1. DES encryption card for PC. ON HOLD
   

   I've been thinking about that for a while now. Since engineering school to be precise. 
   Though I do not have the material, or even software, to work on it.
   My aim is to create a card, based on an FPGA, that would do encryption, not only DES. 
   It can be usefull as this kind of operations takes a lot of time for a generic processor 
   like the one you have on your machine. And what you can find for now are quite expensive 
   solutions. Though I have thought about it, this solution cannot be used efficiently to 
   hack (crack) encrypted messages, because it cannot be compared to the power of a multiprocessor 
   machine or any kind of parallel tasking. 
   Especially if it is based on a PCI bus... but I have thought of a use of the AGP
   port, at least to have an access to central memory (c:
   We'll see...
   Anyway if anybody knows about a good VHDL compiler/debugger, I am more than interested!!!
   
   

2. PC switch. ON HOLD

   I am speaking about a switch that enables to use 2 PCs with just one mouse/keyboard/monitor.
   I know that this kind of stuff already exists, but I want to make one that is
   powered from keyboards (no need to plug to the sector), and that enables switching
   just by using the keyboard (I hate these ugly buttons (c: )
   And anyway it is fun isn't it?
   I already have done almost all the researchs for that and will soon begin to design the circuit.
   
   

3. A small shoot-em up in C using SDL. ACTIVE

   I am currently coding a shoot-em up that should be easily portable under differents OSes.
   For now I am focusing on the development, under Linux.
   Specs: must be smouth with at least 30 sprites on the screen at 320*240.
   I will try later to make it run @ 640*480, but I want my game to run on slow machines (i.e. 
   my laptop (c: ).
   For now, I've got a perfect scrolling, and a few sprites without any problem. But I still have to
   implement collisions.
   I will release the source code as soon as there is something playable (hopefully for march 2002).
   
   

4. MpegBox Project. ACTIVE

   My aim is to make an mp3 player for my car, using vintage pc elements.
   I want to use a pentium 75 motherboard, with a sound blaster 16 and a small HD for the system.
   The OS will be a Linux. All the mp3 will be read from a cdrom player.
   For now I am focusing on making my motherboard powered from a car battery.
   For the design I am using eagle freeware version, which is freely available for Linux and Windows.
   My sources (NOT FINISHED, NOT TESTED, WILL NOT WORK!) can be found here:MpegBox.tgz
   My schema (NOT FINISHED, NOT TESTED, WILL NOT WORK!) looks like that: mpegbox.ps
   

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