Thought I would start sharing some picks of a project I've been working on. Today I got the hardware to fit:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2vjxkwvp5jfa3fo/IMG_0404.JPGhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/gm4felhfubgw2uo/IMG_0406.jpgMore details to come.
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Brian
You MUST paint that bulkhead black.
Quote from: "pentium"You MUST paint that bulkhead black.
Agreed.
Quote from: "barcher174"Thought I would start sharing some picks of a project I've been working on. Today I got the hardware to fit:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2vjxkwvp5jfa3fo/IMG_0404.JPG
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gm4felhfubgw2uo/IMG_0406.jpg
More details to come.
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Brian
What exactly is this add-on card and what does it do? Does it work in a NeXTcube under NeXTSTEP 3.3?
Just curious what it is we are looking at.
TJ
Looks like an Intel Atom board that's been mounted to a blanking plate. It doesn't draw power or interface at all with the bus. It's just an independent computer occupying a slot.
It's a dual core celeron system that will work independently with a couple of tricks. First there will be a uC monitoring the power up/ down of the cube and start up and shutdown the ATX board accordingly. I had originally wanted to use the cube internal power entirely, but this board has an external power brick, which is probably safer. The celeron board will also provide wifi forwarding to the cube as well as x-window forwarding. The goal is to use the celeron as a slave to the cube and do heavy lifting for things like web browsing.
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Brian
Quote from: "barcher174"It's a dual core celeron system that will work independently with a couple of tricks. First there will be a uC monitoring the power up/ down of the cube and start up and shutdown the ATX board accordingly. I had originally wanted to use the cube internal power entirely, but this board has an external power brick, which is probably safer. The celeron board will also provide wifi forwarding to the cube as well as x-window forwarding. The goal is to use the celeron as a slave to the cube and do heavy lifting for things like web browsing.
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Brian
Very cool ! So do you network it to the cube motherboard via rj45 best regards Rob
Hi Rob,
Right now it's going through a router, but my plan is to use a crossover cable between both boards. Hopefully I'll have time again soon to complete this project. Life is not kind to my hobby projects.
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Brian
Blasphemy.
