More out of what you have (part 2)

Finished my part beginner series on web page scraping with http://www.instructables.com/id/Getting-instructable-counts-continued/.   Sort of baby steps to data mining on the web.


Think I talked about using an old Intel Pentium II computer to be a web server among other things.  People must really be thinking about using more legacy computer equipment from the views I get on some of my instructables. For instance I made an adapter cable that would allow some older "AT" motherboards to be used with the newer "ATX" based power supplies. (More info at: http://www.instructables.com/id/Atx-to-At-ps-test-cable/). Also see an increase in the views of my two home automation instructables. I did one for linux (http://www.instructables.com/id/Linux-beginning-home-automation-on-a-server/) and one for MSWindows XP (http://www.instructables.com/id/Home-Automation-MSWindows-XP/). If I had a newer version of MIcrosoft windows, I would certainly have included it also. In any case they are just an introduction to home automation via a web page. They barely scratch the surface, but are good starting points to keep equipment valuable. Also made a break out companion cable to make it easier to interface with the printer (parallel) port of a computer (http://www.instructables.com/id/No-solder-parallel-port-break-out/ and a mini version  http://www.instructables.com/id/Mini-parallel-port-break-out-cable/). Also made one for the joystick port, but since the joystick port is anything but standard, I did not do an instructable for it.  If you get a chance take a gander at those. Wish Insteon, X10, or the like would send some of their modules to show off.


So far my screen casts have been silent, but no longer. I have now finally rigged up a mike.


You can find the plans for the changeable boom at:  (http://www.instructables.com/id/Microphone-stand/).

Later...

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