xlobby in the living room

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xlobby in the living room

Postby cubesys on Fri Dec 01, 2006 7:19 pm

I just finished installing a 15" touch screen in a closet that shares a wall with the living room. The result is the nicest (IMHO) remote control for background music. I borrowed and modified slightly a skin from here... thanks for the support.

Overall I am very happy with the results and I got many compliments.

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Postby BaddaBing on Fri Dec 01, 2006 7:42 pm

Looks very nice - I'm tempted now to do the same thing.
I like the skin too. :wink:
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Postby P3rv3rt B3ar on Fri Dec 01, 2006 7:59 pm

It looks very nice. I really want to do this with big plasma placed vertically, to show nowplaying movieposter at entrance to home cinema.

One thing though... its not nice for wedding pic... get real frame with real pic... that one is just too easy to change. its bad omen.
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Postby bmblank on Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:11 pm

Very nice install.. Very clean.. Is that a laptop screen in there or what? Any chance we could get some details as long as they're not trade secrets... :D
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Postby PhilB on Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:34 pm

Can you describe that all the hardware is in Pic #3?
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Postby sharp_1 on Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:23 pm

Very nice work!!! I really like the mod to bing's skin...sometimes you just gotta say..."I wish I would have thought of that".
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Nice work

Postby cioffij on Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:46 am

Looks great. Now all you need to do is build a shelf inside the closet and put a frame or door over the hole inside.

Since the studs are exposed, that should be easy.

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Postby cygnusaa on Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:29 am

neat idea....

nice hibiscus too...i have one and i fed it miracle-gro...its been exploding flowers for over 2 years now...year round no less...i move it inside in october and it loves it...shame the flowers only last for 24-36 hours at best...

anyway,...neat idea

i actually have one of those metal control boxes that would have electronics mounted inside them, like alarm system...this one happens to be red...old fire control panel....

got me a new idea
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Postby cubesys on Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:29 pm

thanks for all the kind words. The screen is an ELO touch screen 15" that was a table top version. I removed (very carefully) the actual components from the plastic bezel and used the frame that I made as a new front to the screen.

The mounting was challenging to say the least...

the computer is an old Dell dimension 4700 in a smaller form factor case. This is a 1.6GHz computer with 256MB ram and a cheap video card. As this computer only has windows, foobar and xlobby it is enough to run xlobby, play music and show the pictures as a screen saver.

The hardware I had lying around so I was really tempted to make use of it in the new house.

the hibuscus was brought in at the end of october and is watered from water that was in red wine bottles... it has flowered more since it has been indoors than outside.

Itai
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Postby muzz on Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:28 am

Thats a really nice install your giving me ideas now :wink:
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Postby bmblank on Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:26 pm

Red wine bottles you say??

:)
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