Stuart

This sounds brilliant to me. I have been thinking of building an MP3 player
for my lounge room and you have almost done the entire design for me. Where
do I get this stuff ? Now what about a remote control. I was planning to
make my MP3 player Linux based. I figured I could knock up a bit of code to
read the parallel port to provide an external user interface but I suffer
from chronic laziness and if I can avoid doing any work I will. What about
fan noise. Is it possible to load this motherboard you have suggested with a
processor that doesn't need a fan. I have discovered you can get away with
less processing power doing MP3 stuff under Linux than Windows. This might
help.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart O'Reilly <pig@AR.COM.AU>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999 9:30 AM
Subject: (OT) Re: Thanks for the Information


>I've been thinking of a car computer as well, for playing MP3's, I thought
of
>making control panels that connect to the LPT port (using a pic) to control
what
>song and playlist etc but it looked to hard to do the windows software. So
to get
>around it I've decided to get an (ntsc) 4" LCD monitor from Timeline inc
for
>about $70 - $80 and connect this to the video out of an AGP video card and
to
>controll it I'll use a trackball therefore no custom written software, no
hassels
>etc
>Regards
>Stuart
>P.S. I've priced motherboards here in Aus and i can get a motherboard with
AGP
>video, sound,100 baseT network card and a 56K modem all built in (making it
very
>compact) for about $180
>
>Mark Willis wrote:
>
>> Hey, I'm glad I found the URL etc. on those LCD panels, too.  I'm
>> seriously thinking Car Computer, here...  (Just what *I* need, Yet
>> Another Machine To Maintain <G>)
>>
>>   Mark
>>
>> Panos Kenterlis wrote:
>> >
>> > For Mark Willis.
>> >
>> > Thank you Mark very much for helping me. I am sure the information you
gave
>> > me will be very handy.
>> >
>> >   \||||Y||||//    Panos Kenterlis
>> >   [.]~[.]-d)  Technological and Educational Institute of Piraeus
>> >    |  U   ||/    (BSc student)
>> >    | '==' |      Athens - Piraeus
>> >     \_L_/      Greece
>