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Greatest technical achievement

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Hyperblaze

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What would you define as your greatest technical achievement?

Mine was probably being able to get samba successfully up and running.

Easy to do now, but it took me over 2 weeks the first time.
 
Completely disassembling my '68 Charger down to the screws and cleaning, painting, repairing, replacing or rebuilding it.... and then putting a supercharger on it for more POWAHHHHH.......
 
I acquired three college degrees. I'm first in my family to graduate from college. I paid for the college myself and it's paid off.

I started college with portable word processors. I'd have never been able to do my masters degree without a computer. The hobby really helps.
 
Designed a poolside lift for my brother in law on the back of a napkin, fabricated it and took it all the way to completion. He can get in and out of his pool unassisted, a neat trick for a paraplegic.
It uses a garden hose for power.
 
Originally posted by: skyking
Designed a poolside lift for my brother in law on the back of a napkin, fabricated it and took it all the way to completion. He can get in and out of his pool unassisted, a neat trick for a paraplegic.
It uses a garden hose for power.
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FTW

 
One of them has to be successfully migrating an existing Gentoo install from the 2.4 to 2.6 kernel, and getting all my stuff (tv tuner card, etc) to work on the new kernel.
 
My 110v dryer's spindle fell out when we were moving it, so I took it apart, cleaned it out, reseated the spindle, and got it all back together. I'd never seen the inside of an appliance before. Gonna have to do it again soon, it's squeaking. Three or four hours of confusing, linty poo work. 🙁

I bought a Packard Bell from Circuit City in about 1998. A couple years later I took the hard drive out of it (with the proprietary PB and Win98 stuff on it), stuck it into a barebones I bought off eBay with wildly different hardware, and made it all work. That was my EQ box for a few years.

I got the white sword in Zelda without getting the first sword. Back when nobody I knew had heard of such a thing.

I watched Clerks without throwing anything heavy at the TV. Once only. :disgust:

I hooked up Dish Network, Playstation, Sega CDX, Gamecube, SNES, VCR, DVD, NES, N64, and PS2 all to one TV set.

Which of these do you think is the greatest achievement? I'm thinking the Clerks one myself...
 
Uhh does making an origami count? Back in 4th grade I saw someone with a blowup box so I asked him if he can teach me or let me have the box for reference, he said no. So back home I tried to making the box by trial and error, somehow it worked... Its pretty lame compared to what other people are doing lol.
 
Only a mechanic could appreciate this.

I once got an 84 cutlass. The engine had been stripped to a short block and all the parts had been thrown loose into the trunk. All the bolts , hoses, everything mixed in the trunk. I put it back together and had it running for a few years.

Ive built scratch engines but that was insane.
 
Designing, building, and programming a multi-instrument automated data acquisition system using pressure tranducers, a TDR, and coax switches. Had to write frame level drivers for the coax switches and the TDR.
 
Originally posted by: Hyperblaze
What would you define as your greatest technical achievement?

Mine was probably being able to get samba successfully up and running.

Easy to do now, but it took me over 2 weeks the first time.
Click to expand...

I got 56K working and demonstrated to Management at Hayes Modems. I tried to convince them to put a small demo run out to the stores right away but they waited and then U.S. Robotics got the credit. The way I had 56K working became the standard though.

Then on a similar style of server/client technology got DSL working and demonstrated. Alcatel got the credit there too as the Alcatel 1000 became the DSL standard.

Later I sold the first DSL Modem in the United States other than a phone Company so it's been OK.
 
transferring vhs tapes to mpeg format, using o tv tuner and my dial up connection to get the software back in 2001...that was quite a feat for me 🙂
 
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