![]() The idea of emulating a Macintosh was actually accidental. The project uses the Mini vMac emulator to create the simulated Macintosh interface. You can set this to a day of your choosing and never have to tear up and burn your recycling overflow in the garden fire pit ever again. The trash icon shows itself as “full” on Mondays to remind them to take the bins out for collection the next day. Oh, and as Raspberry Pi notes, there’s one other delightfully quirky feature: ![]() It simply pulls in some data and displays it, but that does make it more than purely decorative.įunctionality is limited to displaying the content of a public calendar, local weather, and the current phase of the moon. It’s a DIY project which recreates the front panel of a classic Macintosh, coupled with an e-ink display to emulate the look of the original machine, while a Raspberry Pi gives it a little functionality …Ĭalhoun stresses that it’s not an interactive device. Its creator and former Apple engineer J Calhoun describes it as a ‘love-letter to my first Macintosh’ – which was a Macintosh Plus. ![]() I have a non-functional original Macintosh in my office just as nostalgic decoration, but SystemSix is a super-cute home-built alternative.
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