2005-current
2005 I built the first version of the Blaupunkt MPD player.
An AMD K6II came as dead and was swiftly resuscitated and functioned a few months inside my 1942 Blaupunkt case MPD player.
- Compact flash to IDE adaptor
- 192Mb RAM
Had the weirdest problem I saw. A socket 7 motherboard, the keyboard would not work. It had one diode next to the keyboard plug. It was burned. Changed it and worked fine until an accident (the cpu cooler fell and short-circuited the board )fried the board.
2008 MPD Player: Compaq deskpro en small desktop (pentium III) to use inside the Blaupunkt MPD player. Or the second incarnation of the Blaupunkt MPD.
Compaq Deskpro EN small desktop. Bought it for nothing (~10$)
- 128Mb RAM
- 20 Gb hdd
- 500Mhz PIII
Added more RAM and changed the hdd for a 120Gb laptop drive. Even if it seemed small the motherboard was pretty huge and to add to the problem it had a non-standard psu with really short wires and a long long post. Still it worked as the mpd player for 3 years. The Compaq was reassembled and donated to charity after that.
I also wrote a post detailing it.
2011-03-14 Finally gave out on old tech and bought an Intel BLKD410PT atom board for my Blaupunkt MPD player. It’s never been so silent before.
- 500 Gb SATA drive
- 1.6Ghz atom (with HT)
- 1 Gb DDR2 RAM
- Mini 450W PSU (this no-name psu was fun – though small it had a fan tuned to sound like a jet taking off. I dissasembled the psu and changed the fan for one I had around and hooked it to 5V instead of 12V)
The only (undervolted) fan keeps the board and psu cool and the system quiet. Nice.
2011 Another present for the MPD player: a pair of Microlab wooden speakers, the solo 3
2012-03-12 The 500Gb drive is no more, so I set it to use the 320Gb drive left from the Vaio. Is slow but it doesn’t matter here.
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