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Building a Mac in a Microcontroller (Patreon)

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2024-10-26 02:27:08
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Today, we're using the Pico Micro Mac project, along with a project from the endlessly cool Ron's Computer Videos, to build an entire Macintosh 128K inside of a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller!

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PizzaCade

Huh, I only bought a Pico to flash a new NAND on my 360, now I have another use.

Jeff Geerling

Beat me to it! I have this dream of creating a mini Mac running off the Pico, but it remains just that... a dream and two boxes sitting on my shelf staring at me every time I start another project lol

Erik Hanson

Cool to see this today, coincidence? Hackerboxes #0108 released today with a snazzy color silk screened Pico Micro Mac PCB.

Patrick Cecil

Amazing that the Pico can do this. Right now I have three Picos around the house generating web pages that show me temperature readings for me and my spouse's pleasure! We have a thing about temperature. What you have shown here would be another great project. Was wondering about the Mac boot ROM. Where on earth could you get that?

Marcus Mayfield

I was very happy to see the SUSE chameleon. Looked like openSUSE Cinnamon. SUSE was the very first distribution I tried all the way back in 2004. And "shut down gracefully" followed by yanking the power. 🤣

John T Davis

Macrocontroller, amirite? :P Seriously, how cool is this? Thanks for this video. Aside from one that Ron did, I've not seen a lot of coverage on this. Even with the lack of sound, a working Mac 128K in your pocket is pretty awesome. With the non-standard amount of RAM, I'm wondering if it might make a good portable Mac 68K dev kit. I can't remember if there was actually a development environment that targeted the Mac 128K, but if there was, it might be a bit easier to use with 208k of RAM.