What's new?

I've been away again for a few months busy with other projects such as restoring an old Hofner Senator guitar and fixing my 1975 Vespa 150 Super.

Sold a few computers, but non of my Macs (though my SE was up for sale for a month but no bites!).

My iMac G4 broke! but I bought a new one with a better processor and now it runs OS10.5


I have The Original Sims complete installed on it along with Age of Empires II. Also got Garage Band and Photoshop on there. Been playing around with some other old programs too,


I built a Hackin'tosh! I made a power mac G4 into a powerful computer ready for Mac OSX but for now I'm running windows 7 on it because I need to buy a new hard drive, ram and graphics card to take it to its full potential. Also, its a bit difficult as I'm more of a hardware guy than software. would help if someone could skype me with some help on how to install mac os. I know I need those programs and I had it on for about 3 hours but it crashed and wouldn't boot back up.



Photos of all to follow soon.



Been really busy but mostly procrastinating on Tumblr, Netlfix and eBay.

I wanted to post a video but it wouldnt let me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQUVIB2lCrU


This is a video of my Apple Macintosh SE

what I've been doing.

                                  I've been away for a few months, here's what I've been doing.






I got a broken iMac G4 from eBay (I say broken but I mean completely fine but not up to my standard) and I gutted my eMac to add more RAM, a better HDD and a much more modern OS
which supports Wifi and allows me to browse the internet and use Skype!

Macintosh Plus/Raspberry pi mod - Macintosh Pi Plus

 Macintosh Pi Plus

So I received this Macintosh Plus a couple of weeks ago and it came pretty much destroyed thanks to the great British postal system. So after assessing the damage I decided it wasn't worth repairing and I gutted it to start a new Mac mod! This time to make it look as authentic as possible.

I had this old TV made by Ecko, its exactly the same size as a Macintosh (screen)

I have modded it before for use with college, here it is as a guitar amplifier projecting an iPad 2 on the screen with a jailbreak app.

I have stripped it of all its casing down to what makes it tick and crammed it into the mac plus shell.

As you can see I managed to make it look quite authentic inside and the screen fits perfectly!!!

I am still trying to solder parts back together that had to be cut and extended, its almost complete though and will need a little bit more work done before switching it on and testing the screen for the first time!

DVD drive - Macintosh Pro I

Fitted this a few days ago, its a USB DVD drive!

I fitted it because the original drive wouldn't work with my design.

Photos below!

Upgraded the WIFI Card and boosted connectivity to 98%!

My old Wifi stick that came with the mac mini that I used for my project only got 17% signal, I added a new 300mbps stick with an antenna and mounted it so the antenna was external. I cut a hole in the top of it and stuck the stick inside. it gets 98% signal in the worst place in the house. it's boosted its youtube performance.

Changed background to a nice tribute to steve apple theme.

Mac Mini Pencil holder/Desk tidy

I had this case from a mac mini lying around after the Macintosh Pro Mod went in a different direction after recieving an interior frame for it which made fitting it in with the case difficult. So I stripped it down to the motherboard, fan and hard drive and was left with a shell. I used meccano to make a base inside for the pencils to stand on so they did'nt fall about and a divider between pens and pencils. it looks great!