. I'd be further ahead, but I have very little time to work on it. It took me 2 weeks just to solder the extending cables for the NES and SNES controllers. I haven't even started on the N64 controller ports, but I haven't even figured out how I want to mount them, because there are 4. Nintendo went all ergo-streamlined on the N64, so I might have to do specialty cuts and make new fiberglass holders.

I'll be posting pictures of final product and process when I'm done.

[stiltman]

I'm trying to find a job
burning backups of friends dvds for them

[BJ_M]

i got out of bed today !

[Doramius]

i got out of bed today !

Ahhh, meeting our planned goals for the month are we?

[Conquest10]

i got out of bed today !

I'm still there. Got to love wireless keyboards and mice.

[yoda313]

i got out of bed today !

I'm still there. Got to love wireless keyboards and mice.

Hello,

Ahh.. I knew some of the members here must be "bed ridden"!

Kevin

(j/k of course )

[housepig]

irons currently in the fire:

- finishing guitar and vocal overdubs for my band's current recording.
- working out the hardware for a multi-tv video-feed stage set.
- editing the video feeds for above.
- one wedding video to dvd transfer, and planning stages for another.
- silkscreening t-shirts.
- recoding my website.

[redwudz]

I just put together a computer to act as a video recorder, Digital TV converter and to download and store DIVX video. Sorry no pics, I'm at work. It sits in the front room beneath the projector screen with 25' cables for the mouse, monitor and KB to my coffee table.

It uses a Uneec med tower case, a cheap Chaintech MB, DVD ROM, DVD burner, Two 80G drives I had handy. (Always need more)

I have a DVICO HDTV converter card and a indoor antenna for local stations. Four of them transmit HDTV, sometimes in high quality.

The Vid card is ATI based, a Sapphire 9520, I think. I use the DVI output with an ATI converter to component video. I feed this into my video projector. (Much better than SVHS output.) 5 X 8 ft. projection screen and surround sound.

So far it's working great. I can feed out DIVX videos or live local video to the big screen with very good quality. Still some fine tuning needed, but I like it. The computer stays on 24/7 downloading from a cable modem, and I can still play the video files at the same time.

[yoda313]

Hello,

The computer stays on 24/7 downloading from a cable modem, and I can still play the video files at the same time.

PIRATE! PIRATE! PIRATE!



J/k of course

I'm gonna copy a bunch of old holiday cartoons to dvd once I transfer my tv card to my new computer.

Kevin

[hech54]

I gotta put my molding back on in the hallway someday. My son and his little "walker" are putting a hurting on my wallpaper job.

[Conquest10]

Babies are destructive aren't they?

[hech54]

That and the freakin walls here (Europe) are terrible. Just like concrete only some spots are OK for drilling....some parts crumble where you drill. And of course every important spot I need to drill into is that latter scenario.
Just like THICK old plasterboard in older American homes....HATE that crap.

[eag182]

http://home.comcast.net/~eag182/other/Lead-In.mov
1 minute Quicktime
5.4 mbs

right click, save target as...turn your bass up...

This was an introduction and was going somewhere.....just don't remember where.



after youve seen it....henrys a friend of mine....i was poking fun at him, but he wasnt the subject of the video

[zzyzzx]

Numerous home improvement projects including:

Stain and varnish new interior basement door that I installed last weekend.

Repair basement exterior door frame then replace the door there. Then order new storm door (custom size).

Finish removing paint from downstairs closet door jamb, then repaint and reinstall door there.

Put another coat of paint on outside of front door.

Finish drywall around vent in front bedroom and prime and paint and install air register.

Rebuild gate valve that leads to back faucet.

And sometime this week I'll probably get around to building my new computer too.

I'll be lucky if I can finish all of this by the end of the year.

[Garibaldi]

My main project for now is to get more familiar with Linux (I'm running Slackware) and get good with system administration. I will then move on to more video-related things in linux.

I have done:
- upgraded nvidia video card
- modified fstab to get all drives recognized
- modded out KDE to be personalized to me
- installed a bunch of apps

[pacmania_2001]

Learn the tricks of social engineering.

[jimmalenko]

Right now - Connecting up a branch to connect to head office via WAN, and connect to a different branch via VPN

Working on my cricket club's website

Testing AutoGK, Dr Divx and all the other DVD to Divx/Xvid tools so I can play some AVIs on my new Zensonic Z330

Creating engagement party invitation and mail merge

[tgpo]

just a little video project

[BJ_M]

Learn the tricks of social engineering.

the high schoolers all left did they ?

[pacmania_2001]

I'm confused?

I know you're paying me out yet I'm just not catching on. I blame it on the fact its too early in the afternoon.

[tekkieman]

Sounds like pac needs a date.....

[pacmania_2001]

That's true. Actually I need the thing that usually comes after the date but thats another story.

My curiousity with social engineering is more to do with what I want to do for my career: corporate espionage.

[tekkieman]

My curiousity with social engineering is more to do with what I want to do for my career: corporate espionage.

With Enron and MCI gone, that's not needed much around here anymore.

[Sifaga]

Working on a christmas slideshow for my kids grand parents and a best of 2004 audio CD i swap with an overseas mate

[glockjs]

well the guildwars weekend is over so i can get back to being productive...unless of course HL2 or ut2004 some how accidently boots up

1. i think i was supposed to remix my friends music dvds into just one cool mix. thats been on the back burner for awhile.

2. i was supposed to capture video they gave me of their cars doing cool stuff like dragging and other cool stuff you can do with juice and mix it with video.

3. i think i was supposed to clean, but that hasnt been so easy without my mama around

4.give my car a tune up

5.back up my roomates 100+ dvd collection so he could not worry about it being in his car

[Grimey]

current project: write my bloody exams.
from now until the 14th thats all i'll be concerned about. then I might start to think about getting christmas gifts for everyone.

[Craig Tucker]

Refitting and decorating the entire house. Been at it just over 2 months so far and have done 4 bedrooms. Will be laying laminate flooring in all the bedrooms this week. Here is one job I was particularly pleased with.

[offline]

Hmm.. one thing I'm building is a DIY Taser out of a
Camera flash lite assembly.

[Faustus]

I've just started project stop buying so many monthly comic books and instead wait for the Trade Paperbacks... does that count?

Meanwhile project stop upgrading already so I can just build a new on in 05 is going ok'ish.

[yoda313]

just a little video project

Hello,



Well many of us here have lent a hand in it (or should I say a "voice")

Kevin