I wonder... do we have any kind of cablegore or tech gore community around here?
I would really appreciate it if nobody looked at the PS/2 to USB adapter currently on my workbench, kplzandthx.
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.
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.
Oh no... I looked at it... I shouldn't have done that.
It's beautiful, thank 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?
I learned the "more speakers = more better" when I once had 2 radios tuned to the same station and noticed it sounded better with both playing than either one turned off
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.
Kids these days with their colors.
They routed the serial port to the other side of that header.
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.
:(
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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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.
Had to rig up an rgb light strip like that last week
I've been there before.
Was trying to figure out how a still functional but LOOOOOOOOOONG since defunct companies sensor worked.
The lies of Big Wire have shackled users for too long!
VGA stands for "vestigial garbage adapter" after all.
Ouch, I just assumed it was the serial port and didn't even look how it's reversed. There must be all kinds of fun things you can do by hand-writing VGA data.
The VGA connector is actually reversible! Once. given enough force. It also doesn’t actually work properly when installed upside down.
I mean VGA is good for 1080p 60fps which honestly is a plenty high resolution even today. Sure you can get higher resolution and you can get higher refresh rates, but for a ~20" panel 1080p/60 is a sweet spot and you can get some really good panels for pretty cheap these days at 1080p/60
You can just do things. There's no real rules.
Once I used some jewelry wire to connect pins from a vga port on my PC to pins on the svideo port on my tv. Worked fine. It was black and white but I had a display.
Edit: I think I just connected the sync and then put the luma signal oitput into the composite video signal input.
I have a slim Playstation 2 still. It is modded. How is it modded?
Styrofoam in the disc tray sensor.
I can play burnt DVDs by just stating up a legit game (I have MGS2) and swapping the still spinning disc after the PS2 and Sony logos end, so long as the console doesn't know the disc tray is open. The styrofoam prevents the console knowing the tray is open by keeping the button pressed down.
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