Mini epia config
 

the parts:

A little bit later:

Grafic LCD in the front:

still has to be soldered and cut out in the front panel

Next to his big brother

That's all for today.

Cutting the wood and "afschuren" it in my room wasn't such a good idea.

In the bottom of the case: laptop DVD rom, ultra thin, than, on top af that the 10 gig seagate from an Xbox, then the epia mobo and the stripped psu on top. in the left and the right panel an 80 mm fan, 5V unhearable.

in front:
* DVD
* LCD
* POwer/HDD led (blue)
* 2 USB ports
==> anybody an Idea on how to make the power button ?

current dimensions: front 18*18 cm, and 21 cm deep

nice. watch out with the PSU, a PSU with only the bottom already killed an entire setup here :/

btw, don't forget about EMI and grounding!

hmm, grounding... how and where ? wooden case huh...

In installed windows with the PSU passive cooled, the mosfet heatsinks get warm, but not hot, so with a little ariflow...

psu housing with ground of your house

if you have the money, buy a 60W psu for the epia, sure thats enough for 1hd,epia and an optical drive. It will save you alota space

ask evangeliz, perhaps he's got a PSU that can be used

The soon to be announced new Epia's have a 5V interface (like laptops), instead of having to be powered with a regular ATX powersupply.

It'd be nice to power your epia with a laptop adaptor, those are easy to find and powerfull enought. My IBM thinkpad adapter is 72W, powerfull enough for a dvd + hd + epia. : )

Anyone an idea where one can get those really silent Seagate 10Gb disks (without mutilating an Xbox)? :)

Those seagate laptophd not good enough for ya :D?
Now they have 5400rpm version with 8mb cache :o

scroll down
and you'll see the psu Morex 55W PSU and DC-DC Converter Kit
64 pond sterling is quite expensive though, for what it is.

Xbox seagates are LOUD.
At least the one I had :p

Seagate makes laptop hd's? Never seen them.

Mine is unhearable, really...

MPL has them. (Frontpage)
Look they're kind of cheap (since last time i checked for laptop stuff, a 20gb travelstar @4300rpm cost €120, they are cheaper compared to the hitachi/ibm's)
@MPL
Seagate Momentus 20GB 5400RPM 2MB €105
Seagate Momentus 20GB 5400RPM 8MB €114
Seagate Momentus 40GB 5400RPM 2MB €153
Seagate Momentus 40GB 5400RPM 8MB €159

the price diffrence between the 8mb and 2mb are minimal :hello:

I think I'll buy a 40gb/8mb soon for my titanium, wanna know I'll get a performance boost :D

front panel cut-out, not finished yet..

professional painting

you need to hold the paint bottle vertical, not horizontal

hmm, well it worked this way :)

only when the bottle is almost empty, or you can't use the entire can

My upcomming 200GB, 7200RPM, 8MB, cache seagate hard drive will be more quiet then my original seagate U5 series Xbox hard drives.
What reminds mee that I bought 2 250GB maxtors, and I still have to install them :D

the "to be painted part" is lying flat on the floor...

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looking small! :)

will be painted black, and with alu L-profile on the borders...

size:

front: 18.5*18.5, and +- 20 cm long

hmm looks like a stick with winbond chips :D or is it transcend?

making something that small (and actually working) is always impressive :super:

nopez, ordinary pc2100 twinmos stick

working with wood is muchos fun, look what I made last week :D :

you made a tv out of wood ?

euh... NO, the large, gray thingy it stands on :p

aaah a wooden DVD player! always nice to see old skool tech :)

wow, great wallpaper! :)

that's no wallpaper, that's mtv or something :p

I was talking about that lightblue wallpaper on the *wall*. :P

a wooden tv, a special all the wall wallpaper and a wooden dvdplayer!
Moddin Manson lives up to its name!! ;)