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LEGO PC

LEGO PC

It’s not the first LEGO PC, and certainly won’t be the last – but I like it! – “Lego PC that SCREAMS 80s LEGO with what I think are the most recognized LEGO sets of the 80s representing Space, Castle, Town, with Touch Screen LCD, RF Remote, Blue UV light, Spectrum Analyzer display, etc. etc.” […]

The creativity machine

The creativity machine

Vernor Vinge’s article on Nature.com about virtual worlds – “2020 Computing: The creativity machine. What will emerge from using the Internet as a research tool? The answer, Vernor Vinge argues, will be limited only by our imaginations.” – Link. Pictured here, my avatar at a five-room simulated heart clinic – SLurl.

DIY Video recorder

DIY Video recorder

Sal writes – “…I had some big plans in store for the Mini-ITX box. The plans were, roughly, to install a hard drive, move to a more powerful Linux distribution, and add PVR capabilites to the system. Because the computer was already situated in my living room, making it into a personal video recorder was […]