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$14 Mac clone made with a Raspberry Pi Pico

Sure, there are other microcontrollers that could run old operating systems even cheaper than the Pi, but only if your time is worthless.

Rob Beschizza
Nov 07, 2024
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Screenshot: Action Retro / YouTube

Action Retro set out to make the cheapest possible Apple Macintosh, and their offering is beautifully simple—and, at $14, pretty durned cheap. You'll need a Raspberry Pi Pico and some other bits and bobs to follow along.

Today, we're using the Pico Micro Mac project, along with a project from the endlessly cool ‪@RonsCom…

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