Republished from https://github.com/wr/macintosh-mini

Turn a Maclock (a simple alarm clock inside a shockingly accurate miniature Macintosh shell) into a working Mac using a Raspberry Pi Zero. Buttons, brightness, sound, and battery all work.

Hardware you'll need

• Maclock
• Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
• Waveshare 2.8 inch IPS LCD
• 3D printed screen bezel
• Macintosh Mini breakout board (if you want brightness, buttons, and sound). Open source design.

The build

Follow the Maclock hardware guide for instructions for assembling the Macintosh Mini.

I recorded a walkthrough video for how I assembled mine that goes into much more detail than the written guide:

The software—quick install (recommended)

Install Raspberry Pi OS (lite) onto an SD card.

Copy over a MacOS disk image and ROM file. Any .hda filename works — the script auto-discovers them in $HOME.

scp ROM yourdisk.hda <user>@<pi_ip>:~/

SSH into the Pi and run:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wr/macintosh-mini/main/setup.sh | bash

The script will reboot your Pi when done, and it should Just Work™️

The software—manual install

You can also do everything the script does by yourself: Maclock hardware guide and Sheepshaver install guide.

Credits

Startup chimes and crash sounds are mirrored from D. Schaub's Apple Sounds collection at https://froods.ca/~dschaub/sound.html. All sounds are © Apple, Inc.

Copyright © 2026 Wells Riley. The PCB design is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. The rest of the repository is published as-is for personal, non-commercial use.