Duncan Tempelmeyer KE5RCC

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

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 is a video for the CNC machine….Let me know what you think!!!!

I still need to get around to putting some details up about the machine.

CNC, Computers

Here is the almost completed CNC machine….I can’t wait ’till tonight to get it running and acctually use it!

CNC, Computers

So I’m beginning work on my new project that Trevor is helping with…a CNC machine, in case you didnt already guess from the title. Here is the power supply/housing for the controller…

CNC, Computers

So I bought me a USB Missile Launcher off of www.woot.com , but just buying it wasnt enough for me. I wanted to take it further, and I did. First I put a woot monkey on the launcher so that it would like he was shooting them. Next I put some woot off lights by the launcher to warn people. And after a little work I was able to use my USB Panic Button (from woot as well) to launch the missiles from the launcher.

Software:
Autohotkey

http://www.johnbruin.net/index.php/2008/11/30/new-software-for-your-usb-panic-button/

Pretty Simple!

Pics will be up later.

Computers

Here is a clock that I built, well actually the second one like this that I built. It consist of an old Western Digital hard drive and a clock movement as well as a washer. Pretty simple actually, I’m going to be build some more to sell and I will take some pictures along the way so you can see how its done! If you are interested in buying one let me know, they will be $20 plus shipping to wherever you are.

Computers

Anyway…I outgrew my old 5 shelf A/V rack and decided just to build one. This one features a nice ammeter to tell me how many amps the system using. There is a shunt for the meter located in a double gang box in the bottom of the unit along with a plug which I added a capicator for some surge protection/line conditioning. There is also a digital copier surge protector on the whole system as well as a generic home theater surge protector. There is also an isolation transformer for the DVD player. The 2 NES’s are connected to 2 seperate tv’s the one on the left is tied in with the rest of the entertainment, while the one on the right is just connected to a tv. The HTPC, DVD, XBOX, and PS2 run through S-video. Right now I only have composite ran to the tv but ive ordered some connectors so i can run S-video through the wall. If you have any questions leave them in the comments or email me! me@duncan-tempelmeyer.net

Computers, Misc. Electronics

So I put a window in Rockys case and it was a Ms. Pac-Man!!!

Computers