Well for the last few weeks I have been working on a new project. (All in all I have been working on it for about six months now really.) Melanie acquired and old laptop, we are talking an old Toshiba with 128 MB of ram and an old Celeron processor.
Originally I took the thing apart and tried to use it as a separate monitor, but I wasn't too pleased with how it turned out, so now I am working to do something else with it. So far I have managed to gut an old DVD player and stuff the laptop motherboard into the DVD player's case. I have removed the extremely loud hard drive and put in a USB hub with some thumb drives. I left the CD player in just so it can boot from the CD. I am running Puppy Linux on it, which is a great, very small version of Linux. It boots from a CD and then switches to the USB drive, so you only hear the CD drive turn on for about a minute and then it goes silent. It has a wireless Internet card and hopefully it will have a cheap wireless keyboard and mouse. (If i can find a cheap one that is.) I have managed to find a VGA output cable that will convert the signal to S-video, that cost me about $5 online. I was hoping to be able to hook it up to a TV and watch Movies, TV shows and listen to music via the Internet, but I think the processor is a little to slow to handle it, bummer. So for now it looks like it will be a good, always on, 100% silent way to check your email on your TV. Haha, seems like a big waste of time now that I explain it all, but it gives me something to do while my sweet wife isn't home. Anyway, If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
1 comment:
Sounds like a good project! You're amazing the way you can take stuff apart and put it back together, plus all the computer know how!
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