NXTosh

If the title hasn't given it away yet, this is spoofing the classic Macintosh systems of the late 80s/ early 90s. A lot of it is programming, most of which is derived from mutliple nxtprograms.com projects including: Scribble Pad, Pitching Machine and Batter, Sound Meter, and Whack-A-Brick. It is set-up so it waits for a disk to be inserted (which is detected by the ultrasonic sensor) and then "loads" the OS. It runs a motor in the back with random degrees of movement 10 times to simulate a disk drive motor. The light sensor just simulates when the disk drive is in use. It has a touch sensor on the side to act as the "interrupt" key seen on the older Macs and I set it up to do what it does if you press it while it "boots up." Lastly, the sound sensor is used as a microphone for the sound meter program. I modified the Pitching Machine section to be used as a controller for the scribble pad as the program is sensitive. The startup sound and crash sound are those of actual Macintosh computers of that era. When done, just remove the disk and it "shuts off."

This is a crude version right now and my camera battery was dying so I didn't get footage of the scribble pad or additional video of the unit.

Here's a poll: What Macintosh startup/crash sound(s) do you want to see on the next version?

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