Post in 2002 due to screenshot .. dont know when i build it, some years before.
Using 24 pushbuttons and a IO expander, i could count the bottles in a crate. Probably used something like a hef4067 ??
Now i probably use a weight sensor or a beer cap counter using a webcam image.
Notification to email and shopping list printer.
Web Interface
Every bottle had to be placed back upside down so the opening of the bottle would not press down on the button. Later i used springs which could hold a empty bottle elevated above the button. The weight of a full bottle would press on the button.
Cobra from the Icecrew got his hands on some Led scrollers.
But they only had a windows program to controll these, so we started some reverseengineering.
First we had to make a serial cable. (Now we could easily use a logic analyser with protocol decoding)
Next i made a sniffer .. because we only had a windows program to control the display. So we used a windows machine to control the display by serial, and using a read line to a linux machine to stiff the serial traffic
After some tinkering .. we got this
So we wrote some software to control it using Linux
Somewhere start 2002, i made a tool for playing darts. Well … keeping score and history
I was multiuser, multigame with statistics and undo. You could click on the little dartboard what your have thrown on a real board. It just kept score and told you best finish options.
Screenshot below was a digitized picture, no way accurate. Versions later the board was realtime drawn with GDlib and pixelperfect. It even showed you previous throws.
At the end of the game it should give you the hotspots you have thrown.
It was a beautiful day in May, and a lot of people were outside enjoying themselves.
Monique was working in the garden, and i was sitting in the living room.
We heard some commotion and saw the smoke. Some people said that the Chinese restaurant in that neighbourhood (containing illegal fireworks) was burning.
We heard a big explosion and Monique was blown off her feet, and sat down in the garden.
I saw the large livingroom window bulging to the inside and moving outside again. (This had loosen the mortar around the window)
When seeing the now black smoke, we went inside, to the opposite site of our home, and turned on the news/checked websites.
We were lucky that there was a large factory between us and the blast (Polaroid factory)
Large pieces of cement where found 100m further than our house was.
Below some of my own media, for a better understanding of the destruction and aftermath of the disaster check the divers websites.
The script which tracked a certain webpage realtime was using something like a pixel tracker. But it was a complete logo.
I created a cgi-bin bash script which, when called, just printed a jpg with the correct headers, and because the server was in my room, it played a soundfile over the speakers also.
Just place the following part somewhere in your webpage
#!/bin/sh
echo Content-type: image/jpeg
echo
cat /var/lib/httpd/htdocs/banners/logo.jpg
bwavplay /data/test.wav > /dev/null
echo ACCESS | mail 0612345678@gin.nl -s "Archive Site Accessed"