I cannot find these anywhere in the USA and unfortunately, I would like to use them to mount it to the plexiglass I just cut using the university's laser cutter. (looks excellent so far, just need a way to mount the board on the plexi....

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gerrynjr:
You mean that you can't find the mounts I found?
I think the company making them Richco Inc is
from the USA.

The efika fits very comfortable in a cd-rom drive enclosure:

yes, it works
http://projects.powerdeveloper.org/proj ... roject=275

hey nixnut,

what kind of PSU is that? looks interesting :-)

regards,

-corsair

@corsair

it looks like a Morex PSU
check here : http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=10

thanks!

Yup. It's a 60W Morex.

Great! That's what I exactly had in mind! You can install this -if you haven't already- into a regular case and using a KVM switch you can switch between your PC and your EFIKA!

What is the type of that PSU. Where can I get it ?

follow the link i provided, you'll get every info you need.

After another few weeks I had the chance (I don't own an useful camera) to make pictures of my final case.

The new pictures show the power and drive LEDs which are taken from an Amiga500. Also the IRDA port is mounted. It is also shown that there is no external power supply, which wasn't beleaved by some people.

I got many requests to show the inside in more detail, so I hope this is what you wanted to see! ;)

http://www.geit.de/eng_efikase.html

Just a note for the case designers around:

There is no need to add two buttons for reset and power. Just take a normal PC switch, which has two or three different switches inside. (As you can see on the pictures, my case only has one switch.)

So pressing the button both ciruits (reset and power) get closed. You will cause power on when system is off. Pressing short causes system to reset and pressing long causes the system to shutdown.

The only side effect is that pressing the button will always cause a reset and there is no way in rethinking and stopping the shut down by releasing a normal power button.

Geit

That is fantastic geit!

Well after a couple of weeks of light engineering, my friend, Gary Goddard (a fellow member of LAG) and I have finished our first EFIKA case project. Like Geit's excellent project, it is based on a 5.25" external drive case, which we gutted and fitted with a new back panel (hand crafted from sheet aluminium) and modified the base plate and front panel to mount the board, the USB hub and accommodate the front ports and switch. It turned out better than both of us had even hoped. I hope you guys like it too :)



The Front...



The Back...



Just to prove yes it does work :)



The front panel contains a small black push-switch for power on/off, and 4 powered USB ports. The USB hub receives power via a floppy drive header off the PSU. The front corner pillars also have a red (power) and blue (hard drive) LEDs, which we re-wired to connect up to the EFIKA using standard PC connectors. Note that the USB ports are actually upside down. I felt I had to do this to minimize the amount of modding to the front as they stood up off the hub PCD a little - I wanted the USB ports to be right at the bottom, and as subtle as possible and make as little impact on the mesh front as was possible.



The rear panel was cut out leaving just the corner pillars and enough plastic to attach the new one. A custom metal one was made and sprayed up, then attached to the remaining corners. We were particularly pleased with how it turned out as this was one of the hardest parts, and took a long time. A lot of fingernails, blood and metal shavings were spilled to make this part :)
Note we had to notch it at the top and install a grommet to allow the USB cable to come out and plug into the USB port at the back. It's a little untidy but it's not a huge issue.

The RESET switch is fitted on one side (at the back to avoid it being hit instead of the power switch and vice-versa) and the Power hook-up for the 12V DC IN is on the other.



Inside is quite well packed in. Both the boards are fitted using long screws screwed through the base plate, then spaced off the plate using small nuts. The EFIKA stands high enough not to need an insulator, there is 2mm at least of clear air below there.

The only thing it may need is a quiet, slow moving fan to push air across the CPU/GFX card/Hard Disk. I've discovered it sits nicely vertically in a stand I have for a external drive case, so a fan may aid convection and help cool the gfx card. Of course, the two plates that for the top and bottom of the case are aluminium plates so they help to dissipate the heat well too. I have used it for about an hour so far with no noticeable heat issues, but I'd like to fit a fan just to be on the safe side.

So there you have it!

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Axel, Guido, Mark, and others...

http://sun.hasenbraten.de/~frank/computers/efika.html

This is a great case idea. We may be able to use a 5.25" drive case to house the EFIKA on a standard basis. We are checking into this now. There could be many readily available and this could cut down on costs for the Open Client.

R&B :)

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