[sine -''-..-]

well i finally got a good diggy cam and took some shots of my book


i also have a movie of my glowing apple sleep lite, which ill hav up soon.




just to recap, the mods i have done:

-300 to 366 cpu clockup. bs cache now at 266mhz (stable as hell, 90? nominal)
-all case sheilding removed, accept the plate under the mobo (looks better)
-keyboard rearraged to dvorak
-sleep lite now a super bright white, under the apple
-"sine" carved into the underside of the space bar (^_^)

yet to d0:
-stereo speakers
-DVD

w00t

s i n e
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s i n e
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[This message has been edited by sine -''-..- (edited 03-25-2001).]

Hey Sine, your ibook looks really cool!
I have some pretty extensive info about how to get Firewire into a Rev A. would you be interested to try that out?

[gumby5647]

hats off to you, my friend...

that looks soooo freaking cooooool.
I think it beats out FrankeniMac......

It almost looks like an indigo.....*drool*

[spicynacho68]

grrrrrr... dammit. I gotta catch up. Yet the weed makes me want to just sit here. (joke)

- Ca$h

[sine -''-..-]

although the timing of this gif isnt perfect, i think u get the idea


i even wow pc f00s with this mod ^_^


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[scaught]

awesome. looks amazing.

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you're going to have my foot at your lip in a minute, young man.

scott

[Steph]

Looks great, Sine!

I took the aluminum 'foil' shielding out of my Key Lime iBook, but the white plastic seems more milky and opaque than yours.

You're an inspiration!

--Stephanie

[TomHMeredith]

Looks amazing sine. Wish I could do modifications like that to my PowerBook, guess I will have to settle for doing it in silver.

btw - where did u get that background from? its really good, would u mind posting it for us? Thanxs

Tom

how do you get Firewire into ibook rev a???
whats the name of the strip program at the bottom of the screeN?

email me: thebaddog@mac.com

[AlbertWu]

u kno the fcc doesnt recommend that (its not just apple)

maybe the FDA will come and confiscate your iBook (yes, fda. ) u kno, take it to anchorage with the rest of the tibooks its holding



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Bored, Albert is.
Speak like Yoda, he will.

Email address of him, AlbertWu@Mac.com is.

Hey marcvv, any info on the firewire mods would be of great help at present, i know (so i'm told) the chip needed (apart from the FW socket) is a Lucent FW801, i'm lookin to find it right now, and then go about the arduous task of soldering to the underside of the motherboard, i am waiting on a sample of "chipquik" a low heat solder/desolder solution to arrive, which will allow the overclock and the FW upgrade. It's so nice in this day and age to get a really useful freebie ...LOL
If anyones interested u can check their site at www.chipquikinc.com

... and no, i dont have shares in the company ...LOL

Look forward to your reply...

Eric the Fen

Hey marcvv, any info on the firewire mods would be of great help at present, i know (so i'm told) the chip needed (apart from the FW socket) is a Lucent FW801, i'm lookin to find it right now, and then go about the arduous task of soldering to the underside of the motherboard, i am waiting on a sample of "chipquik" a low heat solder/desolder solution to arrive, which will allow the overclock and the FW upgrade. It's so nice in this day and age to get a really useful freebie ...LOL
If anyones interested u can check their site at www.chipquikinc.com

... and no, i dont have shares in the company ...LOL

Look forward to your reply...

Eric the Fen

Hey marcvv, any info on the firewire mods would be of great help at present, i know (so i'm told) the chip needed (apart from the FW socket) is a Lucent FW801, i'm lookin to find it right now, and then go about the arduous task of soldering to the underside of the motherboard, i am waiting on a sample of "chipquik" a low heat solder/desolder solution to arrive, which will allow the overclock and the FW upgrade. It's so nice in this day and age to get a really useful freebie ...LOL
If anyones interested u can check their site at www.chipquikinc.com

... and no, i dont have shares in the company ...LOL

Look forward to your reply...

Eric the Fen

[gumby5647]

triple post.......nice

ok, how do you guys plan on "carving" out a hole for the port, may i ask?

[sine -''-..-]

pfff the hole?
thats minor


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[Eric the Fen]

Yup, the hole's the easy part, theres so many mac clone colour co-ordinated parts out there thesedays its even easier to make a colour coded fitting once the holes been cut.
Hey Sine, i havent done the 300mhz to 400mhz o/c yet, did u make a note of the markings on your cpu when u had the lid off? i just wanna make sure i got the best chance of success here, compare notes as it were *S*.
So to date the hacks under way are:
The firewire port
An overclock
A 20Gig H/D and ...
A DVD replacement for the CD-rom.
BTW, i threw a 64meg pc sodimm in the ibook and it just lurved it LOL just like my imac loved the 2x256Mg simms i fed it ...hehehehe
Looks like i can give my pc the sodimm back once i feed the ibook a 256meg instead ...LOL

~~~~~~~Share and Enjoy~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~Eric the Fen~~~~~~~~~
ericfenby665@hotmail.com

Hi bad dog & Eric, I mailed you ll ifo i have, good luck and keep us posted!

[Eric the Fen]

hmmm...havent received it yet, was it a large email??

ericfenby665@hotmail.com

hi eric, mailed it again; post here if it fails again

[Eric the Fen]

cool bananas!! Thx Marc...i'll do some good old pondering before i start on this hack ...many thanks.
I just got a 20Gb IBM H/D installed fairly effortlessly, although the case assembly/disassembly was a real pain, next will be the overclock, prolly over the next week or so, and by that stage i will have all parts etc for the firewire.
btw, i disassembled both my ibook cd-rom and my thinkpad 770 DVD drive, hoping to swap them, but alas, drive mechanism was just a little too large, so i'm on the prowl for a DVD drive to pop in the ibook, theres no reason why it wont work, software driven, all connectors are the same ...piece of cake, ...now wheres that DVD drive ...lol

(if anyones got a DVD drive from say a dead notebook, please consider donating it to the Eric the Fen fighting fund, i'll pay shipping)

Thanks again Marc, will keep u in the loop as things progress.

Eric the Fen

ericfenby665@hotmail.com
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Faster, Smarter, way Cooler !!
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[sine -''-..-]

*cough cough*

and wheres my copy of this seemingly fantastic lit??
send me it now!!!!! GRRRR
sine@sine.ath.cx

(note fake additude)


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[Eric the Fen]

Hi Sine... Sending it to ya in a sec...btw i did the sinebook mod as well, 'cept i left the internal sheild in (facing user) ... aesthetics, just seemed a li'l nicer to me ...so now i have a semisinebook ?? hehehe

one thing about the parts list fer the Firewire, i'm not sure of the (physical) size of the smd's needed, should be pretty easy to figure out tho, once i open the machine up again ...lol

came sooooo close to getting the ibm DVD drive installed ...*sigh*

Eric

[waffffffle]

hey sine, the pics don't work anymore. I've been away from this board for a while because of all the OS X hoopla over there. I really would like to see what you've done. I'd like some inspiration for my pismo!

[sine -''-..-]

if anytime you cant see pics that i post its cuz my net connection went down

i serve all my stuff all my 601 powermac network on sine.ath.cx

just try again later if theyre unavailable, my network is down like 10% of the time


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[waffffffle]

Hey sine, could you post some info on how you made the sleep light? I would love to do that to my pismo, I'd have to decide on a cool color for the apple logo. Is it possible to have both the regular sleep light and the apple sleep light pulse at the same time? That would be really cool.

Other things that I plan to do to my Pismo (it's been silver since october) is replace the keys with iBook keys, but I plan on painting the inside of the keys silver so it'll match the outide. Then I'll make the trackpad button silver with more vinyl sheeting, and also make the power button silver. That should make my pismo the ultimate silver pismo ever (too bad its only a 400 MHz, but I have 256MB, I'm waiting for G4 upgrade cards.)

Sine, you're the man.

[g3_brandon]

Hey could you e-mail the Firewire info to me also?

brandon@cfu.net

Thanks!
Brandon N.

[sine -''-..-]

well waffffff, the sleep lite is pretty simple to do on the ibook kuz theres already wiring running to the screen for the sleep lite. all i did was extend it

with the piz, the light is not in the screen, and wiring it would be hard to do (cuz of wire bundle etc.)

anyhow u could prolli do somthin similar, i seen the maul piz with red leds under the apple, u can try that


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[Todd Madson]

That's so cool it's just sick! What next?

[waffffffle]

Dr. Bob's "Darth Maul" PowerBook is a wallstreet. He pulled all of the info of his site as well as applefritter, but I think I remember that he got power for the led from the internal microphone wires that run inside the display housing. He also mentioned somewhere that you need to connect it in series or parallel (I forget which) cause if you do it the wrong way you'll reduce the dynamic range of the microphone, which would suck, since I use that.

After reading some stuff about this last night at applefritter I opened up my pismo and spliced a greenish orange LED light from an 80 meg HD from a IIci into the red and black cords leading up along with a bundle of other wires on the back of the display, I then scraped some of the caked on white stuff from the apple above my display and taped the LED onto the apple. I didn't read Dr. Bob's guide until today, so I didn't know that transistors were needed. Mine seems to be working fine without any transistors and I still don't even know any specs on how much power this LED demands. I should mention that I'm planning on opening it up again tonight to attach the internal microphone and test it along with another LED from an old HD, I'll post on how it works.

While I was monkeying around in there I also pulled off the sticker that shades the glowing apple in the back and put a piece of purple plastic from a CDR case in to change the glowing apple on the back into a sort of lame blacklight.

I've never done anything like this and I'm pretty happy with the results. Its a lot easier than I thought it would be.

[waffffffle]

Very cool waylan. So your LED doesn't pulse then, it just glows all the time? What were the wires that you attached it to? Can you post pictures? I'm very interested in this. My Pismo will be back from repair tomorrow and I've been anxiously waiting to start some cool modifications.

[bloodbeard]

Sine,

Thats awesome! Quite the mod. If you, eric, or anyone else could manage to pull of firewire, that'd be quite the coup. While we're talking about iBook modification, does anyone know how well polycarbonate handles spray paint?

-iG3 OuT

[waffffffle]

Hey sine, have you ever considered submitting your iBook to Applefritter? It's pretty unique and I think Tom Owad would definitely put it up.

I can't get any pictures on yet, but I'll explain how to do it.

First, you pop off all the little stickers and puff balls around the display and unscrew all 6 screws (I took the advise of applefritter and put a book under the display to brace it because the screws are in kinda tight). Then, you lift the little tab back from above the display and just slowly pull the back of the casing off until it is hanging by the 2 knobs at the bottom. Getting the back from those 2 knobs is pretty easy if you push on one corner of the back and pull on another, any other way will just bring frustration.


Once you have the back off you find the red and black cords leading up to the internal microphone amp along with 4 other colored wires, (last chance to turn back) cut the red and black wires and splice in your LED's from there. 1 is ok but 2 really shines.

While the back of your pismo is open, you can also take that shading sticker off to brighten the glowing apple on the back and add any colors that you want.

Do this at your own risk, I have a strange feeling that I just got lucky in doing this and somebody else might not have the same luck and end up blowing up an LED in their system. Both of my LEDs are greenish with low power and orange with high power and they both came from scrapped hard drives from old macs.

I can also report that my internal microphone works, though I'm not sure how well. This test is the first time I've ever used that microphone and I didn't have a base to compare the quality. Based on my prior dealing with microphones I would say that it sounded pretty shoddy with the mod, but who knows what it sounded like before...

[sine -''-..-]

yea waffff, i already asked tom, and im gonna write a report as soon is i get some time... it would be so cool to be on applefritter ^_^

[Macrat]

That's an awesome mod, sine! Looking at your mod'ed ibook for the last month, and then the new ibooks with their glowing apple logo's on the cover, I finally got the courage to open up my KLSE. My goal was to just have the apple logo glow, and wasnt looking forward to having to cut the apple shape out of the metal sheilding. But after opening it up, lo' and behold, it's already cut out with a simple peice of metal tape covering it up! Looks like it was originally supposed to glow, but apple changed their minds last minute. So delicately removing the tape, putting it back together, and now I have a very cool looking glowing apple logo, with very little effort or time! Thanks guys for the inspiration, and on to bigger and better mods.