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It doesn't get more ghetto than this.
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 2:42 pm
by fancontrol
Read about it
here.
Ugly, right down to the picture quality!
It started as a silent pc with no fans, now it's a silent pc with a little fan buried at the bottom and a lot of masking tape!
Air flow is no good when it's open, so I added a cover (of sorts). Thanks to 3M for providing, umm, prototype materials.
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 4:00 pm
by powergyoza
Dude, that is mighty sweet! I'm in the design industry, so I can totally relate to having a Distiller "renderbox" to free up your computer from distilling postscript all day long. That geode CPU is mighty slow though isn't it?
Cheers,
Leo
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 6:03 pm
by fancontrol
powergyoza wrote:That geode CPU is mighty slow though isn't it?
Shhhhh.... don't make them take away my toy!
Seriously, it struggles now and then, but most of the time stays ahead of the game. CAD drawings aren't very demanding.
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 9:11 pm
by crisspy
BTW fancontrol, BRAVO!. I am terribly remiss to not have congratulated you before posting my article. I really like your system, and the principals that make it so cool (pun intended). I like your enclosure design, and the bright blue 3M is a perfect finishing touch. You now represent Little Blue, to help balance the market still so heavily influenced by Big Blue.
Fellow residents of the Ghetto untie... ahhhh... UNITE!
Crisspy.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 8:02 pm
by fancontrol
I've got to find a good way to get that name on there. I saw some brown vinyl tape in the lab...
Oh, and, wait until you see pictures of the 16x2 char. LCD (taped to my desk) that shows temperatures and fan speed. Foxxy!
[edit: sha-zam!]
it's showing the three temps (in, htsnk, out), the pct out (27), the speed (3207) and a dorky bar graph of the percent out.