Toaster Computer is fine for email, useless for Pop Tarts
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted September 15th 2008 3:36PM
posted September 15th 2008 3:36PM
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posted September 15th 2008 3:36PM
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Maybe he should have spent some time working for money to replace that ~1993 VGA monitor instead.
That monitor is making me physically ill.
I know, right? Who still has monitors like that?
The fact that they've kept a monitor that old for so long is almost more impressive than the toaster project. Maybe it's their source of heat for the winter.
Isn't it hideous? It's hurting my feelings!
I have 5 in my garage. free for the asking...
Is that VGA resolution??
Does this guy live in a museum???
The 80's called... they want their monitor back.
the 320/240 pixels, 256 colors, monitor (without multitouch) fit well with Windows
The 90's called - they want their worn-out cliche back.
And dig that 1" of black border around the image! 11" of pure VGA image action!
How was that saying that linux can be made tu run on everything, even a toaster?
And then there comes this guy with his toastuter and puts Win XP on it!
Oh the ironing.
qwert
while your at it, I have a few wrinkles on my dress shirts...think you can help?
Well, you know what they say - all toasters toast toast.
more likely to get burned off the monitor than the toaster
he types on a keyboard placed in his drawer?
while your at it, I have a few wrinkles on my dress shirts...think you can help?
oh for fucks sake, i hit reply to another comment and I get this shit, Engadget you can no longer complain about buggy software until you fix this damn comment system. Is it that hard to let it know I am a returning users? I have to click reply twice to hear my speakers spaz with the "clicky noise" that will finally allow for me to comment....AOL TAKE $500 rent a freaking coder and fix this once and for all
i agree, but i dont think its engadgets fault that u have cheap speekerz
if the toast slots were turned into docking bays for HDDs, and then you pop them up to remove them... that would be neat.
finally someone combines toasters and cathode ray tubes! two of my favorite things!
So... How do you load a Cd?
You put it in the left toaster slot then set it to "lightly brown". Unfortunately, it usually just melts the cd instead. (Toasters don't understand the difference between burning a cd and "burning" a cd.)
http://www.crazypc.com/other/misc/toast.htm
With this you can actually toast in your toaster.
Reminds me of an SGI O2...
http://www.blakespot.com/sgi/images/sgi_open1.jpg
Lets do a ping of death attack on Oliver's website.
That could have been made better ... My Shuttle XPC is smaller than this...
Frakkin' toasters...
the next step will be to replace the machine's "regular cooling method" (also known as a "fan") with a thermoelectric cooling process he calls the "Passive Laxative Copper Cooler Concept."
So is this new cooling process gonna give the toaster computer diarrhea?
He's getting rid of the "fan" and replacing it with a $h!tt!er cooling device.
Here's hoping the $h!t don't hit the fan!
I wonder, if he enables his browser's pop-up blocker, does the whole thing catch fire?
They should mount heatsinks just to the inside of the toaster bays so it can at the very least warm things.
That would destroy any sort of cooling it had, but it would be a neat gimmick.
Here is a Linux Toaster that can make toast:
http://onlyhacks.com/linux/netbsd-toaster/
That's not Linux, it's BSD.
Please someone make a toaster with Linux... I'm starting to get desperate!!
Pfft Ping of Death, that's like so Win95..
DDOS is where it's at!
That is the dumbest hack ever!
1) There are slots in the top... Where is the DVD drive popping up out of one of them?
2) There is a TON of room inside... Why is the PSU outside?
3) Why did they bolt the HD tray to the side... With bolts sticking out?
4) They just covered the toast slots... Why not do SOMETHING (anything) with them? Aside from a DVD drive... You could have put in lights... Maybe even vent fans... A small LCD screen that displays free memory or something that you raise and lower using the toaster levers.... A projector clock that projects the time on the celing... SOMETHING!!!
This is a fail toaster computer. The point of putting a computer in something other than a computer case is that it still LOOKS like the original item!
The NES toaster is WAY COOLER than this could ever HOPE to be!
http://www.screwattack.com/node/9572
At least the NES toaster USES the toast slots!
I'm never gonna be that guy that mods but I'm compelled to say that this is one of the crappiest mods I've ever seen.
That sound you just heard is the whimpering of Amiga users longing for their days of glory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster
(Babylon 5 was done on Amigas and Nutek Video Toasters.)
I hope that isn't His main computer.
We all know that it's possible to cook beans with a heatsink-less processor. Why not toast?
OFN
I remember seeing a toaster PC several years ago, that was so much better than this...
It was a 2-slot chrome toaster with a Mini-ITX PC inside it.
this one ?
http://www.homeserverhacks.com/2008/05/real-home-servertoaster.html
Well, it's not a "hack" per se, more like a mod. This (as stated earlier) is just part one of the project. To correct a few invalid statements made, I have picked a few at random. The PSU would not fit on the inside. Sure, a pico power supply might, but it would be ill-powered for the current setup. In terms of the "default cooling method" (i.e. fan, or aluminum passive cooling for our weaker CPUs) I plan on using the peltier effect, the use of copper & aluminum + mineral oil. When part 2 of the project is done (probably the end of September or so) I will post those details.
As per having a cheap/old monitor... I have had this thing since 1995. It was my only monitor laying around. Honestly, I am not going to go out and buy a new LCD monitor for ~$150 (don't quibble over the prices that you may see elsewhere) in order to display the results. The point was to show that it does indeed function (and this will play a much bigger role when part 2 is complete). Part 2 will also encompass the lovely extras, such as a slim CD-ROM drive popping through one of the toast slots, the levers will power it on/off and restart it, etc.
I hope that this answers a few questions/clarifies any misunderstandings. I will post updates when part 2 is finished.
Cheers
will it Play Crysis on very High Settings with AA?
will it play Crysis on very high settings?
This thing can't cook pop tarts what the...
It'd be cool if you could drop SATA drives into the bread slots...