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« on: March 31, 2007, 05:35:34 pm » |
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I stumble across this laptop mod yesterday, and was most taken with it. I felt it was very worthy of sharing here with everyone else. Enjoy. http://www.macmod.com/content/view/404/192/ |
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« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2007, 05:41:27 pm » |
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Nice! Thank you!
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« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2007, 05:52:17 pm » |
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No problem. There are a few other really good mods throughout that site, the only other one thats somewhat steampunkish is the "GeigerPod Mod". Making an iPod case out of an old Geiger counter. Very ingenious. http://www.macmod.com/content/view/410/194/ |
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« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2007, 05:59:34 pm » |
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And besides ingenious, it's also hilarious.  |
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« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2007, 06:15:57 pm » |
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o_Q Hear! Hear!
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« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2007, 06:53:23 am » |
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It's a shame what they did with that geiger counter mod. There was so much potential there. Why repaint it? When I saw the first images, I had such high hopes. I guess I'll just have to do it better myself...
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Alexander
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« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2007, 04:54:06 pm » |
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I agree, it was much nicer with it's origional colors. Sounds like you need to go out and get yourself a gieger counter and show us how it really should be.
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« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2007, 06:02:45 pm » |
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I dunno...I kinda think that laptop is butt-ugly. It seems like a lot of effort expended for a not very interesting final result. The bottom half is just a regular laptop painted a different color and the screen mod just looks tokenist and tacked-on. There's no sense of style or overall asthetic theme. It looks modded for the sake of modding, and not in the good way. All in all....not a big fan.
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« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2007, 11:20:36 pm » |
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Yup... clever, but only half-finished.
Talking of mods, Datamancer - did you get the keyboard to the Computational Engine working? I acquired an old Royal recently, and I'd be interested in any ideas.
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« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2007, 01:06:07 am » |
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Nope, not just yet, It's all built in my head already but I just haven't gotten around to the formality of putting it all together yet. What kind of Royal is it? 2, 5, upright 10?
Hit me on PM and I'll go over some of the design plans I had for it. A Royal shouldn't be too much different than an Underwood so the design should fit.
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« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2007, 01:22:03 am » |
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The laptop mod was because of necessity, he got the thing for free in a cardboard box. . .
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« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2007, 01:28:01 am » |
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It's a shame what they did with that geiger counter mod. There was so much potential there. Why repaint it? When I saw the first images, I had such high hopes. I guess I'll just have to do it better myself...
I agree, although it would have looked so much nicer in a wood & brass theme as well. |
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« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2007, 02:57:26 am » |
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« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2007, 03:13:44 am » |
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Now, THAT is a thing of beauty, indeed. |
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« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2007, 03:23:09 am » |
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Agreed!
Ideas on how to go about building this thing? Its something that, even if you just look at the keyboard, is exactly what I've wanted done for a desktop mod.
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« Reply #15 on: April 02, 2007, 03:29:42 am » |
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if this computer weren't so blasted expensive I'd mod it like crazy. I might anyways...
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« Reply #16 on: April 02, 2007, 05:44:01 am » |
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That is officially the only Mac I've yet seen that I did not wish to strike with a mallet. Nice work!
As for that other one: it's nice looking, but actually using it looks next to impossible. Thirty keys? Me thinks it be missing something... Come to think of it, has anyone actually seen it turned on yet? Don't get me wrong--it's a true piece of fine art. I just don't think it's fair to compare it to the comps that are actually usable...
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« Reply #17 on: April 02, 2007, 06:09:55 am » |
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Yeah this is the third or fourth time this has come up on this forum, but that ironmonkey mod is at least 5-7 years old by this time, and I've never seen a single photo of it turned on. It's really cool, but I think it's more or less just a prop piece.
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« Reply #18 on: April 02, 2007, 07:50:08 pm » |
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The road warrior had a lot of potential, but it seems like it ended up being rushed. The display looks great from the front, and I like some of the mechanical bits on the back, but the paintjob is god awful. It would have worked so much better with a rusted metal look, or, if going for kitsch, the back panel made from a fallout shelter sign. The bottom is a disgrace. That gold-tone looks terrible, and the "Designed by Apple in Cupertino" style of the keyboard and housing defrays whatever post-nuclear holocaust goodness that was achieved by the monitor. It needs needed to be far grittier, maybe with holes rusted through the back panel or bullet scoring or something. It could have been really cool, but just fails to come together.
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« Reply #19 on: April 02, 2007, 10:07:37 pm » |
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The second laptop mod is part movie prop.
Thats the keyboard from the typewriter from Naked Lunch.
I'm almost positive.
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« Reply #20 on: April 02, 2007, 10:36:59 pm » |
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I noticed the other day that "Michaels" (craft store) has several varieties of retro typewriter-key style beads that could be repurposed. They have a small hole through the long axis, of course, which could be filled in....
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