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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 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" |
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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? |
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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" Full alphabetical archive on right hand side of page... |
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"MR. OMNI" - The "OMNI-PUTER"
By Donald
Thompson - Posted on September 26, 2003
This is the OMNIBOT made by TOMI. This was
a non-functioning robot before I started this modification.
The electronic parts were either corroded, missing, or damaged,
so were tossed. This is what the robot looked like prior
to the modification and after it had been cleaned. I shall
call him "MR.
OMNI" the "OMNI-PUTER".
The base of "MR. OMNI" had
seven wheels, four were
removed as well as the gear drive box so the frosted
plexiglass and mother board could be mounted. There
were three mounting towers which helped to hold the base
on with screws and wheel axle tabs that were
removed with a dremel tool. The frosted plexiglas
hides the scars from the modification.
This pile of parts represent the cassette
player that was in the robot. I removed the cassette player
and modified the the front panel to accept the
slimline CDRW-DVD. The mounting towers inside the
cassette housing were cut short to allow the CDRW-DVD
player to fit all the way in, but left long enough to
support the drive once secured within the housing.
As you can see the drive fits snuggly for
a clean modification.
The CDRW-DVD can be seen through the cutout
in the former cassette player housing. The IBM TravelStar
hard drive is attached to the lid (under) the
CDRW-DVD drive housing.
The cooling fan is in the back (formally
battery box) of the robot. The rubber seal between the
base
(with wheels) and base (with body) is removed. The
system will work eith with or without the seal. There
are no overheating issues either way. The seal does
make for a more secure attachment.
Here the rubber seal is in place. The cut
outs for the motherboard connectors are visible. "MR. OMNI" is
ready to "ROCK" as far as I am concerned. But
if you
take notice to the next photo "HE" has other plans.
BEWARE, OF WHAT YOU CREATE!! "MR.
OMNI" wants
cold
cathode lighting and wireless and...the list goes on.
I guess I'd better build a dog house next as it seems I
may be there for quite a while.
"MR. OMNI" Specifications
EPIA Nehemiah M10000
1GB Memory
CDRW-DVD (slimline)
IBM TravelStar 40 Gig Hard Drive
Windows XP PRO
Audioforge 120 watt, 12v DC-DC ATX converter
Cold Cathode Lighting (blue)
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