{"id":9027,"date":"2017-08-31T07:45:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T15:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/news-2800\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T07:45:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T15:45:39","slug":"news-2800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/news-2800\/","title":{"rendered":"These Miniature Apple Computer Replicas Are Cute as Heck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59a720b3d4b7ad15bbcef40f\/lede\/1504125848171-Screen-Shot-2017-08-30-at-43741-PM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Samantha  Cole| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:07:40 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Early Macintosh computers were a lot of things\u2014heavy, boxy, the color of your grandparents&#8217; fridge\u2014but they weren&#8217;t exactly &#8220;cute.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/retroconnector.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">These tiny 3D-printed replicas<\/a> by Charles Mangin, however, are dang adorable.<\/p>\n<p> Mangin made his first 3D model in 2013: A classic Macintosh. &#8220;I was trying to learn the software and process of modeling so I could try my hand at 3D printing,&#8221; he told me in an email. &#8220;I chose a Mac Plus to recreate, since I had been collecting and hacking on vintage Macs for several years up to that point. Since then, I&#8217;ve done a few non-Apple miniatures and Raspberry Pi cases as custom orders, but the source for my models come primarily from my own collection, which consists of Apple hardware of various eras.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div data-iframely-id=\"BOJ2nXF\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.2493%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Uninterested in making another plastic tchotchke to sit on a shelf, Mangin turned that model into a dock for the square sixth-generation iPod Nano. &#8220;It was a perfect fit for the screen of the tiny Mac, for displaying album art while playing music or a clock for bedside viewing.&#8221; When the Apple Watch came out, he modified it to fit the watch and its charger dimensions.<\/p>\n<div data-iframely-id=\"kcoxm9m\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.2493%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> The Apple Watch dock was his most popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:1216409\" target=\"_blank\">design download on Thingiverse<\/a>, as well as his best-selling item on Etsy\u2014recently, however, Etsy pulled this item from his shop. He said he&#8217;s currently trying to convince Etsy that other, similar models, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elagostore.com\/stand\/w-stand\/est-wt3-wh.html\" target=\"_blank\">this one from Elago<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alibaba.com\/product-detail\/Supper-Mini-Support-Rubber-Charging-Dock_60690197496.html\" target=\"_blank\">this from Alibaba<\/a>, are copies of his creation, and not the other way around. If Elago copies his design, he said he&#8217;s fine with that\u2014his design is licensed under Creative Commons\u2014the company should add attribution when sharing their own model. Etsy did not immediately respond to Motherboard&#8217;s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p> He&#8217;s still working on retro computer and peripheral replicas: Next on his list of to-create models are a phone care based on the Newton MessagePad, possibly for the next iPhone. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/a33qna\/these-miniature-mac-replicas-are-cute-as-heck\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59a720b3d4b7ad15bbcef40f\/lede\/1504125848171-Screen-Shot-2017-08-30-at-43741-PM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Samantha  Cole| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:07:40 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A home for your Apple Watch, inside a two-inch Mac Classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10643,13328,10378],"tags":[14305,14304,10454,14306],"class_list":["post-9027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent","category-motherboard","category-security","tag-apple-watch","tag-computer","tag-mac","tag-mini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}