External Status LCD Project
September 30, 2006
I put my order in right away.
This weekend I received both the IO-Warrior 24 kit as well as the white-on-blue, LED-lit 4x24 LCD I ordered. I made some free time this afternoon, pulled out the soldering iron, chopped up an old SCSI cable, and got things together. The result is most technoglorious. (See photos here and a QuickTime h264 video here, showing the unit running on a 3GHz quad-core Mac Pro.)
See another user's IO-Warrio project involving custom code pushing iTunes and EyeTV data from Mac to LCD.
Next step: construct a balsa wood enclosure painted flat black. Stay tuned.
UPDATE: It wasn't balsa wood but PixelBlocks that came to the rescue on an enclosure...
It must be said - unless it is hacked into the case, it has not truly achieved technoglory.
Posted by: FB at October 2, 2006 9:24 PMBah... Pixelblocks totally beat case integration. And they're right in front of me...not down on the floor in the tower.
blakespot
Neat in concept but putting it's not elegant in the sense of what people are used to with Macs. Just my opinion but it should all be in 1 enclosure that's aluminum with a usb port on the back instead.
Posted by: Ed at October 4, 2006 12:32 PMI've just ordered my second IO-Warrior 24 and 20x4 LCD to make a 2nd status LCD, to be driven by Hardware Monitor. Additional stats (GPU utilization, System clockspeed (it varies), drive temp, etc.)
blakespot
your set up looks really nice although quite expensive. i've been using another method from this website http://home.sandiego.edu/~epooch/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/tech/leds
you might find it interesting as it has good growl support if you use growl on your mac
Robbie
Posted by: Robbie at January 14, 2007 7:16 PM
by Gordon Laing
