Frankenstein eeepc 701

Some of you were aware of my little pet project with the Asus eeePC 701 that I had.  I got a little carried away and decided to do likewise for my dear friend Danny, only to damage his screen in the process.  To rescue his, I transplanted my screen to his, and in the process, defunc my own.

Not wanting to waste a good piece of hardware, I decided to transplant the eeepc to a unused 15" LCD.  The initial plan was to just hook it but soon the "itchy-hand"ness took over.  Before you know it, i mount the eeepc to the LCD, hack open the LCD, transplant the eeepc's speakers in and mount the end result on an lcd arm.

 

touch screen panel to follow.

ASUS eeeTOP

Admittedly Asus might be going a tad too far with the "eee" moniker. But this is looking rather attractive.
A touch panel PC for home use. Darn, just when i was about to make one out of my broken eeepc 701. Specs ain't too shabby.

• ScreenSize: 15.6" (16:10 Wide Panel)
• Touch Screen: Single Touch Panel
• OS: Windows XP Home (SP3)
• CPU: Intel ATOM (1.6GHz/533MHz FSB/512K Cache)
• Chipset: Intel 945GSE + ICH7M
• Memory: 1GB (DDR2 667)
• Storage: 160GB, SATAII 5400rpm
• Graphics: Shared Graphics (128MB)
• Webcam: 1.3 Mega Pixel
• Mirophone: Digital Array Microphone
• Audio Chips: 2 x 4W Hifi Speaker + SRS
• Communication: 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
• WLAN: WiFi 802.11b/g/n
• IO Side Ports: Memory card slot (SD/SDHC/MS/MS Pro) / USB ports x 2
• IO Rear Ports: Audio Ports x 3 (Microphone, Line in & Line Out) / USB ports x 4 / Gigabit LAN port
• AC Power: 19Vdc, 4.74A, 65W power adaptor
• Net Weight:4.3Kg
• Software: StarOffice, Adobe Reader 8.0, Norton Internet Security (90 day trial version), Express Gate, Skype, Eee Memo, SoftStyles, Eee Cam & Eee Cinema
• Keyboard + mouse: Wired Keyboard & Mouse

Ok, the wired keyboard and mouse is a tad strange.

Canon EOS 5D-Mk2 Manual Posted.

As all of us eagerly anticipate the release of the new Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon further hypes the anticipation by releasing the manual online. Well done Canon, that's not going to help my sleep ONE bit!

Looking out into a cloudy day

Looking out into a cloudy day
Originally uploaded by kaomoo

Close-up softbox.

Think Pei Ling is going to laugh at me again.  "Such a geek!" she would say.

Alright, think of it as slightly extreme way of solving a problem.  Now, I was shooting Singapore Paediatric Congress over the weekend.  One problem I encounter was how to light up the speaker's face without washing out the projector screen.  Snooting my strobe didn't work very well due to fall out as well as the shadow it throws out.  Ideally a soft box near the speaker would be good, but it will be very unsightly.

I came out with this idea of using the diffuser from a broken LCD screen to create a flat soft box.  Managed to find a small strobe from John 3:16.  Hacked out the content, relocated the tube and reflector onto the bottom of the diffuser panel.  Viola!

World's smallest and flattest mini softbox!