bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb, cardreader all working portable
 

I showed my wife what I did, she said I am totally immature!

My immaturity:

F-F coupler $1.46 http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.2646
powered USB hub $6.50 http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13526
keyboard $13.18 http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.7847

battery amplified PC speakers: any speakers $10

palmsize harddrive 160 G 2.5 in SATA $68.18
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822242006

Tekkeon MP1550 $29.37
http://www.buy.com/prod/tekkeon-mp15...206812375.html, not always able to wake up the harddrive but is more portable for only tablet/speaker/kb use

Black and Decker Power to go 100W $38.26
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Decker-L...0271717&sr=8-6, bulkier, but would not run out of power for a couple of days with countinuous use, and is the ultimate power to wake up the harddrive

2700 mAH Li MH batteries X8 $29.70
http://cgi.ebay.com/8-MAHA-Powerex-A...1QQcmdZViewIte

Total Immaturity: $199

Hook up in any order is fine.
1) hook up the USB keyboard, PC speakers, harddrive (using the miniUSB) to the USB hub.
2) hook up the red end of the USB hub to the Tekkeon and turns on the Tekkeon.
3) Turns on the tablet and put up USBControl
4) plug the other tail of the USB Hub to the FF coupler then to the tablet.
This should turns on the USB host mode and everything will then be working....most of the time, if not, momentarily plug and unplug the tablet usb that will wake up the harddrive.

Waking up the hard drive is the most unreliable part of the procedure. Otherwise, this is a really really neat toy

This is NOT my recommended setup. This is the setup that is working! Price has changed tremendously in the last couple of month, especially palmsize harddrive, they are running in the $60 with namebrand. So shop around....again, these are the suggestions, NOT recommendations.


related links:http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=22725, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...light=palmsize

Questions? Comments?


enjoy,

bun

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

Totally agreed with your wife!
But maybe mine said the same thing to me! :eek:

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

The Black and Decker, I ran the whole setup, surfing, kb, music continuously, and fell to sleep in a sweet dream, woke up in horror, worry that running out of power will kill the HD.........there is NOT EVEN ONE square (4 squares total) lost on the battery indicator, running 12 hrs continuously, kb, hd, blasting music, did not even touch the Black and Decker battery! POWER TO GO!

bun

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

one question: why N810 not N800?
You don't have FM radio! Besides you already have the USB keyboard!
:p

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

Good point. They both work, either N800 or N810. I just happened to have the N810 hook up. Here is the N800, even more simplier setup, using Tekkeon,

bun

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

now to get that video out working? ;)

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

Yup, rdesktop ever since 770, right?

For the real thing, you would have to wait for the gurus :(

bun

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

more like vnc, my rdesktop experience is kinda limited...

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

Just curious...why did you choose BOTH the Tekkeon and the Power-to-go? Would just the PTG be sufficient? I suppose the Tekkeon would not be enough to power the hard drive...but what about just the PTG?

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

It is a system in evolution. You do not need BOTH, either Tekkeon or PTG will do. I bought the Tekkeon first. And then I read about PTG. In fact, they are very comparable in $, but capacity wise, the tekkeon is not even close. However, the Tekkeon is like two cig lighters size, while the PTG is like 300 cig lighters. Size matters.

No. The Tekkeon is capable to wake up the harddrive. However, just like the 'shared folders', it is NOT consistently. The PTG is much more consistently, but it is heavier/bulkier. Me? Casual use, I carried the Tekkeon, on a plane, absolutely PTG. I have NOT seen it run down yet! I guess its capacity is way too big for the tablet :-) The PTG to the tablet is like running appliance in your house, you kind of forget/worry that your AC power MAY run low?! I have a feeling that watching videoes with the PTG would run days and days before one can run it down.



bun

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

Your wife clearly has very confused priorities.

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

Next time my wife complain my addiction to tablets, I'm going to show your post and she should have no more to complain... :rolleyes::D

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

Watchout, GA, she is now in Gainesville, Fl today and if she checked the forum, she may give you the same comment...

bun

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

I guess, my post could be useful, sometimes, UH? :rolleyes:

I still think the inconsistence with the Tekkeon/HD is the peak power in kick start the HD, or is actually a bug in the USB? Even only the keyboard, with presumably use very little power, no HD attached, I still have to plug/unplug to wake up the USB port. Witchcraft!
BTW, plug/unplug to wake up the USB port is the most reliable way to wake up the USB port.


bun

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

Well, if your intention was solely to upset the Mrs., at least you gave it 100% effort! :D

Now, if you can blast it to the point where your windows rumble, that would serously be something to respect!

Any chance you could add a sub-woofer and amplifier to that setup? :D

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

Sweet setup bun :)

Oh and thanks for the PTG tip!!

I need one of those!

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

I guess you mean portable, right? I have fed the output into my stereo amp in the past and has been done before, a piece of cake, nothing to mention. Just because you asked, I connected the whole thing to a sub-woofer which takes AC power from PTG, and the whole thing is 100% portable. However, distortion is quite hi with the subwoofer, I can tell the difference. Now, with the subwoofer, you can feel the music. Oh, yes, I am feeling Edwin Starr's War, ''...it aint nothing but a heartbreaker... War, god your, what is it good for....absolutely nuthing" The whole setup including the sub-woofer is totally portable, no household current needed :-)

Now, the price tag for bun's immaturity (more like insanity now) becomes $220 + $60? :p

Too bad, dont know how to get a youtube video

Now listening to Danny Okeefe - Good time, Charlie got the blue. Followed with Eric Burdon's Sky pilot.............how hi can you fly....you never, never, reach the sky.

bun

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

You can also attach an USB card reader to the USB hub. Apparantly a USB card reader is treated as an ext. HD. I cannot make it work without a powered hub.

Stick in a SD card into the card reader 1st, then turn on the host mode, and then insert the card reader. it will then read the card. It reads/write SDHC fine, I tried a 16G SDHC and read/write fine. Again, if you just stuck the cardreader into the USB without a powered usb hub, it will not work. It writes fine with a large file, I tried a 1 G file, but it chokes when writing many small files, e.g. 160 50 kB files, it crashed the tablet and the tablet rebooted (almost wet my pants, that is my dear 16 G SDHC card)

Now, here is another tips. It takes the cardreader like an extHD, so you cannot swap cards in and out like in the MSWindow system, it does not do hot swap nor refresh. To swap cards in a cardreader, you have to discontinue the USB host mode and change card and trigger the host mode again.


N810/Diablo/30-2
N800/Diablo/23-14
bun

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

I am only 1 keyboard(I think I want to get a BT keyword) and a PTO away from your setup:-) sweet...

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

Can you give more information about that little stand you're using for your tablet?

http://internettablettalk.com/forums...1&d=1220273982

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

It is the styroform package that came with those 2.5 in HD. It usually comes in two pieces to hold the HD and it fits perfectly.

bun

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

Oh, come on Bun, not that one, the N800 one! :D

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

Sorry,

Travelling gets online spradically. This is the stand I am using, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=22794.

bun

Re: bun's immaturity: HD, speakers, kb all working portable
 

Just a note, after a little bit of searching dealextreme also has the "little stand" or one very similar so if you want the stand and the usb coupler you can get them on the same site.

usb coupler

windsheild stands

I wish I would have known this earlier. I just hacked some stands out of wood for my n800 in my car and one at home :)