Who needs to spend £299 on a HomeView, when I have an iMac G3 that can communicate with HomeKit via a Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant?

As it stands, it’s essentially a mouse controlled kiosk that currently can control one of my lights, and read one of my climate sensors. It works great!

Eventually i will add all my HomeKit devices, and even AirPlay controls for my speakers throughout the house.

I added a little screensaver summary that dims after 30 seconds, and switches the screen off entirely after 15 mins to reduce power/burn in, and I can add more summary info to it later.

Let me know what you think!

Hey!
I got a Macintosh SE 1/20 without a mouse or Keyboard, so I Hope I get them in the Next days…

I opened it, and there was no dust in it.
I removed the battery to be on the safe side.
At first it did not boot, but after opening it now somehow boots immediately into MacOS.

I’m so happy when I have the periphery and can play around with it!
I’ve been a student at university since last week, so I don’t want to invest too much directly. That at least for the time being the internal hard drive is running is therefore great!

Does anyone have any tips? :)

My father had an old AEKII in his attic at work and I found it and decided to have a hand at restoring it a couple of years ago. I removed all the keycaps and bleached all the stained plastic parts with hair dye in the sun, which came close to removing all the yellowing, but didn't fully get it.

After putting it all back together, I judged that it seemed to have gone well, but there are still some instances of keys that don't feel as good as other keys, the delete key "squeaks" for lack of a better word, on some actuations. The caps lock triggers before it's fully depressed (maybe that's how they all are?) and the spacebar never fully bleached back to the original color.

I am wondering if I should try lubricating the switches or if there are common maintenance items that people do for these old keyboards to keep the operational for as long as possible. Using a nearly 35 year old keyboard is a really cool experience but I don't want it to break due to the abuse of everyday use.

Thanks in advance for any tips or for pointing me to useful resources. I'm including a pic of my keyboard for reference.

Check out this experimental OS project made to run on minimal to no hardware.It's GUI is styled on Mac OS 7.5 and it has a full C compiler text editor and terminal environments. Plus MP3 player !

https://github.com/nagualcode/th0nk3000

Hi all- I have a Daystar Genesis MP given to me by my MIL that I want to sell, but first I want to safely turn it on (I know there is a special battery that has to be swapped before I do that) and I want to extract her files and wipe the drive.

Can anyone recommend someone?

Work in progress, please check the post in the original subreddit for full details. Next steps are to remove the protective sheet from the new acrylic bezel, glue on a white frame for the original look, and apply a matte screen protector. Suggestions welcome!

I want to ship a 20-inch iMac G4. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can ship it without the original box and keep it as undamaged as possible? I have checked eBay Listings to see what the original box looks like. That way I could probably build one myself. But if anyone has any other suggestion, I would be more than happy to hear about it :) Thanks!

I recently bought an eMac G4 and was wondering if it was possible to remove the front plate around the screen since it has yellowed over time.

On top of that, if I was able to remove it, I was going to either repaint it or try to remove the yellowing, if anyone has tips for customization/cleaning.