[SWLUG] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 2, Issue 17

[Alun]

Car battery LOL.

I would be staggering to carry it far.

Seriously a good idea, been looking for the screen on Google just now, that
looks a neat screen.

A thought on the batteries, my son in law bought a couple of electric bikes
for his sons last christmas and he had re-chargable batteries in them,not
very big either.

The other thought was that if one bought a slimline case for the board it
would be protected by steel in the bag, and you could rig up a switch over
for the power supply battery or mains.

The plus of the slim line box would it would protect the screen face when
placed against it for travell.

Otherwise what about one of those metal tool/camera boxes you can buy in B&Q
and fit it all in that.

The screen would be fixed to the inside lid

Lol my design mind is racing now.



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> <quote>
> Better - if you want a portable computer - to build
> something on a mATX board and pop it into something
> like an old laptop case, IMHO.
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> Its nice to see someone suggesting this.
> I have recently aquired a Via Eden11 machine with 7" touch screen, 1
> gig ram, slot dvdrw, n other stuff.
> the idea I have for this machine is to encode composite video in
> remote locations for bands then burn to dvd etc plus a bit of war
> driving and general portable use.
>
> The draw backs are that it is suprising how much space and faff value
> the cables take up even with as much wireless stuff as possible, i
> got around it by attaching the unit (the size of a ream of A5) to the
> side of a rucksack, the collection of soap on a rope psus go in a
> pouch on the other side, and inside the bag go usbhd, bag of assorted
> cat5, audio, video cables, notepad, small bag of hubs, thumb drives,
> 2 spare wifinics, screwdriver etc, the screen and a car battery (2
> days ups).
> so essentialy, EVERYTHING  i need is in one small rucksack which
> doesnt give away its true value.
>
> the plus point is that this Via board is a beast of a machine, 4xusb2,
> 2xcat5, composite video out, digital audio out (plus in, out and
> mic), cf card, pcmcia slot and 2 ide master/slave, floppy input etc
> etc etc. (also boots to a knoppix pmi on compact flash with lilo and
> miniroot on a 64m ide flash drive module - low power no hd)
>
> I have thought of bringing it to a swlug meeting at the shot the other
> night, but Im wary of the knob who points out that the bag is 6 times
> larger than his laptop, and 30 times larger than his pda!
>
> but for me, it does everything i want it to and a whole heap more.
> and cost < £700 the lot.
>
> anyone catch Max Boyce on Stuart Cables show, , some love him, some
> hate him!
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> stu
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