Allpods 2004 will be produced with lots of different hardware this year and this post is to familiarize you with what's what.
First, the computers. An Apple 17" powerbook named 'spacecase' is the main computer for all that happens in the realm of spacepod. All four webcam's (three iBot firewire cams and one brand spankin' new iSight cam) will be connected to spacecase. We'll also be blogging with this computer during the day and this is one of the computers that will be set up at our booth in Roswell.
The supporting roles go to 'Foxy Box' and 'Hoth'. 'Foxy Box' will be the main booth computer, allowing people to watch pervious years' video clips. It's one of the fabulous Apple Cube G4 computers. 'Hoth' is a 14" iBook I'll use for posting blog entries while we're not actually out on the road. It may also run one of the Firewire iBot cameras on Saturday during the car show.
Other peripherals include two external hard drives, an original Airport hub, and a couple iPods.
Click the entry title to see a complete list of tools and their corresponding specs.
g4/1ghz 17" powerbook
'spacecase'
hard drive: 60gb
ram: 512mb
g4/550mhz cube
'foxy box'
hard drive: 40gb
ram: 1gb
g3/700mhz 14" iBook
'Hoth'
hard drive: 40gb
ram: 384mb
ipod
'glenda'
10gb
ipod mini
'Echo Base'
4gb
maxtor external firewire drive
(no name yet!)
200gb
lacie external firewire drive
'home one'
160gb
sanyo scp-5300 picture phone
sprint pcs network
1st gen airport hub
3 iBot Firewire web cams on mag-mounts
1 iSight Firewire web cam