I've started my iBrick project. Essentially I am putting an iBook 600 G3 into an Atari 810 disk drive case. I'm through much of the initial stages and figured I'd share the progress.

http://homepage.mac.com/pfletch/PhotoAlbum24.html

Pete

Post edited by: fletch, at: 2005/12/03 14:19

Well done!

Beau-tiful! B)

makes me giggle like a Catholic school girl on a Tuesday

nicely done.

macDevaint

marvelous, can we get a mod guide by chance?

I'm impressed with this project!

ooooooh im green with envy
like, a nice lime green, not a cheesy forest green like a sedan

Very Very Cool! I am curious as to why the firewire bridge for the hard drive?

Nice, I like how you used a rulers for supports in the case. All you need now is a bezel for the CD-ROM and it would look tight.

I chose a firewire bridge for two reasons. First, the iBook's IDE cable was just a tad short to mount the CD drive when the hard disk was attached. So putting the HD on the firewire bus allowed me to eliminate that problem and still keep the HD bootable.

Second, Apple eliminated pin 39's functionality on the IDE bus. Pin 39 is what sends the signal to run the Hard Drive activity light. The Firewire bridge had an led for activity so I was able to solder a wire directly to that for my busy light.

I have ordered one of these to move my ports to the rear of the 810's case. It should finish the unit quite nicely.

Post edited by: fletch, at: 2005/12/04 09:18