Hello FriendlyNerdFriends, It’s spring time again, and as always, my collection of spare parts and I get into a turf war, AND SOMEBODY GETS CAPPED (Modded). And, here begins the saga of Project EyeMac (2): Aluminum Dreams. This is technically the second of these that I’ve built, but the first one isn’t written up. I apologize in advance for the underexposed photos, I blew the … Read More →
UNIX Domain Sockets (Datagram)
Hello friends! I am here in Internetland to talk to you about my adventures with UNIX domain sockets. I’m designing a collection of separate programs that all need to communicate. The communication has to be multiclient, single server, and easy to implement. In this case, a datagram is the preferred mode due to it’s tiny connectionless nature. UDP seems like a good option at first, … Read More →
Eee GamePad Project “Thingy”
For all you East Coasters, I hope that Hurricane Sandy leaves you alone. Or, preferably, leaves you lots of cookies. Want to skip all this mad rambling, and look at the pictures? Head down to the bottom, Captain. I’m sure, you’re asking yourself… What monstrosity am I looking at here? Well, you’re looking at Project “Thingy”. About 4 years ago, I got an ASUS Eee … Read More →
Macbook Tablet Project “MessagePad”
It’s that time again. The weather’s getting nice on the East coast, and out comes my modding spirit. Here are some of the inspirations for this project: http://lifehacker.com/5654478/turn-a-macbook-into-a-tablet-for-100 http://weistudio.com/mac_com.htm Seeing these projects made me remember the time before the iPad/iPhone and tablet boom, where tablet projects on full size laptops were all the rage. The dynamic of those projects were to fill a gap in … Read More →
Macbook Dye Project
So, I’ve decided to start my mod-blog-whatever, with my Macbook Dye Project, aka ‘Hallowbook’. There are some examples of previous projects here that inspired this work: http://www.mactech.com/2006/09/02/yellow-ibook-g3 http://applefritter.com/hacks/tronbook http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=502086 The project follows in the footsteps of the iBook RIT dye procedure, but with a sandpaper-based twist. I’m just going to come out and say a huge thanks to my girlfriend M3L, for letting me attempt … Read More →