Toggle Switch to Pulse Conversion Circuit

For my next computer build - my filevault and media server - I wanted to take a less microcontrollery way to turn the computer on and off. My parents' build required a microcontroller because I didn't have the parts for this when I built it, so I had to make do. But, as I said before, I don't like cutting sandwiches with chainsaws. It seems wasteful to me to use a whole microcontroller to do one simple task and sleep the rest of the time. So I designed a specialized circuit to do it. I'm by no means a electrical engineer, so this may be a poor design. But stay with me to the end, because this simple thing works (and it's a very short post because it's so simple).

Does RGB Make Any PC Look Cool?

In today's episode of "I just want this crap out of my room so let's build you a computer," we'll be looking at building my friend a gaming computer that would have been an amazing system to have back in 2006. My friend already has a decent laptop that's more than capable of playing modern games, but some games don't really work on newer software frameworks or on backwards-incompatible hardware. As we saw in my very similar build for that incomplete-and-stagnant game console project, sometimes you need older hardware and software to play older games. That's fine, I have parts laying around my room that can make a whole computer and if he wants a computer out of them then by all means, it works for me.

Did I mention it'll also feature RGB LEDs? Not everything has to be 2000-and-late.