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Crazy
Location: Dallas, TX
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Neatest odd pieces of hardware?
Curious as to what some of you have that you consider out of the ordinary for a computer desktop?
Mine's pretty plain, desktop, laptop, speaker system, but I've been looking into a remote control or something like that to use with winamp ![]() So, what neat little devices have you found to be useful or fun? (Hardware only)
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Tilted
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I have an X10 remote control that used to be setup for my computer, but the computer interface fried. :/
Hmm, I can't think of anything else I have that's hooked up, besides a combo CF/memstick reader, but that's nothing too special. I do have a 3.25" (not 3.5") prototype disk, but that's a bit useless, since nobody ever made a non-prototype drive ![]() |
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Insane
Location: los angeles
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powermates
Yeah, powermates are the best. I have a MAME arcade machine I built and the powermate was the perfect volume control for it.
You can program it to do most anything, very useful. and a nice brushed metal with a heavy weight to it. and it glows blue, or can pulse blue if you want. |
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Not so great lurker
Location: NY
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I don't know if this should be mentione in this thread but I do know that you can find some of the most interesting things in japan.
here is the product... http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba...ge/tooth1.html And a little discussion about the product http://mixedasian.blogspot.com/2003_....html#89803805 |
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#14 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: In your bath tub with all your other rubber toys
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thire is always the classic fu-fume http://www.fu-fme.com/ daddy wants one
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#15 (permalink) |
Irresponsible
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I have a dongle to hook up a playstation controller, a homebrew PARPORT <=> SNES controller adaptor, the 20x4 Char LCD.,I have a magstripe reader (reads credit cards), and a programming interface for my universal remote.
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Upright
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Cool Winamp Remote
A buddy of mine who is a programming wiz., took a gamepad and programmed a plugin for winamp letting him control his winamp with the gamepad. Have a wireless one, and you have a cool remote/gamepad. I haved't got his code/plugin, but it is cool.
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Still searching...
Location: NorCal For Life
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I have an old Apple Performa with a tv tuner and remote. Its cool cause the computer itself is really old and worthless otherwise. I got the tv tuner and remote for $20 bucks off of ebay a couple years ago. It also has an mpeg decoder card cause it doesnt have enough power to process mpgs otherwise. Its a fun little toy when I go home over the summer.
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Stop. Think. Question.
Location: Redondo Beach, CA
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Nothing too unusual on my system. 6-in-1 media reader, Palm, scanner, webcam, etc.
I just bought a Sony T68i cell phone with BLuetooth so I suppose a USB-Bluetooth adapter will be next to sync the phone. A USB storage key would be fun - put a small footprint OS on it and boot from it.
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#24 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: nOvA
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It's all about the ol' school modem, which you had to physically plug the phone into.
Another thing that I wish I had was a minidisc drive, it's only on japanese vaio's I think. How about stereo equipment controlled by rs-232. Or how about the robotic arm I've been using. Of course the coolest ever was a guy who used a gps card, compass, and accelerometer with his laptop to figure out the direction it was facing and it's position, he wrote a program to show the stars and landscape features visible in the direction the laptop was facing. |
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#28 (permalink) |
Psycho
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<i>Curious as to what some of you have that you consider out of the ordinary for a computer desktop?</i>
I have dos disks that go back to when Gates stole it! I have OS2 beta disks after Gates stole it, including warp. (don't know why I save that stuff) I have a simple camera Popular Mechanics sent me that read watermarks. (another beta) This is out of the ordinary for a desktop, logons for my grandkids. They can screw up their own stuff, not mine. Highly unusual. |
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