- Mar 18, 2005
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Story goes; my wife has been off for a year on maternity leave, her friend who has two kids has been helping her out tremendously with both joint play time and sanity-creating coffee time at her house. I really appreciate this time as I get to do school work/sleep in/relax/etc while she's gone. My wife's friend's husband is in the reserves, really nice guy and super chill, but totally useless when it comes to computers (I'm over fixing the wireless every few weeks after he has 'made it better') so I started cobbling together an old P4 I had as a suitable Edubuntu machine for the kids to learn on. I tried about 10x to get a version of edubuntu to load on the P4 but no dice.
Fast forward to me shopping at a surplus store and finding some ammo boxes for super cheap. Thought it would be the perfect case for a kids pc. Put an ad out the FS forum, got a Via SP13000 for the price of shipping, had the 512mb DDR stick from some other project as well as the ITX psu and other misc hardware. 3 weeks and a can of purple spray paint later and the project is finished
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/xhiron/IMG_3459.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/xhiron/IMG_3458.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/xhiron/IMG_3457.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/xhiron/IMG_3456.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/xhiron/IMG_3455.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/xhiron/IMG_3454.jpg
Edubuntu 9.04 loaded easily, all hardware detected, almost silent running up close, and very little heat throughout (HDD temp sensor shows 35c, case is only slightly warm to the touch, can't find anything that could read CPU temp).
The thing is super cramped! ITX board is less than a mm to touching the inner lid (a rubber gasket is touching slightly). PSU I had to glue in with epoxy. The board is fastened to the back of the case via the backplate (VGA and RS232 screws). The plexiglass mb tray is just for rigidity, it definitlely isn't pretty. On the bottom there are 4 5mmx15mm cap screws bolted on with 10mm rubber washers threaded onto them for feet. A hole is cut for the PSU to vent outside (air is warm but not anything close to hot).
Overall I am very pleased, I think my wife's friends are going to love it (the dad is going to freak ) and the kids will hopefully have a good time learning with it.
Hope everyone likes it
Parts used:
Via Sp13000 1.3ghz C3 motherboard w/onboard everything
512mb DDR333
AOpen 150w ITX PSU
Toshiba 80gb SATA HDD
Used Canadian Army Tracer Round Ammo Box
Fast forward to me shopping at a surplus store and finding some ammo boxes for super cheap. Thought it would be the perfect case for a kids pc. Put an ad out the FS forum, got a Via SP13000 for the price of shipping, had the 512mb DDR stick from some other project as well as the ITX psu and other misc hardware. 3 weeks and a can of purple spray paint later and the project is finished
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/xhiron/IMG_3459.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/xhiron/IMG_3458.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/xhiron/IMG_3457.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/xhiron/IMG_3456.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/xhiron/IMG_3455.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/xhiron/IMG_3454.jpg
Edubuntu 9.04 loaded easily, all hardware detected, almost silent running up close, and very little heat throughout (HDD temp sensor shows 35c, case is only slightly warm to the touch, can't find anything that could read CPU temp).
The thing is super cramped! ITX board is less than a mm to touching the inner lid (a rubber gasket is touching slightly). PSU I had to glue in with epoxy. The board is fastened to the back of the case via the backplate (VGA and RS232 screws). The plexiglass mb tray is just for rigidity, it definitlely isn't pretty. On the bottom there are 4 5mmx15mm cap screws bolted on with 10mm rubber washers threaded onto them for feet. A hole is cut for the PSU to vent outside (air is warm but not anything close to hot).
Overall I am very pleased, I think my wife's friends are going to love it (the dad is going to freak
) and the kids will hopefully have a good time learning with it.Hope everyone likes it
Parts used:
Via Sp13000 1.3ghz C3 motherboard w/onboard everything
512mb DDR333
AOpen 150w ITX PSU
Toshiba 80gb SATA HDD
Used Canadian Army Tracer Round Ammo Box
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