- HomeBrew Weather computer -
2007.01.03 - Built this homebrew computer to use with my webcam and weatherstation. The unit is made from one scraped BK630 (BookPC) motherboard and a powersupply from an old siemens PC giving about 150W

The enclosure is home-made, the idea is to get a small, low-budget, noice-free unit for hoocking up to my automatic weather monitoring page updates.


The HomeBrew Weather computer


A look inside...

The Weather computer also captures weather images every 10minutes and upload the image to my website. The images is stored and automaticly animated to 24hours movies every night @ 23:55.

The camera is a standard USB web-camera 'Philips Vista' mounted in an outdoor aluminium enclosure.


Using a outdoor cabinet for my web-cam

Read more about my web-cam's -->Here!

- Technical data -

FACTORY SPECIFICATIONS
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* SiS 630e chipset.
* Onboard 128-bit graphics system supports up to 1920 x 1200 resolution, 
  and hardware DVD accelerator
* Onboard 10/100 Base-T Ethernet adapter.
* Onboard V.90 HSP 56K Voice/Data/Fax modem in CMI 8738 chipset.
* Onboard 3D Surround Sound system.
* Integrated hardware monitoring circuit.
* Advanced ATX power management
* 133/100/66MHz FSB for the latest Intel Celeron & FCPGA Pentium III processors.
* Proprietary Flex - ATX form-factor.

http://www.amptron.com/html/bk630es.html

Operating system ..... Windows NT2000 sp4 
Weather monitoring ... FreeWX
Web-Cam software ..... FreeCam

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