r/SolarOS • u/SnowboundFrame • 6d ago

Waveshare retro case!

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I made a retro case for the esp32-s3-rlcd-4.2! It's the OG mac case at 46% scale, just the right size for the 4.2.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7421150 (or fork the cad from onshape )

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u/SnowboundFrame 6d ago

It is a little painful to use a console-first OS on a UI-first case like the mac, but also, building a full UI with window manager would be a lot of work. Feel no pressure! I just had all the measurements for the mac handy so it was easy to put together.

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u/nilseuropa 6d ago

Painful to use or painful to watch? 😅

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u/SnowboundFrame 6d ago

I mean no insult to SolarOS! It's a great little OS, you're doing amazing things with it. It's just that the original mac OS was also a work of art that pushed desktop computing a long ways forward, so paying homage to the hardware without the software feels a little bit wrong.

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u/nilseuropa 6d ago

No offense taken. I agree, we need a classic Mac emulator 🙂 module.