i appreciate the title very much!
The only limit is yourself!
I am so conflicted about this meme; on the one hand I’m in awe at this bodge into the RCA port and on the other the caption made my eye twitch.
This coupled with my having just watched the interview with a steam engineer taking about 5 layer pcbs is making me question if I may not be a furry.
Modern cables for high bandwidth data transfer just don’t have this kind of luxury. You can’t send 100 GB/s through a ramshackle connection.
This reminds me of The Etherkiller
I wonder… do we have any kind of cablegore or tech gore community around here?
Be the change you want to see in the world.
I’ll join you.
This reminds me of how my speakers work.
I have a 3.5mm jack for my speakers that converts to an RCA jack at the end, I also have T-intersection that goes between an amplifier and the RCA jack to intercept the signal and send it BACK to a set of desktop speakers.
Why? Bootleg surround sound, I know it’s just stereo, but hey, more speakers! Also it sounds better, and it can get louder.
It may get louder, but does it go to eleven?
Wait until you realize you only need 4 of those pins.
Five signals + ground if you want more than one color channel. The RGB ground might not be connected to the shell insde the monitor and both H-sync and V-sync are required.
They routed the serial port to the other side of that header.
Wait until you realize you only need 3 of those pins.
I would really appreciate it if nobody looked at the PS/2 to USB adapter currently on my workbench, kplzandthx.
could you attach a picture of it? i want to be sure i don’t accidentally look at it by mistake
You’ve been warned.
I can’t make sense of it. Where is the PS/2 and the USB port?
It’s beautiful, thank you
Oh no… I looked at it… I shouldn’t have done that.
I may have recently retired my IBM->PS/2->USB daisy chain because I was gifted a modern mechanical keyboard…
Well, I fell pretty deep into that rabbit hole, where I’ve even designed a couple of primitive circuit boards and hand-wired a bunch of keyboards. I also mess around with vintage stuff a bit.
This particular converter is programmable and meant to be used with a not mechanical 122-key terminal keyboard made by the company that took over IBM’s US keyboard factory, but it’s been hanging out with several DuPont wires shoved into it to connect it to a molex connector to test a different old board.
Somehow that VGA port became a cenobite.
It has such sights to show you.
The images that have traversed my wire span the entirety of sensation, from the darkest pits of depravity to the… Wait, no, that’s it.
Plot of the next disney hellraiser movie
“Welcome to Zombocom.”
This is zombocom
You can do anything at Zombocom
WEEEEELCOME…tozombocom
This is Zombocom
The only limit is your imagination.
This is zombocom and welcome to you have come to zombocom!
You should see some of the contraptions I’ve done (or had done) over the years. Like basically taking a a BGA FPGA off the board, soldering wires to the pads, and soldering the other ends to the balls of a different brand of FPGA to get something working while switching suppliers.
Please tell me you took pics.
The prototype exists - somewhere - in my office, but I can’t provide pictures, sorry.
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This guy made a sad face. You have to provide a picture now. We can’t sleep unless you do!
Put the “eh” in NDA
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The power of Bogatin compels you!
😂 that’s great
You really can do a degree. We once manually patched the ribbon cable from one PowerBook screen into another totally different model and even different sized screen and got it to work mostly. I think it clipped off part of it but this was almost 20 years ago.
i have an old monitor that’s 25 years old. still works great, but i have to do this kinda shit to connect it
