Hi. This is a short little project I whipped up on my lunch break today. I recently saw this hack floating around the Intertubes. The basic run-down is that an Airport Express (A1392) has it’s power supply replaced with a 12V->5V->3.3V step down sequence, so it can run off of a car’s DC power. It is then setup to pipe audio to the car’s audio … Read More →
Project BlackBook: Return Of The Backlight
This project has been hiding on the back-burner for a while, but I finally had some time recently to complete it. A couple months ago, I found myself with a dilemma. As a favor to a friend, I traded them a perfectly working 2009 MacBook Unibody 13 Logic Board, for one with a broken headphone jack (jack snapped off inside, physical damage to the connector) … Read More →
How To Ruin A Perfectly Good Lamp With A Nexus 7
Hi Friends! I hope you’ve all had the opportunity to enjoy your favorite food recently. (I tried to come up with an alternative friendly greeting. I think I nailed it.) This post could alternatively be called “What To Do With Your Nexus 7, When You Crack The Screen”, but, I’m weird. ANYWAY! (As most of these posts start off) I was browsing eBay a couple … Read More →
Project eyeMac: Aluminum Dreams
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 →