12-15-2004, 08:30 AM
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An iPAQ Hack Attack
"This mod I came up with allows you to place your PPC at an angle in landscape orientation. I mostly use it to watch movies without having to hold the PPC in my hands or balance it between a book and any available weights -- usually the airline magazines on long plane rides. By moving the slug up and down the back of the PPC you can easily adjust the viewing angle. All you have to do is cut a small slit in one corner of your CF slug and then slide the slit over the outer body of your PPC. I am using this with a 4705 but I believe it should also work with other CF equipped models. A Dremel with a reinforced cutting wheel makes this mod super easy."
Pocket PC Thoughts reader, Tye, has conceived an interesting iPAQ hx4705 hack job that effectively permits the device to stand up at an angle, without the use of hands!
Here are a few more images:
This seems to work great, as long as you have no problems with "messing around" with the bits and pieces of your device. Does anyone else have any other interesting hack jobs worth sharing to the community?
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12-15-2004, 09:11 AM
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Re: An iPAQ Hack Attack
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
This seems to work great, as long as you have no problems with "messing around" with the bits and pieces of your device. Does anyone else have any other interesting hack jobs worth sharing to the community?
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- a decent, wood-based "cradle" for the VGA Toshibas. Can't be hard to custom-build one for any landscape machine, either.
There were also pictures of landscape "cradles" cut of foam paper in some minutes, also in the Brighthand e800 forum, but can't find them. They ARE funny 
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12-15-2004, 09:40 AM
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That's pretty creative. I assume you are watching Video with BetaPlayer? I just gave it a try on my new 4705 and was very pleasantly surprised to find out I could copy a full 700M divx movie to my microdrive and it would play perfectly smooth. I've even been able to stream full res Divx movies to the Ipaq via Wifi. That's impressive performance for a pocketPc. It helps me feel better about all the money it cost.
You can read more about my experiences with the 4705 and Betaplayer here if you are interested:
http://www.nullstream.com/archives/000058.html
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12-15-2004, 10:01 AM
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Pretty creative mod. I had gone out to Office Depot and purchased one of their business card holders (not the foldable/portable kind, but the kind that just sits on a desk). For just a few dollars, this served as a perfect cradle that I could rest my iPaq 4700 in as well. It is particularly handy when I'm using my BT keyboard and my 4700 in landscape mode as well.
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12-15-2004, 10:59 AM
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Off Topic
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Originally Posted by johnm
That's pretty creative. I assume you are watching Video with BetaPlayer? I just gave it a try on my new 4705 and was very pleasantly surprised to find out I could copy a full 700M divx movie to my microdrive and it would play perfectly smooth. I've even been able to stream full res Divx movies to the Ipaq via Wifi. That's impressive performance for a pocketPc. It helps me feel better about all the money it cost.
You can read more about my experiences with the 4705 and Betaplayer here if you are interested:
http://www.nullstream.com/archives/000058.html |
wow!!!
i was wondering if you could tell me the properties of the specific video you played? bit rate, video size (screen), etc.
thanks!!!
-@PIE@Loox
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12-15-2004, 01:58 PM
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I forget where I saw this, but someone cut out the ribs from the CF-slug and stored spare SD cards in there. He was able to fit either 2 or 3 of the extra-thin SD cards (like the KingMAX 66x 1GB). It's not a bad idea now that SD is actually as cheap as (or cheaper than) CF.
ipaq_wannabe: BETAPlayer plays 640x480 30 fps high-bitrate DIVX files on both the X50v and hx4700 just fine. Here are some benchmarks I ran a couple weeks ago with the Matrix Trailer (RL_HQ_640x352_1024_128.avi):
hx4700/X50v- SD (1GB 32x Lexar): 211%/243%
- CF (1GB 40x Lexar): 206%/191%
- filestore: 239%/238%
- RAM: 251%/253%
The 640x480 RL_HQ trailer runs at about 75% of those speeds (still well above 100% and without dropping any frames). Also, newer versions of BETAPlayer are even faster (there have been 3 or 4 releases in the last two weeks).
So you don't need to compromise quality when encoding for handheld playback anymore (for smooth playback anyway... file size may still be a constraint). Get the latest BETAPlayer UNSTABLE build from:
http://betaplayer.corecodec.org/
http://forge.topcat.hu/frs/?group_id=5 (for X50v, also get 2700 plugin here)
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12-15-2004, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Deslock
I forget where I saw this, but someone cut out the ribs from the CF-slug and stored spare SD cards in there. He was able to fit either 2 or 3 of the extra-thin SD cards (like the KingMAX 66x 1GB). It's not a bad idea now that SD is actually as cheap as (or cheaper than) CF.
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A bit like Image #4?
Tye, I redid that image a bit and formed two into one. Hope you don't mind.
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12-15-2004, 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
A bit like Image #4?
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LOL. Was that there before? When I looked at all the images originally, I didn't notice any SD cards in there.
Anyway, cool mod!
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12-15-2004, 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
A bit like Image #4?
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LOL. Was that there before? When I looked at all the images originally, I didn't notice any SD cards in there. |
Not originally. I changed it after you queried the whole SD-CF thing. Basically, I incorporated the original and the new image into one major image as I stated in my previous post.  Tye sent us multiple images of this mod in action from just about every angle. I only posted some of them.
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12-15-2004, 03:58 PM
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Actually, we did a frontpager on the stuff-SD-into-CF-slug hack before. As phpBB doesn't let you search two-character terms, though, I'm not going to try looking it up. :|
But this is a very cool hack nevertheless. 
--janak
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