Project: DriverPacks.net

published on April 4, 2012

Technologies:

AutoIt

Drupal

As a:

open source hacker in my spare time

I founded the DriverPacks.net project at the age of 16. It was open sourced in November 2006 (i.e. when starting university studies) and is now maintained by others. Nowadays, I only maintain the website and perform coordination duties. This project packages all drivers for a particular category of hardware into a single file, along with added metadata. An application is provided to integrate these ‘DriverPacks’ with the original installation software, so that all drivers are installed right away. At the age of 16, I wrote this application in the (very crappy) AutoIt language, forcing me to figure out how to develop i.a. reusable GUI components. The DriverPacks are being used by many companies, as well as universities and governments: http://driverpacks.net/well-known-users.