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SSD anyone?

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My machine is the MakerBot Thing-O-Matic which costs about $1250 and is in kit form, everything you need to get up an running. If you are looking to build your own then you probably want to be looking at the RepRap project. Building your own does save a lot of money but you have to get all the parts yourself and spend some time learning what you need and how to build it.

I would recommend building a RepRap Prusa Mendel, they are the easiest and cheapest version to build. You can get a full set of plastic parts off eBay for around £75 (search for 'prusa mendel' or 'reprap') and most of the other parts are from a hardware store. Depending on where you get the parts, you're looking at under £300 to build the whole thing.
Thanks, £300 is less than I thought it would be so I'll start by looking into getting the parts for the Prusa Mendel. I remember looking atthe reprap forum a few months back but found there to be almost too many sections and different models so I found it a little overwhelming. Now I know where to start I'll have a look into this model and give it a go when I get the time. :)

Obligatory pic - back when Creative Labs made decent hardware;
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Oh and my awful rushed cable management as girlfriend was itching to play dragon age 2! XD no patience eh?

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And still 4 days later i havn't got round to tidying it, so im using pc now as you see it pictured below.. XD

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Sensory Networks Nodalcore C-Series 1000

Had this from a Mcafee sourced Dell 1850 for quite a while now.
Can't bring myself to throw it away, purely because I don't know what it is... :D
 
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What port is it on the backplate? Looks kinda like a - wait thats not even a port? :o and wtf does it have its own cmos battery? XD - researched that sensory networks place that's on the heat-sink, seems they do AV and security? perhaps its some ancient security peripheral?
 
I don't know what it is... :D

It seems to have an array of LEDs on the back and a CPU on the card, probably a FPGA of some sort. The PLX chip is a PCI bridge to handle communication between the PCI bus and the on-board CPU. The other chips are more than likely memory/RAM.
 
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