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

what are you going to do about getting your vga to the rear of the case. they do make 6in vga extenders cablely-mah-things. (and yes children we do use these words in a sentance)


macDevaint

deviant, "sentance" is spelled s-e-n-t-e-n-c-e
hehehehe

man why you always breaking my back about my spelling...? :P

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there teacher i wrote it on the board onehundrendandeight times. can i take the pointy hat off now...?

Of course you can, the question you should be asking is, "May I take the hat off?"

fletch wrote:


What is that thing? Was it meant specifically for rerouting iBook/PowerBook ports for mods? I can see what seems to be the regular-style power adapter port, so...

it looks to be a port replicator for a 5.25 drive bay. with what looks to be a a card reader, usb, mic in, headphones out, video out, fire wire, and digital tosslink...? i think i got them right.

so yeah... i'll just be tossing this pointy hat with the rest of my college portfolio


macDeviant

I've added some rear ports and some stickers to the rear and sides. I still need to work on a video out port, but otherwise I think I am nearly done.

http://homepage.mac.com/pfletch/PhotoAlbum24.html has been updated with new pictures as well.



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Post edited by: fletch, at: 2005/12/07 22:57

fletch, looks nice, how about a mod guide so your mod doesn't ever get lost with a .mac