A project to use a m86k based Macs to help with homebrewing.
It combines my love of brewing beer with my love of vintage computers.
I decided to do it to help me learn Rust and to play with a vintage Mac and see how software was developed 30 years ago.
Bonus points if it helps me brew better beer.
I'm working my way towards brewing a beer with just macbrew as an aid.
Once I have a recipe view I should be able to do that.
- Load basic Brew Session data
- Generate brewing steps
- Show recipe
A modern application written in Rust that will run on a Raspberry Pi and load recipes/sessions from Brewers Friend and translate them to a compact binary form.
It will expose a serial interface for a Mac Plus to talk to and fetch the data.
A C application written on a 30 year old IDE on a Mac Plus (System 6) It will use the serial port to talk to macbrew-proxy and fetch data.
$ cargo testYou can set up a virtual serial port pair with:
$ socat -d -d pty,raw,echo=0 pty,raw,echo=0 &
Use /dev/pts/1 as the target serial port for macbrew-proxy and
you can use the other side of the pair to push data through. E.g tio /dev/pts/2
Here is a rough diagram of the components in this system:
The MacBrew proxy runs on a Raspberry Pi and bridges the Brewers Friend API and the Mac.
The proxy needs to convert all the JSON (and BeerXML) coming from the Brewers Friend API into a compact binary form in big endian to make it more efficent for the m68k CPU in the Mac, and then pass the data via a serial interface.
Some screenshots of the work in progress:
