I have the first pix!
http://bar2.cc.cooper.edu:29128

http://media.putfile.com/Eth0-Indicator-Array

The video is an incredible thing I came up with last night. Those 6 LEDs are connected to a solderless breadboard inside the case, which is in turn soldered directly into the ethernet card. It counts packets/second and displays the pattern of LEDs indicating the load on the ethernet card and therefore bandwidth use. The more LEDs lit, the more bandwidth is available. The advantage of using this is that no programming whatsoever is needed to control them. I also have a pic of how Cemetech is looking on it, since I doubt you people can get inside the firewall.

I can't get to the first link. Looks really cool, though

Kerm, thats probably visible only on the Cooper Union LAN. get yourself a no-ip address like JPez has.


cool though.

I'll try that, but I doubt it would work even so...

You need to set up port-forwarding too.

still gives you a place to play around with, good luck getting it live

Alrighty, here we go.

1. The breadboard: when I get the circuit finalized, I'm going to solder a real board for this:


2. The board and LEDs - yay for duct tape:


3. The yellow wire is soldered to the ethernet card, while the red and black wires are soldered, then duct taped to a standard molex power jack.

So I see I'm no longer the only one here who can program microcontrollers

I can, but that's no PIC. That's an octal D-flipflop and a 555.

Why are you using those components? I'm assuming your instructor required you to use them...?

Dude, I did this on my own for fun. I used those because it was easier than burning out a PIC to do the same thing with some 20 lines of code.

...But then you could've used a little tiny chip to do all the work instead of that fairly large chip taking up all the space

I have yet to see a pic with less than 12 or so pins.

EVERYONE
http://199.98.17.20:29128

...Seriously?! Just off the top of my head I can tell you that THE most popular PIC is the 12C508...

........that's 18 pins dude.

IP isn't loading - what is supposed to be there though?

Cemetech. See, I kinda managed to screw up the kernel. It freezes on boot:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3290720.html#3290720

Any ideas

tap ctrl-c before it gets to that point, then it will ask for the root password to enter "maintenence" mode. From there you should be able to fix your problem. Eg, undo whatever you did, lol

Ohhh, nice! Thanks. I'll try that.

....8 pins