![]() ![]() This also was easy to fit in exactly the gap where you have placed your pico. I used a cut down female ATX extension plug to run the wires I wanted from the pico to a small PCB (vero board) on which I had the little electronic reed switch and a few connections to give me extra 5v, 12v and 3.3v power. When I did my mini in a Cube mod I used the Pico in exactly that way. Seems a shame to have bought the extra power supply and then only to use it for the standby voltage, so use it as a resource in your build. use the a 5v signal from the NUC to trigger a reed switch that connects the green power on wire terminal to ground - then you can use the Pico to power the hub. In the final build the picopsu will be placed in the space between the original HDD and the optical drive.įor the hub, why not use the power from the pico? You can make a simple circuit to get it to power on when the NUC comes on - e.g. I used a black molex cable connected to the Cube metal cage as shown in the below picture ( the picture belongs to a test build ) It's also important to mention that the switch plate needs a ground connection. I searched online but didn't find anything like that so I had to build my own. One more thing was needed: a two male to female DC cable to power both the pico and the mobo with one power brick. the picopsu doesn't need to be powered on for the cube switch to work. ![]() the picopsu needs to accept a wide input voltage range (12-25 V), the NUC uses a 19V External power supply laptop type. The solution was to use an additional psu that would provide the necessary 5VSB.The picopsu was the best choice, it's incredibly small and I'm planning more ways of using it in this build. (+ & -)Īs I mentioned earlier the NUC motherboard doesn't have an available 5V standby line so I needed a way to provide this voltage to the power switch. a connection to the mobo front header power pins. ![]() The power switch needs the following connections to work (using minihack's simple method) The original power switch was a must in my Cube build and one of the first challenges I had to face. I' ll be uploading pics as the project evolves Turtle Beach Amigo II USB Sound Card & Headset Adapter MCE Fovea Extreme USB Blu-ray Player (discarded, lack of space ) HiFimeDIY Sabre Tiny USB DAC, Digital to Audio Converter ES9023 + PCM2706 (discarded, didn't work properly in OSX) Several male to female USB 2.0 short cables, angled HDMI extender, DC Jack extender. Impatics copper heat spreader ( included in the D1NU1-S Case) IOGEAR Bluetooth 4.0 USB Micro Adapter GBU521 DELL DW1702 ATHEROS AR5B195 HALF-MINI WIRELESS N + BT BLUETOOTH COMBO MINI-CARD (BT doesn't work properly with Apple Devices) Intel Next Unit of Computing Board D33217CK CPU Intel Core i3-3217U dual core with HD4000 Graphics The Cube will keep its original features: fanless, sensitive power switch and the slot loading optical drive. This means no heatsink removal and no I/O ports cutting. My goal is to modernize the G4 Cube without any major alteration. Thanks to minihack and rossi1959 for their help with the power switch. Thanks to SynGatesFan200 and specially to faithie999 for their help with the the Mountain Lion install. I knew that it was time to restart the project when I read about the Intel NUC motherboard in ( superb iMac g4 modding source of information).The NUC 4" x 4" form factor was ideal but would it be able to run MacOS X ? Of course!īefore going any further I would like to thank jberg44 ( the dremel junkie), MacTester57 and all the Cube modders comunity for the inspiration. The project was put on hold indefinitely for several reasons: lack of skills, time and the most important one: the Mac mini form factor changed making the project close to impossible for me. So years ago I bought a non-working Cube (core only) with the intention of fitting the internals of an Intel Mac mini. I own a stock G4 Cube and like many others wanted a modern Intel version. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide ![]()
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