Below is the growth of my iPlanter project. Read more about it here.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Picking up where we left off…

I did want the bulbs from the monitor for the project, but you’ll remember that the cathode ray tubes were shot. Luckily, I had an old scanner with a broken motor, but working cathode ray tubes, so I jury rigged it. Yes, that is a 9-volt.

Here’s my iBook, circa 2001. Her name is Janey5 (just kidding, I made that up).

Janey5 broke in 2007. I had her fixed. She broke again. I had her fixed again. She broke again (you see a pattern here). Finally Janey5’s cathode ray tubes burnt out, and you know what that means (maybe you don’t, but it means your monitor is done for, and on a laptop, that means laptop death).

So last summer, I had this brilliant idea.

The pictures don’t show it, but laptops are really hard to take apart. They are screwed and mashed together so tightly.

I only got as far as the disassembly last year, but I picked up the remaking a few weeks ago. I’ll be posting more as it progresses. Don’t you hate cliffhangers?