dreadlocks
06-25-2007, 03:11 PM
Hacked this together this weekend entirely out of spare shit laying around..
PIII 1Ghz, 512M RAM, 300GB HD, SB Live Plat, Random NVidia card and some generic capture card.
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/301/1001054ja4.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3226/1001059tl8.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/9427/1001061rx0.jpg
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/539/1001072wq0.jpg
I cut at least 100lbs out of that radio, so many wires and brackets and 2 huge power supplies. The metal is so thick I went through about 40 cutting blades w/my dremel so it was a slow and hot process.
I basically took a MB bracket and chopped it to fit and bolted it down, then screwed the PSU to the MB bracket and what was left of the radio case.. Then I took a HDD bracket from an old case fliped it upside down and screwed it to the radio frame. I put in a white cold cathode light that can be sound activated and zip tied it to the original circuit board for the equalizer.. It lights up the front real good but I need to wire up the EQ LED's to make it look even more operational. The power switch has been wired up to to turn on and off the cathode light and the bios is configured to turn on as soon as power is applied.
Its running Ubuntu & MythTV serving up audio/video from my 2TB file server.
I have an Component & Composite Video over Cat5 adapter running video from the computer & ps2 to the TV from an opposite corner of the room using the existing pre-wired cat5 lines in my apartment. Logitech Z-5500 provide 5.1 sound to living room.
All I need is an external USB DVDR drive and I am set..
Next up is HDTV.. yay
PIII 1Ghz, 512M RAM, 300GB HD, SB Live Plat, Random NVidia card and some generic capture card.
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/301/1001054ja4.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3226/1001059tl8.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/9427/1001061rx0.jpg
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/539/1001072wq0.jpg
I cut at least 100lbs out of that radio, so many wires and brackets and 2 huge power supplies. The metal is so thick I went through about 40 cutting blades w/my dremel so it was a slow and hot process.
I basically took a MB bracket and chopped it to fit and bolted it down, then screwed the PSU to the MB bracket and what was left of the radio case.. Then I took a HDD bracket from an old case fliped it upside down and screwed it to the radio frame. I put in a white cold cathode light that can be sound activated and zip tied it to the original circuit board for the equalizer.. It lights up the front real good but I need to wire up the EQ LED's to make it look even more operational. The power switch has been wired up to to turn on and off the cathode light and the bios is configured to turn on as soon as power is applied.
Its running Ubuntu & MythTV serving up audio/video from my 2TB file server.
I have an Component & Composite Video over Cat5 adapter running video from the computer & ps2 to the TV from an opposite corner of the room using the existing pre-wired cat5 lines in my apartment. Logitech Z-5500 provide 5.1 sound to living room.
All I need is an external USB DVDR drive and I am set..
Next up is HDTV.. yay