Simple Powerbook 160 idea

[ITASOR]

So today I said, what the heck am I going to do with all these Powerbook 160 parts?

So, I made this:

Yeah, OS 7.0....here's another picture...

tah-da!:

Is this project pointless? Yes. Is it cool? Kinda.

Not sure what I'm going to do about a light just yet. I might get a flat, no heat LED light to go behind it. I got the LCD's backlight (LCD not shown in photos) to go on without any signal from the computer, so I could use that, but I would need to convert the LCD's power source to a regular 120V plug to plug in...a cheap flatish light sounds easier.

Well...just an idea if you have an PB parts and are bored.

 

[Aarow]

Cool! Don't know what it is, but it looks cool.

 

[ITASOR]

Cool! Don't know what it is, but it looks cool.

I guess I should explain, sorry.

It's only a piece of paper taped to the inside of a powerbook 160 screen bezel. The paper is a screen shot from MacOS 7.0. Then there's a light in back of it to simulate the backlight that an LCD would have. I'm going to mount it on my wall, it'll look nice at night.

 

[Melkor]

That's pretty cool. But if you mount it on your wall, how will you put the light behind it? I don't think it would look much without the light.

 

[katie ta achoo]

woah! Cool!

I have a few dead 150s that I could do this to...

*scratches chin*

 

[macEfan]

looks cool. Yeah use a LED lamp so you dont catch your house on fire

 

[Laser47]

I got an idea, get a metal neck from a lamp, remove the light part and attach the lcd to the end and run the wires down where the ac wires go, then you can have a really cool clock or somthing like that. imac 160

 

[jamesW135]

Whoa, thats really cool but just to make the effect get low powered led buld it will kind of make it glow.