Not many people personal a Mac Studio, iPad mini and a 3D printer – however even for those who do not, it is exhausting to not admire the gloriously nerdy mixture of all three in a brand new ‘MacIntosh Studio’ undertaking.
The idea, dreamed up by designer and YouTuber Scott Yu-Jan, is successfully an iPad mini dock within the form of the unique MacIntosh, with room within the base for a Mac Studio and a rear drawer in your exterior SSDs.
It will not be functionally something greater than a dock and an elaborate desk tidy, however the ‘MacIntosh Studio’ is filled with neat little touches. On the aspect, there is a pull-out deal with to carry headphones (it is the best dimension for the AirPods Max, in fact), whereas on the highest there is a groove for an Apple pencil.
Yu-Jan says the 2 primary causes he needed to make the MacIntosh Studio was to maneuver his cumbersome Mac Studio from below his display and likewise create a dock for an iPad mini. Slide the latter into the 3D-printed undertaking, and you need to use the iPad mini as a second display utilizing display mirroring, whereas holding it totally charged.
The undertaking additionally highlights some intriguing design consistency in Apple’s merchandise, notably that the Mac Studio is strictly the identical width because the iPad mini. In different phrases, these two merchandise had been seemingly destined to be introduced collectively in an fanatic 3D printing undertaking.
How a lot are 3D printers once more?
If you wish to print your personal MacIntosh Studio, or tweak the design, you may naturally want one of many best 3D printers – and the undertaking’s creator really used a Bambu Lab P1 mannequin, a collection that at present sits high of our information.
As for the STL recordsdata, you may must subscribe to certainly one of Scott Yu-Jan’s membership tiers (from £4.99 a month, round $6 / AU$10 per 30 days), though it will get you recordsdata for his different tasks together with 3D-printed drawer organizers and extra.
The video additionally offers you a peek on the brainstorming course of for the MacIntosh Studio’s design, which takes place within the Shapr3D app for iPad. And Yu-Jan says he is engaged on a tweaked design to make it work of Mac mini.
It is inspiring stuff and one of many higher iPad mini docks we have seen – theoretically, it must also work with iPad mini 7, which is predicted to land someday in 2024 with an identical design to the present mannequin. The undertaking has additionally acquired us a little bit misty-eyed in regards to the authentic Macintosh, which turned 40 this year.
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