MacMod member [EdsJunk] has modified the Apple logo on his MacBook to act as a second video display (cache). There’s a video embedded below showing it playing Quicktime videos and the iTunes visualizer. Unfortunately there aren’t any details of the hardware used. From the display settings, it looks to have a resolution of at least 640×480. We hope to see more details soon.
[Thanks Astera]
hey guys.. this is my mod i did.. i just would like to put up my site to go to since macmod goes down, probably from the traffic… but its edsjunk . net
Posted at 1:29 pm on Mar 13th, 2009 by Eddie Zarick
Especially intriguing is the apparent lack of external cables.
Posted at 1:43 pm on Mar 13th, 2009 by nestor
Thats soo super sweet, what about using a larger lcd and making the whole back, a screen, the back light would light both LCD’s right.. I wish he’d show how he did this.
Posted at 1:51 pm on Mar 13th, 2009 by kyle007
holy crap, i totally had this idea a couple months ago. to use something like the nokia color LCD sparkfun sells behind the apple logo and show itunes album artwork on it. good job man.
Posted at 2:19 pm on Mar 13th, 2009 by dext3r
I think an eye or eyeball peaking around through the apple shaped hole would be pretty cool.
Posted at 2:23 pm on Mar 13th, 2009 by me
that’s seriously cool; is it a USB mini screen or something?
Posted at 5:00 pm on Mar 13th, 2009 by dan
I’m skeptical until I see some shots of the guts and details of how you did it.
It doesn’t help that there’s an obvious edit after seeing the video on the logo screen and rotating it to see the front screen again. The main screen at the start could be a color transparency on a screen flipped 180 degrees, backlit the same way the apple logo is normally lit.
Give me more details, show me the guts, and I’ll celebrate this as one of the top Powerbook hacks.
BTW, something change on hack-a-day? There hasn’t been a tiresome yet inevitable “LOL MAC SUX” post yet.
Posted at 6:31 pm on Mar 13th, 2009 by ian
lol Mac Suxors… Nah pretty good I would also like to see the writeup and to give a suggestion stick a projectore there instead so not only would you have the external image on the wall behind you it would be in the shape of an apple…
Posted at 7:35 pm on Mar 13th, 2009 by Ste@l
eh mac are the sux!!!!!1111
;)
i too am doubtful about this hack, espically since every single aprt of the demonstration could have been done with a greenscreen apple logo,
once again, show us the guts, or we won’t believe you.
show us lowly hackadayers your handiwork!
Posted at 7:52 pm on Mar 13th, 2009 by Capone el Vaporo
7′ car TV connected to macbook TV-out
its impressive he was able to fit all the junk inside
Posted at 9:50 pm on Mar 13th, 2009 by rasz
“Give me more details, show me the guts, and I’ll celebrate this as one of the top Powerbook hacks.”
It’s not a powerbook. It’s not even a mac book of any kind. It’s an MSI Wind… which he installed OSX onto and cut tho apple logo in to.
Go RTFS (read the f’n source) next time. sheesh.
Posted at 10:34 am on Mar 14th, 2009 by Louis II
nah..pretty good. Too bad I use Windows.
Posted at 11:27 am on Mar 14th, 2009 by breakemrules
Pointless.
Posted at 3:22 pm on Mar 14th, 2009 by marz
its now on ebay..
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ebayisapi.dll?viewitem&item=120392094281#ht_4553wt_1286
Posted at 3:22 pm on Mar 14th, 2009 by Eddie Zarick
i guess this is an extension of the LCD digital picture keychain hack
http://hackaday.com/2009/01/08/hacking-a-digital-picture-keychain/
Posted at 10:22 pm on Mar 14th, 2009 by giveaphuk
@giveaphuk
not really, he has it connected as a secondary monitor so its not using one of those mini DPFs. Its most likelly 7′ car TV/Playstation screen like the ones that are used for console laptops
Posted at 11:45 pm on Mar 14th, 2009 by rasz
“It’s not a powerbook. It’s not even a mac book of any kind. It’s an MSI Wind… which he installed OSX onto and cut tho apple logo in to.
Go RTFS (read the f’n source) next time. sheesh.”
Re-read it yourself, louis-twoie. The msi wind logo hack is a *different project* from this one.
Look at the auction listing, where you can clearly see “mac pro” above the keyboard.
Powerbook is just easier to say than “apple-branded laptop” or knowing what the minor differences are between the mac book pro and non-pro models. my nomenclature is still stuck in the 90s.
And still we’re seeing no progress shots, and now it’s for sale. I think this guy’s either a phony or he’s not sharing his info just so he can be the only one profiteering from this type of hack. Either way, not exactly in the true spirit of hacking. Share the info, or this hack-a-day post, along with the engadget article, etc., are nothing but free advertisements for this guy’s ebay auctions.
Posted at 7:43 am on Mar 15th, 2009 by ian
Nice Hack. My guess is he used one of these usb monitors since in the eBay posting he states one usb port does not work due to the monitor:
http://www.thegadgeteers.com/product_mimo.html
Posted at 9:27 am on Mar 16th, 2009 by Jonathan
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Thats pretty rad, it looks like he didn’t do any special software for it either, appears to be configured just like a secondary monitor.
I especially like the apple on fire thing he showed and the isight was novel.
Posted at 1:26 pm on Mar 13th, 2009 by Dan