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[🌈NiziMac]

Hahaha! I didnt even notice it was crossing out what was the big apple! hilarious.
my first one had the exact same stickers as yours... two options..

I think I am FINALLY done with this project (yeah right) and I just made a short video and posted a new thread here with links to the video and some new photos: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/micro-mac-plus-macclock-hackintosh-with-all-the-balls-and-whistles.5170/#post-45567

I will eventually make a build video and maybe do a GitHub. I made a lot of changes over the last day to the startup scrips so it is very polished now. I also added an AtTiny that connects to the piece speaker and plays a tune when you plop a disk in. Initially i did this because you needed some "signs of life" because the screen was black for so long. I had it also play a little 2 tone "im busy" jingle every couple seconds until the screen came up with the mouse cursor. But after i added bluetooth, that board plays a chime when it connects so there really was no more need for any sounds. I left the disk drop sound in there though.

yes I can you you the STL'S etc.

Sorry for the late reply! I’ve been busy and haven’t had time to watch the video yet. I’ll watch it and get back to you, so please hang tight!”

 

[🌈NiziMac]

Hahaha! I didnt even notice it was crossing out what was the big apple! hilarious.
my first one had the exact same stickers as yours... two options..

I think I am FINALLY done with this project (yeah right) and I just made a short video and posted a new thread here with links to the video and some new photos: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/micro-mac-plus-macclock-hackintosh-with-all-the-balls-and-whistles.5170/#post-45567

I will eventually make a build video and maybe do a GitHub. I made a lot of changes over the last day to the startup scrips so it is very polished now. I also added an AtTiny that connects to the piece speaker and plays a tune when you plop a disk in. Initially i did this because you needed some "signs of life" because the screen was black for so long. I had it also play a little 2 tone "im busy" jingle every couple seconds until the screen came up with the mouse cursor. But after i added bluetooth, that board plays a chime when it connects so there really was no more need for any sounds. I left the disk drop sound in there though.

yes I can you you the STL'S etc.

Haha that video was awesome. I love all the little details you added.

By the way — what was that robot voice?? Are you actually making the MacClock talk? It totally sounded like Speak & Spell or Kraftwerk style speech synth. I love that stuff.

And when it said something like “…Dave” and then “stupid” during shutdown — that was such a cool touch. That’s a HAL9000 reference right?

Honestly this feels like way more than just an emulator. You really went all in on the details and it shows — there’s a lot of love in this build.

Also thanks for offering the STL files, that’s incredibly generous. I’d love to see them. Did you design the internal mounts yourself?

If you're cool with it, can you DM them to me?

 

[Sideburn]

Haha that video was awesome. I love all the little details you added.

By the way — what was that robot voice?? Are you actually making the MacClock talk? It totally sounded like Speak & Spell or Kraftwerk style speech synth. I love that stuff.

And when it said something like “…Dave” and then “stupid” during shutdown — that was such a cool touch. That’s a HAL9000 reference right?

Honestly this feels like way more than just an emulator. You really went all in on the details and it shows — there’s a lot of love in this build.

Also thanks for offering the STL files, that’s incredibly generous. I’d love to see them. Did you design the internal mounts yourself?

If you're cool with it, can you DM them to me?

That’s the Talking Moose. Uses MacinTalk. You can get it on Macintosh garden or Macintosh repository. It’s a control panel. I had it on my Mac’s back in the 80s. Another good one is the Oscar’s the grouch one that pops out of the trash can when you empty the trash.

yes I designed everything they are very simple little parts. That hard part was all the measuring to get everything aligned right.

theres really two ways to go about aligning the LCD. One is to actually get the screen area aligned to the opening physically. This would involve cutting the plastic up and centering the lcd.

i didnt do it that way. On mine i drop it in and shift it as far as i can and then in software i move the mac screen offset over and scale it until its centered with the margins.

did you see the late night last minute mod I did to the floppy disk sound? Hilarious.
I swear the code so instead of the musical tones it now sounds like a motor (or as close as I could get it to with pwm haha).