As directed by Patreon members, I've started working on a 1:6 scale NeXTcube. My general plan is to model the cube, the keyboard, the mouse, the MegaPixel Display, and the laser printer and sell it as a tiny workstation. I'm also researching the Connection Machine 2 and thinking about whether it needs peripherals like a terminal. Both machines have been modeled before so I feel the need to go the extra mile and contribute something new. #retrocomputers#miniatures#NeXTcube#FreeCAD
The main shapes of the MegaPixel display are roughed out and I've ordered a small TFT that I hope will nicely fit inside. I'm tempted to also fit the microcontroller board inside the display case (where the tube would be on the originals) because a cable from the cube with enough lines to drive the TFT would be much thicker than a correctly scaled original cable. I suppose that I could use a microcontroller in each and send image data via BLE 😸. #retrocomputer#miniature#NeXTcube
The yellow jersey is in a bit of trouble on this very hilly stage of the Tour de France, but the crowd of admirers came in large numbers to the sides of the road.
What's more luggable than the original, easier to explain to the TSA, and as cute as a button? Yep, it's these 1:6 scale Osborne One miniatures that just landed in my shop! 🎉 Back in the day I spent a fair amount of time on a full size O1 figuring out how to load and unload data from floppies and though I don't miss the tiny screen I do kind of miss the springy coiled cable. #retrocomputing#miniature#restock#osborne https://store.transmutable.com/l/mo1
I‘m an environmental #physicist by training, but after three years of parental leave I started a new job as a consulting software #developer. I work(ed) with a lot of different technologies: #swiftlang, #java, #csharp, #cplusplus, #angular, #perl, … My preferred computing platform is the #Mac.
I have a couple of open source TRS-80 emulators (sdltrs and xtrs) running on Fedora. They're written in C but they each have dependencies that scare me away from attempting to port them to a microcontroller board. I wonder if there's a wee board that runs enough of a linux distro to make it easy and that can fit inside the tiny TRS-80 case.
The space I have in the current case can fit a 60mm by 40mm board but if it's a little more than that I can probably make a bit more room by removing the rear parts of pockets where the floppies and display are fit. #trs80#miniature#retrocomputing
Reminder: the USCSS Nostromo, which lands on LV-426, is a massive tug, and yet this ship is tiny compared to the huge refinery it pulls through space. #alien#scifi#horror#model#miniature#spaceship
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