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The "Cambridge Autonomous Underwater Vehicle 2008" September 12, 2008
"Florian", the DVD burning robot September 05, 2008
The "i-EPIA" May 22, 2008
The "GTA-PC" April 14, 2007
The "Digg" Case January 19, 2007
The "ITX-Laptop" December 07, 2006
The "Tortoise Beetle" October 02, 2006
The "DOS Head Unit" August 31, 2006
The "Janus Project" August 05, 2006
The "Leela PC" |
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Nano-ITX in a Football May 17, 2006
The "EPIA Alloy Mod" April 11, 2006
Neatorama's Collection of Case Mods February 18, 2006
The "Rundfunker" October 24, 2005
The "ITX TV" October 06, 2005
The K'nex-ITX August 05, 2005
The "Waffle Iron PC" July 21, 2005
The "Supra-Server" July 18, 2005
The "Mega-ITX" July 07, 2005
The "Encyclomedia" May 25, 2005
The "Accordion ITX" May 16, 2005
The "FileServerRouterSwitch" May 15, 2005
The "Mini Falcon" May 13, 2005
The "Bender PC" May 11, 2005
The "BBC ITX B" May 10, 2005
The "Frame" April 20, 2005
The "Jeannie" March 09, 2005
The "Cool Cube" January 30, 2005
First Nano-ITX Project? January 17, 2005
The "iGrill" |
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The "Gumball PC" December 15, 2004
The "Deco Box" December 03, 2004
The "TERA-ITX" October 06, 2004
The "Coealacanth-PC" September 17, 2004
The "Gramaphone-ITX-HD" August 26, 2004
The "C1541 Disk Drive ITX" August 25, 2004
The "SEGA-ITX" August 13, 2004
The "Quiet Cubid" August 06, 2004
The "BMWPC" July 14, 2004
The "Moo Cow Moo" July 02, 2004
The "Mini Mesh Box" June 17, 2004
Jukebox ITX May 24, 2004
The "ERN005PC" (KANA) March 13, 2004
The "Underwood No. 5" February 04, 2004
The "Humidor CL" January 23, 2004
The "Attache Server" January 22, 2004
"Racing The Light" January 21, 2004
VIA's Flat Panel DevKits January 20, 2004
The "Ambulator I" January 19, 2004
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"Racing The Light" (RTL)
By Richard Coles -
Posted on 22 January 2003
Introduction
Racing The Light (RTL) is a project born from the desire for PC's to be small, interesting, fun and a competition to achieve this between work colleagues. Other projects are underway and some have been completed like The "Windows XP Box" by Andy France.
The RTL project focusses around five major items: Blue Lighting, Perspex, Mini-ITX, a Heatsink Modification, and Viewable Components.
The in the future I plan to build a thicker (10mm thick Perspex) version. The current thickness of the Perspex is 5mm - and I will make a Perspex window in the HDD.
Current Specifications are: VIA EPIA 800, 2 x 256MB PC133 SDRAM, 7.5GB Hitatchi 2.5" HDD, Morex 55W PSU and DC-DC Converter Kit, Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-C2502, DLink DWL-520+ Wireless PCI Adapter, Zalman ZM-NB47 Northbridge heatsink, Pyramid Smart Fan Controller, 80mm Fan with Blue LEDs, Dimensions 240mm x 80mm x 200mm.
My initial design was growing in my mind so I drew a rough sketch of the idea being hatched.
From this sketch it was realised that the project would be relatively simple to build with Perspex panels.
A mockup of the final box was drawn in CAD to get a feeling for the overall design.
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