Hacks/mods

Some ideas for those of you who don't just want to fix, for those who want to improve stuff.

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a white and blue printer sitting on top of a wooden table with the words trick your hp printer to thinking an empty cartridge is full

Spicy Soup Recipes with Cabbage for a Kick of Heat

Trick You HP printer into thinking an "empty" ink cartridge is full. Many printers won't print at all if one cartridge is empty...not even in black.

a close up of a thermometer on a wall with no one around it

Old School Gauges Let You Know Which Way The Wind Blows

How to go back to analog - use a gauge instead of using digital

two old computers sitting next to each other in front of an orange wall with bars

IPad Mini Inside of a Macintosh SE Retro Old Classic

Picture of iPad mini inside of a Macintosh SE retro old classic

an mp3 player sitting on top of a wooden table next to a mouse and cup

Updated Ipod Classic 5th Gen.

the inside of a computer case being held up by a person's hand and holding it with both hands

Building Root Ventures: Retro Power Mac G5 Hackintosh

Rescuing a trashed retro Apple computer.

four different pictures with the same person holding an ipod and credit card in their hand

How to make an iPod better than new - The Restart Project

Upgrade your old iPod: longer battery life and more storage.

an open laptop computer sitting on top of a white wall next to a mouse and keyboard

How to Make a Macbook Tablet

iPad too small or too locked-down for you? Build your own Mac Tablet! There are three excellent Mac Tablet builds on Instructables already, so what sets my build apart from the crowd? - The build is self-contained within the original Macbook body. - Instead of using a Wacom tablet such as c4l3b or tqbrady's build, this tablet uses a modified Wacom TabletPC digitiser and stylus from a HP TX1000. Its much thinner and easier to modify. - The optical drive, keyboard and trackpad get ditched for ...

an open laptop computer sitting on top of a metal table next to other electronic equipment

Lunch Box Computer With Raspberry Pi

This is a quick and easy project to build a portable Raspberry Pi computer that fits right in a lunch box. It's a good first Pi project since it requi...

an apple phone with a pair of scissors on it's back end, sitting on top of a table

Amazing way to take incredible pictures

Such an amazing mod - using the tip of an old laser pointer!

a person sitting at a table working on a laptop computer surrounded by assorted electronics

#deskofladyada we take apart a NeXT speaker! @adafruit LIVE

A ca 1991 NeXT speaker given new life with a USB mod - go Lady Ada!