http://www.thelawtons.info/tech My Projects in Make and Tech Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:51:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Make Magazine's blog had a link to another site, SpikenzieLabs, which profiles great uses or reuses for common items to make working on electrical projects easier. Check it out here! http://www.thelawtons.info/tech/?p=25 Well, I installed the shim and put it all back together again, and the iBook is humming along alright. A few lock ups that are indicative of the logic board problem, but on the whole, it runs mostly stable. I reloaded OS X 10.5 and iLife and it was stable ... http://www.thelawtons.info/tech/?p=22 The iBook has been disassembled in my workshop. Googling brought up this 'fix', and much to my suprised, I coaxed a startup chime out of it. There is a stuck CD in the drive preventing the computer from booting, but after disconnecting the CD drive, I got a missing drive ... http://www.thelawtons.info/tech/?p=18 I traded for a busted iBook 14" 1.25 Ghz G4. My first apple PC was an 800 Mhz 12" iBook G4, so it's fun to come nearly full circle back to the iBook G4 family. This iBook suffers from the infamous logic board problem whereby putting pressure on the case allows ... http://www.thelawtons.info/tech/?p=14 I found an interesting article on building a solar panel from blemished solar panels off eBay. I would love to build the panel and incorporate it into something like this commercial product. And it doesn't sound like it would be too expensive. I'm not looking to tie this in to the grid. It ... http://www.thelawtons.info/tech/?p=7 Yet another blog. Sigh. I need a place to document my makings and doings, and not clutter up the main Lawton's blog. I'm inspired by the maker culture out there to build things that enrich our lives, even if it's not the finished object but the journey that provides the enrichment. This ... http://www.thelawtons.info/tech/?p=3