Quick Computer Teardown

I was moving out of my apartment, but I didn't want to take these two computers I found in the dumpster. At least, not all of them. The big bulky cases were stupid to take with me, so I decided to tear them down and see how compact we could make it while still keeping it reasonably usable. These were two old computers, but I imagine I could do something fun with them at one point.

Render Farm - 3D Edition!

A few months ago I wrote a simple render farm in PHP using imagemagick. But it could only deal with very simple animations in 2D space. What if we could deal with complex scenes in 3D space? And, what if instead of using hacky HTTP transactions to move data back and forth, we used Socket.io to form a true protocol? Well, that's exactly what we're going to do here.