It is clear the virtues that one can give you Raspberry Pi and a printer 3D, but none of them are going to beat this user by making their own Apple III. Built with real drawings and a 3D printer, you get almost an identical Apple computer, only smaller. The Apple III made its debut in May 1980 with a processor 2MHz Synertek, and 128 KB RAM. Its launch was plagued with stability issues which meant that more than 14.000 units had to be withdrawn from the market, and only four years later the computer was taken off the market.
Apple sold fewer than 75.000 units during that time, so it is very difficult to find an Apple III these days they are priced quite well on ebay and are very difficult to find. But if you were one of the lucky ones who had one and you have fond memories of the computer, you can build one amazing miniature replica where it will house the Raspberry Pi.
Charles mangin He shows us how he does it in the YouTube video that we have left above. Start by drawing pieces in iDraw, then do the 3D models in Autodesk 123D, to later send the model to a 3D printer to be created before the painting, and the finishing touches.
Have all the tools and knowledge to be able to develop this Apple III, the vast majority get out of hand. But any geek like me, and a computer engineer, would be cool to do this geek. Logically fans prefer the original computer and if we already ordered in its original box hahaha.
Source | Charles mangin