Pictures of Mike's Player


Currently my player is being housed in a Dell case that I had lying around (with a noisy fan in the power supply).  I took the front off the case so I had something to mount the LCD to.  Some Erector pieces were used to mount the LCD on the front (as well as for the floppy drive since it seems like I'm missing some of the drive bay mounting area).  I don't yet have a CD ROM drive or an IR receiver.

You can probably notice how the case really isn't ideal since the LCD hangs over on the left side, as well there was no easy way to route the cable from the LCD (to the parallel port) through the case.

This case is really just a temporary case.  I plan on having a custom case made once I get the complete player working.  To give you an idea for size, the Dell case is about 38 cm (15") wide and about 37 cm (14.5") deep.  The size of the board the LCD is mounted on is 19cm x 5.5cm.




This is a close-up of the display.  I realize it's a little redundant to display the song length, time played, and time remaining, but this is really just an example of some of the information that the plug-in will display.

The size of the display area of the LCD is about 14.6 cm by 3 cm.

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