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Postby rika on Thu May 18, 2006 6:38 am

Thanks David.
I think i´v realease it here first and see where it goes, if any bodey here would take the time to built a vintage case, he (or she?) should be the first to try this skin out. :wink:

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Postby tman on Sat May 20, 2006 1:43 pm

http://www.amradios.com/Reproductions.html

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Rika, a couple of this would be awesome for your skin.
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Postby rika on Sun May 21, 2006 8:48 am

8) agree

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Postby XLRETARD on Mon Jun 05, 2006 1:46 pm

HEY RIKA!

Hows that most bitchenest skin comin along? :D

just wondering and salivating waiting for it :wink:

keep up the great work :D

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Postby rika on Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:10 pm

It´s comin along fine... :wink:

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Postby P3rv3rt B3ar on Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:30 pm

rika wrote:It´s comin along fine... :wink:

Rika


Yeah right, i bet uve been too busy harvesting zombies to flood on coppers ;)
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Postby rika on Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:12 pm

Ok, good news first:
Only tvscreens and a small number of ppc screens left...
Bad news:
On vacation for 5 more weeks, don´t have much time to skin during this time.
"Bad" news 2:
Allready on another skin ide... :wink: ( will make vintage skin complete first though)
So no more post from Rika in a cople of weeks...

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Postby samgreco on Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:34 pm

5 WEEKS !!! :o :o :o

Man, we have to fight for 2 weeks here in the US. Enjoy it.
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Postby P3rv3rt B3ar on Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:13 pm

These are all great news!! enjoy your vacation man!
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Postby PhilB on Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:06 pm

Well I bought a sacrificial case.....and will start to work on the hardware side of this over the next few weeks. Stole the idea from others but look forward to it anyway. Interesting project.

I picked this model for my case. Floor standing was an option but just too big for my taste. I really wanted to focus on audio only.

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Plan to replace the pushbutton and dial area with a small touch screen interface and retain the lower buttons for on/off and volume control.

Not sure what I am doing with the speakers just yet but likely will have 1 internal and rear-facing outputs for external as well.

I have created my own skins before (see MusicServer 5 thread) but might use portions of rika's since the retro styling is makes sense.

Comments and ideas welcome.
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Postby Colby on Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:22 pm

I cant really tell the proportions of that image, but I would suggest before you demolish anything you take pictures of all 6 views. Then you can restore or emulate its originality. (such as put in a lcd but graphics = the current tuner.) stuff like that. I would also make the speaker on the left be a hidden door for a dvd tray, or slot load would be cooler yet.
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Postby mzemina on Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:46 pm

PhilB - Totally cool. I can't wait to see how it turns out.

Colby - I agree!
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Postby PhilB on Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:22 am

I will take a better pic of the "before" states once i have the box. It is still in transit from ebay. It is about 19" wide x 12 high and 12 deep I think.

I am not sure I am going the CD/DVD route since most of my stuff is digital already. I also will have 802.11 built in so adding content via FTP is simple.

Remote control via PPC could actually eliminate the need to have a touch screen but I want one on this project. Maybe I will do another even smaller one later with no external case mods.

The good news is a friend in IT gave me an old laptop with a broken screen to harvest for the guts. That means integrated features with much less heat to dissipate than a full desktop setup. Should be cool (pun)

What is the opinion on using the audio out that is built into the laptop vs. a small mini-amp?
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Postby rembetis on Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:03 am

PhilB wrote:What is the opinion on using the audio out that is built into the laptop vs. a small mini-amp?


You'll need amplification of some kind. The laptop's audio out will drive a set of headphones, at most. Or maybe you were just asking about the output's sound quality? Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
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Postby PhilB on Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:18 pm

I am thinking of using the T-Amp. It is small enough but needs a few mods that are well documented on the web. Only $25!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/6cd8/
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