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-Hamming is a mini itx type thing donated by [[User:Aden]]. It's an old Via something or other and not very good. It was frontdoorbot at one point.
+Hamming is an x86-processor based VIA EPIA based system donated by [[User:Aden]]. It is old and was once doorbot. It ideally could be replaced with a modern Raspberry Pi 2 or Beaglebone Black.
-Is connected to a 7(? lots anyway) powered usb port so it can run [[Project:Notification_Board]] and [[Orange_led_strips]].
+It is connected to an externally powered usb port multiplier so it can run [[Project:Notification_Board]] and [[Orange_led_strips]].
-It's also connected to some speakers so it can do the glados voices as well.
+It's also connected to some speakers so it can do the doorbot-sounds (historically GLaDOS voices) as well.
-It does have 2 x hard drives in RAID1, which is nice. It also runs X and can do TV out (maybe) so could connect to one of the CRT TV's for extra grimy retro ness.
+It has 2 x hard drives in RAID1, which is nice. It also runs X and can do TV out (maybe) so could connect to one of the CRT TV's for extra grimy retro ness.
 Useful note for crashes / restarts etc - run <pre>export AUDIODEV=hw:0,0</pre> before rebooting listeners.sh or PulseAudio won't work.