July 26th, 2008
ASUS Eee Pc Car Charger
You’ve probably seen the article about the Asus Eee PC and what can be integrated inside it’s case. But after you’ve done some modding and added different devices your battery probably doesn’t last as it was intended to last, so if you need to charge it in the car you either buy a commercial adapter or you make it.
This projects shows details on how to build an Eee Pc car charger. There are actually a small number of parts so the whole cost should be small.
ASUS Eee Pc Car Charger: [Link]
March 22nd, 2009 at 10:58 am
[...] Since I often find myself on the road with my battery drained out and because I intend to use my Eee Pc together with a GPS module as a navigation system I thought it would be a good idea to make myself a car charger. The charger would have to output 9,5 V 2.5A, and it would have to be able to maintain the output voltage constant over variations of the input voltage. Of-course there are lots of voltage regulators these days that would fit my circuit, but I chose to use the LM2576 because such a charger has already been build and tested here (also featured on Youritronics here). [...]