PROJECTS - Pico Micro Mac Adapter (

[@kirishima638]

I’ve just gotten into the Pico myself! Very cool project.

[@jip2877]

This is amazing. Once this project reaches a lvl where it can emulate a 512k with disk writing, and or even a Plus with 4MB (not sure about pico specs actually) this would be really cool.

[@ethandicks3]

Waiting for that JCM-1 link to go live!

[@jamesfmackenzie]

Count me in! Look forward to the link!!

[@RudysRetroIntel]

Looking forward to the kit, I have a special project for this. Thanks for sharing

[@EricsEdgeVideos]

Nice project. I look forward to more.

[@JamiesHackShack]

Nice work Ron! Im ready to try one of these kits out as soon as i can.

[@EverythingIsBrokenGarage]

Great project Ron!

[@BigBadBench]

You're getting fast with the PCB designs!

[@RonsCompVids]

Honestly it's thanks to the help of folks in our community that I'm able to do it at all. Being able to pull someone aside, show them a design, let them run a sanity check on it before sending it to manufacture has saved me countless times.

[@ronaldbaiter4230]

pretty cool dude!

[@davidkempton2894]

Nice one, Ron 👏

[@CityXen]

Not really a mac person, but that looks like a cool thing to get. I didn't realize those were that powerful

[@charliesretrocomputing]

The Picos are pretty slow but I'm pretty sure they're MUCH faster than A 6 MHz 68000 CPU. :D

[@RonsCompVids]

8mhz :)

[@1BitFeverDreams]

@@RonsCompVids 7.8338 MHz (Effectively 6 MHz).

[@MacEffects88]

Really cool!

[@KAPTKipper]

The PI Pico's I get have USB C them. The "Purple" PICO clones have 4MB and 16 MB Flash storage as well. Might be good for disk images.

[@RonsCompVids]

Very interesting!

[@nakfan]

Brilliant idea 👍 Immediately subscribed to your channel.. Btw I reckon it will work with the new Pico 2, right? All the best, Per (Denmark)

[@RonsCompVids]

Thank you for the sub! to my knowledge, the Pico2 has the pin out… so in theory, it should be a drop in replacement.

[@JoesComputerMuseum]

WOOT

[@tmsmottl]

Sweet! It'll be a nice backup option if my "cram a G4 Powerbook in a classic Mac Shell" project goes sideways. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@drgusman]

Pretty cool. Just an idea, add a USB hub and two USB A ports to the board and then it would be a ready to use solution :) There are some extremely cheap modules that could fit really well.

[@RonsCompVids]

If you have a module in mind, please share a link?

[@1BitFeverDreams]

@@RonsCompVids youtube doesn't allow link sharing but by carefully naming search terms...

[@drgusman]

@@RonsCompVids Is there any way to send it to you? KZbin deletes any comment that contains one.

[@unixbehr]

you should look at the pico-56 project. it includes a sd card and sound and keyboard

[@jimmoores7883]

How do you do 512k? Didn’t think the pico had the RAM for that?

[@RonsCompVids]

I was certain I had read that 512K was possible through a configuration change… but yes, the Pico does have a physical RAM limitation lower than that.

[@GarthBeagle]

Super cool!

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

Hey you have lots of nice Lads. And is that a Quadra 605 too?

[@noreply8390]

Hi, is there any uf2 file available?

[@RonsCompVids]

Right now, users have to compile their own... but I hear there are tools coming that simplify this.

[@noreply8390]

@@RonsCompVids i follow the instructions to compile but doesn't work on MacOS Sonoma, I will try on a Raspberry pi3 to see if it works. Thanks in advance

[@LeoDaddy]

got the suggested OTG hub but cannot get the keyboard or mouse to work. Any tricks to get it working ?

[@RonsCompVids]

Just to verify, it’s plugged directly into the Pi Pico, and not into the VGA board?

[@LeoDaddy]

@@RonsCompVids correct. I finally fixed it. I added power mod to the OTG hub and now everything works. I plugged the hub into the pico directly.

[@vro60]

I purchased one of those. I can't get video out. I have built pico-mac and also tried tool by bluescsi. Would someone be willing to share a working uf2 to try?

[@vro60]

Never mind, my issue was with a pico alternative with non-standard pinout. I have it running now! Thanks

[@RonsCompVids]

Yeah, this is definitely set up for the official pico. I will reach out to Joe and make sure that we add something to the sale page to note that. Thank you letting me know.

[@_kevlar3357]

MacPaint won't work, but MacDraw does, in case you just want to draw... 🙂

[@RonsCompVids]

It’s true. MacPaint requires the disk that it’s running from to be writeable.

[@davidpribyl5155]

OK, that is all? Where are the PSRAM and the SD card slot?

[@RonsCompVids]

Currently. The project is still in the early days. Hop over to the github project page, and see what you can do to assist with adding more features?

[@davidpribyl5155]

@@RonsCompVids Yes, I can and you?