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I was in university when the BeBox was released. One of my better funded colleagues got one of them shipped to his dorm room. All the nerds went crazy over t
by cbm-vic-20 8y ago
I was in university when the BeBox was released. One of my better funded colleagues got one of them shipped to his dorm room. All the nerds went crazy over this thing. It was incredibly fast, physical CPU activity lights (it was a dual PowerPC machine), and a plethora of hardware connectors, including the "GeekPort", a set of GPIOs that made it really easy to interface with external hardware.
- zozbot123 8y agoLots of modern desktop PCs have case LED's that could easily find use as system activity indicators if the Linux kernel (or userspace HAL) supported them. Unfortunately support seems to be really patchy.
- deadbunny 8y agoI believe there is some work on standardizing the RGB LED interface going on as we speak: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/5/191 https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/5/191
- pantalaimon 8y agoLinux already has an LED interface, it's just that currently you can give an LED a brightness value 0-255. So a RGB LED would have to be represented by three entries in /sys/class/leds/ That's kind of inconvenient when those three LEDs are actually one RGB LED. This is only how the LEDs are represented to user space, you still need a driver for the chips the LEDs are connected to.
- mmjaa 8y agoI still have my BeBox, and love it. For the Blinky lights, a magicshifter suffices: http://magicshifter.net/ http://magicshifter.net/ (I did the OS)