Cydintosh ➹

I have a soft spot for tiny Macintosh projects, and this one pushes all the right buttons–an ESP32 Cheap Yellow Display board running a Mac Plus emulator inside a 3D-printed case. I haven’t finished hacking my Maclock yet, but it’s a perfect fit with my ESP8266 hackery, not to mention the collection of vintage emulation hacks I keep filing away and my never-ending ARM64 JIT for BasiliskII, so I had to link to it.

The utterly brilliant part is that doesn’t stop at getting System 3.2 onto a small screen–it adds little Retro68 utilities for weather, Wi-Fi status and hardware control, which turns the whole thing into equal parts retrocomputing in-joke, embedded hack and practical home automation gadget.

It’s already printing (in the obligatory platinum-like PLA I keep around for special occasions), and I am so going to plug this into HomeKit somehow…