Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Busy building here

I've been keeping very busy. Though twice retired I've taken a job with an electronics design firm. Right now it is part time. Though I will end up full time within the next couple months. Guess I'm destined to be a workaholic.
The building projects here are continuing. The past few days have been spent reconfiguring the home office. The cabinet computer project is progressing slowly. Thus far it contains an energy efficient itx board running a somewhat slow but efficient Celeron processor. It's life revolves around keeping my Magic Jack phone working 24/7.
I managed to get sidetracked from the cabinet project long enough to build up another ITX Intel Atom dual core computer. My last one was sacrificed to get Meg a green computer going in Toronto. This mini computer runs extremely well. I built this one a bit different than the last one. It is powered by a 12 VDC power source using a DC power supply board from mini.box.com. This eliminates having a heat generating power supply inside the computer case. Additionally this was my first venture using a Solid State Drive vice the more conventional hard drive. A future post will detail this project with pictures.
Still on the bench is a UBTX board that will be home to a Pentium four 3 ghz processor. This board will be built in the computer cabinet.
I also have a dual core board and processor awaiting a build.
So will be busy over the next few weeks. Keep following for detailed posts on all of these builds as well as projects I have in the making.

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