I have a growing list of personal projects which I can't find time to do...
I have a friend who built a mame arcade cabinet. While I find this very cool, I don't have the space for such a big cabinet. It still gave me an interesting idea: a complete home entertainment box, kind of like an Xbox or Playstation, but on the oldies side with MAME, NES or SNES Emulator (with hard-to-find legal roms) along with DVD and MP3 playback capability. While it's possible on the technical side of things, I really doubt I could easily decrypt DVD for playback... Still a Mame/Nesticle emulator on a tv set might be cool...
The second project I'm thinking of building is an Asterisk box. While it may not be very useful, have separate mailbox for each house occupant is very appealing.It might also be very interesting to combine this box with qpage and send a message to my phone each time the home network has problems. (or via Email-to-SMS bridge)
of course I have other ideas like:
- the traditionnal linksys wifi router hack to add QoS
- an all purpose listening post using special radio hardware and Gnu radio
- an open wifi mapper using a laptop, Ubuntu, a GPS and Google Maps/Google Earth
- even modify my motherboard ans install my own linux based BIOS
And thus I wish I had time...
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