I’ve spent the last couple of months working on my B&O MP3 mod. I was hoping to have it finished in time for the MacMod competition but after a frantic week (and some sleepless nights) it became obvious that wasn’t going to happen – there was just too much to get done. At the competition […]
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Droog design and the bootleg objects project.
I’ve just been in Sydney for the weekend and had an opportunity to go browsing through some good book shops. I came across the new book by Droog Design, simply droog. I hadn’t looked at Droog closely before now, but I was aware that their work was probably relevant to my masters research (and I […]
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Two drives on a PowerBook IDE bus?
I thought I’d try attaching two drives to the internal IDE bus on my PowerBook (Wallstreet). Using the IDE cable I’d constructed earlier I hooked up a 6GB hard drive set to master and a CD-ROM set to slave. The HD turned up on my desktop, but the CD-ROM didn’t. After trying a heap of […]
Attaching a desktop hard drive to a laptop
** Amendment: Before you embark on this journey (or maybe you’re just spectating?) I should let you know that, thanks to an industrious modder, you can now buy an adapter to connect a desktop drive to a laptop IDE connector. Check out this forum for details. ** I’m using a laptop for my MP3 computer […]
A new screen for the MP3 B&O Mod
I picked up a replacement Samsung Powerbook LCD screen on eBay for AU$61. Fitting it was a simple matter of swapping out the old one. I left the existing cables in place, plugged them into the new screen and reassembled the screen surround. Everything is now working fine (except the battery wont hold a charge, […]
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