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Mobile PC platform for a robot rohitsden 07-20-2006
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Posted by on July 20, 2006, 5:48 pm
Hello there,

I have an old Pentium PC Motherboard from which I would like to build a
Mobile Robot. The reason I would like to do this is to use the serial
port, parallel port, hard disk, RAM, USB,etc and build a platform where
I could try out different AI algorithms.

I would like to know how to run a Pentium PC motherboard using
batteries ?

Any help on the above would be great.

Regards,
Rohit


Posted by Padu on July 20, 2006, 6:08 pm

> Hello there,
> I have an old Pentium PC Motherboard from which I would like to build a
> Mobile Robot. The reason I would like to do this is to use the serial
> port, parallel port, hard disk, RAM, USB,etc and build a platform where
> I could try out different AI algorithms.
> I would like to know how to run a Pentium PC motherboard using
> batteries ?
> Any help on the above would be great.
> Regards,
> Rohit

It depends on your power consumption requirements, but usually something
like this works:
http://www.mitxpc.com/products.asp?catU

There are several others in the market, so google a bit more and you'll able
to find what you're looking for.

Cheers

Padu



Posted by Si Ballenger on July 20, 2006, 9:03 pm
On 20 Jul 2006 14:48:56 -0700, rohitsden@gmail.com wrote:

>Hello there,
>I have an old Pentium PC Motherboard from which I would like to build a
>Mobile Robot. The reason I would like to do this is to use the serial
>port, parallel port, hard disk, RAM, USB,etc and build a platform where
>I could try out different AI algorithms.
>I would like to know how to run a Pentium PC motherboard using
>batteries ?
>Any help on the above would be great.
>Regards,
>Rohit

You could get a large uninterruptable power supply like below for
a simple initial setup. Keep it pluged into a light extension
cord for testing, and just unplug it when you want to go moble.

http://tinyurl.com/rktaf


Posted by Tim Chapman on July 21, 2006, 1:00 am
You can reduce power consumption by using a laptop hard drive and an IDE
adapter to allow the small drive to plug in to the larger IDE cable that
connects to the motherboard.
> On 20 Jul 2006 14:48:56 -0700, rohitsden@gmail.com wrote:
>>Hello there,
>>I have an old Pentium PC Motherboard from which I would like to build a
>>Mobile Robot. The reason I would like to do this is to use the serial
>>port, parallel port, hard disk, RAM, USB,etc and build a platform where
>>I could try out different AI algorithms.
>>I would like to know how to run a Pentium PC motherboard using
>>batteries ?
>>Any help on the above would be great.
>>Regards,
>>Rohit
> You could get a large uninterruptable power supply like below for
> a simple initial setup. Keep it pluged into a light extension
> cord for testing, and just unplug it when you want to go moble.
> http://tinyurl.com/rktaf
>



Posted by Clifford Heath on July 21, 2006, 2:24 am
Tim Chapman wrote:
> You can reduce power consumption by using a laptop hard drive and an IDE
> adapter to allow the small drive to plug in to the larger IDE cable that
> connects to the motherboard.

Or better yet, get an IDE->CompactFlash adapter. Most CF cards
run in one of three modes, including "TrueIDE", which is just
an IDE interface. I made my own without using a PCB, but that
was out of my sheer bloody-mindedness - it took about 3 hours
under the 3x goggles to strip all 40 wires on an IDE cable and
solder it to a CF socket, before encasing all those fragile
joints in hot-melt glue. I was pretty pleased when it worked!

There are places in the US where you can buy these, but the $30
cost plus postage to Australia wasn't my cup of tea :-). The
advantage then is you won't need +12V, because neither MB's nor
CF use it.

Clifford Heath.

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