the Mac plus is one of the most iconic
computers of the 1980s but it's just so
big and unwieldy So today we're going to
miniaturize this Behemoth including a
fully functional 5 in glass
CRT we're building the Mac minus so stay
tuned and if you enjoy projects that are
completely impractical but totally
adorable I hope you'll consider
subscribing to the channel if you go to
any 3D printing project website and
search for Macintosh you'll find Pages
upon pages of incredible projects that
you can print and I love these kinds of
projects but they all have one thing in
common they're meant to take an LCD
screen which makes sense I mean they're
easy to Source easy to work with and
connecting an LCD to something like a
Raspberry Pi is pretty straight forward
but I think the glass CRT is one of the
most defining iconic features of the
classic Mac so I want to build a working
miniature Macintosh model and how cool
would it be to build one with a working
miniature CRT enter the Mac minus a case
designed to hold a 5-in CRT from one of
those cheap black and white TVs like
this no-name fella that I found for free
and this this TV also has composite
input which means that we can hook an
old Raspberry Pi up to it very easily
now bamboo lab is graciously sponsoring
today's video and they sent me a whole
freaking brand new A1 printer combo and
two boxes full of filament so we'll open
those up and look inside and figure out
what we're going to use to print this
Mac minus in a bit but first let me show
you the guts that I think we can use to
make a convincing Mini
Macintosh all right I've got a big old
box of goodies here of course the
centerpiece to our build is an old first
gen Raspberry Pi with convenient
composite out which is going to go into
our cheap oh it's amtel cheap amtel TV
and to connect everything and make it
self-contained one of these Pico ATX
power supplies and we're going to use
one of these little cables
here to switch it on and off and I think
that should be more than enough juice
out of this 250 wat Supply here to power
the TV off of SATA I'm sure it's safe so
this gives me 12 volts here and
conveniently our TV takes 12 volts all
right I do believe the TV has a loose
connection inside
but it does power
it and we will power the pie itself off
of a Molex to 5vt
USB and then we can do audio
out
here and what operating system are we
going to choose well obviously the
alternate universe Mac OS risk
OS I have a three button USB mouse for
reasons that will become apparent
shortly yeah this screen isn't too bad
honestly I mean it's no Macintosh one
bit
display but I mean it is usable okay
let's take a look at what bamboo sent us
and start printing a Mac Mini Mini Mac
Mac
minus let's see
magenta cyan
oh my
God glowi in-the-dark okay
glow-in-the-dark green that's what we're
using build
plate ooh ah the printer
itself all right put this next to the
other bamboo
printer honestly this was really easy to
assemble oh my God just look at this
glow-in-the-dark filament that is a heck
of a green I love
it all right let's get to printing some
mac minus here and I really love this
bamboo software it is just so good and
so convenient you just drag the Mac
minus in
here all right I've got a nice and flat
here let's add some supports slice her
up yeah I think we're pretty good yeah
not to get too sappy about these bamboo
printers here but they are just so
incredibly easy to set up I mean the
automatic calibration is incredible and
yeah we can monitor with the built-in
camera on this thing it's just awesome
I'm so grateful that bamboo sent me
another printer to used it's it's just
so good oh pay no mind to my messy lab
room yeah check it out here's the
printer that we're using right now the
A1 3D printer it's only
$339 that is act it's honestly
incredible and the combo with the four
spool AMS here
$489 incredible so thank you so much
bamboo for sponsoring this video and
check out the links in my description
below for an even better deal than their
standard
pricing okay I decided to do a quick and
dirty test print of the front face here
figure out any kind of adapters to put
this screen
in of course always be careful with the
CRT because uh any CRT is just literally
a giant
capacitor okay uh yeah
these holes in the back would need to
come way up how freaking cool is
that all right so after reworking pretty
much all of the solder joints on the
back here this does Now power on
reliably all all right I printed it out
with the glow-in-the-dark
filament how freaking cool is
this and this is pretty neat how the
board fits into this 3D printed
enclosure because there are actually two
slots here so this kind of stays in
place yeah look at
that we are held in place this is
absolutely glorious
okay so we do have to take off all these
gears here since we're not you know
worried about changing
channels one small thing I hadn't
considered with these Jacks taking out
the back here there's no way this is
going to fit over
top well you know what they say one in
doubt just solder directly to the board
so I've bypassed the connectors here and
here for video and audio and I have
extended the power connector all right
and in the interest of keeping this
build as cursed as possible I'm pairing
our lime green glow-in-the-dark Mac Mini
here with uh this beautiful 8bit D
mechanical keyboard which is in a lovely
Commodore 64 style and is actually what
I've been using as my main keyboard on
my editing station plug in our
hodgepodge of cables which will soon be
inside of this enclosure let's give this
a first boot inside of its
case oh yeah screen comes
on and it's booting oh my God this is so
ridiculous and
amazing all right check it out I've got
everything mounted in the case and we
are ready to assemble got the Raspberry
Pi screwed in here on a little bracket
I've got the power supply here I have
the speaker up here and a little Mount I
made for it and I put little connectors
on the end so we can
connect to the power
here oh my
goodness we have a miniature Mac look at
this all right now on the back here I
have created a little bracket
that holds the power switch the power
jack so we can kind of just cram all
these wires in
here and then I have a plate that can
cover this up and I have a little hole
there or I was going to put like a USB
port there or something not sure what
I'm going to do here yet the only thing
that's not great is all these wires kind
of push these two halves apart and
they're not like snug enough to fit to
hold by
pressure so I'm really don't want to
glue it maybe I'll just be
careful and here we are in the risk OS
desktop and I don't know if this is
coming across in camera I tried to mess
with the settings but in person this
screen is pretty good it's distorted a
little bit around the edges it is uh
well not as crisp as a real Macos
screen but it works and it's readable
here's where the weirdness of risos
comes into play you actually have to
click the middle Mouse button to do just
about anything so shut down yeah middle
Mouse button and then left Mouse button
shut down so net surf oh yeah we're
online look at
that it's unhappy about the keyboard for
some reason well apparently old
raspberry pies can be finicky about too
fancy of a USB keyboard due to something
about power requirements but I found
this old totally trash USB keyboard from
when I was learning Russian and this
keyboard works just fine all right well
let's see how usable our tiny glowing
friend is if we go to frog find.com yeah
that works
Macintosh Plus wow this screen is kind
of hard to
read yeah it works we're browsing the
internet on our tiny Mac
plus oh yeah drawing some
pictures all right I've got the software
store open maybe we can get some games
on this thing I must have configured RIS
OS wrong or something because literally
none of the games work they're all
complaining about missing audio
libraries so that is the Mac minus a
tiny bright green glow-in-the-dark
retrocomputing fever dream and this is
the perfect thing to take along to VCF
shows and well anywhere really because
it's adorable tiny Compact and portable
and thank you so much again to Bamboo
for not only sponsoring this video but
providing the printer and all of the
filament that we used to print this bad
boy I am such a huge fan of bamboo and I
have been for years and I'm so excited
to be working together with them expect
more weird 3D printing retro Computing
goodness in the future in any event if
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