Abstract:
Designing and building a home Media Center can be a daunting task given the multitude of available options and configurations. The goal of this project is to build a home Media Center, and in the process, create a guide that a less technically knowledgeable person could use to build their own system. Initial hardware research provided the foundation for a design and explained the relevance of the different components. Using the concepts derived from the research, a successful Media Center was built that offered a medium for software testing. Debugging the various software issues provided an opportunity to record the solutions to common problems that can occur during the configuration of a Media Center. By documenting the entire build and configuration process, an easy to understand guide was produced that provides the necessary knowledge for anyone to construct their own home Media Center.
