A while back I bought two of those Maclocks with the intention of modding one into a tiny Mac.
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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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It's connected via HDMI, not SPI, right?
@alexshendi Neither, this one uses DPI via the GPIO pins.
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Two tiny Macs, my converted one and an unmodified Maclock.
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@tess I'm actually asking a real question about the craft.
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@aeva I don't think your interpretation of RFC 2119 SHOULD is correct. RFC 2119 SHOULD basically means "MUST, unless you have a really good reason."
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@alice I got mine before the move to AZ because I wasn't sure they'd even be available here.
Gladly there's pockets of actual humans here in this "red" state. (I think it's turning blue from what I hear. Well, it's more blue now with me here rofl)
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@aeva I think there's an interesting part of your answer. There's a minimum amount of time just to deal with dependency changes, triage bugs and hopefully fix some. But doing that minimum is probably not sustainable -- it probably means you're losing interest in the project. Having a little more time for new features, refactors, and so on is probably better for the long term.
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@alice @benroyce @lispi314
Are you hiring, do you need a developer, if you like i can run the whole dev department. i am a people person what is wrong with youuuuuu?
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@aeva thank you so much for this answer! It really means a lot to me.
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@evan
and I'm not talking about very small projects.
it also depends what the project is.
If you fail in it, what will happen with the people who uses your project?Will there life goes on without it?
"with great power comes great responsibility"....and you should have a team, a bus can hit you and the project (your legacy) is unmaintained forever.
So, I still stand with my first answer: as much as you want and as long as it's healthy.
+ GET A TEAM ;-)
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