Questions tagged [htpc]

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Turn on PC with USB-device

I want to be able to turn my PC on and off using an IR-remote sensor that is connected via USB to the PC. The sensor is a custom PCB implemented with an AVR microprocessor and V-USB software USB-implementation. Now, turning off the PC is no problem…
Jonatan
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Searching for a drive bay LED/LCD with buttons hardware and API

My colleagues and I have got an interesting little prototype hardware/software project that would follow these loose requirements/specs/implementation details: Hardware: Take simple user input from a couple of buttons, maybe a dial Give some…
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Learning WPF... Full screen launcher app

I'm in the process of building a Home Theatre PC (HTPC), and figured this could give me a small project to learn some more about WPF. I want to build a simple program launcher. It would be an application that would fill the screen with a background…
Ben Brandt
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