LED Lighting v2
Warm white LEDs from superbrightleds.com on protoboard. Each board has three LEDs and features power pass through to power the next chain of LEDs. Mounted in semi-transparent paper for light diffusion.
AMB M3 Headphone Amplifier
M3 headphone amplifier (http://www.amb.org/audio/mmm/) paired with Sigma11 power supply (http://www.amb.org/audio/sigma11/), standard build with suggested parts, laser etched front and rear panel. Case from Par-metal, model 20-12082B.
Projector Screen
A custom built 34" x 60.5" (about 5' 9" diagonal) screen. Benq W500 720p projector with inputs from PS3 and computer.
Left: Benq W500 and PS3 Center and Right: Custom screen with images from computer and Wall-E BluRay
Asus eeepc 701 Touchscreen Mod
Started with the Asus eeepc 701 netbook. Added a resistive touch screen, internal bluetooth dongle, and two extra usb ports. All running off a USB hub connected to an extra USB port inside the eeepc.
Left: eeepc with case open.
Center: Bottom of main board, showing USB hub (bottom right of picture) and two additional USB ports (center of picture)
Right: eeepc with touchscreen installed. Touchscreen controller on left, under speaker and below screen. Bluetooth dongle on right, above speaker.
Center: Bottom of main board, showing USB hub (bottom right of picture) and two additional USB ports (center of picture)
Right: eeepc with touchscreen installed. Touchscreen controller on left, under speaker and below screen. Bluetooth dongle on right, above speaker.
LED Lighting
A total of nine chains of six LEDs each to provide ambient room lighting. All LEDs are run from the 12V line of an old computer PSU. Two power lines run around the room and alternating LEDs run on the same power line. A switch controls each of the power lines so the lights can either run at 1/2 brightness or full brightness.
Overhead Projector with LCD Display
This is an LCD display with a broken backlight (bought off ebay for cheap), mounted on plexiglass. Overhead projector (also sourced on ebay) was used to project the image from the LCD onto a wall.
Top Left: LCD mounted on plexiglass. LCD is on left. Driver circuits on center top (green PCB). Original LCD buttons for controlling power, contrast, and settings on right (brown PCB). Power control board on center bottom (brown PCB with plastic cover).
Center: LCD still functioning after disassembly and mounting
Right: Finished product with some black poster board and electrical tape to block waveguided light. Large desk fan provided (overkill) cooling for the LCD. This was later replaced with an 80mm computer fan.
Bottom Left: Sample image. Remember the room light is quite bright in this case, and the results are much better in a dark room.
Center: LCD still functioning after disassembly and mounting
Right: Finished product with some black poster board and electrical tape to block waveguided light. Large desk fan provided (overkill) cooling for the LCD. This was later replaced with an 80mm computer fan.
Bottom Left: Sample image. Remember the room light is quite bright in this case, and the results are much better in a dark room.
PSOne LCD screen as Computer Status Display
4" PSOne LCD screen is mounted into the front of a computer as a dynamic status update screen.
Top Left: Starting PSOne LCD screen. Product originally intended to connect to the back of the PSOne
Center: Nice and cozy inside front door of Antec Super Lanboy case
Right and Bottom Left: Final results, screen in action. Displaying time, CPU/RAM usage, HDD usage, and system temperatures
Center: Nice and cozy inside front door of Antec Super Lanboy case
Right and Bottom Left: Final results, screen in action. Displaying time, CPU/RAM usage, HDD usage, and system temperatures
