My light network era - Extra Episode 1: An ultra-low budget DIY X86 set-top box!

Foreword: Article five black group Hui + love fast one machine with two pieces of machinery under no load 35W full load 43W. Even if it is too expensive, I hope that the big brothers can come up with a plan with more than six places and a total of 350 plus U.

Although I was in college locally, I was lazy, I didn't go home often, and I didn't have a notebook (who would like to use a laptop with a 4.5G i7?), so the occasional return of home entertainment became a problem.

In fact, my wish is very simple. I squatted on the couch and watched the TV on television. I slept on the bed and the weekend passed. The helplessness of home TV comes with the SOC of a bay maker, and running an Android 4.4 card can hardly move, but a 52-inch screen is a pity. And sometimes when looking at the BDrip of a G on a single file, the mobile phone player is not friendly to the Chinese subtitles, so getting a TV box is imperative.

However, An excellent use of Vietnam Card does not say, is not enough freedom ... for example, to do some remote things, there are some services to run ... is obviously not enough, so I want is not a set-top box, but should be HTPC.

At the beginning I took out my ancestral E5200/Q45/2G/HD4650/8G SSD (30 purchased in TB), after some magical changes on the WES7, loaded with potplayer, NetEase cloud, perfect decoding, XBMC and other software After about 2GB left, it can be said to be very streamlined. However, after all, sometimes it is to look at the B station and Youku online. It always feels a bit troublesome. Youku big tumor ah.

(The power consumption of the whole machine is only a few tens of watts when looking at the B station with H5, which I have measured, but the specific value is lost with an OEM UNLOCK together)

The question I want to consider now is that

How to keep the budget as low as possible

Sexuality can be used, low power consumption, can support long boot, and as smooth as possible.

As a black skirt player playing a lot of IPC boards, the first thing I think of is J1900 and 1037U. Among them, 1037U is more appropriate, because 1037U can be approximated as the younger brother of G1620, and it has dropped some from the main frequency to the nuclear display. However, the architecture is still a positive IVB soaring with single-core performance and nuclear ratio. The J1900 atom architecture is so high that I don't know where to go. Then increase some power consumption, do a small host H61/G1620. However, these programs have a high budget, and even if they are on salted fish, they are probably costed as follows:

J1900: Sodexo motherboard 170 yuan +2GD3 notebook memory 50 yuan +32G solid state 110 yuan +DCATX power bar 40 yuan +12V5A power supply 25 yuan = 410 yuan

1037U: An unknown brand motherboard 210 yuan +2GD3 notebook memory 50 yuan +32G solid state 110 yuan +12V5A power supply 25 yuan + wireless network card 15 yuan =410 yuan

G1620: H61 ITX motherboard 100 yuan + CPU 100 yuan + 2GD3 notebook memory 50 yuan + 32G solid state 110 yuan + DCATX power bar 40 yuan + 12V5A power supply 25 yuan + wireless network card 15 yuan = 440 yuan

I don't really want to spend this amount of money on this kind of thing, because my family only I will use it. At this time I thought of something.

This is the broken screen body of the Z3735F tablet.

On a certain treasure, I found a shop that specializes in the main board of the village and got a board like this.

Z3735F: 2GD3 particles +32G EMMC+WiFi/Bluetooth=140 yuan

Accessories: Silicone thermal paste 8 yuan (used to attach the heat sink) + heat sink 2 yuan + micro HDMI to HDMI plug 5 yuan + USB 8CM fan 10 yuan +5V2A microUSB charger 10 yuan +2600mah polymer battery 6 yuan = 41 yuan

Total: 181 yuan (all)

The reason why the fans spend 10 yuan to buy a fan is that the friends who played the village board know that the Z3735F hits the temperature wall and will lower the frequency. My goal is to keep him running under the quad-core 1.33G, and it can be used smoothly. .

The board's interface is a large USB 2.0 (connected to a four-port hub), a microUSB (powered by me), a DC (don't want to buy a DC charger, no need), a 3.5 headphone jack (plugged in Small speaker), a TF card slot (insert a gray 16G OV memory card), a 3G SIM card slot (no eggs used)

Simply welded a few lines, respectively, WiFi antenna, boot line. The switch couldn't think of using it anymore. We found a green shaft + a P-shaped keycap (Power), and we randomly found the wire and wrapped it with hot melt adhesive.

The size of the board is very small, a bit larger than ordinary cards.

After everything is connected, this is the case.

Here I have to mention that the 37 artifacts of a certain treasure are used to make a wireless mouse with a handle size. This stuff is suitable for remote control on the couch. It's still suitable for charging. The 2.4G receiver is hidden in the battery cover when not in use, and is strongly Amway.

For simple debugging, you can see that the board is very small and does not take up any place at all.

Then he found a monitor, took a set of wireless keyboard and mouse and sat down to install the software. In fact, you can do back-hook.

Take a DLINK router box, screw it on the fan and stuff it into the board.

Software, win10, sunflower, XBMC, potplayer, chrome, and mashups.

Hey, basically so much right, there are problems playing low-power board can send me an email, without qq. Student Party.

XBMC is a good thing.

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