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Sam Cagle, and his associates, like to spend off duty time building geeky contraptions. On this page, we keep work logs of our off duty projects, along with links to our sources of inspiration. If you would like to contribute to a project, or your a manufactuer wishing to sponser a project, drop us a line at generalmanager@cagletech.com. If you would like to try a few projects yourself, we try to stock various odds and ends for mods at our webstore: www.cagletech.ecrater.com There's not much there right now, due to our limited budget, but we'll be adding and changing items as time goes by, so keep checking back.
Present listing of projects:
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This is my matsonic CLE266 via 800mhz C3 board getting ready to be baked in the oven submerged with candle gel. I bought ten pounds of gel, around a pound is placed on the board in one pic.
The aluminum foil is the mold for the gel.
I'll be using some of the gel to fill a hard drive enclosure with the drive in it.
The heatsink is cady-cornered because I took the original one off and replaced it with a older P4 one. It wouldn't go straight without hitting against something important. It's attached with Artic Silver Adhesive, and I did have to file the edges to keep it safe.
The rear connectors are taped to keep the gel out.
I haven't baked it yet, because I was looking for my compactflash-IDE connector with which I'll be loading geexbox before baking it into the gel as well, and a USB rear slot connector so I could connect up the USB headers on the board before baking so as not to lose them, and maybe a CNR modem. I'll be posting pictures of the results. There's a few things to iron out before I bake it.
I was planning to make a case for this gel PC out of K'nex, with a handle for carrying, and using a PS1 LCD for showing videos.
Oh, the power LED is going to be a old bicycle rear light I picked up from circuit city that strobes from side to side like a cylon raider, it will be baked into the gel as well. I thought about booting geekbox on a compactflash card using a IDE adaptor reading media from a spare drive. I'll leave one IDE cable hanging out for attaching a spare hard drive.
I plan on using a modded micro-atx power supply, which I'll be uploading pictures of later.
Please forgive the bra on the floor, and ignore the micro-SD in the DS, I swear it's for homebrew.
Will post pics of the work.
I'll be uploading more pics of my creations in a bit. This is just one I was working on at this time. I've found my compactflash-IDE adaptor. I also figured out the power supply issue. I have a small generic micro-atx PS, I'll strip the PS out of it's case, remove the fan, and rebuild it like shown below.
Well, on second thought and for safety sake, I may just wrap it with EL wire and leave out the cold cathode, besides, I have the EL wire on hand.
I also found a old telephone holder at work made out of acrylic that measures 8 1/2 x 9 inches with clear feet that will serve as the base. |
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