The Apple Lisa Inside an FPGA!

[Nickr93]

I will take one as well!

 

[wottle]

Good idea, I'll make an account on hacker news and start answering some questions.

And wow Joe, you're actually the second person who's approached me about potentially being a reseller! I don't have a problem with that at all (in fact, that would be great), but there's just so much happening with this project right now that it's pretty overwhelming. I expected the video to get a few views and that's about it, but I'm constantly getting emails and messages from people asking me all sorts of questions and making proposals/offers. Maybe send me an email and we can work out some details, just keeping in mind that I might take a minute to respond in the midst of all this chaos. I'm also in the middle of final exams right now, which doesn't make things any better. I'm okay with as many people reselling them as possible, but my only big condition is that nobody asks for exclusive rights to selling boards.

I'm glad my boards helped get your Lisa up and running again!

Having used @JCM-1 for distributing my much less ambitious hardware devices that are similarly much cheaper (percent wise) to make in bulk, I highly recommend partnering with him. He seems to have the logistics of selling and shipping things worked out much better than I would!

Also, it might be worth checking out @ThisDoesNotCompute's post over on tinker different about his bulk SE/30 reloaded buy. It was a lot of work.

That said, I'm a huge fan of the ESProfiles and would certainly be interested in a group buy if you decide to go that route. Add me to the growing list of people committing to a buy. Although I'm think I saw you respond in the Youtube comments that you are considering trying to make one compatible with the Lisa case. I'd love to have a fallback plan if mine ever bites the dust, and also would love the performance improvements you've incorporated into the board.

Great work!

 

[nickpunt]

Great job Alex! Plugging this into a 9" CRT and 3d printing a 2/3's size Lisa would be a pretty sweet little project.

 

[mattsoft]

This is amazing and one of the most interesting FPGA projects around! I would definitely buy one if available as well. Mind simply blown.

 

[shirsch]

Having used @JCM-1 for distributing my much less ambitious hardware devices that are similarly much cheaper (percent wise) to make in bulk, I highly recommend partnering with him. He seems to have the logistics of selling and shipping things worked out much better than I would!

I'll second the suggestion on Joe. Great guy! He's exactly who I had in mind when I made the suggestion about partnering on the Lisalist.

 

[luRaichu]

I'm not here to buy one but I think it'd be funnier if it was a Mini-ITX form factor board

 

[AlexTheCat123]

Having used @JCM-1 for distributing my much less ambitious hardware devices that are similarly much cheaper (percent wise) to make in bulk, I highly recommend partnering with him. He seems to have the logistics of selling and shipping things worked out much better than I would!

Also, it might be worth checking out @ThisDoesNotCompute's post over on tinker different about his bulk SE/30 reloaded buy. It was a lot of work.

That said, I'm a huge fan of the ESProfiles and would certainly be interested in a group buy if you decide to go that route. Add me to the growing list of people committing to a buy. Although I'm think I saw you respond in the Youtube comments that you are considering trying to make one compatible with the Lisa case. I'd love to have a fallback plan if mine ever bites the dust, and also would love the performance improvements you've incorporated into the board.

Great work!

I've heard a lot of good things about Joe from a lot of people, so I'm leaning pretty strongly towards going with him! I think I'll FINALLY find the time to respond to him today...

Yeah, I saw that thread about the SE/30 Reloaded. Luckily, this is far from my first time dealing with JLCPCB and their assembly service, so I kind of know what to expect and how to design something that they can handle. All of the previous revisions of this board have been assembled through them without issue, so there shouldn't be anything on there that's a problem. I was also careful to protect the SMD components fairly well and have the "strong" through-hole parts sticking up higher than them everywhere in an attempt to avoid putting any load on them, so hopefully that reduces the chance of damage during shipping too.