Pico Micro Mac - Quick Start

*Thanks to PCBWay for sponsoring this video!*

In this video I finally get around to playing with the Micro Pico Mac board that @RonsCompVids created earlier this summer. This board when combined with a Raspberry Pi Pico will turn into a small and tidy classic mac emulator. This is all made possible by the software that has been released but Matt Evans (Thanks Matt!).

We don't get deep into the weeds here. I am trying to show you how you can get this up and going and playing with it in the simplest manner possible. Hope you all like it!

If you think you may want one of these head on over to Joe's Computer museum and he'll get one on the way to you!

Thanks for making this available to the community Ron!

*Resources:*
Ron's Video announcing the project

Ron's Kansasfest 2024 Pico Micro Mac Presentation

If you missed it above the link to buy one

Eric's/BlueScsi's Pico Micro Mac Tool Page

Matt Evans Github page for the software project that powers all of this.

OTG Cable I'm using

As I always say, if you've not already, go check out my awesome neighbor-in-retro, @retroCombs ! He's got good stuff!

If you have actually read this far down and would like a HackShack sticker, figure out a way to get in touch with me and I'll see what I can do to get one to you! :-D

00:00 Intro
02:53 PCBWay Spot
03:32 Solder time!
04:54 Snagging .uf2 file
06:05 Installing .uf2 on Pico
07:05 OTG Adapter
07:48 It's Alive!
09:32 Summary
10:06 See Ya!

[EricsEdgeVideos]

Nice review and instructions. This community is the best!

The development of a Plus version is underway. I can’t wait to dive into that one when released!

[GarthBeagle]

It's such a fun project, can't wait to see how it evolves!

[BigBadBench]

Such a fun project 😎thanks for the run down on how to get started!

[RudysRetroIntel]

Excellent project and video! Well done! Looking at getting mine together soon. Thanks for sharing

[viJ]

Very cool. That V2 form-factor looks like it would fit well if stood up vertically in a 3d printed micro-mac case!

[RockyBMusic]

would be nice to see on a Pico2 with more RAM 😍😍

[_kevlar]

I loaded the demo disk in mini vmac, transferred Mac Draw onto it, and then used the compiler on the site to make a new disk image. Paint requires being able to write to disk but MacDraw works!

[BitFeverDreams]

neat stuff. does the emulator offer to throttle speed up and down yet?

[ronaldhudson]

What would be cool, what if you could hook up a floppy emu to this guy?

[retroCombs]

Wonder if he'll have this available at VCF-MW?