Revised planning & ToDo post
Small change in plans, I'm going to make a standalone housing for the 5" LCD (which I'm already calling a "monitor"), based on a spare speaker stand for my Creative Inspire 6700 set I still had laying around (flawless, still in plastic!
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Yes, I haven't worked bork crap on the case. I did do a lot of software stuff like installing and configuring, and getting that 5" LCD to display something readable
I'll work on the case again when I feel like it, so there
It's still cold outside and I'm a pussy
But, a short sum up is in place of what to do on the system:
ToDo - Hardware
- Get them aluminum plates grinded and sanded
- Make a tape mockup to feed the drooling mouths here at TPU
- Cut holes in the plates:
>- Front: Power button, Character LCD, HDD LED
>- Left side: 120mm fanhole, USB port holes
>- Right side: 120mm fanhole, slimline CD hole
>- Rear: Cut enough off for the mobo tray to fit, hole for a Molex to feed the monitor
- Bend 'n fit a piece of alum to rest the PSU on
- Bend 'n fit a 2x HDD tray
- Find a spare place to stick the CF adapter (and I really mean to "stick" it on somewhere using Velcro)
ToDo - Software
- Further downtrim of the current Xubuntu install (going towards a terminal-based server instead of X)
- Get an FTP server going so I can fill those 2x500Gb HDD's with the music/movies that are currently filling my main rig
- Write the darn stuff I want to get up and running (fully customizable "web"radio interface, incorporating an intelligent request system and more)
ToDo - after that...
- Disassemble the current "monitor" setup (read: remove duct tape
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- Make it nice!
Of course, this is just a list for me so I remember what to do