Jacob Kaplan-Moss: hardware

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Cool Tools: Sources Wanted Contest

Incredible list of awesome suppliers.

(cool, hardware, parts, shopping, useful)

microprinter / FrontPage

“Hackers across the country are buying up old old receipt printers and imaginatively repurposing them into something new. We call them microprinters.”

(arduino, diy, hardware, microprinter, paper, printing)

The source of the e1000e corruption bug [LWN.net]

For some reason I love reading postmortems of obscure bugs. This one doesn't disappoint.

(bugs, e1000e, hardware, kernel, linux, postmortem)

Whoa, this might be exactly the media streamer I'm looking for. Supports h264, xvid, and even those freeking mkv containers. Only $179, but it looks like actually getting ahold of one is more difficult.

(hardware, hdtv, mediaplayer, tv, video)

TVIX-HD M-6500A with SMP8635 and MKV support « LoRe

Want.

(hardware, tv, video)

One Laptop Per Child — XO Giving

OLPC announces a “Give 1 Get 1” program. That's awesome: I've been hearing rumors of such a program for over a year; good to see it become official.

(charity, hardware, laptop, linux, olpc, opensource)

Instructables Interactive Multitouch Display

A DIY multitouch screen. Awesome.

(diy, electronics, hardware, homebrew, multitouch)

Wikipedia: Site internals, configuration, code examples and management issues (PDF)

Loads of information about the tech behind Wikipedia. I've become convinced that the only sane way to design scalable systems is by studying the trials and tribulations of others.

(architecture, for:jdunck, hardware, infrastructure, lighttpd, memcached, mysql, performance, scaling, sysadmin, via:simonw, web, webdev, wikipedia)

PyCon Wireless Network

Sean's write-up of how he pulled off the wireless networking at PyCon this year. This should be required reading for anyone holding a geek conference; PyCon's network coverage was *far* better than any other conference I've ever been at.

(hardware, infrastructure, linux, network, pycon, pycon2007, wireless)