gateway connected touchpad UPDATE! internet people PWN!

Post by **Triton** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 4:09 pm

the project that has been consuming my free time for the last few days is the gateway connected touchpad computer! i have soldered an IDE connecter to the motherboard and will eventually get a bigger CF card for it (has a built in cf cardslot) and probably use it as a carPC sometimes, it has 2 usb ports an rj45 and 2 rj11 connectors, no thernet at the moment but it can be added without too much trouble, i will probably use usb wifi tho, i plan on getting a usb GPS receiver for it as well, its got pretty good specs too, a 400mhz transmeta crusoe processor and 64mb ram standard, its pc100 SODIMM so its upgradable, which i plan on doing eventually, i am going to get a 512mb CF card on ebay and install windows ME lite on it probably, maybe 98SElite instead im not sure yet, i have pics too!! photos of the GCTP running DSL (damnsmalllinux) loaded to ram, booted from the dsl liveCD on a quadspeed cd rom drive. here are the pics! first pic is the gctp running a media player and playing songs from my SD cardreader, second pic is the same but the whole setup, third iis the SD cardreader and the IDE cable i attached

Post by **Triton** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:47 pm

any comments? i should have my new CF card and OS on there by next weekish

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:51 pm

So is it supposed to be like a laptop kind of thing?

Post by **Triton** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:02 pm

kind of a tabletPC of sorts, im going to use it as a carPC some of the time and as a web browsin etc thing the other some of the time

Radon199 · Post by **Radon199** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:48 pm

Those holes for the sound on eather side of the screen seem to be identicle miror images of eachother, where they done by you with a multitude of drill bits or done by gateway themselves? lol

Post by **marshallh** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 8:55 pm

Yay. I was wondering when you'd get around to modding that gateway you got 2 months ago

It will be cool as a car pc.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:15 pm

actually, he received it a few days ago, even though he paid for it about 20 days beforehand

Post by **Triton** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:24 am

yea sponge is right, i paid the 9th of march and got it the 3rd or 4th of april! stupid guy i bought it from packed it poorly, didnt ship like he said he would, lied about when he shipped and didnt ship until march 28th!

gamefunatic · Post by **gamefunatic** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:55 pm

Triton wrote:any comments? i should have my new CF card and OS on there by next weekish

ooh...ahhh...pretty colors

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:48 pm

Looks fun. You could prolly hook up some emulators on there.

Post by **Triton** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:34 pm

yea probably, i think when i get my bigger CF card i will stick with DSL as the OS, i might try 98lite or something but i really like DSL, its pretty nice

Post by **Triton** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:07 pm

WOO internet people freakin own! i asked on the I-appliance forum asking if anyone had a touchscreen they could spare and sell/ship to me and one guy replaied over email saying he would send me one if i paid shipping, i got it today and had a very pleasant supprize, he had shipped me another whole working GCTP for just the price of shipping! thank you T. Magnus!!!!!