|  | April 09, 2013
Installing NAS4Free February 28, 2013
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" |
| | | | 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" Full alphabetical archive on right hand side of page... |
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The "i-EPIA"
Introduction
I was always charmed by the VIA EPIA Mini-ITX boards, so when I came across one on eBay I just couldn't resist. It was an impulse buy. When I got it I didn't really have a use for it. Then my internet provider upgraded my bandwidth and so I needed a second PC for light surfing and downloading. I wanted something small and energy efficient, so the EPIA board came back into favour. Energy efficiency was going to be easy, that's what these boards are designed for. The board is small and would require a little modding (always fun).
My brother in law has an iMac and darn do these look beautiful. This was my inspiration. I considering modding a CRT monitor to hold the PC, but it would have been too big and clumsy. Considering the room you have in a CRT it didn't seem to much of a challenge either.
My search for a 15in LCD monitor began. You can't believe how much people want for them on eBay. Fortunately I stumbled on a seller who was selling 2 monitors, nobody else was interested so I got them cheap.
My initial components were:
- Via EPIA M10000 board (C3 1GHz CPU)
- Compaq TFT5000S monitor
- 80W Pico-PSU
- 40 GB 2.5in 4200RPM hard drive (from my laptop after an upgrade)
- Sitecom WL-113 USB Wi-Fi dongle
I started to take apart the screen:
Then I mounted some long standoffs.
I sourced a piece of thick plexiglass that would function as the motherboard plate.
Figuring out how and where to place what..
The motherboard plate cut, drilled and tapped.
Mounting the hard drive
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