Lastly, I love how so many of Mark's projects are just pure 2000s creativity, things that would never occur to us to do now, like converting a Silicon Graphics Indy into a networked MP3 player, and then getting it to scrobble to http://Last.fm https://geektechnique.org/projectlab/830/use-an-indy-as-a-diskless-network-mp3-player.html

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It's nice to see Mark Hoekstra's work posted in 2022! Mark passed away in 2008 but I still visit his blog https://geektechnique.org for retro and other tinkering inspiration. In the mid 2000s compact Macs were dime a dozen, so we need to look at these conversions in that context :) https://twitter.com/XodiumRetro/status/1561270123394043904

8/21/2022, 12:17:49 PM

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@mejs

We might cringe at using SE/30s this way now, but one of my favorite projects Mark did was create these compact Mac audio visualizers for a friend who used them in her performances https://geektechnique.org/projectlab/707/how-to-make-mac-se30-audio-visualizers.html

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Mark also painted his original 2007 iPhone black -- afaik the first person to do so -- and unintentionally anticipated the design change for the iPhone 3G https://geektechnique.org/images/krause-2.jpg

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Lastly, I love how so many of Mark's projects are just pure 2000s creativity, things that would never occur to us to do now, like converting a Silicon Graphics Indy into a networked MP3 player, and then getting it to scrobble to http://Last.fm https://geektechnique.org/projectlab/830/use-an-indy-as-a-diskless-network-mp3-player.html

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