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       Stardate: 20260713.1805
       Location: Kitchen Table
       Input Device: AlphaSmart dana.wireless
       Audio: Binaural Beats - Schumann Resonance
       Visual: dana + snax
       Emotional: We made it!
       
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       OCC: Epiphlogue 
       
       The Old Computer Challenge 2026 is over.  It ended on 7-ELEVEn Day.  
       Fun times were had and will continue even after this.
       
       This year, I started with the thought of an old PC case as a 
       shadowbox.  Much of the time in the first few days was spent 
       wondering what I was going to do with the case.  By the third day, 
       I had some direction.  The case was going to have a pinball and 
       pachinko theme!
       
       From there, I just kept playing with the case, adding parts, 
       removing parts, thinking, trying different things, etc.  It was 
       like a game of, "what can I build from my collection of parts?"  
       Maybe this should have been called, "Old Computer Parts Challenge," 
       for me.
       
       In this challenge, I found myself revisiting harvested parts from 
       old projects that have since been dismantled.  This brought me to 
       thinking about how much I used to enjoy tinkering with stuff like 
       this, which I haven't done so in a long while. Also, even though 
       the parts are old, they can be repurposed into creating something 
       else, outliving their original purpose and bringing about joy!
       
       The final manifestation of this project for OCC 2026 is an 
       appliance (?) with emulated video pinball and pachinko games, an 
       analogue marble run, a microcontroller for audio visualization  and 
       many blinken lights stuffed in an old PC case.  
       
       This project is not over, but OCC week for 2026 is.  It is nice to 
       have events like this to help motivate me to participate in doing 
       stuff and creating stuff along with the community.  I have been 
       following along when I can, on the surface webs, on the mastodons, 
       in the gopher underground, on the irc, in the smolnets, in the 
       Internet's basements..
       
       I will most likely go into overtime for OCC.  There is m0ar 2 
       explore and things that could be done better with a clearer head 
       and m0ar coffee!!!
       
       Thanks to all those who participated with me or followed along for 
       OCC 2026!  Special thanks to Tekk for bring us together this year  
       and Solene for the original idea!
       
       Now I can take the time to really enjoy the content you have shared 
       for your projects without the overhead of worrying about what I 
       need to work on for my project ;)
       
       BTW, here is projects page for 2026. [1]
       
 (DIR) [1] OCC 2026
       
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