January 2004
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
13h 33m
English
Content preview from Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks
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How to Build an
Aquarium Inside
a Macintosh
What You Need
• An old Mac (the “all-in-one”
beige box)
• Plexiglas sheets
• Fish tank accessories
• A few hand tools
• Fish
• Other items listed in
Exhibit A
How to Build an
Aquarium Inside
a Macintosh
One of the best-looking personal computers yet designed is the original
Apple Macintosh. It not only had one of the most innovative user interfaces
of its time, it also had a very unique and friendly-looking case design. This
was a computer that bordered on “art.” Well, that old Mac you once used is
probably in the garage now or buried in some closet never to be powered on
again, so why not turn it into something useful?
In this hack, I’ll show you how to turn your old Macintosh into a working
aquarium. You’ll remove the electronics from the Mac and craft your own
Plexiglas fish tank, customized to fit snugly inside the case. When you’re
finished, you’ll have an aquarium and a new use for an old computer. Since
you’ll be removing all the components from inside the Mac, these plans will
work fine even if your Mac is broken.
This hack is easy to complete and should take no more than a weekend to
build, once you have all the supplies.
I would like to thank Jim Lower for providing the basic plans from his web
site: http://www.techquarium.com/.
And, after some research, it appears that Andy Ihnatko was the first to build
and doc ...
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