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# a 30 GB Toshiba drive borrowed from a Toshiba Magnia SG20 | # a 30 GB Toshiba drive borrowed from a Toshiba Magnia SG20 | ||
# a Morex 60 watt automotive power supply | # a Morex 60 watt automotive power supply | ||
# a Trendnet WiFi PCI card | |||
Power options include using either an old HP Omnibook 800 laptop power supply or a 12 volt gel cell. At the [http://solarcreek.org Solar CREEK] booth at DaVinci Days, I ran it on a solar panel and a 120 vac inverter. | Power options include using either an old HP Omnibook 800 laptop power supply or a 12 volt gel cell. At the [http://solarcreek.org Solar CREEK] booth at DaVinci Days, I ran it on a solar panel and a 120 vac inverter. | ||
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The HP power supply puts out about 35 watts and it had no trouble running this machine in the above configuration. I measured output of the supply and found it takes about 10 watts to run. | The HP power supply puts out about 35 watts and it had no trouble running this machine in the above configuration. I measured output of the supply and found it takes about 10 watts to run. | ||
I am running Ubuntu Linux on it at the moment (6.06/Dapper Drake). I use mplayer to play the official Solar CREEK quicktime video. | |||
==Pictures== | ==Pictures== | ||
Revision as of 19:54, 3 August 2006
My system "8track" is a Via CN10000 Mini-ITX board built inside an old 8 track player case. It has
- 1GB of DDR2 RAM,
- a 30 GB Toshiba drive borrowed from a Toshiba Magnia SG20
- a Morex 60 watt automotive power supply
- a Trendnet WiFi PCI card
Power options include using either an old HP Omnibook 800 laptop power supply or a 12 volt gel cell. At the Solar CREEK booth at DaVinci Days, I ran it on a solar panel and a 120 vac inverter.
I can plug it into any convenient monitor and keyboard. At DaVinci days, I used an Acer 15" display and a PS/2 keyboard and mouse. The monitor ran off the inverter, too. I plugged in stereo speakers and connected to the Solar CREEK web site via a wireless link.
The HP power supply puts out about 35 watts and it had no trouble running this machine in the above configuration. I measured output of the supply and found it takes about 10 watts to run.
I am running Ubuntu Linux on it at the moment (6.06/Dapper Drake). I use mplayer to play the official Solar CREEK quicktime video.
Pictures
