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kahlid74:
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--- Quote from: kahlid74 on June 01, 2012, 09:14:55 am ---I've got three SANs totaling 20 TB of space. This space holds all Arcade related stuff, my MP3 collection, Games collection, Work stuff and Movies/TV shows. When our son was born I wanted to give myself and my wife the ability to instantly run any cartoon on any TV in the house. So she can go to the TV in the Kitchen and click it on and boom, there's every episode of sesame street ever. Or Dora the explorer or whatever. So that was kind of my inspiration for some of the build out.
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What do you use to play your media? It sounds like a nice setup, do you use a thin client at each TV? Curiosity has me ...
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I've gone back and forth on this many times and at the end of the day I fall back to a computer running Windows 7 with Windows Media Center. WMC has plug ins for Hulu, Netflix, XBMC, Amazon, media libraries and now the most important, LIVE TV. I got a HD Home Run 3 tuner box off woot for 50 bucks during Christmas, installed a cable M card and with the SDV from TWC I now have cable tv anywhere on the network. So for the two main TV's (Family room upstairs and Projector downstairs) i use SMFF PC's running core i5's with 8Gb memory and dedicated vid cards. That way There's no stutter that can be seen on smaller boxes. For any other TV in the house I'll either use a USFF pc with a 1.8Ghz Atom and 4Gb of memory attached to the rear of the TV mount. In the kitchen I have the same with a touchscreen so the wife has a digital recipe book. My son loves sitting on the counter and messing with it now so I may have to make a portable mini destructible one.
@danny_galaga Space is huge man. I've always found that if you have space, you're good to go.
@Nephasth nice Welding setup man, good stuff!
@lilshawn I love the sorted hanging bags on the perfboard wall. I love organization in a workshop.
ids:
My humble workbench and shop - no cleaning up first:
jasonbar:
Steel shelving:
Badges/IDs from dozens of events (cons, BattleBots, trade shows, etc. etc.)
Fasteners, sorted by size.
Power tools (& sandpaper)
Hand tools & paints/adhesives.
USPS flat rate priority boxes.
Welder's apron & mechanic's jumpsuit.
White bookcase:
Power supplies.
Soldering station.
Safety gear (face shields, gloves, weight belt).
Zip-lock baggies aplenty.
Cable ties aplenty.
Sockets/ratchets.
Extra pegboard thingies.
Rope/bungee.
Yamaha stereo (w/ overly fat 1/8" AUX cable for iPod (which fits in the top left blue pegboard cup).
Workbench:
Magnetic stuff atop.
Hand tools aplenty.
Bench vise.
Drawers: punches/scribes/etc, solder supplies, manuals, etc.
Cleaning rags/tools/solutions.
Electronics parts milk crate.
Tape milk crate.
Fasteners milk crate.
Ancient AC fan from the 30s or so, from the farm where my mother grew up--currently broken--the cord broke & shorted & blew the circuit breaker. Need to fix it some day...plenty of room to put not only fingers but a whole hand between the cage bars, right into the spinning metal blade!
Saws & fish tape & pipe wrenches & hatchet & crowbar & Sharpies & measuring equipment & worklight.
Right of workbench:
Patch cables of all sorts.
-Jason
PS--all right next to the games--convenient!
DaOld Man:
Man Jasonbar, after seeing your setup, I absolutely refuse to post any pics of my mess I call a shop.
jasonbar:
I just moved a couple of months ago, so I had a chance to set everything up nice & neat!
Also, if something is not in its place, I can't find it--I'd be lost! I probably get it from my dad--he had about 15,000 books in his home library, all sorted perfectly by his own system. If I had a nickel for every time he said "A book misplaced is a book lost," I'd have a small fortune! :]
Thanks,
-Jason
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