Reaching 100,000 views in such a short time is absolutely incredible-thank you all so much! 😊🎉 This wouldn’t have been possible without your amazing support. ❤ I’m truly grateful for all the positive comments and the effort you’ve put into sharing my video-it means so much to me. This inspires me even more to create exciting new projects, not just to showcase my skills but to hopefully inspire others as well. I’ve been reading through all your comments and will do my best to respond to as many of you as I can. A heartfelt shoutout to the brilliant Hartmut Esslinger and the iconic FrogDesign team for their visionary work. 👏🎨🐸
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Thanks for sponsoring so many creators on TH-cam! I still mostly just use proto-boards, but when I want to print a custom PCB, I'll definitely come to you guys.
@@werehyenataur So start giving stuff away and go out of business? It is sad to see such an unintelligent comment on a video for one of the most impressive projects I have seen on TH-cam in quite a long time. Thank you PCBWay for helping make this awesome project happen!
@@Nibbleminx At the time this would've had a fan, a louder one than this too. But today, you're right that we have the technology to make it more silent :D
I hope Mr Esslinger gets to see the fruits of your work (no pun intended) It would be wonderful to know how he feels seeing one of his designs be finally brought to life in a fully functional unit.
I hope in some rest of brain in apple. We all take it like dream comes true, but in now creepy days this can some jerk take like violiting all trade marks, design rights, etc. I've seen many concepts which was left over and than was taken by entusiastic people and relaized to life. Than those, whot left them, started screeming, because they don't want to accept their lost chance. Honor to this guy.
I mean if you watched the video you recognized that he asked the designer for his OK and for measurements/design pictures to get started. So I guess he'll let him know when the unit was finished :)
Kevin, I am a 62-year-old retired computer network engineer who works with hardware and software. Before that, I worked for Raytheon in Massachusetts, soldering components and making cables for ten years. I watched you build the machine after the parts were printed and created the poster. I know enough to know what you are doing on an expert level. That film was terrific, with self-proclaimed bona fides stated. I could see the build, design, and engineering, but when you added yourself to the project, it transcended craftsmanship to art. I hope you sell these as art pieces. Absolutely beautiful work. 🙏
Thank you so much for your kind message. Coming from someone with your experience, it means a lot to hear your thoughts. I’m so glad you enjoyed the project and saw both the engineering and the artistic side of it. Your encouragement truly inspires me to keep creating. Thank you again for your support!
Just curious, how have you watched TH-cam for 20 years when TH-cam was founded 19 years ago? (I think you meant almost 20 tho, tho correct me if I'm wrong)
@@Mid_Xp youtube was founden in 2005... but wen you say "since 20 years" the meaning of since its no 20 year exacltly .its about 20 or near...and we are in decemcember near to 2025 ..so near to the 20 exactly years...the definition or use of "since 20 years" in this case its correctly
I remember seeing this design in a magazine when I was a child and instantly falling in love with the Snow White design language. At the time it looked like an impossible future design. To see it now, made with such incredible detail with a functional ADB port and ejecting floppy drive is just mind blowing to me. Unbelievable work! Thank you!
I wish society still liked these designs, practical and mechanical, not boring sleek and try-hard futuristic at the sake of practicality and repairability. Cool job.
Ejecting floppies from these mac was butter smooth. @kevinnoki : I wonder if ir would make sense to put some soft stoppers that slow the ejection enough to make it work closer to that
This is incredible!!! I'd love for Steve Wozniak and as many others as possible to see it! I would've got one of these if they were ever produced! Even now, seeing a modern iPad case in this paint pallet style with the keyboard, I would go bananas! Thank you for making this!
@@thinksinksyncnyc If I was gonna pick any holes it'd be that the internal speaker is only implemented for the startup sound. I don't understand why this was done when setting the Arduino to output at line level connected through a simple audio splitter cable with the pi to a mini amplifier would have done the trick. Every other part of the build is so meticulously engineered!
Design, 3D printing, electronics, custom mechanical keyboard, the way everything is packed neatly, the workflow at the end. This is *insane* perfect work. 😮💨
This is next level DIY. At first I didn’t like the spagetti inside, but it cleaned up nicely. The layout of ports, under de floppydrive is well designed. I’m very impressed.
You know that this is one of the best projects ever made, Kevin! We definitely need to see this in a sci-fi production, especially in one of the Apple TV+ series; it would be a perfect fit. This should be seen by hundreds of millions of people.
I think it would be fun in an alt history setting, as well. It would be funny for someone using it to eject a floppy while working on the move, like on an escalator. Now, would it fly off into one of those elaborate shopping mall fountains or hit someone in another escalator in the head?
I have enough experience with this kind of work to know just how much tedious work went into this. Probably well over 200 hours. This is the coolest retro project I've ever seen. I almost cried at the end. Just beautiful.
I cannot begin to articulate my opinion on your project. Words cannot do this justice. I love every single aspect of this, from interpreting the original design into creating the final product. Thank you.
Another absolutely incredible job, you've outdone yourself. Extremely excited to see what's next and what an honour for the original designer to say yes!
the hardware creation was already epic. but man, that you designed the poster on it, shot with a floppy camera. That was the best possible icing on top
@@KevinNoki You should just causually walk into an Apple store/vintage computer show/etc. and start using it without explaining anything about it. :rofl:
Awesome as always. I'd like to suggest 2 things. Use silicon insulated wires. The insulation wont shrink with soldering. Search for "5 color cable box" They dont usually advertise them being silicone insulated. If you use them, you wont use another cable I promise. My other suggestion is get a hand heat gun. They are great for many things like shrinking shrink-tubes and any post work on PLA such as bending or imperfections etc. Get a temperature and fan speed adjustable one. I have a larger desk model but I also bought a smaller one and use the small one all the time. I had to replace the thick power cable though. They usually come with unnecessarily thick cable even though they use 200W at most.
@@KeithOlson I have many soldering irons/stations but I use the TS101 the most. It's even possible to use it with a power bank but I never used it that way. Mostly I use one of the desk power supplies to power it. I made a silicone cable for it and I easliy power it on the bench. I made a very long cable for the heat gun and I use it for so many things. Forexample it is also great for removing labels, even from cardboard boxes.
Stupendous. Since seeing those early Frog designs in the Apple Industrial 'hand'book (reader: it's quite a tome) I was enamoured of them. This is simply wonderful.
It would be completely useless for most people, BUT this is one of the coolest DIY projects I’ve seen on TH-cam! Especially the fact that it actually works, and was designed with usability and quality of life features in mind (stylus support, SD slot), making it actually a viable machine, and a capable one. Stunning.
This turned out so well, wow! I've been tinkering with electronics and 3D printing as a hobby for years, and it was truly humbling to see how much skill and passion went into making this project. I know, magic of editing, but the level of detail on the parts like the mounting plates is amazing. Personally, I would have had to print many, many iterations of the plates to get the mounting points all lined up correctly. Subbed, can't wait to see what other videos are on your channel!
It just works… like magic! That is the wildest thing I’ve seen. I used to look at these designs in magazines and just wish for the future where devices like this would somehow be possible. The fact that you can now make it yourself is just incredibly mind blowing. And the flex of actually making it and not just slotting in an iPad with a skin… with real Mac OS 7… and Photoshop… and making a poster… Steve would have been proud. Well done and thanks for sharing it with us.
That was truly amazing. For some years now I was in interested in 3d printing and making stuff at home and purchased a resin and filament printer to print the odd figurine, broken part and so on. But this is something completely different. No not only just "repair" or "restore" but recreate totally from scratch is a new tier of awesome. Immediately subscribed.
Everything was perfect about this project. Oh, especially the sounds of this elegant beast of a computer are magical. Thank you for sharing the process of your bringing this retro-futuristic beauty to life with us.
This is a love letter to all of us who appreciate the 70's/80's tech ! I would love to see a collaboration between you and Polymatt who does some beautiful 3D printed restorations of old ThinkPads! You are my heroes in 3D design and printing. Maravilloso 😍
This is so impressive! It’s not a mock up about how it could be, it’s a fully working prototype and that’s so amazing. The easiest thing would be make a full custom PCB to connect the raspberry pi and couple other components, but you decided making it by the hard way, fitting all those components in that small space, design which place could be better for each one, then connecting to each other with that jungle of wires, that the hard way, that how it would be done at time to have a working prototype after the production stage, and it’s so incredible bring to life a device that could change the history at its time, but definitely it made it several years later in the shape of another most modern device with the same idea behind. Once I’ve heard that apple never discard an idea at all, they just develop it in a different way at the correct time.
I really got a chuckle out of the FlatMac and the way it YEETS floppies out when they're ejected. I had a friend back in the day that modded his early Mac's floppy drive with a stronger spring so it would to EXACTLY that and scare his mom. We classic nerds would go to any length for a good prank!!
This is an impressive combination of off the shelf hardware, customized hardware, custom hardware, and software. I've done smaller projects with similar techniques, and I believe I could probably accomplish about half of what you did here with my current knowledge, skills, and tools. Your video is inspirational, and it makes me want to try and make something bigger than I've ever successfully attempted before. Thank you so much for sharing your process!
Absolutely amazing work, congratulations! Those old floppy eject mechanisms are so satisfying. When I worked in the SF office of frog design we had this model sitting in our foyer, always one of my favorites. So cool you built a working one (ours was just non-functioning, made out of high density polyurethane foam).
Amazing. Completely amazing. The ultra-fine attention to detail, the precision of those details, and the sheer number of details is so beyond any reasonable expectation. It’s unreal that you manufactured this by hand.
I...don't have words! This is genuinely the most staggeringly amazing homebuilt machine I've ever seen - the attention to detail is beyond anything I've seen before. You just brought a new Apple product into the world!
This is mindblowing - creativity, skill, craftsmanship. I guess it's testament to the skill of the builder that everything just worked the first time too.
Wow! I'm not a Mac lover, but even I have to admit, this is cool as all hell. I wonder if someone could create an actual 68K motherboard for this. Imagine that, this cool case with true period like hardware.
It should be doable: there are a couple of new hobbyist M68K board designs already, though apparently it's much harder to build an M68K system than an equivalent Z80 or 6502 machine. Interfacing with the video screen and the various ports might be the hardest part.
This is one of the best recreations i have ever seen! I assumed you just would use an iPad in a custom case, but you made a EXACT replica! Amazing work! 👍
the most impressive part for me as an artist was actually creating the poster on the thing at the end! the technical bits were impressive as well but i could see myself trying to do that bit at the end and failing 😹 very, very cool project. thanks for sharing!
You brought to life a great great grandparent of 2024 technology, and you allowed us to witness each stage. Heck even just the keyboard blew me away. I hope key individuals in Apple then and now see this and connect with you .. seeing you utilise the floppy disk for installing & creating a poster was just 🤌, I could have cried as it made me so happy lol
Dude, my sincere congratulations. I had exactly the same idea a few years ago, but I didn't have a 3D printer, and I was afraid of the costs I would have to do it, but overall, you did exactly as I imagined you would do. I am deeply proud of you, for having done this project with such care and excellence. If I may make a suggestion, I would recommend that you make the other sketches real, and then sell the entire collection at an art auction. The unique collection is certainly worth a few thousand dollars, collectors from all over the world would give their own mother to have something like this in their collection.
Thank you so much for the kind words! However, it's not my design, and I don’t hold the copyrights, so this project was entirely for personal use. I really appreciate your support and enthusiasm!
This flabbered my gast! I am not a tech guy, but am so happy to see the visions of yesteryear be created today. The best way to preserve history, whether it's a prototype, or production models, samples etc is to make it yourself, whether we had a functioning model or not. The most we can do to bulster our creativity in our respective hobbies means we must take on labors of love, which you showed me in this video. I am very impressed! Great video!
Hot damn! Your use of everything from craftsmanship to coding is just sublime! And the hand in the photo even shows you got a girlfriend. Hats off to you my man! 🎉
Danke dir! Ja, das Designkonzept sah ursprünglich einen Touchscreen vor, aber damals waren diese noch extrem teuer und konnten qualitativ nicht mit dem Standard mithalten, den wir heute gewohnt sind. :-)
This is legitimately incredible. I particularly love that you created the poster on it, showing how it might have been used in the era. A real love letter to classic Apple design. Awesome job!
Went to buy the book... cheapest I could find was $200 😭 Edit: For anybody interested there is a pdf of it floating around. I recommend reading it, you will not believe how far ahead of their time some of these concepts were.
I just realized if there are heated 3d platforms to make them stick, there should be a way to cool them to release them. And a button that applies gentle flex vibration.
The all new, lightweight and groundbreaking iPad Flat! Coming in at a mere 34lbs! LOL! Amazing work! As a hobbyist that likes to begin with CAD, work through programming and hardware, and end with a finished product completely by myself as well, I am very envious of how incredible everything is. Amazing work!
Reaching 100,000 views in such a short time is absolutely incredible-thank you all so much! 😊🎉 This wouldn’t have been possible without your amazing support. ❤
I’m truly grateful for all the positive comments and the effort you’ve put into sharing my video-it means so much to me. This inspires me even more to create exciting new projects, not just to showcase my skills but to hopefully inspire others as well.
I’ve been reading through all your comments and will do my best to respond to as many of you as I can.
A heartfelt shoutout to the brilliant Hartmut Esslinger and the iconic FrogDesign team for their visionary work.
👏🎨🐸
well deserved, good job!!!!
Your hard work and dedication should take the credit👍
Goes to show how much love there is for the retro Apple
Apple IIc forever
Outstanding work brother 👍
Simply great. The amount of ingenuity and detailed work... 10/10
I would be honoured if you would produce such a marvel for me
That's SOMETHING! We are honored to be a PART!🥳
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Thanks for sponsoring so many creators on TH-cam! I still mostly just use proto-boards, but when I want to print a custom PCB, I'll definitely come to you guys.
@@werehyenataur So start giving stuff away and go out of business? It is sad to see such an unintelligent comment on a video for one of the most impressive projects I have seen on TH-cam in quite a long time.
Thank you PCBWay for helping make this awesome project happen!
Thank you for your support!!! PCBWay🚀
Thank you for sponsoring. Money well spend!
I'm a former student of Hartmut, I'll try to get him to see this at the next class meeting! ⭐
Please update how he reacts. A video would be even better!
commenting to get updated if/when he sees it
I'm sure he already knows.... He did mention they were in contact, just sayin..
@@sn0n but he wants his internet points
@@sorsun46 You're the one looking for internet points with smart ass comments. I hope the 4 likes were worth it.
From the floppy drive, to the keycaps, to the startup chime, this is executed flawlessly. Well done!
It is, but the Fan!
@@Nibbleminx At the time this would've had a fan, a louder one than this too. But today, you're right that we have the technology to make it more silent :D
I hope Mr Esslinger gets to see the fruits of your work (no pun intended) It would be wonderful to know how he feels seeing one of his designs be finally brought to life in a fully functional unit.
I hope in some rest of brain in apple. We all take it like dream comes true, but in now creepy days this can some jerk take like violiting all trade marks, design rights, etc. I've seen many concepts which was left over and than was taken by entusiastic people and relaized to life. Than those, whot left them, started screeming, because they don't want to accept their lost chance. Honor to this guy.
I was thinking hopefully he built two to send him one.
I mean if you watched the video you recognized that he asked the designer for his OK and for measurements/design pictures to get started. So I guess he'll let him know when the unit was finished :)
Just wow. 😊
A few days ago, I had the incredible opportunity to video call with Hartmut Esslinger. He was truly impressed! :-)
Kevin, I am a 62-year-old retired computer network engineer who works with hardware and software. Before that, I worked for Raytheon in Massachusetts, soldering components and making cables for ten years. I watched you build the machine after the parts were printed and created the poster.
I know enough to know what you are doing on an expert level.
That film was terrific, with self-proclaimed bona fides stated. I could see the build, design, and engineering, but when you added yourself to the project, it transcended craftsmanship to art. I hope you sell these as art pieces.
Absolutely beautiful work. 🙏
Thank you so much for your kind message. Coming from someone with your experience, it means a lot to hear your thoughts. I’m so glad you enjoyed the project and saw both the engineering and the artistic side of it. Your encouragement truly inspires me to keep creating. Thank you again for your support!
THE BEST DIY and tecnological apple recreation product since 20 year of watching youtube video.....great and awesome job
Totally agree
Utterly. It was outstanding and while the insides were a mess of board and cables... who cares? :) It worked. Very well.
Just curious, how have you watched TH-cam for 20 years when TH-cam was founded 19 years ago?
(I think you meant almost 20 tho, tho correct me if I'm wrong)
@@Mid_Xp youtube was founden in 2005... but wen you say "since 20 years" the meaning of since its no 20 year exacltly .its about 20 or near...and we are in decemcember near to 2025 ..so near to the 20 exactly years...the definition or use of "since 20 years" in this case its correctly
@foxcar29 ahhh ok
I remember seeing this design in a magazine when I was a child and instantly falling in love with the Snow White design language. At the time it looked like an impossible future design. To see it now, made with such incredible detail with a functional ADB port and ejecting floppy drive is just mind blowing to me. Unbelievable work! Thank you!
Thank you so much. I'm thrilled it brings back such great memories!
I wish society still liked these designs, practical and mechanical, not boring sleek and try-hard futuristic at the sake of practicality and repairability. Cool job.
Holy crap! I can already imagine this being shared across all corners of the vintage mac community!
*rounded corners
@@ximono get a job
Guess you’ve got a crystal ball for the vintage Mac world! :-)
That's crazy that Hartmut Esslinger gave you his blessing to create this. What an honor!
Thank you! It really was an incredible honor! :-)
the project itself is cool as hell, but the absolute craftsmanship on display is top tier. seeing the whole thing come together was inspiring.
Thank you! So glad you found it inspiring. it means a lot!
Love the unceremonious yeeting of the disk from the drive. Go on, git, dang floppy!
Brilliant project, brilliant execution.
Ejecting floppies from these mac was butter smooth.
@kevinnoki : I wonder if ir would make sense to put some soft stoppers that slow the ejection enough to make it work closer to that
This is incredible!!! I'd love for Steve Wozniak and as many others as possible to see it! I would've got one of these if they were ever produced! Even now, seeing a modern iPad case in this paint pallet style with the keyboard, I would go bananas! Thank you for making this!
would be really cool. with ipad mini 6. for artists and hobbyists.
A snap-in ipad or mini keyboard case in this style would be an instant buy for me.
Thanks!
Thank you!
You executed this FLAWLESSLY. I can't believe this has so few views - I bet it won't be long before that changes.
The Macintosh logo is crooked but otherwise I agree!
@@thinksinksyncnyc If I was gonna pick any holes it'd be that the internal speaker is only implemented for the startup sound. I don't understand why this was done when setting the Arduino to output at line level connected through a simple audio splitter cable with the pi to a mini amplifier would have done the trick. Every other part of the build is so meticulously engineered!
You use the same amount of glue that Apple uses. 10/10
???!! I hope this is sarcasm. He globbed it on pointlessly. There are needle glue applicators for this.
I kept flinching when the giant Kragle tip would touch the casing, but hey! It all got cleaned up!
Design, 3D printing, electronics, custom mechanical keyboard, the way everything is packed neatly, the workflow at the end. This is *insane* perfect work. 😮💨
This is next level DIY. At first I didn’t like the spagetti inside, but it cleaned up nicely.
The layout of ports, under de floppydrive is well designed.
I’m very impressed.
You know that this is one of the best projects ever made, Kevin! We definitely need to see this in a sci-fi production, especially in one of the Apple TV+ series; it would be a perfect fit. This should be seen by hundreds of millions of people.
It woulda been perfect in For All Mankind when they were in the 90s
@@pepperstmm this!!
Thank you so much Cihan 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I think it would be fun in an alt history setting, as well. It would be funny for someone using it to eject a floppy while working on the move, like on an escalator. Now, would it fly off into one of those elaborate shopping mall fountains or hit someone in another escalator in the head?
I have enough experience with this kind of work to know just how much tedious work went into this. Probably well over 200 hours.
This is the coolest retro project I've ever seen. I almost cried at the end. Just beautiful.
Since Raspberry Pi came out, many Apple fans have wondered if something like this would happen, and it did! And indeed it is beautiful. Thank you.
I cannot begin to articulate my opinion on your project. Words cannot do this justice.
I love every single aspect of this, from interpreting the original design into creating the final product.
Thank you.
Another absolutely incredible job, you've outdone yourself. Extremely excited to see what's next and what an honour for the original designer to say yes!
This is so iconic and amazing! If it were for sale, many people would like to buy it.
the hardware creation was already epic. but man, that you designed the poster on it, shot with a floppy camera. That was the best possible icing on top
Fantastic job. Nice touch of the floppy drive
Thank you!!!🙏🏻
The Floppy Drive ejecting the floppies like a gun was fun. lol
Ah the era when floppies were yeeted, a word that didn't even exist yet
There's skill, and then there's this. Simply amazing. I was glued to the screen for the entire 49 minutes. You deserve a LOT more subscribers.
That is a crazy amount of work. Well done! I hope this video goes totally viral 😁
Everything from the keyboard to the magnets holding on the panel just screams apple, i love this so much. It has so much character!
Nothing short of amazing
Thank you so much 🙏🏻
😡😡😡😡😡
@@KevinNoki You should just causually walk into an Apple store/vintage computer show/etc. and start using it without explaining anything about it. :rofl:
I might try that one day! 😂
It’s so satisfying to see someone finally make the FlatMac!
Awesome as always. I'd like to suggest 2 things. Use silicon insulated wires. The insulation wont shrink with soldering. Search for "5 color cable box" They dont usually advertise them being silicone insulated. If you use them, you wont use another cable I promise. My other suggestion is get a hand heat gun. They are great for many things like shrinking shrink-tubes and any post work on PLA such as bending or imperfections etc. Get a temperature and fan speed adjustable one. I have a larger desk model but I also bought a smaller one and use the small one all the time. I had to replace the thick power cable though. They usually come with unnecessarily thick cable even though they use 200W at most.
FWIW, many butane soldering irons often come with a deflector so you can use them for heat shrink tubing/etc.
@@KeithOlson I have many soldering irons/stations but I use the TS101 the most. It's even possible to use it with a power bank but I never used it that way. Mostly I use one of the desk power supplies to power it. I made a silicone cable for it and I easliy power it on the bench. I made a very long cable for the heat gun and I use it for so many things. Forexample it is also great for removing labels, even from cardboard boxes.
Unbelievable. I'd want to buy one of these in a heartbeat. So well done!
The force it ejects the floppy at 46:14
it was a dos floppy, it will tollerate it, but it doesn't like 'em
@@Davide0033 LOL 🤣
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your Super Thanks! I truly appreciate your generosity and support-it means a lot to me. 🙏
Stupendous.
Since seeing those early Frog designs in the Apple Industrial 'hand'book (reader: it's quite a tome) I was enamoured of them.
This is simply wonderful.
It would be completely useless for most people, BUT this is one of the coolest DIY projects I’ve seen on TH-cam! Especially the fact that it actually works, and was designed with usability and quality of life features in mind (stylus support, SD slot), making it actually a viable machine, and a capable one. Stunning.
This turned out so well, wow! I've been tinkering with electronics and 3D printing as a hobby for years, and it was truly humbling to see how much skill and passion went into making this project. I know, magic of editing, but the level of detail on the parts like the mounting plates is amazing. Personally, I would have had to print many, many iterations of the plates to get the mounting points all lined up correctly. Subbed, can't wait to see what other videos are on your channel!
It just works… like magic! That is the wildest thing I’ve seen. I used to look at these designs in magazines and just wish for the future where devices like this would somehow be possible. The fact that you can now make it yourself is just incredibly mind blowing. And the flex of actually making it and not just slotting in an iPad with a skin… with real Mac OS 7… and Photoshop… and making a poster… Steve would have been proud. Well done and thanks for sharing it with us.
Vintage Apple project of the YEAR!
That was truly amazing. For some years now I was in interested in 3d printing and making stuff at home and purchased a resin and filament printer to print the odd figurine, broken part and so on. But this is something completely different. No not only just "repair" or "restore" but recreate totally from scratch is a new tier of awesome. Immediately subscribed.
Wow, this is like something from an alternative timeline. I am impressed by all the work you put into that.
46:19
Epic diskette ejection. 💪🏻
This is soooo MacIntosh. 😃
Awesome
Crazy work, looks fantastic! Kudos to your craftsmanship and to Hartmut's fantastic design!
Everything was perfect about this project. Oh, especially the sounds of this elegant beast of a computer are magical. Thank you for sharing the process of your bringing this retro-futuristic beauty to life with us.
Pretty amazing. Great Job!
Thanks a lot!
This is a love letter to all of us who appreciate the 70's/80's tech !
I would love to see a collaboration between you and Polymatt who does some beautiful 3D printed restorations of old ThinkPads! You are my heroes in 3D design and printing.
Maravilloso 😍
I love the amount of creativity and possibilities 3Dprinting has unlocked, this project is so amazing
This is so impressive! It’s not a mock up about how it could be, it’s a fully working prototype and that’s so amazing. The easiest thing would be make a full custom PCB to connect the raspberry pi and couple other components, but you decided making it by the hard way, fitting all those components in that small space, design which place could be better for each one, then connecting to each other with that jungle of wires, that the hard way, that how it would be done at time to have a working prototype after the production stage, and it’s so incredible bring to life a device that could change the history at its time, but definitely it made it several years later in the shape of another most modern device with the same idea behind. Once I’ve heard that apple never discard an idea at all, they just develop it in a different way at the correct time.
I really got a chuckle out of the FlatMac and the way it YEETS floppies out when they're ejected. I had a friend back in the day that modded his early Mac's floppy drive with a stronger spring so it would to EXACTLY that and scare his mom. We classic nerds would go to any length for a good prank!!
This is an impressive combination of off the shelf hardware, customized hardware, custom hardware, and software. I've done smaller projects with similar techniques, and I believe I could probably accomplish about half of what you did here with my current knowledge, skills, and tools. Your video is inspirational, and it makes me want to try and make something bigger than I've ever successfully attempted before. Thank you so much for sharing your process!
Absolutely amazing work, congratulations! Those old floppy eject mechanisms are so satisfying.
When I worked in the SF office of frog design we had this model sitting in our foyer, always one of my favorites. So cool you built a working one (ours was just non-functioning, made out of high density polyurethane foam).
Thank you so much! WOW that’s so cool! I which I could have seen the original model! :-)
This isn’t building, this is miracleing! WOW! Your ability and brilliance are at a divine level.
2:15 i am so jealous of how smooth your layer transitions are in your 3d prints. You got those settings DIALLED IN. That is attention to detail. 🫡
I was already completely blown away, and THEN you busted out the mavica 😆 bravo sir!
You my dude are a machine!!!!!!!! Honestly the coolest diy project i have seen this year!
U deserve so much more attention
Thank You so much🙏🏻 !!!
An amazing build! Also, I find the photoshop workflow (using the disk based camera) very appealing. You have really nailed it!
most underrated channel ive seen. I know you are gonna blow up in a matter of time.
Thanks so much! Your support means a lot. let's make it happen! 😃🎉
Phenomenal work. There's so much effort that goes into the things not shown on this video. Congrats!
I like to think I’m patient, then I watch something like this. Outstanding!
Amazing. Completely amazing. The ultra-fine attention to detail, the precision of those details, and the sheer number of details is so beyond any reasonable expectation. It’s unreal that you manufactured this by hand.
MOOF! Holy dog cow that's an amazing build!
Clarus, is that you?
This has got to be the coolest retro design I have ever seen brought to life. Your attention to detail is god like.
I...don't have words! This is genuinely the most staggeringly amazing homebuilt machine I've ever seen - the attention to detail is beyond anything I've seen before. You just brought a new Apple product into the world!
This is mindblowing - creativity, skill, craftsmanship. I guess it's testament to the skill of the builder that everything just worked the first time too.
That’s again a Master class bro ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻 keep up the great work and waiting now for the next one
Thanks Bro! ❤️
You just built a museum piece. What a thing of beauty!
Wow! I'm not a Mac lover, but even I have to admit, this is cool as all hell. I wonder if someone could create an actual 68K motherboard for this. Imagine that, this cool case with true period like hardware.
Then we'd need someone to manufacture the chips, the firmware, *new* floppy drives...
It should be doable: there are a couple of new hobbyist M68K board designs already, though apparently it's much harder to build an M68K system than an equivalent Z80 or 6502 machine. Interfacing with the video screen and the various ports might be the hardest part.
Thanks
No, thank you!!🎉
The only negative is the fan noise.
And for what you created, I think the fan noise is charming.
Bonus points for the Mavica!
MacBook 12" logic board could fix that
What a beautiful build.
I'd love to see you try and recreate other Apple products that never made it out of the concept stage
It looks amazing
I started losing it with the microwave sounds. Very fun watch!
Bless you for actually taking the time to sand and polish your 3D printing! I hate the rough ugly layers that most people ignore
This is one of the coolest things I have seen. You are an artist. Way to go.
There are geniuses and there is this guy that basically earns Steve Woz friendship card.
one much respect such a dedication, patience and passion to bring something alive and working. The effort is priceless. The challenges are real.
This is SO cool. What an awesome project and so well executed. 👏
@polymatt I thought of your builds when watching this video, nice that you've seen it!
@@ianpolpototally! I’ve been a fan since I saw the mouse build. Such cool stuff.
Thank you so much! I’m a huge fan of you and your content as well. You’re truly the king of retro restorations!
@@KevinNoki that’s super kind of you man. Keep up the awesome work!
I am astounded at the effort and precision put into this project - utterly fantastic
so this guy can do things that should take at least 3 professionals in completely different field.
This is an absolute work of art. There should be a copy of this in a museum.
This is one of the best recreations i have ever seen! I assumed you just would use an iPad in a custom case, but you made a EXACT replica! Amazing work! 👍
the most impressive part for me as an artist was actually creating the poster on the thing at the end! the technical bits were impressive as well but i could see myself trying to do that bit at the end and failing 😹 very, very cool project. thanks for sharing!
You brought to life a great great grandparent of 2024 technology, and you allowed us to witness each stage. Heck even just the keyboard blew me away.
I hope key individuals in Apple then and now see this and connect with you .. seeing you utilise the floppy disk for installing & creating a poster was just 🤌, I could have cried as it made me so happy lol
Dude, my sincere congratulations. I had exactly the same idea a few years ago, but I didn't have a 3D printer, and I was afraid of the costs I would have to do it, but overall, you did exactly as I imagined you would do. I am deeply proud of you, for having done this project with such care and excellence.
If I may make a suggestion, I would recommend that you make the other sketches real, and then sell the entire collection at an art auction. The unique collection is certainly worth a few thousand dollars, collectors from all over the world would give their own mother to have something like this in their collection.
Thank you so much for the kind words! However, it's not my design, and I don’t hold the copyrights, so this project was entirely for personal use. I really appreciate your support and enthusiasm!
Awesome! All the different skills needed for this, all the details!❤
This is a tribute to the Apple of the past ! When Apple was still magical. This guy deserves to be properly rewarded by Apple ! What a brilliant job !
This is honestly astonishing!! Well done!! The 30s montage of CAD design must have taken weeks! The dedication is amazing!!
Amazing! Keep up the cool work. Would love to see some other retro Mac concepts come to life.
Thank you!!! More to come! 😊
This flabbered my gast! I am not a tech guy, but am so happy to see the visions of yesteryear be created today.
The best way to preserve history, whether it's a prototype, or production models, samples etc is to make it yourself, whether we had a functioning model or not. The most we can do to bulster our creativity in our respective hobbies means we must take on labors of love, which you showed me in this video.
I am very impressed! Great video!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Hot damn! Your use of everything from craftsmanship to coding is just sublime! And the hand in the photo even shows you got a girlfriend.
Hats off to you my man! 🎉
Thank you so much! Haha, yes, and she’s incredibly supportive with all these projects :-) Cheers! 🎉
Just WOW. Awsome job. A blessing to see it come alive.
Das ist mega! war das ursprüngliche von Apple ein touchscreen?
Danke dir! Ja, das Designkonzept sah ursprünglich einen Touchscreen vor, aber damals waren diese noch extrem teuer und konnten qualitativ nicht mit dem Standard mithalten, den wir heute gewohnt sind. :-)
This is legitimately incredible. I particularly love that you created the poster on it, showing how it might have been used in the era. A real love letter to classic Apple design. Awesome job!
Went to buy the book... cheapest I could find was $200 😭
Edit: For anybody interested there is a pdf of it floating around. I recommend reading it, you will not believe how far ahead of their time some of these concepts were.
such a shame its hard to get ahold of. as a major vintage apple nerd i'd love to have a copy too, but that price tag makes it hard.
Wow, simply beautiful work and a fantastic final product. Your attention to detail is incredible.
Still my favorite computer design language of all time. Thank you so much for sharing this project!
I just realized if there are heated 3d platforms to make them stick, there should be a way to cool them to release them. And a button that applies gentle flex vibration.
The all new, lightweight and groundbreaking iPad Flat! Coming in at a mere 34lbs! LOL!
Amazing work! As a hobbyist that likes to begin with CAD, work through programming and hardware, and end with a finished product completely by myself as well, I am very envious of how incredible everything is. Amazing work!