John Laur

By the look of this page, you would probably not assume that I make my living as a software and web developer, but I do. Without further adieu, here is what I have to offer at this site:

• MAME Cabinet - My arcade cabinet for running MAME and other games
• Plockout - A clone of the 1989 game "Block-Out," a 3D Falling block puzzle like Tetris
• Kite Aerial Photography - My experiences with taking pictures from kites
• Soekris Net4501 Stuff - Some software I wrote to control the error LED on the front of a Soekris Engineering Net4501 computer from Linux.
• Tuxscreen Stuff - Some of my work done on the TuxScreen StrongARM-based telephone for audio hardware, Linux kernel, PicoGUI, and VoIP
• Asterisk Software and Patches - Software patches and other things I have written to enhance, extend, or change the behavior of the "stock" distribution of the Asterisk Open Source PBX
• Xine patches - Patches I wrote a long time ago for Xine, a Linux media player. This functionality is now a part of xine and the emu10k1 driver and no longer requires my patches to make it work.
• PSPFollow - A little script for OS X that continuously scan's for a Playstation Portable (PSP) SSID and joins its network. It is intended to allow games which switch SSID's during gameplay (such as Lumines) to be playable over Xlink Kai.
• Random Stuff - Stuff that isn't categorized because I am too lazy to write anything about it.

Links to other things I have done that are hosted elsewhere:

• CYZ_RGB - I am one of the authors of CYZ_RGB, a firmware to control RGB LEDs with ATTiny and AVR microcontrollers in a comprable manner to BlinkM hardware.
• 2003 BMW M3 CarPC - I installed a computer in my car to play music and do navigation and OBD-II datalogging.
• Vending Menace - A vending machine I converted to vend beer from kegs, bottles, and cans.
• Short Bus Mobile Systems - The grand plan here is to create some sort of system for high availability communications and navigation from a vehicle. It's sort of fizzled after we bought this bus.
• Gas Log - This is a Ruben's tube designed to operate in my home fireplace.
• Couch-on-a-Couch - If you have two sofas and a big TV, you should seriously consider arranging your furniture like this.