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Scratch & Sniff Committee
Apple PieBook (Figure 1: the finished product)
The goal of this modification was to take an Apple iBook (2001 dual USB model, often referred to as an iceBook) and turn it into a pastry-based system thus making it an Apple Pie. This was by no means a permananent or even a practical mod, as pie crusts tend to be less resilient than the stylish polycarbonate shell that the iBook comes with.
I decided to do the modification of an iBook into an Apple Pie for the following reasons.
For creating Pie-Charts
For hiding a computer in a bakery to protect it from robbers.
For smuggling into prison (for this purpose, the iBook could just as easily become a cake. I guess that would make it a cake with several thousand files in it!).
For winning pie throwing fights in a decisive and unusual manner.
To sneak a few games of Unreal Tournament in during a Home Economics class.
To get a ludicrous arts grant and sell the iBook for several times its value as a bizarrely post-modern cry against existential opression.
For sneaking a Mac into your all-PC office in the guise of a lunch item (for this, I recommend you instead take a look at my previous mod: PowerSandwich)
To do this I used the following materials & tools (Fig 2):
Apple iBook Dual-USB G3-500 with Combo Drive and 384mb RAM
6 Granny Smiths apples. (Other pie-suitable varieties can be used instead)
Cinnamon
Birds-Eye puff-pastry
Aluminium foil
Black & Decker heat gun
Pairing knife
Potato Masher
Hobby knives
First, I opened the iBook fully and wrapped aluminium foil repeatedly around the keyboard and display sections seperately, until I could only just close the lid.
Then, I bake a very deep pie base in the oven until it starts to turn crispy. I prepare the filling using the apples and cinnamon, chop the apples, then mash them, and sprinkle cinnamon into the mixture. You may also want to add brandy until the desired consistency is achieved.
Pour a half-inch of mixture into the pie base.
Carefully position the foil-wrapped iBook into the filling, padding it well, with filling all around it (see Figure 3).
The lid is worked in sections, starting with the space behind and along the left edge of the iBook. Ventilation ports must be placed into the filling, and a matching slot for ventilation cut on the top of the pie. This is best done with the iBook in its unfolded state. Then, the back of the display is coated with pastry. Finally, the crust is finished with a small slot for releasing the latch. (Fig 4)
Now, we pinch the edges, pie style, to give a good edge.
We then use the heat gun to bake the pastry, working around the very edges first and only focussing on the inner areas when the edge of the pie is complete. Be sure to stop every few minutes and check the temperature of the foil-wrapped iBook - dont let it get hot! Also check the function of the hinge and latch from time to time.
I then apply an Apple logo cut from pastry to the top, and add a light glaze, again baking it on with the heat-gun.
Finally, I open it, and very carefully and patiently, use a hobby knife to cut away foil from the display, trackpad and keyboard. Dont cut the screen or trackpad!
The finished Apple PieBook should be accessorised with the following:
Cream filled Yo-Yo power adapter
Apricot Extreme Base Station
Mini optical pretzel
External Firewire country-rye bread.
(WARNING: If you are silly enough to try this at home, then any damage you do to your computer is entirely your own fault. Just ask yourself: why hasn't he posted photos?)
The goal of this modification was to take an Apple iBook (2001 dual USB model, often referred to as an iceBook) and turn it into a pastry-based system thus making it an Apple Pie. This was by no means a permananent or even a practical mod, as pie crusts tend to be less resilient than the stylish polycarbonate shell that the iBook comes with.
I decided to do the modification of an iBook into an Apple Pie for the following reasons.
For creating Pie-Charts
For hiding a computer in a bakery to protect it from robbers.
For smuggling into prison (for this purpose, the iBook could just as easily become a cake. I guess that would make it a cake with several thousand files in it!).
For winning pie throwing fights in a decisive and unusual manner.
To sneak a few games of Unreal Tournament in during a Home Economics class.
To get a ludicrous arts grant and sell the iBook for several times its value as a bizarrely post-modern cry against existential opression.
For sneaking a Mac into your all-PC office in the guise of a lunch item (for this, I recommend you instead take a look at my previous mod: PowerSandwich)
To do this I used the following materials & tools (Fig 2):
Apple iBook Dual-USB G3-500 with Combo Drive and 384mb RAM
6 Granny Smiths apples. (Other pie-suitable varieties can be used instead)
Cinnamon
Birds-Eye puff-pastry
Aluminium foil
Black & Decker heat gun
Pairing knife
Potato Masher
Hobby knives
First, I opened the iBook fully and wrapped aluminium foil repeatedly around the keyboard and display sections seperately, until I could only just close the lid.
Then, I bake a very deep pie base in the oven until it starts to turn crispy. I prepare the filling using the apples and cinnamon, chop the apples, then mash them, and sprinkle cinnamon into the mixture. You may also want to add brandy until the desired consistency is achieved.
Pour a half-inch of mixture into the pie base.
Carefully position the foil-wrapped iBook into the filling, padding it well, with filling all around it (see Figure 3).
The lid is worked in sections, starting with the space behind and along the left edge of the iBook. Ventilation ports must be placed into the filling, and a matching slot for ventilation cut on the top of the pie. This is best done with the iBook in its unfolded state. Then, the back of the display is coated with pastry. Finally, the crust is finished with a small slot for releasing the latch. (Fig 4)
Now, we pinch the edges, pie style, to give a good edge.
We then use the heat gun to bake the pastry, working around the very edges first and only focussing on the inner areas when the edge of the pie is complete. Be sure to stop every few minutes and check the temperature of the foil-wrapped iBook - dont let it get hot! Also check the function of the hinge and latch from time to time.
I then apply an Apple logo cut from pastry to the top, and add a light glaze, again baking it on with the heat-gun.
Finally, I open it, and very carefully and patiently, use a hobby knife to cut away foil from the display, trackpad and keyboard. Dont cut the screen or trackpad!
The finished Apple PieBook should be accessorised with the following:
Cream filled Yo-Yo power adapter
Apricot Extreme Base Station
Mini optical pretzel
External Firewire country-rye bread.
(WARNING: If you are silly enough to try this at home, then any damage you do to your computer is entirely your own fault. Just ask yourself: why hasn't he posted photos?)
