Saturday, March 9, 2013

Macquarium

Added Betta to my newly created Aquarium. I used the acrylic shell of an Apple G4 Cube computer, with a price of matching Lexan plexi cut to fit the bottom opening. I used wood block cut to my desired height to hold peice in place while glueing.
Sealed with Aquarium sealant safe for the fish. Decorated with some rocks, plants and Nemo. Then added my Betta.









Tuesday, January 29, 2013

G4 Cube Hackingtosh

So as a lifetime windows user I have been reluctant to switch to Mac. I have used them, I repaired a few and I was always intrigued about building one. Now it is a lot easier with Intel based Macs.
I had 2 G4 cube lying around one I decided I was going to make an aquarium and the other I just had parts after tinkering with it.

Since I had time on my hands I decided to look into rebuilding the cube. The site that was instrumental in helping me complete this is tonymacx86.com. The forum there is indispensable and the community is awesome.
This post won't be a guide but a review of what I did. If you are interested I posted log at:
 My 1st Hackingtosh... G4 Cube

TARDIS HTPC

Being a Doctor Who fan… I always wanted to build a TARDIS. Since I can exactly build a full size one right now, I figured why not a small one. I saw an article with a company who is selling a metal TARDIS PC, I said I can make one of those.
So I thought about how and what I would need to make it happen. Using Masonite, poplar strips and stock I started to build the case. I decided that I would use it as an HTPC so I made a list of what I would need to be able to stream movies effectively from my Home Server.
The TARDIS include AMD E350 APU running Windows 7 on 32GB SSD, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, Infrared for remote control and DVD drive for nostalgia.
Everything is easily upgradable since top and front doors are removable for access to components.