A shield for the Arduino Mega that can back up video game cartridges
...Supported cartridge types so far, LoRom, HiRom, ExHiRom, DSP, SuperFX, SuperFX2, SDD1, CX4, SPC7110, SA1 (last two chips need Adafruit Clock Generator). Reads and writes SNES Satellaview 8M Memory packs (BS-X cartridge and Adafruit Clock Generator needed). Reads and writes Nintendo Power Super Famicom MemoryFlash Cartridges (needs Adafruit Clock Generator for best result).
ixbar3000 is a frontend, it allows you to browse/launch games from a centralized place. While doing so it’ll keep statistics on your usage. You can also use it to store highscores on games that doesn’t have battery memory.
Demo videos: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsYn7B5Y4pDxKzEfZSIqlG62yswJXgBu2&feature=plcp
Powow is an open-source TCP packets exchange mesh. It allows many TCP clients to connect to a "Powow cloud" (several instances of Powow), to exchange data. Powow is a TCP socket server like Palabre or Oregano.