I Built Apple’s 1980s iPad Concept!

[@PCBWay]

That's SOMETHING! We are honored to be a PART!🥳

[@werehyenataur]

then make more. also cater to people without money

[@joeblow229]

@@werehyenataur PCBWay sponsors a TON of creators, even relatively small channels like this one. If you've ever actually designed and ordered a PCB, it's really, really cheap, you just usually need a minimum order of a few boards (like, less than $20).

[@joeblow229]

Thanks for sponsoring so many creators on KZbin! I still mostly just use proto-boards, but when I want to print a custom PCB, I'll definitely come to you guys.

[@barnett25]

@@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 KZbin in quite a long time. Thank you PCBWay for helping make this awesome project happen!

[@KevinNoki]

Thank you for your support!!! PCBWay🚀

[@Kyle-xv5kv]

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.

[@danb91]

From the floppy drive, to the keycaps, to the startup chime, this is executed flawlessly. Well done!

[@Juggernautiluss]

Holy crap! I can already imagine this being shared across all corners of the vintage mac community!

[@ximono]

*rounded corners

[@EyemachineStudios]

​@@ximono get a job

[@foxcar29]

THE BEST DIY and tecnological apple recreation product since 20 year of watching youtube video.....great and awesome job

[@honestabe3100]

Totally agree

[@DannyHustle]

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. 🙏

[@KevinNoki]

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!

[@swolfington]

the project itself is cool as hell, but the absolute craftsmanship on display is top tier. seeing the whole thing come together was inspiring.

[@xereeto]

You executed this FLAWLESSLY. I can't believe this has so few views - I bet it won't be long before that changes.

[@thinksinksyncnyc]

The Macintosh logo is crooked but otherwise I agree!

[@xereeto]

@@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!

[@Foodgeek]

That is a crazy amount of work. Well done! I hope this video goes totally viral 😁

[@ryan-zv6xp]

Fantastic job. Nice touch of the floppy drive

[@KevinNoki]

Thank you!!!🙏🏻

[@GundamGokuTV]

The Floppy Drive ejecting the floppies like a gun was fun. lol

[@erinwiebe7026]

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!

[@grant-is]

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!

[@terribleart6269]

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!

[@kobs9636]

would be really cool. with ipad mini 6. for artists and hobbyists.

[@0hN0es203]

A snap-in ipad or mini keyboard case in this style would be an instant buy for me.

[@stefankachaunov396]

I'm a former student of Hartmut, I'll try to get him to see this at the next class meeting! ⭐

[@danielktdoranie]

Nothing short of amazing

[@KevinNoki]

Thank you so much 🙏🏻

[@lerkomsmartgf3992]

😡😡😡😡😡

[@KeithOlson]

@@KevinNoki You should just causually walk into an Apple store/vintage computer show/etc. and start using it without explaining anything about it. :rofl:

[@PierreNick]

Design, 3D printing, electronics, custom mechanical keyboard, the way everything is packed neatly, the workflow at the end. This is *insane* perfect work. 😮‍💨

[@SpaciousGreen]

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.

[@ximono]

Impressive! What a piece of art. Just a small correction: The initial vision for what became the iPad was Alan Kay's Dynabook from 1968. Alan Kay joined Apple in 1984, and has later commented that "Steve Jobs was very taken by the Dynabook idea, and wanted to do one when I joined him at Apple in 1984."

[@GeeksWorkbench]

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.

[@pepperstmm]

It woulda been perfect in For All Mankind when they were in the 90s

[@GeeksWorkbench]

@@pepperstmm this!!

[@KevinNoki]

Thank you so much Cihan 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@emagiannu]

You use the same amount of glue that Apple uses. 10/10

[@RicardoRamosRetrocomputacao]

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.

[@agent11co90]

most underrated channel ive seen. I know you are gonna blow up in a matter of time.

[@Mr_ToR]

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]

FWIW, many butane soldering irons often come with a deflector so you can use them for heat shrink tubing/etc.

[@Mr_ToR]

@@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.

[@cla3d]

Pretty amazing. Great Job!

[@KevinNoki]

Thanks a lot!

[@joeblow229]

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!

[@TheBasementChannel]

I like to think I’m patient, then I watch something like this. Outstanding!

[@basicstype994]

This is so iconic and amazing! If it were for sale, many people would like to buy it.

[@albertkinng]

There are geniuses and there is this guy that basically earns Steve Woz friendship card.

[@kilobytecache6192]

Everything from the keyboard to the magnets holding on the panel just screams apple, i love this so much. It has so much character!

[@JamesGarry]

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.

[@maroernst]

Wow, this is like something from an alternative timeline. I am impressed by all the work you put into that.

[@ShamblerBowler]

The force it ejects the floppy at 46:14

[@Davide0033]

it was a dos floppy, it will tollerate it, but it doesn't like 'em

[@DOTTOTW]

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! 🎉

[@abirrudra5463]

That’s again a Master class bro ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻 keep up the great work and waiting now for the next one

[@KevinNoki]

Thanks Bro! ❤️ Party is coming soon 😂

[@jonjimihendrix]

Love the unceremonious yeeting of the disk from the drive. Go on, git, dang floppy! Brilliant project, brilliant execution.

[@DamonLaw-w7w]

MOOF! Holy dog cow that's an amazing build!

[@acquacow]

Clarus, is that you?

[@pcdoodle1]

I started losing it with the microwave sounds. Very fun watch!

[@HOUSEWARMING]

Crazy work, looks fantastic! Kudos to your craftsmanship and to Hartmut's fantastic design!

[@two76s]

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.

[@CaffeineLoaded]

Vintage Apple project of the YEAR!

[@MrVectrexUK]

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!

[@themindofamadman2024]

I honestly never saw you before this, but I watched the whole video and as a person who loves 3D printing and electronics. This won my subscription. Anyone who would go through all this for a video wins my support for more. Great job. I'll like and share. Great Work. I wouldn't image this costing more that say 500 but labor 1k plus lol.

[@macmaccourt]

Awesome work, Kevin Noki!!

[@caddyzig]

This is absolutely INCREDIBLE! Nice job. Imagine the designers of the 80s and 90s having the technologies you were able to use putting this together.

[@GundamGokuTV]

FINALLY! Someone finally took the time to properly Sandpaper a build. I see so many 3D Printed projects where people straight don't use sandpaper to make it look good.

[@G_Fresh_UK]

100% best video I've seen this year.

[@Aldo.flores]

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.

[@TheSektorz]

really, really cool, awesome job making this it belongs in retro-futuristic sci-fi movies, this design, it's that beautiful

[@ssenssel]

Bravo, Sir! Very few times in my life I've been this impressed with a (re)creation of something. This deserves many more views and the channel at least 50x more subs. 👏👏👏

[@steveking4878]

Absolutely amazing. I do electronics design, CAD, and a ton of 3D printing… and I’d just like to say, that is a work of art!

[@charliebrownn6622]

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 😍

[@superstarichiban]

Extremely impressive work, and thoroughly documented.

[@AkAMuzik]

Wooooow... this is brilliant !

[@edeepieie]

Wow! Didn't think this would be possible, the touchscreen the floppy drive and lots more. Love the advertisement you made at the end! Great work.

[@bencorrell]

That's crazy that Hartmut Esslinger gave you his blessing to create this. What an honor!

[@Puma_UY]

This is the coolest thing I've seen on YT. Kevin you're awesome. Thank You!

[@alpainac]

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.

[@rragle]

This has got to be the coolest retro design I have ever seen brought to life. Your attention to detail is god like.

[@TipsterLIVE]

This is AMAZING!!!

[@mrt1r]

This is by far the most well executed home brew project I have ever seen! It is an instant subscribe for me, I can't wait to see what you bring us in the future.

[@benkelly1639]

Don't normally comment on youtube. Only halfway through this video and WOW the amount of time and care that went into this project is INSANE! LOVE IT! Subscribed.

[@northMOFN]

I don't want to ever listen to that sanding sound again... but that is the most beautiful computer ever made. It's as if the Apple //c I had as a kid had grown up with me. Spectacular work.

[@Hans-gb4mv]

And to think that only a decade ago, designing and building something like this as a hobbyist would have been near impossible. This is just amazing.

[@moncef0147]

Dude, this is one of the coolest things i've seen in a long while. Congratulations, this project is amazing.

[@EriolGaurhoth]

Your build videos make me so happy. Amazing work, as always!

[@DavstrWrexham]

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.

[@Leofwine]

Then we'd need someone to manufacture the chips, the firmware, *new* floppy drives...

[@leocomerford]

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.

[@joshuaa.c.newman7430]

Brilliant! One of Esslinger’s most beautiful designs (ergonomics of the screen being nearly parallel to the table, aside)!amazing implementation!

[@xmetal280]

Everything about this is exceptional! WOW, what a great project. I am particularly impressed with your modeling and 3D printing skills, all those tolerances and snap fit parts is seriously impressive. Beautiful result, thank you for sharing this.

[@cyb3rf0xx]

This is... INSANELY GREAT!

[@inedex]

The keyboard alone is a masterpiece. The entire device built from scratch is just mind-blowing.

[@vini021xbox]

Dude, please keep your channel going at all costs. I absolutely love your projects!

[@felixman9691]

OMG I’m only a few minutes in and gotta watch the rest after work today, just gotta say congrats on being given permission and information from Hartmut. That must feel incredible.

[@synniestar]

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!

[@MegaEyeTV]

The amount of work was incredible. As an old Mac user I loved it. You are pretty smart.

[@Davide0033]

this is the most in-depth diy mac i've ever seen, everything is great and elegant (the pert that i liked less was literally the magned to hold the basel, literally nothing). i hope to see more of this, maybe we'll get the files to print it ourself

[@senatorlainez]

This is one of the most brilliant builds/videos I have ever seen. Wow!

[@iamyianni]

Jony Ive hire this guy

[@calanm7880]

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

[@bombombalu]

Another insane project! Congrats!

[@lonnygallant827]

Absolutely amazing! I am a fan now! Keep up the great work!

[@sebr6460]

I'm not jealous, I swear But seriously, this is probably THE greatest DIY project I've ever seen, not to mention the cool factor of seeing a FrogDesign prototype brought to life. Kudos to you, I can't wait to see whatever you decide to work on next.

[@alextirrellRI]

This is outstanding. You made it absolutely real and fully functional.

[@paulhancock7670]

That are ossum. Thanks for THE best project on youtube. I now want one.

[@aldrickpeter]

damn, i thought bro was gonna make a case and put an ipad in it. bro went above and beyond. excellent craftsmanship and dedication

[@chrispybee]

Outstanding 👏🏻👏🏻 Honestly, my heads just exploded at the ultimate creation!!

[@ashtonsretrocomputerroom]

How cool is that!!! Well done sir 👏

[@jackalski]

Simply amazing. Incredible work. Flawless execution.I don't know how many iterations you must have gone thru, but you made it look so easy. Everything fits so perfectly. I envy your skill. Can't wait for another video. At a rate you publish… in a year… but it will be worth it for sure!

[@cobra6114]

So friggin cool! Great work Kevin.

[@sosaysthecaptain5580]

You are a tremendously positive influence on the aesthetics of my assorted projects.

[@Smokkedandslammed]

I just bought my nephew the A1 combo for Christmas...I didn't realize how nice that thing is holy crap lol Nephew is going to BALLIN out lol

[@DaliwolfBacon]

This is so incredibly cool! The geek in me is celebrating your build :)

[@zenazure]

I love how it violently kicks the floppy out. it also kinda sounds like a dot matrix printer. good vibes all around.

[@kgargati]

When the word design had a great meaning, nice work.

[@malibugrove]

I held my breath when you were adding the final bezel decals. Fantastic work and video. Thanks Kevin.

[@Keegerator]

This is incredible, it seems so fun to work on!!

[@NickLetsom]

Absolutely unreal next-level amazing. I'm totally blown away, I love this project

[@johnathanstevens8436]

That's really amazing, I don't think a production house could have done much better for a one off prototype. Congratulations. Glad to see another project using the teensy ADB converter.

[@danielrendon7625]

Das ist mega! war das ursprüngliche von Apple ein touchscreen?

[@KevinNoki]

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. :-)

[@williammitchem8274]

Again, fantastic work. Wow.😊

[@lunastorta33]

it's unbelievable that a single person could have such amount of different skill, and execute an idea in the best way possibile. Hat down. You deserve a lot.