{"slug": "i-built-a-pint-sized-macintosh", "title": "I built a pint-sized Macintosh", "summary": "A user assembled a miniature Macintosh using a Raspberry Pi Pico running Matt Evans' Pico Micro Mac firmware. The build outputs to a 640x480 VGA display at 60 Hz and supports a USB keyboard and mouse. Despite the Pico's limited RAM, the setup provides 208 KB of memory, which is 63% more than the original 128K Macintosh.", "body_md": "To kick off MARCHintosh, I built this tiny pint-sized Macintosh with a Raspberry Pi Pico:\nThis is not my own doing—I just assembled the parts to run Matt Evans' Pico Micro Mac firmware on a Raspberry Pi Pico (with an RP2040).\nThe version I built outputs to a 640x480 VGA display at 60 Hz, and allows you to plug in a USB keyboard and mouse.\nSince the original Pico's RAM is fairly constrained, you get a maximum of 208 KB of RAM with this setup—which is 63% more RAM than you got on the original '128K' Macintosh!", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-a-pint-sized-macintosh", "canonical_source": "https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/pint-sized-macintosh-pico-micro-mac/", "published_at": "2026-03-02 21:15:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-22 21:41:27.025949+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["hardware"], "entities": ["Raspberry Pi Pico", "Matt Evans", "Pico Micro Mac", "RP2040", "Macintosh"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-a-pint-sized-macintosh", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-a-pint-sized-macintosh.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-a-pint-sized-macintosh.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-a-pint-sized-macintosh.jsonld"}}