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#Wireless keyboard and mouse for mac g5 series#

Nearly every component received some form of modification. The Pi provides a web interface written in PHP and jQuery, which presents you with the tank’s status and allows changes to some settings. The build uses both a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino Mega, which sit underneath the tank at the base. He even snuck in the G5’s old mainboard solely for a cool backdrop. After gutting the G5 and covering the basic acrylic work, started piling on the electronics: a webcam, timed LED lighting, an LCD for status readouts, filter and bubble control via a servo, an ultrasonic sensor to measure water levels, thermometer, scrolling matrix display, an automatic feeding mechanism, and more. People have been converting their old Power Macs and Mac G5s into fish tanks for a few years now, but Internet-enabled tank is probably the most awesome ever crammed into an aquarium along with the water and the fish-and we’ve seen some fascinating builds this summer. Posted in computer hacks, Mac Hacks Tagged Case mod, case modding, g5, hackintosh Automated Aquarium Is Kitchen-Sinky

Overall, is happy with the final outcome of his project, well… except for the Apple mouse. Two Dell U2415 monitors and an Apple wireless keyboard and mouse make up the rest of the setup. It was such a close fit that there is only 2.6mm (.1 inch) of clearance between the cooler and the case. Take a close look there are two CPU coolers in there. The case was significantly modified to fit the non-Apple computer components, including the addition of a custom rear panel made from aluminum to mount the power supply, cooling fan and to allow access to the motherboard connectors. could have just crammed everything into the G5 case and called it a day but he decided to spend the time to make it look supremely presentable.

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If you’re unfamiliar with Hackintosh, it’s a term used to describe a project that gets Mac OS to run on non-Apple hardware. Instead, it was gutted to turn it into a Macintosh-cased Hackintosh. Not surprisingly, the machine didn’t boot up and ended up sitting around the apartment for a few years.įast forward from 2012 to present day and decided it was time to do something with that G5. Being the good friend that he is, he made his roomy carry the 50 lb behemoth back to their apartment.

It’s not often that you find a Macintosh dumped out on the side of the road. was one of the lucky individuals that did. Meanwhile, regular readers will remember that this isn’t the first Apple related cheese grating episode we’ve shown you.Ĭontinue reading “Cheese Grater Now Grates Cheese” → Posted in computer hacks Tagged 3d printed, apple, cheese, g5, grater, mac, power mac, raspberry pi Perhaps the next build should be something that uses the blue smoke for a productive purpose. It’s a functional build that elaborates on an in-joke in the hardware community, which we can all appreciate. The Pi 4 also functions as a working desktop computer within the old G5 case, complete with custom-built I/O ports for HDMI that integrate with the case to make it look like original hardware.įunnily enough, the Pi 4 has more computing power and memory than Apple’s flagship Mac at the time, and consumes about 100 times less power. The cheese grating drive is automatically started when it detects cheese via a Raspberry Pi.

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Ungrated cheese is placed in the CD drive slot where it passes through a series of 3D printed gears which grate the cheese into small chunks. Despite not originally being able to grate cheese though, this Power Mac actually does grate cheese.

The high quality of the drilled aluminum design lived on into the Intel era and gained more popularity, but the case was still colloquially known as the “Cheese Grater”. They were still popular in some areas but didn’t have the wide appeal they have now. This was a time before Apple was using Intel processors, so compatibility issues were high and Apple’s number of users was pretty low. If you’ve been using Apple products since before they were cool, you might remember the Power Mac G5.