Melbourne, Australia Meet Part 2 - Page 7

Fox_Mulder · 05-23-2005, 04:14 AM

very sorry guys, turns out my dad's operation rendered him being unable to drive. He was debating whether to drive but akin to the advice of the surgeon I said not to drive. Dammit, now that's 2 meets in a row I've missed! Next time I'll be there!

marin · 05-23-2005, 05:23 AM

SNIP

Quote: Originally Posted by Cœur d'Arcy

Was too busy admiring the shelf.

hehe, you wish you had that much room!

marin

feral · 05-23-2005, 06:20 AM

Gidday guys,

I have to lol, cause on that particular Sunday I was at the Puter Market @ Box hill attempting to source some stuff for my installation

Wouldnt mind hooking up next time with you lot to check out what you have done and hopefully share my work, should my lilliput 8' arrive before then..

Anyway, I managed to pick up an HP e-pc C10. Its a P3 866 with a tiny footprint for around 130 bucks. (about the same size as the epia's) no HDD but 128meg of ram. slim CD, No pci slots, pretty basic, but all I need for mp3, SVCD video, a cam and a bit of USB wifi and dongle heaven. The clinch was that it runs on 19v, so no inverters required, just a bloody overpriced regulator from jaycar.

So Ive added an 80 gig seagate, the bios is only supposed to support 65 gig, but for some reason it was happy.. Got 2k running on it last night
, Im using xp/2k lite to slim it down and have IIS installed cause im considering designing my own web interface for media navigation. > might go meedio or have a look at sourceforge.

Put it in the car this evening, hooked up a monitor, got the regulator all hooked up, audio out into line in... FANTASTIC. no ugly electronical disturbance noise to be heard, even with a little bit of revving, couldnt tell the difference between a CD and mp3.

So anyway, keen to meet up next time, hopefully Ill have figured out a way to affix the touchscreen in some stealth like manner in the falcon.

Cheers!

Giant · 05-23-2005, 06:54 AM

Damn,...i should really check the forums more often..would have loved ro come along to the meet..and box hill's only 20 mins from my place
ill have to come along to the next one i spose, will prob have the box installed by then

feral · 05-23-2005, 07:04 AM

Mooroolbark myself

Cœur d'Arcy · 05-23-2005, 11:52 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by marin

hehe, you wish you had that much room!

That's what a family car is for.

djmickyg · 05-24-2005, 01:29 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Cœur d'Arcy

That's what a family car is for.

Isnt that for the family?

Cœur d'Arcy · 05-25-2005, 01:43 AM

Hence the room.

NiN^_^NiN · 05-25-2005, 05:52 AM

I'm wondering if i should bother spending the money to build a sensor network in the car so i can tell whats happening with the whole car like the BMW i-drive system etc.

Also as some of you might know i have to turn my pc on and off manually.

Im gonna be building something to turn the pc on when you turn the keys to ACC ao im gonna ask if anyone would be interested in buying 1 if i make a few?

I'll give u more details on what it can do but 1 of the main functions is turnong the pc on once you turn the key to acc on (of course u need a psu or inverter that survives crank)

Phobos0001 · 05-25-2005, 06:55 AM

i could be wrong here but genraly the PC is just a momentery switch that bridges 2 jumpers on the motherboard, right? well why dont you just wire that upto the "start" position of the ignition rather then the acc? mabey use a 5 volt relay with a 12 volt switch, or mabey im just talking out of my ***

NiN^_^NiN · 05-25-2005, 07:25 AM

cause the thing im gonna build will let you be able to leave the pc on for 5min while u get a slurpee and come back and shut down the pc after 5 and then d/c it from the battery after 7mins do if the pc craps it and doesnt shut down this will do a hard shutdown.

Phobos0001 · 05-25-2005, 07:30 AM

ah, fair enough, just thought i would put my two cents in, and i just realised, how the hell are you supposed to turn off the PC if it freezes up or glitches? in my setups i just put a momentary button in the dash, i mean how lazy do you want to get dude?! its one button

NiN^_^NiN · 05-25-2005, 09:55 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Phobos0001

ah, fair enough, just thought i would put my two cents in, and i just realised, how the hell are you supposed to turn off the PC if it freezes up or glitches?

As i mentioned above this will D/C The power from the PC it will do a soft shutdown then 2mins later it will d/c the power so if it freezes then it will be turned off anyway.

Quote: Originally Posted by Phobos0001

in my setups i just put a momentary button in the dash, i mean how lazy do you want to get dude?! its one button

Thats how i have mine to but it takes 30secs for mine to come out of hibernation so it be nice for it to start stright away it's not a lazy factor.

Hell if u can get my startup time down to 10secs i wouldnt need this.

But the main thing for this is to have the pc on while the car's off for a short amount of time so you don't have to keep starting and stopping cause it gets annoying when you gotta wait 30sec for the pc to hibernate then get out drop off something then start it back up.

Phobos0001 · 05-25-2005, 11:07 PM

30 seconds damn thats quick! my record is 52 seconds from button push to music, but that is not hibernation and is was a 1.6 full MoBo amd CPU, howd you get is so quick?!

NiN^_^NiN · 05-26-2005, 02:11 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Phobos0001

30 seconds damn thats quick! my record is 52 seconds from button push to music, but that is not hibernation and is was a 1.6 full MoBo amd CPU, howd you get is so quick?!

Thats not quick at all most people o the board have it between 5sec and 20secs.

I'm using a mini ITX and cause it's a 600mhz it might be why it's a tad slower than the 1.2ghz at hibernating.

Also it all depends on the amount of ram you have the smaller the ram the less hibernation takes up.

I put in 256mb instead of 512mb and it hibernates faster than 512mb.

You sound like u should have this device but your not hibernating why?