Tag: mods
Laptop Guitar Modification
Stuffing an old laptop inside a guitar seems seems like a perfectly good way to give old tech new life. This guitar uses the laptop’s display as a visualizer.
Carbon Fiber-ish MacBook
Like the carbon fiber notebook look, but short on cash? One mac aficionado spent a few bucks and a little time to give his MacBook a unique look by applying a vinyl sticker with a carbon fiber pattern. Since he didnâ€â„¢t have to disassemble the computer and the sticker is removable, the warranty and resale [...]
College Kid Builds PowerBook Tablet
FGwnfD6KMG8 A USC undergrad couldnâ€â„¢t wait for Apple to build a Tablet MacBook, so he improvised with a Titanium PowerBook. It took a Wacom drawing tablet, two days of work and some trial and error, but the thing works reasonably well. Itâ€â„¢s rough around the edges and the digitizer only works on the middle of [...]
PowerBook Puppet Show
I6ZpsqOD4rU Hereâ€â„¢s a creative use of a notebook and its internal motion sensor. The application i wrote reads out the Powerbook´s sudden motion sensor´s position data and then uses it, to move the marionette accordingly. If you tilt the notebook to the left, the marionette on the screen reacts to gravity and also swings left [...]
Scary Notebook
Some say Happy Halloween with candy and costumes, but the guys over at Bit Tech went all out by modding a notebook nicknamed Scorched Earth The notebook went under the knife for a few days and emerged with custom skulls with glowing eyes. Bit Tech does some amazing work on notebooks, and documents the process [...]
iBook Media Hub
I was getting ready to sell my old iBook G3 on eBay this week, but I decided I might try this very creative mod so I can squeeze a couple more years of life out of it. Too bad Apple doesn’t sell a Airport-enabled digital picture frame. From MacMod “It’s primary duty will be as [...]
