{"id":573,"date":"2006-06-14T00:38:07","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T04:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=573"},"modified":"2006-06-13T17:44:26","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T21:44:26","slug":"the-mac-that-runs-on-121-gigawatts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"The Mac that runs on 1.21 Gigawatts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/deloreanmacmini.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"deloreanmacmini\" alt=\"deloreanmacmini\" src=\"\/images\/deloreanmacmini.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While sadly, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flux_capacitor\">flux capacitor<\/a> is still not a reality, it appears that it IS possible to put the next best thing into a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/De_Lorean_DMC-12\">Delorean<\/a>: a Mac mini, complete with projection display system.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/deloreanmacmini.com\/\">This guy was crazy enough to do it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px\">This project involved more than just a carputer. This is the merging of an automotive environment and a computing environment. This creates a portable office in your DeLorean. Not just a drive-in movie theater, but a <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica-Oblique','Helvetica','Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 17px\">drivable<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px\"> drive-in movie theater. Sound like fun? It is, but challenges along the way have made this ambitious project push the limits on my electronic and fabrication talents.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting, but is it compatible with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mr._Fusion\">Mr. Fusion<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px\">The coup de grace?<\/span> A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.branmuffinindustries.com\/DeLoreanMacMini\/Projector%20Engineering.html\">37-inch projection screen, of which the development is detailed here<\/a>.  Evidently, this enthusiast was not content to use the tiny LCDs that most modders put in their car&#8230;puters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sadly, the flux capacitor is still not a reality, it appears that it IS possible to put the next best thing into a Delorean: a Mac mini, complete with projection display system. This guy was crazy enough to do it: This project involved more than just a carputer. This is the merging of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}