Damn Small Linux on a Damn Small Box.
"Please don't look behind the curtain" or in this case in the lower box. That contains all the nasty wires, and my bad soldering. I attached the power to the bottom of the Molex 4 pin disk connector, and soldered four wires to an unused USB connector. In the lower box there's a 5V and 12V supply so I can add a disk drive later, and a 4 port USB hub, that takes the keyboard, mouse and a USB to ethernet dongle from SMC.
When it's closed up it looks quite nice, I think. I spray painted the sides of the boxes that have 
cutouts, and I made sure they are interleaved so there's a checkerboard look to the whole thing
cutouts, and I made sure they are interleaved so there's a checkerboard look to the whole thingThe system boots off the USB Flash drive that you can see hanging out the top, cantilevered portion. I've currently booted QNX, Damn Small Linux, and Knoppix from a USB CD-ROM drive. I've also plugged in USB hard drive, but not got around to using that as a boot disk. Next task is to make a persistent USB version, courtesy of Pendrive-Linux, so then I can add my ppts. Gotta have my ppt's for my trip to Denver next week.
If you want to see this running, ask your local Colorado Intel Disti about the s/w summit and see if there's still space.
I haven't installed the chipset Linux graphics driver yet, so the system is just using the regular DSL linux vga drivers.
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