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Building an XBMC 12 Home Theatre PC January 25, 2011
XBMC Guide updated to version 10.0 August 06, 2010
Building a Green PC February 15, 2010
Building an ION powered HTPC with XBMC October 10, 2008
The "Cambridge Autonomous Underwater Vehicle 2008" September 12, 2008
"Florian", the DVD burning robot September 05, 2008
The "i-EPIA" May 22, 2008
The "GTA-PC" April 14, 2007
The "Digg" Case |
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The "ITX-Laptop" December 07, 2006
The "Tortoise Beetle" October 02, 2006
The "DOS Head Unit" August 31, 2006
The "Janus Project" August 05, 2006
The "Leela PC" June 26, 2006
Nano-ITX in a Football May 17, 2006
The "EPIA Alloy Mod" April 11, 2006
Neatorama's Collection of Case Mods February 18, 2006
The "Rundfunker" October 24, 2005
The "ITX TV" October 06, 2005
The K'nex-ITX August 05, 2005
The "Waffle Iron PC" July 21, 2005
The "Supra-Server" July 18, 2005
The "Mega-ITX" July 07, 2005
The "Encyclomedia" May 25, 2005
The "Accordion ITX" May 16, 2005
The "FileServerRouterSwitch" May 15, 2005
The "Mini Falcon" May 13, 2005
The "Bender PC" May 11, 2005
The "BBC ITX B" |
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The "Frame" April 20, 2005
The "Jeannie" March 09, 2005
The "Cool Cube" January 30, 2005
First Nano-ITX Project? January 17, 2005
The "iGrill" January 15, 2005
The "Gumball PC" December 15, 2004
The "Deco Box" December 03, 2004
The "TERA-ITX" October 06, 2004
The "Coealacanth-PC" September 17, 2004
The "Gramaphone-ITX-HD" August 26, 2004
The "C1541 Disk Drive ITX" August 25, 2004
The "SEGA-ITX" August 13, 2004
The "Quiet Cubid" August 06, 2004
The "BMWPC" July 14, 2004
The "Moo Cow Moo" July 02, 2004
The "Mini Mesh Box" June 17, 2004
Jukebox ITX May 24, 2004
The "ERN005PC" (KANA) March 13, 2004
The "Underwood No. 5" February 04, 2004
The "Humidor CL" Full alphabetical archive on right hand side of page... |
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The "NT Gas Station 2.0"
By Webb
Speidermann - Posted on September 30, 2002
Introducting Webb Speidermann's RedCan Linux
-or- NT Gas Station 2.0 -
depending on the mode he's in...
For some unexplainable reason I've wanted
a gas can PC for 4 or 5 years.
When the VIA Mini-ITX made it's way to my attention I ordered
one and a smallish power supply then started searching for
the right container to put it in.
Being male limited me to purchasing the very
first one into which everything would fit. I will be keeping
my eyes open for the perfect portable plastic petrol pot.
Using a battery-powered reciprocal saw with
a semi-sharp blade I removed just enough of the bottom to
allow the components to be inserted.
I made a paper template of the 'to the world'
side of the power supply, taped it to the can's bottom as
far away from the M/B as possible. With a hammer drill and
recip saw, drilled, cut, and melted the power supply cutouts
and trimmed it up with a mini pocket knife (normally used
for carving cat5 cables).
PUSH! BREATHE! PUSH!
Did a test fit of the components. The power
supply fit first time (this was not expected).
Velcro will be used to mount the hard drive.
I threaded a 1' X 1" ribbon of Velcro loops through the
handle and stuck it to the strip of adhesive-backed hooks
that I'd adheezed to a Western Digital 10 JiggleButt IDE drive.
There is family history with Velcro: the Speidermanns
became wealthy running the most successful Velcro ranch east
of the Mississippi River. Then in 1984 we were wiped out when
that terrible Lint storm blew through. Lost everything.
The final OS is Mitel's 'e-smith-server',
found at http://e-smith.org/
With this variant of RedHat you get options for web, proxy,
mail, and file servers. I'll just use it as a backup server
for the other PCs at home and will use it's MP3 jukebox option
as Red Can Linux's main function.
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