Modifying the Xbox, Micro Xbox

Here is a comparison of my xbox and a regular sized xbox. Remember that everything was a tight fit squeezing bare pc board inside. So getting a xbox inside was definitely a challenge. Then entire cooling system was rerouted. Two fans added. The power button is removed so that the wires can be extended and power button installed in the dash somewhere nifty. The area where the fan use to be is only one inch tall now. Only a blower can fit into such a tight space. Also I removed the xbox logo since once it was installed it was upside down. The hole where the logo was serves as a nifty air vent, aiding heat dissipation from the massively modified cooling system. The side block is a squirl cage fan. Very quiet and moves arounf 30 cfm through a quater inch gap.

Inside Micro Xbox

Once a video card shored out on the video board I descided that it would be more economical to replace the board with a xbox. Since an xbox is a computer anyways. Here is the wiki Info

• Mobile Celeron (Pentium III Coppermine-based IA-32 CPU) Micro-PGA2 package. 180 nm process.
  • SSE. Floating point SIMD. 4 single-precision floating point numbers per clock cycle.
    • Resulting Gflops on cpu alone: 2.9Gflops
  • MMX. Integer SIMD.
  • 133 MHz 64-bit GTL+ front side bus to GPU/chipset.
  • 32 KiB L1 cache. 128 KiB on-die L2 Advanced Transfer Cache (256-bit bus).
• Shared memory subsystem
  • 64 MiB DDR SDRAM at 200 MHz. 6.4 GB/s
  • Supplied by Hynix or Samsung depending on manufacture date and location.
• Graphics processing unit (GPU) and system chipset: 233 MHz NV2A ASIC. Co-developed by Microsoft and NVIDIA.
  • 4 pixel pipelines with 2 texture units each
  • 932 megapixels/second (233 MHz x 4 pipelines), 1,864 megatexels/second (932 MP x 2 texture units) (peak)
    • 115 million vertices/second, 125 million particles/second (peak)
    • Peak triangle performance: 29,125,000 32 pixel triangles/sec raw or w. 2 textures and lit.
      • 485,416 triangles a frame at 60fps
      • 970,833 triangles a frame at 30fps
  • 4 textures per pass, texture compression, full scene anti-aliasing (NV Quincunx, supersampling, multisampling)
  • Bilinear, trilinear, and anisotropic texture filtering
  • Similar to the NV20 and NV25 PC GPUs.
• Storage media
  • 2-5x (2.6 MB/s-6.6 MB/s) CAV DVD-ROM
  • 8 or 10 GB 3.5-inch 5,400 RPM hard disk. Formatted to 8 GB. FATX file system.
  • Optional 8 MB memory card for saved game file transfer.
• Audio processor : NVIDIA MCPX (a.k.a. SoundStorm NVAPU)
  • 64 3D channels (up to 256 stereo voices)
  • HRTF Sensaura 3D enhancement
  • MIDI DLS2 Support
  • Monaural, Stereo, Dolby Surround, and Dolby Digital Live 5.1 audio output options
• Integrated 10/100BASE-TX Ethernet
• DVD movie playback
• A/V outputs: composite video, S-Video, component video, SCART, Optical Digital TOSLINK, and stereo RCA analog audio.
• Resolutions: 480i, 576i, 480p, 720p and 1080i.
• Controller Ports: 4 proprietary USB ports
• Weight: 3.86 kg (8.5 lb)
• Dimensions: 320 × 100 × 260 mm (12.5 × 4 × 10.5 in)

8 inch lcd frame fiberglassed

Here is the frame that I posted earlier. It now has had three layer of fiberglass applied. I used a different epoxy. I used a epoxy that is made by dap corp. This epoxy didnt give off violant fumes that stink up the area and give you a headache. My signifigant other discovered quickly that the cheaper general purpose fiberglass resin isnt real freindly to someone with asthma! :( Far warning spend extra :)

OKay I decide on a bigger Screen

I installed the 8 inch polaroid brand screen in Jessies car. It looked so much better than my 7 inch I jumped on the computer and found myself an identical screen to the on I used on her car. Here is the frame I have made. There isnt any fiberglass resin applied yet. If you ever do this be shure to get and imperfections or wrinkles out now! Once you apply the resin the shape you made is frozen forever. So be happy with it before you start opening chemicals. You will have alot less trouble with your project.

Cd Player Installed!!

This is the Sony Specialty Series GT-705 CD player. It has three 4 volt pre- outs and two auxilary inputs. Theres no texture on this bezel at this point.

Original bezel Finished!

This is a picture of the bezel after I hand molded it. Probably six hours of sanding and detail.. Makes you never want to do it agian. Then you do it anyway LOL This is before I realized I wanted to have a head unit with radio. The purpose of a headunit when you have a carputer it to have somthing to control volume, and the cd player has a biult in amp to power door speakers until I purchased my amplifiers.

Bezel progress

See here the lcd screen sitting under the cars original bzel frame. You see there are gaps between the edges. This is my most recent frame but I wanted to show what I wast talking about with the edges that need to be molded together.