TechTV's Mod Mania with Yoshi: A Guide to Customizing Your Computer and Other Digital Devices

Description

What's lemon yellow with a red headlight and a porthole window that allows users to peer at its innards? Could be your computer if you get this guide to the art and science of "modding" from TechTV personality (and modding maniac!) Yoshi Deherrera. In these pages, Yoshi introduces you to the wild and wacky world of computer and device customization--or modding (if you hadn't already figured it out). Using modding projects like those he displays on The Screen Savers TV show, Yoshi shows you all kinds of ways to dress up that beast on your desktop--from adding neon lights to creating the ultimate gaming machine. You'll find instructions for approximately 15 modding projects--from beginning (painting a cell phone) to advanced (cutting windows in computer cases and more). And if you need inspiration, you'll love the showcase section highlighting Yoshi's favorite mods from around the Web. Clear graphics, easy-to-follow instructions, and expert tips round out the package.

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Table of Contents

1. What is Modding.

How Did I Get into Modding? What Drives Modders? How To Use This Book.

The Workbench. Tools . Supplies. Organization.

Case Modding Without the Work: Products and Resources You Can Use for. Instant Case Mods. Project: Face-Lift. Project: Give Your Cell Phone Some Character and Pizzazz. Project: Open BoxInstall a Window in Your Computer Case. Project: The TechTV PC Case. Project: Give the Window to Your Computer's Soul a Unique Look. Project: Light Up Your Case. Project: Blink Blink.

Yoshi's Mods: Project Specularis. Project: Stealth CD-ROM.

Project Iris: Mousing Around. Project: Cooling a Mouse? Project: Orpheus. Project: Faraday.

Videogame Console or Work of Art? Putting Yoshi's Boxx Together. Y-Boxx 2K3: The Revision.

Project YS-2: Building a Silent Computer Case. Project: Build a Submersion Cooling Case. Project: YM-23, Ammo Can PC.

Homemade Steel and Glass PC Case. Surface to Surface PC. Technotone. The Mg3 NeXT Cube. The Humidor Series. AMD Big Block. The ToAsTOr. Biohazard. Hemophilia. The Mailbox Mod. Wood Case. The Tech Tube. The LokiCube.

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