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Can we just put a vote in for more retro designs like this project Mini Media Centre? Sure it’s frivolous, but [...]
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Retro Mini Media Centre project
SlashGear —
... Meanwhile, a laser-cutter was used to make the port holes at the back and the text along the side.
The project was actually completed all the way back in 2006, when Thomas demonstrated the Mini Media Centre at a show in London. It’d be interesting to see what he could come up with now, given the proliferation of small-form-factor ‘boards capable of high-definition video decoding and media sharing.
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