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Re:iSCSI target software for the ESP32 microcontroller on Saturday February 03, 2024 @06:04PM (#39245675)
15 years or so ago I worked with iSCSI SANs; big boxes full of super fast hardware, lots of disks and expensive. Thinking back at that time I wondered: would it be possible to make a microcontroller into an iSCSI target? (a SAN on a microcontroller so to say) So I sat down and wrote a firmware for the cheap ESP32 to do so. And it works! You can now finally let your server boot from an SD-card (I connected an SD-card interface to the device for storage) over iSCSI. Not very fast (35 iops, 150kB/second (over WiFi)) but the proof of concept definitely works :-)
Re:A digital video recorder and streamer on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:41AM (#23639469)
I have developed a digital video recorder and streamer that also detects movement and audio. It has been in the works for about 4 years now and I'm super proud that it actually gets usable now! A friend of mine helped with the web-interface. It is targetted at Linux, but it may work on other unixes; I did not try that yet. I love to hear feedback. If you would like to see certain new features or things that need improvement; let me know!

https://vanheusden.com/constatus/

Finally: Brainfuck is ready for the mainframe/enterprise

After a long hack-session I finally got a Brainfuck interpreter written in COBOL working (https://www.vanheusden.com/misc/blog/2016-05-19_brainfuck_cobol_intp.php ). So you can finally run your Brainfuck programs on your COBOL enabled mainframe! (e.g. ibm esa/390, tandem nonstop, etc) If you don't want an interpreted code, you can use this program...

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Pinging a server will no longer be boring: hello fancy graphics

http://www.vanheusden.com/httping/

Upto now, pinging was boring. Only a couple line with boring statistics scroll by.This no longer is this case when pinging webservers with HTTPing! HTTPing now has a (completely optional) gui (compatible with every terminal in the world, as long as ncurses runs on it) with flashy graphics and nice colors.See for yourself at http://www.vanheusden.com/httping/ On this page you will not only find...

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