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Post pictures of your ybox2!

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I just wanted to encourage everyone who has built a ybox2 to post a picture of it in this thread.

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built, but not yet enclosed. yes, that's an allen wrench serving as a temporary heatsink; i couldn't get that part to tack down to the board.

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Up close and all connected.

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And, here it is displaying the weather.

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ex-h0trod: Is that this TV I see? Seems a little familiar. :)

I always bend my regulator pins before I solder it in. That way I can make sure that it is completely flush with the board when I solder it to the VDD plane. I realize this advice is a little late, but perhaps it can help someone else...

psi: Is it just me, or is the top of that tin lid really shiny!? How'd you do that? Love your flashlight, BTW.

Looks like you may have a little trouble getting your LED positioned in the tin because you soldered your LED rather low. If you drill the LED hole in the tin a few mm lower than what is shown in the drill guide, you might be OK though.

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darco:

Nope, that tin really is that shiny. And, this is where I got a bunch of them: http://www.specialtybottle.com/index.as ... stom&ID=41 . They ship by priority mail as well. I'm still debating on going with an altoids one though.

And, the flashlight, tks ... I guess you can call that the MintyBoostLight :?:.

Anyhow, I'm eyeballing the position of the LED right now, and it might be okay - I'll drill out the holes for the plugs and ethernet jack first and see how it sits in the tin. But, I had left a little more than 5mm clearance between the bottom of the LED (before bending) and the PCB as suggested in the instructions. I probably should've pre-bent the LED and did a quick check against the drill guide before soldering, but I didn't think of it at the time.

Perhaps as a clarification to the instructions, the distances above the PCB for the IR detector and the LED (in a bent position) can be with respect to the centerpoint of each dome.

-psl

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darco wrote:ex-h0trod: Is that this TV I see? Seems a little familiar.
And old TV with knobs and faux-woodgrain just feels right with the ybox.

Getting the upcoming.org stuff shown in that screenshot running on the ybox2 is something I'll try to tackle, but I gotta admit I was intimidated on my first glance through some of the networking code in the samples. The Xport in the original ybox may have inflated the cost, but it seemed to offload a lot of the heavy lifting from my (inexperienced) perspective.

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were you parsing the xml from upcoming.org?

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ladyada wrote:were you parsing the xml from upcoming.org?
not in spin. what i had going was the ybox hitting some php code that hit the upcoming.org api and parsed the xml essentially into csv or something similar. the ybox handled that pretty easily, i hacked up some of the example code to do it without much trouble.

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if you parse the code into just plaintext, you can point the ybox infowidget at it and it will display it pretty easily

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Done and Done

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Ybox2 up and running

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Hi,

everything worked fine with the kit. Soldering was easy. Sharing ethernet connection with my mac does not seem to work. It gets an IP address but was not able to talk to the info widget server. Connecting it directly to my router worked fine.
Here is my first picture ...

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Cheers,
Alex

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Fresh in the tin ...

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Here is a picture of trey's ybox2, for you lazy people out there:

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Everything was working, but now it fails to boot into "stage2". Hmmm.

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Re: Post pictures of your ybox2!

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I got my kit all together and I had to use a new tin because I broke the old one. I reversed the screws after I took these photos.
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