who knows...my EE prof said that things are moving more towards the embedded market...
Anyway, here's a thought...with more and more talks of home appliance going "online," anyone …
The G4 Cube could also be modified to toast bread on the side opposite to the DVD
P.S. I had no idea you were on an EE program too, what year are you? I will be a senior this…
lol I stand corrected...G4 toaster! hmm...think of the endless possibilities with a G4 Microwave, with all that alti-vec to cook your food...nm...
I'm a smorph (as they call it in…
I know that McLaren are using 4 PowerPC chips for their car control systems. I read that on TheRegister a while ago. The article also mentionned that the PowerPC was the only chip …
IIRC, one of the recent Mars missions used PPC chips for its onboard computing.
And IBM manufactures AIX servers based on the chip. I know that NDSU in Fargo, ND has a few PPC 620…
Very interesting, very interesting.
I have just read that those TiVo boxes can be hacked to run Linux on them. The HD can be upgraded, could the CPU be upgraded too?
To bad that …
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Originally posted by Evangellydonut:
anyone care to surf the web with your home toaster, using a G3 chip?
I'm unable to find it now, but I could swear I saw …
A lot of assembly control systems run on PPC chips. I used to work at a factory that manufactured corrogated paper-making machines and all of the control systems were VME's, some …
I thought the PPC was developed for the Mac, and later used for embedded stuff Anyway, my DSL modem (they call it a gateway) has a 40 MHz PPC in it... and interestingly enough, …
I surfed around the board and I started to find more and more. DUH, didn't think to lok backwards...
I do like the Red LED behind the front apple logo and have it hooked up to the…
Have you done that hack? If so please email me
Or post here.
I want to do it, but don't want to screw anything up - and don't know how to hook it up to the HD array.
TIA
Cipher1…
heh, I was hopeing hat someone else has, It shouldn't be that hard, all it is is just an led hooked to two wires and they attach to 2 pins on the array. I have an external drive ca…
well crap...
I took my led light and wireing out of my external case and went to wire it up, and THERE'S NO FREEKIN PORT FOR AND LED LIGHT ON THE MOBO?!?!? (Venting my fustrations…
Have you seen those turquoise-glow nightlights that plug in your wall outlet? Of course you have!
Take one of those, clip the two power pins to a very short length and solder two-…