Open-source Minecraft clone. He details a lot of the development behind it.

With the runaway success of the game Minecraft, I've been seeing a bit of a resurgence of interest lately in the idea of procedurally generated worlds. Unfortunately, once you get beyond simple random numbers, procedural generation of a world isn't always the most approachable subject and I see a lot of people asking questions about where they should start generating a Minecraftian world, or, more generally, a procedural world that can theoretically extend infinitely far in all directions.

Some cool landscape-looking things drawn by computer.

We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. We expect this computer to have many other applications both in the developed and the developing world.

Our first product is about the size of a USB key, and is designed to plug into a TV or be combined with a touch screen for a low cost tablet. The expected price is $25 for a fully-configured system.

It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future

"The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource."

"Start with a vision of what you want and then, one by one, remove the technical obstacles until you have it. Start with a vision rather than a list of features."

Draft of a textbook on algorithms by S. Dasgupta, C.H. Papadimitriou, and U.V. Vazirani

Graduate Programs in User Interface Design / Human-Computer Interaction

Build a low-cost, terabyte-sized backup server using Linux and back up your digital audio files, digital images and digital movie recordings.

Car pc user page

Car pc hardware manufacturers

Old article I found of a simple car pc, with Ikea case

Supplier of car pc products

I should check this game out later.

Calculate the wattage requirements of any new computer

Create a USB IR Receiver