Duncan Tempelmeyer KE5RCC

This makes me quite happy, and is quite useless. Watch the video it will all make sense. I made this using just a box, modified servo, 2 switches, some wire, and batteries.

Misc. Electronics, Things Trevor Wishes He Had

So I went into Frys Electronics with $3000 cash in my pocket, but managed to come out with $1900. I bought me a HD projector, projector mount, projector screen, 25 ft DVI cable, and a DVI to HDMI adapter. Shortly after getting home, they were hanging from the ceiling 100” screen for about $1100!!! Cables will be run through the ceiling/wall soon.

House, Things Trevor Wishes He Had

Russ and I were finally able to get some cables run here in the house. In the end I ended up giving him a color laser printer that I had for his help, and I provided all the materials. We ran 19 Cat5e cables, 18 of which are for data, the other one is for sound so that I can listen to music from my computer in the office in the living room. Here is a breakdown of where all the ports went: 1 in the bedroom, 6 in the blue room for servers, 3 in the living room, 2 in the dining room, 2 in the garage, and 4 in the arcade. Also in the bedroom I pulled the old phone jack and coax that were coming out of the wall and put all of them in the same plate as the network, ignore the numbers, I reused plates.

Then we have the living room, with the three network ports, and two RCA connectors for left and right audio.

And we have the two in the dining room, which are next to pre-existing cable and phone.

And the garage.

And two of the four that are in the arcade, you can prolly guess what the other two look like.

And where do all these cables go? To my patch panel and to the switches, I’m using two D-Link switches, a 24 port, and a 16 port. I have plans to get a 24 port gigabit switch soon, I have a small 5 port, but my desktop, servers, PS3 and several other things support gigabit.

I know, I know…Why? Why not, don’t ask why I did this, I like to have lans and hate to have cables everywhere, and the arcade machines need to connect to the network as well. I do have several access points as well.

Computers, House, Things Trevor Wishes He Had

Well, I’m the proud new owner of 2 new houses! They had a 2 for 1 deal at the title office! Anyone need to rent a house? Just kidding, I had to buy Chester a new house because he somehow managed to burn it down destroy his again.

House, Things Trevor Wishes He Had

I’ve been busy lately and have yet to post my new pc…till now!

Anyway as stated in an earlier post I got most of this for free. But let’s start with a listing of what this thing is rockin.

Parts:

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard $84.99, and a heatsink for the processor power mosfets $15.00

CPU: AMD Phenom X4 965 Quad Core CPU $0.00

Memory: Kingston HyperX DDR3 1333 2GB $0.00

Hard drives: 3 Western Digital 1TB, 1 Western Digital 500GB, 1 external Western Digital 500GB (not pictured) $0.00 (already had, but spent about $350 before)

Optical: Generic DVD/CD Dual layer DVD burner $20.00

Card Reader: Rosewill card reader $14.00

Power supply: A-Power 850 Watt $50.00

Video Card: Nvidia BFG GeForce 285 $0.00

Case: Lancool PC-K60 Dragonlord $0.00

OS: Windows XP Professional $0.00 (Got off dead computer at office)

TOTAL: $184+taxes+shipping

So about $200 for a nice quad core computer…not bad!

All the free stuff that I didn’t already have came from Quakecon this year, and the case came from www.casemodblog.com Bill Owen runs that as well as www.mnpctech.com I use them for my u channel molding on my case mods. I really recommend checking him out, he has all kinds of neat stuff for modders, and the case mod blog is neat to check out and see whats up. Thanks to him for sending me this case that I won.

Anyway, pics!

Computers, Things Trevor Wishes He Had

Okay, so on Sunday I decided that I wanted a bartop arcade machine. I’m spur of the moment like that, so I went to Home Depot and bought some wood, and Wal-Mart to buy some corner brackets that evening. Later that night I had the sides, top, and bottom made, and a basic shape formed. Here it is on Wednesday and I’ve got a working unit that I just came in from playing. Simply put….IT IS AWESOME!!!! I used a LCD monitor that I had laying around, and luckily it had the screw holes in the back for a VESA mount, so I just used some angle aluminum and made some brackets for it (I love that stuff), to mount the computer I used 2 pieces of flat aluminum stock for mounts that I tapped and threaded some motherboard spacers into. For a monitor bezel I used a piece of plexli that I cut the protective covering on it to the viewable area of the monitor, and then painted the rest black to give a nice border. (all this is on the back side so it can’t get scratched. The computer is a spare P4 with 512 MB DDR that I had laying around. The keyboard interface, buttons, and joystick I had from previous arcade machine work/building. The hinge I  used on the control panel was off an old slot machine that I parted out (I had several), but it was too wide and got in the way of 2 of the L brackets, so I had to cut it some. Anyway, I’m not done yet, close, but not yet. I will post again when I can!

Coin-OP, Computers, MAME, Things Trevor Wishes He Had

Here’s one that I’m sure Trevor will like.

Rocky found me a lamp at a garage sale for $3. A lamp for $3 is a pretty good, but THIS lamp for $3 is a great deal.

Things Trevor Wishes He Had

Hi Cole and Trevor….this post is for you.

Things Trevor Wishes He Had