A while back I bought two of those Maclocks with the intention of modding one into a tiny Mac.
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@paulrickards I found exactly the same noise problem with mine. The 3D printer is very nice. I tried filing down the Maclock one to fit in the slot cut in the pot and just wound up snapping it 😔
@WiteWulf I can post the STL if you want.
Funny, the noise isn't present until you stuff it all inside the case in close proximity to the antennas 🙃
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@paulrickards oh, using the floppy switch is a nice touch! Does it do clean shutdown when you eject?
@WiteWulf Nothing fancy, it just switches the power to the Pi on and off.
I would love to use the touch sensor on the top of the case for a soft shutdown though! Any ideas what's in the top?
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@WiteWulf Nothing fancy, it just switches the power to the Pi on and off.
I would love to use the touch sensor on the top of the case for a soft shutdown though! Any ideas what's in the top?
@paulrickards no idea; mine’s held in firmly with hot glue. There are scripts available that trigger a clean shutdown when you put a signal on a GPIO pin. I’m sure you could rig the fdd switch to that.
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More #TinyMac:
- Swapped in a Raspberry Pi 3A+ for the Pi Zero 2 W. Slightly faster and has 5GHz WiFi which is so much better.
- Mounted the LCD/Pi to the back of the front case with some hot glue.
- Kept the front floppy switch as a power switch when floppy is inserted.
- Installed a LX-2BUPS (2x18650 UPS) inside for power, exposed a USB-C port on the back for charging.
Two tiny Macs, my converted one and an unmodified Maclock.
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Two tiny Macs, my converted one and an unmodified Maclock.
@paulrickards Now you can write a Maclock emulator to run on the emulated one... 😀
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Two tiny Macs, my converted one and an unmodified Maclock.
Obligatory flying toasters.
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Obligatory flying toasters.
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Obligatory flying toasters.
@paulrickards
but can you make the toasters leave the left-screen and pick up (exactly) on the right? 🤔
* the first time I saw that was on an attached Two Page Monitor for SE/30 in 1990 ... and I almost fell over because someone else installed it, and the timeout was really long so it had never "kicked in" -
@paulrickards
but can you make the toasters leave the left-screen and pick up (exactly) on the right? 🤔
* the first time I saw that was on an attached Two Page Monitor for SE/30 in 1990 ... and I almost fell over because someone else installed it, and the timeout was really long so it had never "kicked in"@petabites Multiple monitors was absolute magic back then.
No idea if Basillisk II supports addition displays.
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Obligatory flying toasters.
@paulrickards very cute. Almost therapeutic:)
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Obligatory flying toasters.
The top of the Maclock includes a touch sensitive area that would turn the backlight on and off, this area marked in red. It doesn’t move, it’s just plastic.
Underneath is a board that is likely difficult to remove, embedded with glue. It has two leads coming off of it.
Without seeing the board, can you theorize how it works and how it could be utilized with a Raspberry Pi GPIO?
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The top of the Maclock includes a touch sensitive area that would turn the backlight on and off, this area marked in red. It doesn’t move, it’s just plastic.
Underneath is a board that is likely difficult to remove, embedded with glue. It has two leads coming off of it.
Without seeing the board, can you theorize how it works and how it could be utilized with a Raspberry Pi GPIO?
@paulrickards Touch sensitive and "two wires" to me smells like it's literally just a bare capacitive sensor, with all the sensing smarts being on whatever it's connected to. (one wire being GND and the other being 'sense')
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The top of the Maclock includes a touch sensitive area that would turn the backlight on and off, this area marked in red. It doesn’t move, it’s just plastic.
Underneath is a board that is likely difficult to remove, embedded with glue. It has two leads coming off of it.
Without seeing the board, can you theorize how it works and how it could be utilized with a Raspberry Pi GPIO?
@paulrickards Capacitive touch sensor ?
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@spacehobo @paulrickards but with only two wires to the board that's tricky if it's anything other than just a pair of pads for a touch sensor.
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The top of the Maclock includes a touch sensitive area that would turn the backlight on and off, this area marked in red. It doesn’t move, it’s just plastic.
Underneath is a board that is likely difficult to remove, embedded with glue. It has two leads coming off of it.
Without seeing the board, can you theorize how it works and how it could be utilized with a Raspberry Pi GPIO?
@paulrickards does it just function like a momentary switch, by chance?
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The top of the Maclock includes a touch sensitive area that would turn the backlight on and off, this area marked in red. It doesn’t move, it’s just plastic.
Underneath is a board that is likely difficult to remove, embedded with glue. It has two leads coming off of it.
Without seeing the board, can you theorize how it works and how it could be utilized with a Raspberry Pi GPIO?
@paulrickards if not touch capacitive, could be an IR led & photoresistor in series. The toucher reflects the IR back, reducing the resistance and increasing the circuit's current flow. Not sure if that could be measured over just two wires going to a Pi's GPIO pins. This method of "touch" sensing probably needs more signal processing than capacitive touch, but it's not the worst way to do it
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Obligatory flying toasters.
@paulrickards I’m looking forward to my über-portable AIR router project once my Maclock arrives. I also bought a pre-made-but-3D-printed-case mini Mac to maybe shortcut things.
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Two tiny Macs, my converted one and an unmodified Maclock.
Are there any instructions on how to do it?
I mean the maclock mod, not installing the emulator on the Pi.Thanks!
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Are there any instructions on how to do it?
I mean the maclock mod, not installing the emulator on the Pi.Thanks!
@alexshendi Just what you see in this thread. Also worth looking at the #TinyMac tag.
I used this Waveshare 2.8” DPI display for Raspberry Pi.
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@alexshendi Just what you see in this thread. Also worth looking at the #TinyMac tag.
I used this Waveshare 2.8” DPI display for Raspberry Pi.
It's connected via HDMI, not SPI, right?
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