In the tech sense- what is your favorite way that someone has used systems in unintended ways to do something cool?
I like the one where a guy used a wiimote for head tracking.
In the tech sense- what is your favorite way that someone has used systems in unintended ways to do something cool?
I like the one where a guy used a wiimote for head tracking.
We had big powerful workstation at work but we were denied to heat up the temperature in winter to save electricity bill. So we end up running useless heavy computation on our machines.
Reminds me of the best feature of my old computer case.
The Antec P280
Top exhaust fans! I used to put my feet on top of the fan grill and have my feet heated during the winter.
Now I have a better setup but with no place to put my feet, so I have a few wheat pillows that are awesome.
I worked in a building designed to be heated by that generated from the mainframe in the basement.
…then computers got smaller ;-)
BOINC would combine the useful with the pleasant.