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2011/06/13

Hack: Fried Potatoes Kitchen-PC

This is a Hannspree LCD-TV, well it's not original anymore because the display with its full electronics used in an other hack-project, i'll introduce that when it's completely finished...

Anyway what happened to this Fried Potato TV? It was too precious to throw the left funny case away so i decided to use it in a theme oriented way, the idea for the Kitchen-PC was born!

You might recognize the blue screen, this was a first try to hack an old Monochrome Laptop with 286 CPU into it - just to use it at my friends restaurant for displaying menu and prices, but it failed.


Now another modd is going on. An old 80486 CPU Laptop's parts are taking place and the project is nearly finished. It is planned to use Windows 3.11 as Operating System (enough for our demand). I am looking now for a "Hamburger Mouse" to add... The Keyboard is only connected when necessary to save space on the desktop. An SD-Card reader instead of the Floppy Disc Drive is planned to add too, since there is very restricted space in the case, so for now i have to place the Floppy outside.

Why an old Laptop you ask now? Very simple, since we want to use it in the kitchen for cooking receipts and some other usefull functions like watch or eggcounter, it's enough power and need no fan (quiet and energy saving). On the other hand i know i saved our environment a bit, keeping clean by recycling. Might Hannspree get this idea and set a new production of this case with a Touchscreen PC :) - Announced as a Kitchen PC they will take off!!!

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