RE: laptop wearable

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Jennifer,
You may wish to consider Energy Depot batteries with RCA out -- that's what
I used when I created my wearable. I'm sure there are other similar ones out
there, but that should give you a good start. Consider RCA style jacks with
a Y-splitter for hot-swapping. Careful not to short out the battery by
bumping it when swapping which  could cause horrible things to happen --
think explosions -- so whichever isn't being used should be covered somehow
(maybe with a female plug that has no cord) when not in use. If you're
putting it in a backpack, you may want to cut a hole by the fan (and other
holes) for ventilation, although that's tricky because it could get wet. (I
don't think there are any magic cooling answers out there if you're set on
using a laptop.) The Twiddler should take it out of standby mode if your
O.S. is set up that way (mine works that way.)

Unfortunately my old site is down (hopefully for not too much longer.) Check
it out using the wayback machine though -- much of it may assist you.

Wearcomp Hardware projects:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011221035057/www.melmcgee.com/hardware.html

Wearcomp Purse with built-in LCD:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020108230959/www.melmcgee.com/projects/LCDPurse
.html

Cyvisor hack:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020804061116/www.melmcgee.com/projects/cyvisorH
ack.html

Other pages:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/melmcgee.com/*

Best of luck,
Mel McGee

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  [mailto:]On
> Behalf Of Jennifer Pellinen
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 3:57 PM
> To: 
> Subject: [Wear-Hard] laptop wearable
>
>
> I got a dell inspiron 8000 laptop for xmas and I am
> thinking of using that as a wearable. I have pretty
> much everything figured out asside from a couple of
> things. One issue is battery life. One website
> sugested splicing the power cable and hooking that up
> to some batteries. I would rather not have to do that.
> I have 3 batteries right now, I am thinking of getting
> some more and just hot swapping as needed. The other
> issue is overheating. If I have the laptop in a
> backpack turned on, how can I prevent the laptop from
> overheating? I live in WA state, so its cold and rainy
> most of the time but durring the summer it gets realy
> hot here. It can get up into 90's here in the summer.
> One more thing. At some point I plan on getting a USB
> twiddler. Would a USB twiddler be able to bring the
> laptop out of standby mode?
>
> Jennifer
>
>
>
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