For a brief period in ’86 ‘winner’ was the trés-cool insult at my high school. I was never trés-cool so that little narrative ran tangental to my adolescent struggle for survival, but today I am an actual winner. Results have just been announced for the 2006 Great Mac Mod Challenge and the B&O MP3 player […]
Category Archives: B&O MP3 Mod.
It lives (but only for one day)
So I finished my B&O MP3 player; no one is more surprised about this than me. It is quite amazing what a deadline can do for your motivation levels. I got it finished just in time for the 2006 Great Mac Mod Challenge, and then I killed it. Involuntary manslaughter I think the term is; […]
Woz is God, or possibly the antichrist.
As I was contemplating a title for this post I realised that “Woz” is “God” backwards, or at least it’s “god” transposed onto a backwards alphabet. Check it out: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z […]
Beocenter 4600 vs. the Hack
The Beocenter 4600 is a very impressive object, but it’s also HUGE and when I finally give up on the struggle to keep mine working it seemed to get even larger; it became a giant silent monolith. My apartment just wasn’t big enough for the both of us, one of us had to go. Fortunately […]
(yet) Another Screen
You would think (or at least I would think) that if you’re buying equipment to put inside something then at some point you would measure the equipment and measure the something to check that everything fits. But that didn’t happen. And so this happened. As you can see, the proposed screen for my MP3 player […]