Equipment

See also Amiga

General

• The Obsolete Technology Website

• http://stuge.se/pc2010.png - computer diagram

• http://www.hdt-project.org/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_mode

Resources

• http://www.2600.com/

• How to fix yellowed plastics on old computers!

• http://hackaday.com/

News and reviews

• http://www.techpowerup.com/

• http://www.anandtech.com/

• http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/

• http://www.cdrinfo.com/

• http://armdevices.net/

• http://thewirecutter.com/

Shopping

• http://www.logicalincrements.com/

• http://pcpartpicker.com/

• http://www.aliexpress.com/

Comparison

• http://uk.pangoly.com/en/ [1]

• http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/

• http://www.cnet.com/
  • hard drive size filter (was?) 1Tb max

Notes

• Core I7-4790K 4-Core 4.0GHz
• 2x PCI-E 3.0

• http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131837R
• http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157330
• http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157293
• http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131998

Linux

cat /proc/cpuinfo

lspci

lsusb

dmidecode

PC Form factor

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_form_factor

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX

• http://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc

Case

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_case

Small computer

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_computing_hardware

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board_computer
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_single-board_computers

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board_microcontroller

• http://www.raspberrypi.org/
• http://n-o-d-e.net/post/107977286006/how-to-create-a-handheld-linux-terminal

Power

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_supply_unit_(computer)

• 600w +

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molex_connector

BIOS

• http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards

• http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2013/09/02/booting-a-self-signed-linux-kernel/

• http://blog.theincredibleholk.org/blog/2013/11/18/booting-to-rust/

CPU

• http://www.cpubenchmark.net/
• http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/

• http://techreport.com/articles.x/23246

• http://opencores.org/or1k/Main_Page

Memory

• http://www.edn.com/design/pc-board/4432676/DDR4-memory-interface--Solving-PCB-design-challenges

• http://danluu.com/clwb-pcommit/ [2]

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8788016

Interface

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_interface
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_interface_device
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral

PCI

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Component_Interconnect
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

• lspci is a utility for displaying information about PCI buses in the system and devices connected to them.

• http://linux.die.net/man/8/update-pciids
  • http://pciids.sourceforge.net/

USB

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Device_classes

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_human_interface_device_class

• https://www.mixdown.ca/redmine/projects/picjug/wiki/Home

• http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/18552/why-was-mini-usb-deprecated-in-favor-of-micro-usb

• http://www.everythingusb.com/highpoint-rocketu-1144a-usb-3.0-pci-express-21274.html
  • http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/cs-series_RocketU1144A-Series.htm

• http://int3.cc/collections/frontpage/products/usbcondoms

• http://imgur.com/a/ktY9u

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8215429

• http://samy.pl/usbdriveby/ [3]

• https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/

• http://hackaday.com/2014/12/21/plug-into-usb-get-a-reverse-shell/

MTP

• http://www.adebenham.com/mtpfs/

• http://gmtp.sourceforge.net/

IEEE 1394 / Firewire

lsmod | egrep 'firewire|1394'

• http://www.breaknenter.org/projects/inception/

• dvgrab is a program that captures DV video and audio data from digital camcorders via an IEEE1394 link. The DV data is stored in one or several files and can later be processed by video editing software. dvgrab can remote control the camcorder but it does not show the video's content on screen.

dvgrab --size 500 --autosplit <filename>

interactive mode;

dvgrab -i

live view;

dvgrab - | mplayer -

• http://dvgrabgui.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

Bluetooth

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth_Mouse

• http://www.bluez.org/

• http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/hcitool1.html

Input

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_device

• deskthority wiki is dedicated to mechanical keyboards, mice and other human interface devices. The main focus is everything regarding quality (mechanical) keyboards. In the nature of a wiki, the content will be frequently and constantly under construction. Want to share your knowledge and help us create the best input device wiki? This wiki is part of the deskthority forum - sign in with your forum account and start editing!

Mouse

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_acceleration

• http://spritesmods.com/?art=mouseeye

Keyboard

• http://techreport.com/articles.x/23405
• http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/wcgb0/mechanical_keyboards/
• http://keyboardporn.com/mx-switch/kbc-poker/
• http://geekhack.org/

• http://mathematicalmulticore.wordpress.com/the-keyboard-layout-project/
• http://zackshapiro.com/post/37569825579/im-trying-to-be-less-hyperbolic

• http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_hardware_and_key_choices.html

• https://github.com/plover/plover
  • http://stenoknight.com/wiki/Main_Page
• http://www.loper-os.org/?p=861
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8510409

• http://i.imgur.com/FLfT9F1.jpg

• http://www.workmanlayout.com/blog/ [4]

• http://www.robopeak.com/blog/?p=282 - diy laser keyboard

• http://deskthority.net/wiki/ErgoDox

• http://www.davecooper.org/blog/2014/10/15/i-built-a-keyboard/ [5]

• http://samy.pl/keysweeper/ [6]

Scanner

• http://gscan2pdf.sourceforge.net/

Output

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Output_device

See also *nix#Printing

Monitor

• http://www.extremetech.com/computing/130605-where-are-all-the-high-resolution-desktop-displays

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_Display_Power_Management_Signaling - DPMS

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_display_identification_data - EDID
• http://www.polypux.org/projects/read-edid/

• http://web.media.mit.edu/~mhirsch/byo3d/tutorial/lenticular.html [7]

Display

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_device
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_display_technology

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_display
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_matrix_display

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen-segment_display
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen-segment_display

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT7nj2Rl4kU
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqehSmfWK1o
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMBtZh7suvU
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS8tK9AS6WE - cgi

diy;

• http://blog.makezine.com/2012/07/18/super-fast-electromagnetic-flip-dot-display/
• http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&p=113228
• http://www.designboom.com/technology/interactive-high-speed-flip-dot-display-by-breakfast/

• http://coldattic.info/shvedsky/pro/blogs/a-foo-walks-into-a-bar/posts/98

vga to d-tv;

• http://bellard.org/dvbt/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8793346

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-crystal_display

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_LCD

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMOLED

3D printing

• http://www.3ders.org/index.html

• http://www.amandaghassaei.com/3D_printed_record.html

• http://www.appropedia.org/Open-source_metal_3-D_printer

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU3W-RrJDT4

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8527845

Storage

See also Media#CD_.2F_DVD

HDD

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibi-#Specific_units_of_IEC_60027-2_A.2_and_ISO.2FIEC_80000

• http://forre.st/storage - Storage Analysis - GB/$ (New Egg) for different sizes and media

• http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/ [8]

• Hard disk hacking

SMART

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

• - smartmontools contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI harddisks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.

• http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI disks. It is derived from smartsuite.

Failure

• Predicting Hard Drive Failures with SMART Stats [9]

• What is the Best Hard Drive? - The table below shows the annual failure rate through the year 2014. Only models where we have 45 or more drives are shown. I chose 45 (2014) because that’s the number of drives in a Backblaze Storage Pod and it’s usually enough drives to start getting a meaningful failure rate if they’ve been running for a while. Go HGST.
• PDF: Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population

RAID

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels

• https://blogs.oracle.com/ahl/entry/what_is_raid_z - zfs

• unRAID is an embedded Network Attached Storage (NAS) server operating system, designed for digital media storage. It allows you to build an array of hard drives and share the data from those drives across the local network (typically within a house or business). Importantly, it protects all the data on the drives if one should fail.

SSD

Great for boot/os drive.

• http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2385276

• http://nlug.ml1.co.uk/2011/09/howto-hdd-and-ssd-alignment/608

• http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/

• http://articles.forensicfocus.com/2012/10/23/why-ssd-drives-destroy-court-evidence-and-what-can-be-done-about-it/

• http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html

• Velocity 2011: Artur Bergman, "Artur on SSD's"

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9052925

NAS

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage

• http://etbe.coker.com.au/2012/03/23/cheap-nas-devices-suck/

• http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/19pduc/build_complete_unraid_20tb_nas_large_aic/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8249052

Tape

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open

Blu-ray

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_recordable

SD/MicroSD cards

• http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554

Floppy

• http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/gcr-decoding/index.php

To sort

• http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/venti/venti.html

• http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20140309-26116.html [10]

Media

• http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun/dvbt/
• http://www.xtreamer.net/xtreamerpro/specs.aspx

MP3

• Rockbox is a free replacement firmware for digital music players. It runs on a wide range of players:

• gtkpod is a graphical user interface for the Apple iPod for Unix-like systems, written using the GTK+ toolkit.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gtkpod

pcskr

• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117309

Silver

• http://www.foxconnchannel.com/ProductDetail.aspx?T=motherboard&U=en-us0000316

Laptop

• http://makezine.com/magazine/building-an-open-source-laptop/ [11]

Telephone

See also Media#Telephone

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/18/german-researchers-discover-a-flaw-that-could-let-anyone-listen-to-your-cell-calls-and-read-your-texts/ [12]

Phreaking

• http://www.textfiles.com/phreak/BLUEBOXING/ - via jolly rogers's cookbook, 18? years ago
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking_boxes

• http://windytan.blogspot.fi/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html

Mobile

See also Android

• http://www.slideshare.net/c.enrique.ortiz/sim-card-overview

• http://theiphonewiki.com/

• http://giffgaff.com/index/pricing
• http://giffgaff.com/unlock

• http://wammu.eu/

• http://motorola-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/goodbye-sticky-hello-ara.html

• http://neo900.org/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867503

• http://killyourphone.com/

• http://www.fairphone.com/

GPS

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System#Comparison_of_accuracy

Controllerism

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controllerism
• http://controllerism.com/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_control

Arduino

• http://arduino.cc/
• http://forefront.io/a/beginners-guide-to-arduino

Open

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware

• http://www.appropedia.org/Open_source_science

• http://www.opencollector.org/Whyfree/
• http://p2pfoundation.net/Product_Hacking
• http://opencircuits.com/Main_Page
• http://www.ohwr.org/
• http://www.oshwa.org/

• http://publiclaboratory.org/ - Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
• http://diy-scib.org/
• http://diybio.org/
• http://www.opensourceinstruments.com/
• http://openpcr.org/

• http://cncmentor.com/
• http://opensourcemachine.org/mm2html2/How_to_build_a_multimachine.html

• http://www.ohanda.org/
• http://oshug.org/

• http://www.wikihouse.cc/
• http://www.domusweb.it/en/op-ed/2011/06/15/open-source-architecture-osarc-.html

• http://redpitaya.com/

Cooker

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyw-57ExLDQ

Vacuum

• http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1pe2bd/iama_vacuum_repair_technician_and_i_cant_believe/

• Miele S8340 Ecoline S8 Series Cylinder Vacuum Cleaner - 1200w

3310

• http://www.oocities.org/zaphran007/howtocompose.htm

Emulation

• http://simh.trailing-edge.com/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMH

• http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794033

Locks

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7001227

Automation

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152714

UAV

• https://www.mapbox.com/drone/no-fly/ [13]

Robots

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8570850

To sort

• https://opendesignengine.net/

• http://wiki.openpicus.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

• http://www.jedec.org/standards-documents

• http://scanlime.org/2012/11/hacking-my-vagina/ [14]
• http://www.slashdong.org/

• http://www.adafruit.com/

• http://oliverbrown.co.uk/

• http://www.tricorderproject.org/

Repairs

• http://www.ifixit.com/