Deldotb managed to install a touchscreen in his Dell Inspiron Mini 9, but in doing so had to sacrifice one of the left-side USB ports. Nice mod!
Read Deldotb’s post about adding the touchscreen.
by Jon | Tags: dell inspiron mini 9, dell mini inspiron 9, hack, netbook, subnotebook, touchscreen
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Check out this mod by wolphcry — the guts of a MacBook crammed into a Macally G-S350SUA external hard drive case. This all started when wolphcry received a 13-inch MacBook that was the victim of water damage. After some testing, he found that the motherboard was still good, but the LCD and some other parts [...]
by Jon | Tags: case mod, hack, mac pro, macbook
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What could be better than a Super Nintendo put to use as an alarm clock? Well, maybe a Super Nintendo alarm clock that plays video game theme songs. Until someone makes one of those, check out aaronmavrinac’s SNES alarm clock hack below.
by Jon | Tags: alarm clock, hack, Super Nintendo
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tnkgrl, has hacked a MacBook Air SuperDrive to work with other computers. The trick was to replace the CD-to-USB board (USB-PCB-E1), since that is what Apple is using to limit the SuperDrive to the MacBook Air. This hack is not for the faint of heart, but the result is a great looking portable SuperDrive.
Read how [...]
by Jon | Tags: hack, macbook air superdrive
Posted in apple, hack, hardware
My dad was showing me some old photos yesterday that his mom had sent him, and we came across this one that I had never seen before. I thought it was so cool. My dad was always taking apart and rebuilding or modifying his dad’s lawn equipment when he was a kid. I’ve heard so [...]
by Jon | Tags: hack
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