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• Confirmed that hp/compaq is my least favorite computer manufacturer.  Not only have I replaced more hard drives out of these brands than any other but they use proprietary power supplies and mother boards.  This power supply has a different pin configuration and the power on works in a way that is mysterious to me and probably needs the motherboard to do it.  A standard power supply you can jump the power on to the ground and it powers up.  This one the power on is set low by default instead of high.  There was a 5v hot line that I thought might pull this high to turn it on but I got no results.
• The good news is this should definitely work for our purposes with a standard power supply.  Independent of the large p1 connector, each of the little  4-pinmolex connectors output both 5 and 12 volts.  This means I can put one of these ports, the same as hard drives use, on the board to plug in the power.  A SPST(single pole single throw) switch can be used to turn the supply on or off.  Here is a youtube video on it:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29vhuKbwLno
• Phil found a really cool wooden case for the electronics.  If we attach the devise firmly too it, we should get very good sound quality.
• I found the auto routing function for trace routing.  I tested it on a dummy circuit I made to see how it works.  Basically you set up the net and it does it.  We’ll see how well it does on the actual circuit as its much more complex

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