kwiksilver
Weaksauce
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A few days ago I was browsing the web and saw this article on instructables: http://www.instructables.com/id/Every-wife-should-have-a-Kitchen-PC
It showed a simple interface for a touchscreen that allowed for web browsing, email, recipes, and simple tasks.
I realized I already had ALL of the hardware for this project so the cost would be $0. It seemed like alot of fun to me so I bounced the idea off my wife figuring she would laugh and say that we didn't need a computer in the kitchen.
Much to my surprise, she was very excited at the idea of dragging her macbook into the kitchen any time she wanted to lookup a recipe. (We are trying to go green and not print recipes).
So without further delay here is a quick software demo video showing the screen in action. Sorry for the video quality and shaky camera work, I was trying to hold the camera (read: iPhone 4S) and operate the touchscreen at the same time. It makes it seem like the machine is a little bit laggy especially when I clicked the ads at one point in the video, but it's actually quite snappy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIjp8jPwr5s - Software Demo
Now if you're wondering what is powering this sweet little setup the specs are:
Screen:
15" Gateway LCD Screen 1024x768 - Painted black for an old project.
Resistive LCD touchscreen kit screen from ebay with serial to USB
VESA wallmount that can pull out from the wall.
Software:
Windows 7 -
Rainmeter and the
Omnimo skin.
Hardware Specs:
Intel Atom 330 1.6ghz dual core
ASRock a330 ATOM
80Gb 2.5 Sata HDD
60W Morex PSU and brick
USB Wifi N card
Here is a video showing how the hardare is wired up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZEomYNIQX4 - Hardware
I plan to configure it a bit more and find a few more recipe RSS feeds and make it perfect, but she likes it a lot so far.
It showed a simple interface for a touchscreen that allowed for web browsing, email, recipes, and simple tasks.
I realized I already had ALL of the hardware for this project so the cost would be $0. It seemed like alot of fun to me so I bounced the idea off my wife figuring she would laugh and say that we didn't need a computer in the kitchen.
Much to my surprise, she was very excited at the idea of dragging her macbook into the kitchen any time she wanted to lookup a recipe. (We are trying to go green and not print recipes).
So without further delay here is a quick software demo video showing the screen in action. Sorry for the video quality and shaky camera work, I was trying to hold the camera (read: iPhone 4S) and operate the touchscreen at the same time. It makes it seem like the machine is a little bit laggy especially when I clicked the ads at one point in the video, but it's actually quite snappy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIjp8jPwr5s - Software Demo
Now if you're wondering what is powering this sweet little setup the specs are:
Screen:
15" Gateway LCD Screen 1024x768 - Painted black for an old project.
Resistive LCD touchscreen kit screen from ebay with serial to USB
VESA wallmount that can pull out from the wall.
Software:
Windows 7 -
Rainmeter and the
Omnimo skin.
Hardware Specs:
Intel Atom 330 1.6ghz dual core
ASRock a330 ATOM
80Gb 2.5 Sata HDD
60W Morex PSU and brick
USB Wifi N card
Here is a video showing how the hardare is wired up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZEomYNIQX4 - Hardware
I plan to configure it a bit more and find a few more recipe RSS feeds and make it perfect, but she likes it a lot so far.
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