Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Half an Apple: developer creates tiny, working version of original Macintosh


When Apple released the original Macintosh in 1984, it was looked at as a triumph of design — one of the more minimalist and user-friendly computer designs to hit the market. Old Macs have long since become obsolete, leading fans to come up with creative ways to hack them into a useful second life (like the MacQuarium), but John Leake took a different approach for his tribute to Apple's most enduring product. Using Sintra foamboard and a Raspberry Pi, Leake has successfully created a working scale model of the original Mac that's one-third the size of the original.




The Mini Mac consists of the aforementoined Sintra boards that Leake cut with an x-acto knife; he filed and sandpapered down the bezels to give it the distinctive...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/28/4667622/developer-creates-working-version-of-shrunken-macintosh

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