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Thoughts...
For about a year now I have had this mod rolling
around in my head, and I have to admit I am super
excited to have it done, and also with how well
it turned out. Now I will admit that I cut some
corners on this project, in fact there are some
things that I would much rather have changed.
Finally getting my ideas out in some form seems
to have taken precedence on this project. What
would I change? Well I really wanted to power
the monitor off the internal power supply. It
was 12 volt native, at 4 amps. But I can get away
with a lot less than that as the original inverter
is no longer in the LCD monitor's components.
If you try to do this mod just look for an LCD
monitor that is 12V native and you should be able
to get some success on that front. Another idea
I had was to actually do a power supply mod to
splice into the 110V line in the power supply
its self. This also would have cut down on the
number of external cables required, thus making
it look sleeker. Finally I didn't have a cordless
keyboard and mouse lying around, but it would
really be pimp to get a nice Logitech set and
mount the receiver in this unit also.
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in regards to geek points. I took this little unit
to a lan party recently. I used my 19" 8ms viewsonic
monitor for my main gaming monitor. I also played
some divx star wars movies as well as a webcam I
mounted in the case on the lcd window kit. The reactions
I got were priceless. I think I may have even leveled
up in my geek score. But being a perfectionist there
are still a lot of ways I can see to take this even
to a higher level. I will be trying one of the "Convert
a webcam to be an infrared webcam" mods soon and
toying with that to see what results I can get.
But my true holy grail for this project is to get
one of the MIRICLE® 110KX S - Ultra Compact thermal
imaging systems by Thermoteknix and mounting it
in the case for real time thermal imaging on the
LCD window kit in vibrant color! Who knows, maybe
they will be so kind as to provide one to the cause
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Any who... there you have it. My thoughts: scattered,
disorganized, and maybe slightly deranged... But
man you got to love it. No, really you do. You
should read the terms of use for this site. It
clearly states... Well maybe not so clearly...
Well you should any way this is a cool mod! Ahh
forget it! I'm going to play some scorched earth
3d.
Until
next time, remember to push the envelope, because
only in uncharted territories are the next discoveries
waiting to be found.
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