Very impressive that you fitted all of that in the screen - would like to see a side view shot of the case closed

how's your wifi reception? I thought about doing the same thing, but wanted to keep the wifi antennae clear of copper obstructions. I'm stealing wifi from my neighbor so I need all the signal I can get.

(he knows I'm stealing it, he's fine with it)

@calrac

very good job
i didn't think that all this would fit into the display area

i love the idea of the hub in the screen area, as you only need one set of 4 cables of wiring instead of one set for every usb device there
i'm going to go for your mod and move my 16gb memory from the bay area to the screen (i never remove it anyways)

sweet. I'm only gonna stick my tranciever b+b (bits and bobs, american readers) up in the screen area (so thats BT, GPS (if it works), 3G antenna, and DVB-TV if I get it.) , but I'm gonna keep my drives downstairs.
Since I'm not going to get a touchscreen, I don't care about that.
Well done though.

Last edited by Roriniho (2008-03-11 1:58:18 pm)

Yeh, where did you get it? it looks tiny, and could be a replacemnt for the swivel hub. How well does it work? Any problems?

jr eee pc hacker - I orginally started with a small hub on the underside. but liked the idae of on the lid hiden away. Just what I liked.

Roriniho / MaiCody - Logiix 4 Port USB 2.0 Flexible Hub - LGX-78998 bought at London Drugs (canada) $25.99 londondrugs.com bought in store not on line.

more pictures as requested.






End View



Side View




Usb 4 port pin out info.

j3thr0 wrote:

Roriniho / MaiCody I've ordered a similar hub from here. http://www.uxcell.com/mini-black-smart- … 11789.html

Hopefully it's the same inside

looks like the same one, I also bought another one that i did not take apart and using for my other laptop and it is a no name brand and looks just like the one you bought.
only on screw behind the label to get into it.

So far the hub is working flawless. Not sure of linux I don't have linux on my laptop, but i do on my main pc as dual boot I will try later.

@calrac,
  Great post. I can't believe how much hardware you got installed in the display area. I liked that octopus hub so much that I ordered one last night. I hope it has the same internals as yours.
   I noticed that the plastic around the screen doesn't close completely (on the left outside edge). Is it the hub or the connectors on the controller that are holding it open? I am worried that the hub might be too tall.
Thx,
JDtucson

Last edited by JDTucson (2008-03-12 11:44:02 pm)

JDTucson wrote:

@calrac,
  Great post. I can't believe how much hardware you got installed in the display area. I liked that octopus hub so much that I ordered one last night. I hope it has the same internals as yours.
   I noticed that the plastic around the screen doesn't close completely (on the left outside edge). Is it the hub or the connectors on the controller that are holding it open? I am worried that the hub might be too tall.
Thx,
JDtucson

Hey JDtucson, was wondering when someone was going to ask of the bulge in the middle. Glad you asked. It is actually due the little clip along the edge for the front and back of lid to snap together broke off when i was hacking with my dremel, dam i guess I shouldn't drink some much LOL.

I can easily squeze the buldge together.

It is a very tight fit mostly the area of the lid not so much the thinkness.

Hope it all works out for everyone that try this. I took me about 4 hrs to do.
For the wires I used a floppy drv ribbon and striped down to 4 wires from the motherboard to the hub. I then used wires from a Cat 5 cable and just stripped the outercase shell and used the internal wires. the cat 5 solid core wires were used to go to the components.

I will try to pull the cover and take some close ups. I also dremeled the lid hinges basiically cut off the inside edges that is hidden under the bottom cover when assembled.

just did that so it is easier to take the lid off with out taking the bottom cover off.

more photo's





Hinge of lid trimmed so it is easy to remove lid without removing base cover.




Close up of USB Hub, Touch screen controller & 8gb usb drive




Touch screen controller close up




Side view no lid




Another USB hub which is almost the same as the one I added to my EEE except one USB outlet has the mini USB plug, internals is identical.

I earlier mentioned only 1 screw which in fact is 2 screws to remove under label.

I also earlier mentioned I did not trim the USB hub board but i did just forgot, I trimmer the top of the hub a small amount to fit around lid left upper screw area.

I'm sure others could get this to fit better and neater if they remove the hook ups on the touch screen controller and solder to the board instead, I'm not to fussy of what it looks like under the hood and wanted to be able to use the plugs on the touchscreen controller incase i decide to use some where else.

Last edited by calrac (2008-03-13 2:38:44 am)

my power is as follows

mass storage (8gb Mem stick) = 200 ma
usb touchscreen controller 44ma
bluetooth = 0 ma
usb composite device (camera) 500ma

the hub has only 1 5v supply and output is 500ma per port.