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I'm posting this just to show something else I've been working on for a while now. It's my car-pc. I had to make another one because I fried the mobo from the one I was originally working on. :-(
I'll have to split this up into two posts to fit everything.
Here's most of the stuff I'm using in my system: The mobo is a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H, M4 ATX power suppy, a Polstar GPS receiver I removed from a Parallax GPS module and soldered to a board I made with a power injector for an external antenna, a 80GB 7200RPM SATA II hd, and a nVidia geforce 7300GS card that I may or may not use, depending on how the system behaves with the built in ATI 780g chipset.
A couple of pics of the case I made. It's not complete yet, I still need to file down some of the corners where I welded the angle aluminum that I made the frame from and make some panels to cover the sides. the tray that the mobo sits in is also made out of aluminum that I bent to size on a brake. I drilled and tapped the holes for the mobo standoffs.
A couple of pics of the rear and front of the case.
A couple of pics of what it looks like mounted in the trunk. No, that sub above the PC doesn't affect it at all. I keep getting comments from people about that.
The heatsink for my processor, an AM2 Athlon 64 X2 5600, is a Dynatron A48G 1U Server Heatsink that measures a little less than 3cm tall, including the fan!
For a monitor, I'm using a 15" NEC monitor that I modified to make a touchscreen. I removed the touch panel and touch controller from another 15" monitor that didn't power on and was a bit bulkier. I had to drill and tap a couple of holes to be able to mount the touch controller to the new monitor.
The controller uses 5V and an RS232 serial port for data communications. I poked around with my multimeter to try to find a point on the LCD controller board that would output a switched 5V that would only be available when the monitor was powered on. I found one.
The old monitor that the touch controller came out of had a 9 pin D-sub port for the serial connection to the touch controller. Conveniently enough, the monitor I mounted the controller on has a 9 pin mini DIN connector on it. I wasn't planning on using serial data, though, to connect it to the computer. I wanted to adapt it to USB. What I did was buy a serial to USB adapter and take it apart so I could just use the board. I soldered some wires with an IDC connector on one end to plug into the touch controller and soldered 4 wires to the USB side. Then I covered the whole assembly in heatshrink to protect it.
I'll have to split this up into two posts to fit everything.
Here's most of the stuff I'm using in my system: The mobo is a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H, M4 ATX power suppy, a Polstar GPS receiver I removed from a Parallax GPS module and soldered to a board I made with a power injector for an external antenna, a 80GB 7200RPM SATA II hd, and a nVidia geforce 7300GS card that I may or may not use, depending on how the system behaves with the built in ATI 780g chipset.
A couple of pics of the case I made. It's not complete yet, I still need to file down some of the corners where I welded the angle aluminum that I made the frame from and make some panels to cover the sides. the tray that the mobo sits in is also made out of aluminum that I bent to size on a brake. I drilled and tapped the holes for the mobo standoffs.
A couple of pics of the rear and front of the case.
A couple of pics of what it looks like mounted in the trunk. No, that sub above the PC doesn't affect it at all. I keep getting comments from people about that.
The heatsink for my processor, an AM2 Athlon 64 X2 5600, is a Dynatron A48G 1U Server Heatsink that measures a little less than 3cm tall, including the fan!
For a monitor, I'm using a 15" NEC monitor that I modified to make a touchscreen. I removed the touch panel and touch controller from another 15" monitor that didn't power on and was a bit bulkier. I had to drill and tap a couple of holes to be able to mount the touch controller to the new monitor.
The controller uses 5V and an RS232 serial port for data communications. I poked around with my multimeter to try to find a point on the LCD controller board that would output a switched 5V that would only be available when the monitor was powered on. I found one.
The old monitor that the touch controller came out of had a 9 pin D-sub port for the serial connection to the touch controller. Conveniently enough, the monitor I mounted the controller on has a 9 pin mini DIN connector on it. I wasn't planning on using serial data, though, to connect it to the computer. I wanted to adapt it to USB. What I did was buy a serial to USB adapter and take it apart so I could just use the board. I soldered some wires with an IDC connector on one end to plug into the touch controller and soldered 4 wires to the USB side. Then I covered the whole assembly in heatshrink to protect it.