no not the drill!
by
KMAPSRULE
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· Score: 4, Informative
From the article:
Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case.
oh he's breakin' heart throwng away an 18 volt cordless drill.Man you'd think he'd at least keep the drill for parts.
here's text as its already/.ed
Materials:case_closed
* 1 Toshiba libretto. (or similar sized laptop)
* 1 GPS receiver.
* 1 collinear antenna. (www.guerrilla.net)
* 1 dewalt drill case.
* 1 sheet 1" plastizote.
* dallop of contact cement
* little bit of velcro.
* a bunch of speedy rivets.
* 1 1104 box w/ receptacle cover.
* 1 duplex receptacle.
* nothing better todo on a weekend
case open Assembly:
Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case. Using a sharp knife cut away all the platic baffles leaving only the one compartment on the left side of the case ( its the perfect size for the laptops power supply).
Now take your plastizote (a very dense closed cell foam) and lay it on a large flat surface, like a table;). Open the case and make a depression into the material. Quickly cut away the impression that you made and repeat. You will need two inserts for both the top and bottom of the case.
Glue the first two inserts and install one in each halve of the case. You can then layout and mark your hardware on the other two peices. Using your trusty, very sharp olfa blade cut out the patterns you made and carefully glue and secure in their respective halves.
To build the antenna follow the instructions on http://www.guerrilla.net. This design can easilly be made sectional by solering pcboard stand-offs onto each of the peices so that they can be threaded together. You can then build your radome in two pieces using a 1/2" TA fitting -> 1/2" threaded coupling scenario. Securely fasten the bottom half (glue) while allowing the upper half to float (make sure it is supported within the tube)
The receptacle was added so that while driving i can plug the case into my inverter and utilize the extra outlets for the antennas amplifier.
Technical:
The laptop is an overclocked (75->100MHz) toshiba libretto 50CT with 32M ram and a 10G HD. It is running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable. Kisemt, and GPSDrive are used for wireless activities. The GPS is a Garmin GPSIII plus.
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--Im an oven mitt, not an engineer! (SLArbys Radio Commercial)
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coolfrood
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· Score: 5, Informative
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From the article:
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;). Open the case and make a depression into the material. Quickly cut away the impression that you made and repeat. You will need two inserts for both the top and bottom of the case.
Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case.
oh he's breakin' heart throwng away an 18 volt cordless drill.Man you'd think he'd at least keep the drill for parts.
here's text as its already
Materials:case_closed
* 1 Toshiba libretto. (or similar sized laptop)
* 1 GPS receiver.
* 1 collinear antenna. (www.guerrilla.net)
* 1 dewalt drill case.
* 1 sheet 1" plastizote.
* dallop of contact cement
* little bit of velcro.
* a bunch of speedy rivets.
* 1 1104 box w/ receptacle cover.
* 1 duplex receptacle.
* nothing better todo on a weekend
case open Assembly:
Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case. Using a sharp knife cut away all the platic baffles leaving only the one compartment on the left side of the case ( its the perfect size for the laptops power supply).
Now take your plastizote (a very dense closed cell foam) and lay it on a large flat surface, like a table
Glue the first two inserts and install one in each halve of the case. You can then layout and mark your hardware on the other two peices. Using your trusty, very sharp olfa blade cut out the patterns you made and carefully glue and secure in their respective halves.
To build the antenna follow the instructions on http://www.guerrilla.net. This design can easilly be made sectional by solering pcboard stand-offs onto each of the peices so that they can be threaded together. You can then build your radome in two pieces using a 1/2" TA fitting -> 1/2" threaded coupling scenario. Securely fasten the bottom half (glue) while allowing the upper half to float (make sure it is supported within the tube)
The receptacle was added so that while driving i can plug the case into my inverter and utilize the extra outlets for the antennas amplifier.
Technical:
The laptop is an overclocked (75->100MHz) toshiba libretto 50CT with 32M ram and a 10G HD. It is running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable. Kisemt, and GPSDrive are used for wireless activities. The GPS is a Garmin GPSIII plus.
--Im an oven mitt, not an engineer! (SLArbys Radio Commercial)
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