Last year I had to build a few Bluetooth beamer box, a standalone picoITX PC that does OBEX push of images and videos to any cellphone that has bluetooth turned on. I am left with one extra ARTIGO unit. I have decided to build a simple media server with it this weekend. Quite a bit of my media files are already in the digital format, will need to convert the rest sometime in the future.
The VIA's picoITX based ARTIGO is suprisingly a very small unit. The whole thing is smaller than a paberback book. Got some pics of it.
Thats the top side of the picoITX mobo, it has standard headers for USB/PS2, frontpanel lights etc and also Hiroshe connectors for DVI.
The bottom part of the mobo PCB, has a slot for RAM and has IDE connectors on the right edge, though it requires an adapter to connect to a standard notebook IDE HDD, btw this adapter is shipped with the pack.
A simple psu board that converts the standard power brick voltage to the picoITX standard voltage outputs, the size is just amazing!
The shot of the front panel, it has 4xUSB, a mic and headphone output. The back panel has DC in, VGA and Ethernet connectors.
The full mugshot of the unit with the power brick.
I have tried booting it with Fedora and Ubuntu via a USB flash disk, with 1GB RAM, it was quite a performer for its spec. Next step I am going to load up MythUbuntu via an internal HDD which would also host my collection of media files.
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