The "What's Left" Project
Posted by Wayne on Oct 20, 2007 at 5:30 PM | Where's it from? (ME!)

Back in the day, circa 2004ish I was at a party in the park and noticed a cool pattern on the plate that I had just finished eating off of. I rearranged some of the things on the plate and took a picture. I didn't think about it for a while but I was having breakfast with my mom and noticed after I was finished that there were some "interesting shaped bits" left over. So I rearranged them, took a picture, and voila the everything else project was started. I only take pictures after a meal and never ADD anything to make the picture look better,...it's just well..what's left. Pics are linked from the photo album as well.

For a while I had a mac, but that didn't really take. (video games y'see). I did manage to keep it's little mac corpse around though. I would come home and taunt it and kick it and yell at it.....(it always made me feel better at the end of the day to dish some punishment it's way.) Then I saw somewhere on the interthingy that someone made an aquarium out of an old 21" monitor, so I thought I'd do the same thing with my mac. I gutted and rewired the mac, setup the motherboard to turn on/off the air compressor and the lighting system, it was looking pretty sweet. Then, unfortunately the plexan that I used to build the internal "aquarium portion" of the aquarium was too thin and bowed under the water weight. Much leaking did ensue, and I'm now in the process of getting real glass for the interior.

This is hardly original on my part, but as an avid model builder I had to try this. I picked up a bad case of the "I can do that SOOO much better!" after seeing some of the falcon PC's that are online and on e-bay. Plus this asshat firewall company sent me two free firewall boxes that were basically nanopc's in a box. After I got them (for free in the mail without having filled anything out OR asked for them. The company told me I had to sign up for their $3K/yr firewall service or I had to return the firewalls. Yeah,..like that's going to happen,..anyway I have 2 sween nano PC's now and I thought this would make a good project for one of them. The other one might become an AT-AT pc...not sure.