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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
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The "EPIA Alloy Mod" April 11, 2006
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The "Accordion ITX" May 16, 2005
The "FileServerRouterSwitch" May 15, 2005
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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
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The "Pictureframe PC"
By Josh Hubbard - Posted on February 3, 2003
I am unfortunately one of those people who feel that any event, regardless of magnitude needs to be well documented photographically, unfortunately I have both run out of walls and surfaces for framed pictures as well as friends who I can torture by making them leaf through albums. However, a Mini-ITX motherboard seemed to offer a solution to my dilemma.. therefore I set out to make a wall mountable picture frame.
My first acquisition was a 15" Phillips 105S3 LCD from my nearby office supply store, which given a generous use of price matching, coupons and rebates came in at an affordable price. This LCD was then mounted into a frame, including glass and a 2.5 inch mat, which I had located that would provide me with the 2.75 inches of depth for the whole machine I thought I would need. (an assumption later proven wrong).
The frame I used came with a back rabbet to which I attached a 1/4'" plexiglass sheet with a piano hinge on which to mount the additional computer components, these were:
Motherboard: EPIA ME 6000
RAM: 256 MB PC2100
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda IV 40 GB
Microsoft USB 802.11b wireless network adapter
Wireless keyboard and mouse receiver
ATI remote wonder
AC/DC power converter block from a Cubid 2677R case
DC/DC power converter
All the parts except for the motherboard and hard drive were attached using heavy duty Velcro, allowing me to reposition them to determine the optimum position.
I also included rubber grommets on the hard drive to decrease vibration. Unfortunately during this stage I found out that given the depth of my frame, the motherboard would not fit no matter which way I turned it. So I turned to the dremel and wire snips and removed the audio outputs as well as the parallel port (it is only going to be a frame). I won't torture you with pictures of my poor mangled EPIA. Next I cut the power cords for both the monitor and the AC/DC converter and spliced them together to a single power supply cord. I then cut a large hole in the center of the plexiglass where I didn't have any parts attached and drilled several ½" holes to allow sufficient air flow along the back of the computer.
No fans allowed.
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