What is the Coolest Mac Hack/Mod you have ever seen?

[uniserver]

I think another word for all this is Personalize Or Customize

For me its:

- Dougg3's Rom Simm / bbraun's Bootable Rom Image

- Color Classic ZIP Drive Hack

- Hard drive in a plus, and jt's SCSI PCB Mod

- Full 040 + Overclock Q605/LC475 @ 33mhz

- jt's Platform Quadra Feets

- 48mhz OC to a Quadra 840av

SOON SCSI TO IDE/SD CARD BOARD :-D !!!! viewtopic.php?f=29&t=19623

What are all your favorite Mac Mod/Hack's?

 

[BlastoiseBlue]

What's that tiny Pro-looking critter at the top? :3

And I doubt anyone's done it, but I'd love to see someone gut a dead Clamshell and put something modern into it. iPads don't count.

 

[krye]

That's not a Mini Pro......this is a Mini Pro:

I also liked the Cube Pro too:

As well as the QuadraMini:

It's amazing what you can squeeze a mini into.

This too was a sweet hack: The Bang & Olufsen Mp3 Mac Mod

 

[mcdermd]

That QuadraMini makes me swoon.

 

[uniserver]

That QuadraMini makes me swoon.

haha yes he did a dam good job on that …..

 

[olePigeon]

http://hanabusa1.blog29.fc2.com/blog-entry-3.html

Here's the Quadra Mini creator's website.

Wow. Pretty straight forward! The tricky part is getting access to a CNC router. Excellent job. I'd love to make some custom cases.

 

[Bunsen]

Definitely this one. Such craftsmanship!

 

[krye]

Man, that's a damn sin.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

That QuadraMini makes me swoon.

It makes me drool!

OS-X installed on this might count, but a MacMini inside would be even better . . .

http://slipperyskip.com/page31.html

 

[beachycove]

Thanks ever so much for that link! I have been looking for something like that, and getting nowhere.

Check out the Mission tower on the guy's main page, and tell me that couldn't be adapted to house a bashed Quad G5. Just adapt the Mission case modestly, and slot it in! All wood and cheesegrater!

But I am also thinking about the possibility of an LC475 in a case like the one pictured.... Hmmm.

These remind me of some of the hypothetical Macs in the AppleDesign book.

 

[mcdermd]

The teak and maple beauty was a lot neater when I thought it was around 12" tall. Not so.

And that horrible compact mod? It says SE/30 but it's just an SE case.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Yep, MacMiniSize it, definitely.

Make the black standoff appear to be another floating element and have the slotloader eject through one of the two cracks in the front.

I always have wanted to do a wooden KBD hack. Ever get tired of cleaning off plastic cling crud? [)] ]'>

I was going to say this guy is almost good enough to be on the frogdesign team, but he doesn't need to be quite that visionary, he's one heck of a craftsman. Maybe he is good enough, not all their design work sees light of day.

 

[markyb86]

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Wow that is bad.

 

[uniserver]

Here is a iMac/Hack I threw together back in 2007.











I reused the apple speakers, amplified them. Used the LED from the Audio Amplifier as the power on light.

Used a tough fiber/elastic string to allow flipping the mac open, and it would remain open like the hood of a car, or a cab-over semi

The 2 Sound out headphone jack holes, each hole has a button micro switch. one is Audio Amp on/of, one was Computer Power on/off.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Very cool, uni. Now that's likely to be what's in store for my 17" StudioDisplay . . . bad flyback = hack!

 

[mcdermd]

Did you put the clear bezel back on that Blueberry, uniserver?

 

[BlastoiseBlue]

Oh wow Uniserver! That's amazing! Do you take requests?

 

[Bunsen]

And that horrible compact mod? It says SE/30 but it's just an SE case.

Pretty sure that guy wouldn't know an SE/30 from a socket wrench.

The teak and maple beauty

What I like about that dude's gallery is that if you start from the bottom and scroll up, you can see how he's progressed over several years from "hey, wouldn't it be cool to throw a Mini-ITX into an old cigar box?" to hand-crafted works of art.

I think this one from 2009 is my favourite:

 

[uniserver]

Oh wow Uniserver! That's amazing! Do you take requests?

heck yeah for the right price

Did you put the clear bezel back on that Blueberry, uniserver?

not on this one, that part was very damaged.

this one fell face first from a loading dock, one of the guys helping me load with butter finger dropped it.

It worked out good though because they threw in a box of 38 power cords for free because of it...

I still ended up with a great machine to play around with. Back in 2007 these were worth more each.