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Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
Small Form Factor PCs
| Location: Maker Shed |
Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs is the only book available that shows you how to build small-form-factor PCs -- from kits and from scratch -- that are more interesting and more personalized than what a full-sized PC can give you. The authors will be on hand to demonstrate a few of the projects from their book, including the Gumstix-based Bluetooth LED sign, the Meshcube Wi-Fi extender, the OpenBlockS firewall, and the Zipit messenger turned into an SSH client.
Web site: http://store.makezine.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=0596529201
Topic(s): Engineering
Tags: computers smallformfactor linux openbsd wifi
About the Maker(s)
Duane Wessels
Duane Wessels became interested in web caching in 1994 as a topic for his master's thesis in telecommunications at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He worked with members of the Harvest research project to develop web caching software. After the departure of other members to industry jobs, he continued the software development under the name Squid. Another significant part of Duane's research with the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research has been the operation of 6 to 8 large caches throughout the U.S. These caches receive requests from hundreds of other caches, all connected in a "global cache mesh."
Matthew Weaver
Matthew Weaver has enough years of experience in software development and system administration to know Duane's usually right. He's given many tutorials to technical audiences, and has worked with Nedernet Inc, a wireless ISP in the Rocky Mountains. He helped Nedernet see the value in using small form factor PCs for an array of devices, including remote outdoor access points and solar-powered servers. He currently works at Google.
