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VNC Server for Toasters and Light-Switches

Posted by timothy on from the everything-needs-a-web-page dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "How about using VNC to configure your toaster, microwave oven, or even your light-switches? Thanks to Adam Dunkels' micro-VNC server it is now possible to run a VNC server even on really small embedded 8-bit microcontrollers commonly found in such devices. The idea is that even low-cost devices that don't have a screen or graphics hardware could have a GUI, accessible over the network. To show that the server can run with very small amounts of memory, there is a demo server running on a Commodore 64. But the real question is: how would want to 'configure' their toasters using a GUI?"

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  1. Way to go, funny guys... by FortKnox · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, back in the day we used to say "Lets install Linux on a toaster!" and it was a joke.

    But now someone actually took it seriously, and look whatcha dun!! You should be ashamed!

    --
    Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
  2. Pop-UP? by budalite · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, when your toast is done, will there be a "pop-up" window telling you that? Sorry. Couldn't help it.

    MadDad32

  3. /. effect by Wrexen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quoth the page:
    The pages you are currently watching are served by a web server running on a an Ethernet equipped 6510-based system with 64k RAM running at 1 MHz (a Commodore 64 with a TFE cartridge). The same system also exports two displays using VNC and the small uVNC server software.

    Other servers have come down like they were Commodore 64's, but this one actually is one!

  4. configure by brer_rabbit · · Score: 5, Funny
    But the real question is: how would want to 'configure' their toasters using a GUI?

    ./configure --with-bread --enable-top-brown-only --enable-honey --disable-butter

    oops, that's the CLI. I don't know about the GUI version.