|  | 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 January 19, 2007
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" May 10, 2005
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" January 23, 2004
The "Attache Server" January 22, 2004
"Racing The Light" January 21, 2004
VIA's Flat Panel DevKits January 20, 2004
The "Ambulator I" January 19, 2004
The "Borg Appliance" Full alphabetical archive on right hand side of page... |
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The "Guitar Workstation"
By Jacob
Lister -
Posted on July 16, 2003
Introduction
I had been working on
a sampling workstation for guitarists for some time, and
at
last settled on a Mini-ITX
based system.
I decided to go with Mini-ITX for my setup
because of it's small form factor, durability, low cost,
and the availability
of PCI expansion to add high quality audio hardware. I've
been performing using a Mini-ITX system as a software sequencer/sampler
for the last few months, but the amount of setup at the venue
was getting fairly out of hand, and I needed a way to put
all my gear in one tidy package. Once the RPx400 USB Modeling
guitar processor arrived (awesome product Digitech!!!) it
all started to fall into place.
The Floorboard I purchased this floorboard built by Warwick as the framework
for my setup. It features a 4 way 1/4 audio patch pad,
industrial velcro surface for mounting components, and
a 12/9 volt power
supply for powering components. Unfortuntely, the power
supply is only rated at 400mA, not even close to enough
to power
a Mini-ITX system, and not enough to power the RPx400.
Still nice to know it's there.
That's my hair!!!
Velcro pad on the left of the unit is extra industrial velcro
for mounting the Cubid power supply. (Things get tight soon)
The Cubid Mini-ITX case
Future plans are to build a custom case with
all the hardware in it, but for the moment I've used the
Cubid 2688, as it's
easily available.
The front panel of the Cubid case (with
power/reset buttons, power, HDD lights & front access
USB) has been removed to save space on the floorboard.
Without this modification
the case would not have fit. A larger floorboard would probably
have been a better option, but never mind.
Exposed open areas on the front of the Cubid case once the
front panel has been removed have been sealed with ever handy
gaffa tape. Has light side, has dark side - binds universe
together.
Components
Everything is mounted with industrial velcro. This means
the componets can easily be removed and rearranged with little
effort. As I use the Mini-ITX system and the RPx400 guitar
processor in other contexts by themselves, this is a good
thing.
The components are
• Mini-ITX system
• Mini-ITX power supply
• Digitech RPx400 guitar processor
• 4 point powerstrip
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