Recent content by Sideburn

Danng how much does it cost to get the injection mold tooling done for a case? I would love to be able to get the enclosures done professionally for my XEBOOK laptop project so I could get it into other people’s hands that want one or provide kits. I’ve built two now and keep refining it so it’s...

Even prints from iPhone over AirPrint :) link to video:

Well this is pretty freakin' awesome. Take a Raspberry Pi, Install CUPS, then DO NOT use a USB to serial to Apple 8 pin DIN (because this will not work, the ImageWriter is RS422 and it took me hours to discover that the problem was not the baud rate or handshaking but it just will not work and...

Been tinkering with the Thunderscan 80’s contraption that turns your ImageWriter ii into a scanner. After opening the scanned image into Photoshop 1.0 (it can open Thunderscan format files) and saving out as a tiff and then sending it to my modern MacBook Pro by way of Fetch and BlueSCSI WiFi, I...

Yeah I’ve done a few. It’s a painstaking process and then hit or miss if the salvaged electronics from another pack will work. I’ve had two that did not so far. Also the electronics vary between pack revisions. So if you wore up everything to one and the electronics don’t work you now need to...

And I think this was the closest matching filament I could find: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BD7GTXTB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Here's the battery cover incase you dont have an original or it doesn't fit with new pack.

Here is my battery and I also made new back legs because one of mine broke. Please use for personal use only so I dont have to frown on you making a profit off my work on ebay 😏

Yeah I have been wrapped up in designing an Atari 8 bit computer to laptop conversion I am trying to finish for VCF Socal so ive been deep into modeling that and my printer has been running non stop... The problem with the pismo packs is that darn curvy design is going to be a bit tricky to...

You can get a new lead acid battery on amazon. I have a replica of the original battery case if you have a 3d printer and want to make one.

Well I never made the 3d printable model yet but i ended up making two of them that worked out great using the existing case plastics I was able to pry open carefully. The get about 3 hours runtime. I need to electronics out of one to make one. if you want to send me yours I can crack it open...

Cool, glad it worked for you. I believe the newer BlueSCSI boards address the issue as well. The PowerBooks 100 series also need the fix.

I’ve rebuilt one pack last week (for me) and used one of the two out of 4 packs that I was able to crack open with minimal damage. The cells I am using are working great and are the actual mah they claim to be. I am getting up to 6 hours runtime on a charge. I have yet to model the geometry for...

And make sure all those connectors between the logic board and analog board are good!

For what it’s worth I did the diode mod a couple weeks ago on my Mac plus with 4mb ram and using a BlueSCSI V2 WiFi external and have had no issues with it at all. I think that when you did the mod it caused your board to pull a little more current and that finished off whatever was barely...