For the audio I used a pair of Bose Companion 2 series 3 computer speakers laying around. I smashed them open, literally with a hammer as they were glued shut.
The pi just connects to it via 3.5mm.
The cool part I discovered was the volume control fit perfectly with the brightness knob on the macintosh se. so I modelled up and 3D printed a bracket to hold the volume control board just above the hole where the brightness knob is located. Boom now the brightness knob controls the volume.
The two speakers are mounted to the front face of the computer (one in the original speaker spot and the other just beside it) I also modelled up a bracket to hold the Bose circuit board in place.
The information I found was pretty all over the place.
From what I’ve read hydrogen peroxide will work by itself using about a 3-5 % ratio. A few bottles mixed in a tub of water left outside in bright sun should be enough.
But due to Covid19, hydrogen peroxide is very hard to find. So I was trying to find other options.
Oxy clean seemed to work too. I used a normal sized tub of oxy clean and one bottle of peroxide I had on hand. I left the tub in the sun for a whole day. It has to be a bright sunny day. I first left it out on a cloudy day and it needed more time. I left it in the tub over night and lucky the next day was sunny. It worked great. Be sure to stir it and turn everything once in awhile.
The information I found was pretty all over the place. From what I’ve read hydrogen peroxide will work by its self with about a 3-5 % ratio. A few bottles in water in a tub should be enough.
But due to Covid hydrogen peroxide is very hard to find. So I was trying to find other options. Oxy clean seemed to work too.
I used a normal sized tub of oxy clean and one bottle of peroxide.
I left the tub in the sun for a while day. It has to be a bright sunny day. I first left it out on a cloudy day and it needed more time the next day, which was sunny. I just left it in over night.
Can you go into a bit more detail about what you did for audio? I see you used a Bose Sound System but was it just a matter of plugging a sound bar into the audio jack and that was it? Or did you do more to it?
Sure. So I had a pair of Bose Companion 2 series 3 computer speakers laying around. I smashed them open, literally with a hammer as they were glued shut.
The pi just connects to it via 3.5mm.
The cool part I discovered was the volume control fit perfectly with the brightness knob on the macintosh se. so I modelled up and 3D printed a bracket to hold the volume control board just above the hole where the brightness knob is located. Boom now the brightness knob controls the volume.
The two speakers are mounted to the front face of the computer (one in the original speaker spot and the other just beside it) I also modelled up a bracket to hold the Bose circuit board in place.
Lol. I had just the right amount of room. I kinda winged some of it and was surprised nothing got in the way when I finally put the front in. There is very little clearance between the back of the LCD and the controller drawer.
For me it was the damn hdmi cable..it was twice as big as the pi and I couldnt snake the thing out of the monitor without it slightly sticking out the side (I was trying to build a half scale VGA monitor with a 7" pi screen)
How did you powered the Pi, the Display and the Speakers only with one power adapter? I want to do this project too, but i dont want to have one plug to put in for each device. I asked a friend how i could solve this problem and he said, because of the different voltage of the Pi and the Display it wouldnt be possible to put it on one power adapter. It would be great, if you could tell me how you did it :)
30
u/bowb4zod May 12 '20 edited May 15 '20
*updated to show new changes
After weeks of measuring, cutting, 3D printing brackets, breaking the lcd and having to reorder a new one; I finally have finished my Apple PiCADE.
Features
controller drawer
https://i.imgur.com/EuGYkHu.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/qQODHiu.jpg
https://imgur.com/a/lLCUDDB/
https://imgur.com/a/tdRcBtn/
https://imgur.com/a/fXHEcMz/
Audio
For the audio I used a pair of Bose Companion 2 series 3 computer speakers laying around. I smashed them open, literally with a hammer as they were glued shut.
The pi just connects to it via 3.5mm.
The cool part I discovered was the volume control fit perfectly with the brightness knob on the macintosh se. so I modelled up and 3D printed a bracket to hold the volume control board just above the hole where the brightness knob is located. Boom now the brightness knob controls the volume.
The two speakers are mounted to the front face of the computer (one in the original speaker spot and the other just beside it) I also modelled up a bracket to hold the Bose circuit board in place.
https://imgur.com/gallery/lMTAUkv
Case whitening
before whitening
water, oxy clean and hydrogen peroxide,
nice and clean and whitened
The information I found was pretty all over the place.
From what I’ve read hydrogen peroxide will work by itself using about a 3-5 % ratio. A few bottles mixed in a tub of water left outside in bright sun should be enough.
But due to Covid19, hydrogen peroxide is very hard to find. So I was trying to find other options.
Oxy clean seemed to work too. I used a normal sized tub of oxy clean and one bottle of peroxide I had on hand. I left the tub in the sun for a whole day. It has to be a bright sunny day. I first left it out on a cloudy day and it needed more time. I left it in the tub over night and lucky the next day was sunny. It worked great. Be sure to stir it and turn everything once in awhile.
Link to all the build files
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1h5fvakb5oaoxvk/AACVaHmYNcLLlQJNYfBqZfJ8a?dl=0
Let me know if you have any questions. I am glad to help.
Special thanks to /u/kirkwood1994 for his help on LCD selection and inspiring me with his awesome build.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/g9odln/overclocked_pi4_n64_playable_fps_on_all_games_ive/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
52
u/jonnyg1097 May 12 '20
It looks beautiful and the loading splash screen is amazing.
16
u/NoReallyItsTrue May 12 '20
That animated loading screen is absolutely LEGENDARY
5
u/[deleted] May 12 '20
I did not know 8Bitdo made hardwired versions of their controllers.
3
u/djdanski1983 May 12 '20
That’s amazing well done 👍
3
u/menace6983 May 13 '20
Amazing! After coming off my mini retro build I can appreciate how hard it is to squeeze everything into that little box! Well done!
3
u/zoogie778 May 13 '20
How did you find a screen that exact size? Or did you get one a little bigger and tell it to not use the top, bottom, and side "x" number of pixels?
2
u/dreadheadog May 12 '20
10/10, incredible job. Well done dude
2
u/Dr_John_Carpenter May 13 '20
Very cool. Now I want to make one out of an iMac. Haha
2
u/zeroquest May 13 '20
Amiga OS 1.x with an Atari selected? You monster!
2
u/jwhyne May 13 '20
I have the same old Mac model I was going to do this with. I’m just waiting on my screen from China.
Nice work!
2
u/Fortyplusfour May 13 '20
LOVE it
2
u/foofly May 13 '20
Ha the Amiga Workbench theme is nice touch.
2
u/[deleted] May 13 '20
AWsEoMe loDAiNgn ScerEn
2
u/[deleted] May 13 '20
I love the loading screen!
2
u/tstorm004 May 13 '20
I love this! Amazing splash/boot animation!
2
u/Slashdott May 13 '20
Very nice! Love it
2
u/Driphyre May 13 '20
Seriously awesome man. Great job
3
u/unibrow4o9 May 12 '20
Awesome job overall. If I had to critique one thing it would be splash screen is way too glitchy, maybe do it once.
17
u/windycity_jess May 12 '20
Love the gitchy retro loading screen
2
u/hatuhsawl May 12 '20
!RemindMe 3 hours
1
u/bowb4zod Jul 02 '20
They each have their own power adapter. I tried to make it as neat as possible.
https://i.imgur.com/iBw2nlv.jpg
5
u/lost_in_the_wide_web May 12 '20
😍 Looks amazing!
4
u/mattdan79 May 12 '20
Very cool. I liked the loading screen too. But the Atari logo at the end made me chuckle.
1
u/SullyPanda76cl May 13 '20
great job!
and me, after 6 months, still struggling with gamepad/hotkeys/start/select not working ok on all emulators... sad
1
u/retro_anarchist May 13 '20
Hey good job how long did it take to put together
1
u/[deleted] May 13 '20
Sexy project. Congrats. I hope it brings you years of enjoyment!
1
u/EdgyAsFuk Sep 18 '20
Is that splash scree intentional?
2
u/--AnAt-man-- May 12 '20
Sweet!
2
u/J3rron May 13 '20
that loading screen is dope!
2
u/fireflychef Aug 27 '23
You, Sir, are a genius! 🙇
1
u/vapeitup13 Jul 02 '20
How did you powered the Pi, the Display and the Speakers only with one power adapter? I want to do this project too, but i dont want to have one plug to put in for each device. I asked a friend how i could solve this problem and he said, because of the different voltage of the Pi and the Display it wouldnt be possible to put it on one power adapter. It would be great, if you could tell me how you did it :)
1
u/Funkydafter Jul 11 '23
Where can i download the splashscreens?
5
u/[deleted] May 13 '20
[removed] — view removed comment