Hi everyone

I have done something terrible.... I "casemodded" my Empeg....

A while ago I bought a CompactFlash to IDE converter to be able to transfer pictures from my digital camera onto the Empeg.

Thanks to the kind people in this forum I quickly got the necessary code written to do the copying.

But I needed a way to be able to change the Compactflash Cards without taking the Empeg apart every time. So I came up with the idea of making a lid in the top cover of the unit. As I didn't want to cut up the original cover I went to my utility store to buy a steel plate. They didn't have any steel plates, but instead they had some plexiglass. I gave it a try and here's the result:



This way I no longer have any problems convincing my friends and family that the Empeg actually is the most advanced thing you can wrap your car around...:D
For those of you interested, I put up some more pictures of the Empeg and some screenshots of my CompactFlash copy script in action at http://www.kildal.dk/gallery/Empeg .

Regards
Nicolai

Awesome iMac-style empeg. Excellent!

Kewl

Does is slide in and out of the car OK?

Rob

Nice!

Wonder how much radio noise you're leaking without the lid... Can't say that I've ever noticed anything while using darkstorms lenses...

/Michael

Hehe, funny you should ask...
I actually had to "wriggle" it around a bit to get it out of the carmount, but it worked out ok...

The plexiglass is 3 mm thick so I had to "lower" it into the empeg. I let it run underneath the metal flip at the back of the unit instead of over as the original cover...

/Nicolai

Cool iPeg!

Now you need transparent buttons and a translucent green fascia, and you're all set!

Interested in seeing how the Compact Flash thing comes out in the end.

I don't know about any increase in radio noise - except that there is no audible noise in my system with the new lid...
But perhaps my airbags or my abs brakecomputer will tell me something else one day

/Nicolai

Very Nicely Done.

*droool*

Color me impressed. this could really come in handy for long trips when there's no computer around to dump to... Oh man... now i've got ANOTHER project on my hands. =]

this could really come in handy for long trips when there's no computer around to dump to... Oh man... now i've got ANOTHER project on my hands


I was thinking exactly the same thing. But how to do it in a 60GB model?? If *only* the empeg had a USB master it would be perfect

too bad I have two 30 gig drives..... always a dilema

I also have to add... frickin excellent job on the plastic!!! It really looks great!