After you’ve backed up your AppleTV disk, the next obvious step is to enable SSH so that you can connect to the AppleTV remotely. This will let you connect to the machine and make updates without needing to remove the hard disk anymore. Tutorial Ninjas put together a nice howto for doing just this. It […]
Before you start playing with the software on the AppleTV, it’s prodent to make a bit-level copy of the internal disk. That way, if something goes wrong during your experimentation, you can restore the disk to its original state. To do this, you’ll be removing the AppleTV’s disk, putting it in another machine (Linux or […]
Daqq made a really simple The AVR controlled clock, source and schematic included – A friend of mine needed a clock into his amplifier as an extra function. So I made him one. It consists only of one AVR processor and one BQ-M512RD (or compatible, with common anodes) LED display. Daqqs homepage – [via] Link. […]
The above video describes how to put the AppleTV into recovery mode, where it will boot from an attached USB drive. It’s a matter of attaching a usb drive, holding down the menu and minus buttons to enable recovery mode and rebooting. The ultimate goal is to be able to get to a point where […]
Dhananjay V. Gadre wrote in with this awesome project: We have been itching to try running an AVR micro on fruit power. I do have the latest Picopower AVR samples, but it was too much of an effort to solder a 64 pin TQFP and so we decided to give a try with Tiny13V chip […]
Here’s another one of our kits with instructions, up on Instructables – This is an updated version of the detailed instructable by this device’s inventor, Ladyada. The updated version has some extra components. Also if you’re having trouble be sure to read the extra section in step 4 about modifying the MintyBoost to work with […]
bikedude880 from the hackint0sh forums posted this video of the AppleTV OS booting on PC hardware. It looks like this is a proof of concept – it’s possible that this isn’t fully functional yet. Anyone know more about this? Link. Previously: HOW TO – Run AppleTV on a Mac Mini
