I would really appreciate it if nobody looked at the PS/2 to USB adapter currently on my workbench, kplzandthx.
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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
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I may have recently retired my IBM->PS/2->USB daisy chain because I was gifted a modern mechanical keyboard...
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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.
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"Welcome to Zombocom."
This is zombocom
You can do anything at Zombocom
This is Zombocom
The only limit is your imagination.
This is zombocom and welcome to you have come to zombocom!
WEEEEELCOME.........tozombocom
The power of Bogatin compels you!
😂 that's great
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.
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.
That's not Zombo COM1:, that's the serial port, the one above it. This is Zombo VGA.
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?
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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.
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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!
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I left the headlights on overnight and woke up to a dead battery.
Stupidly left my tools in the house as it was an impromptu trip out of the city.
So I wired the output on the solar charge connector to the permanent live on the head unit and left it for a while
I've been there before.
Was trying to figure out how a still functional but LOOOOOOOOOONG since defunct companies sensor worked.
i appreciate the title very much!
The only limit is yourself!
This reminds me of The Etherkiller
Normal harddrives and cdroms want +5VDC and +12VDC. We give them 120 VAC. They like it. Ohhh, they like it.
🤣
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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.
Had a cat engine in a crane once. A pin got damaged fir the ecm. Cat said 5k + labour to replace ecm plug. I said fuck you and any one that may slightly resemble you my good man. Went back to yard. Wittled down and ramed a solid 14awg wire in the hole. Been fine for over 5 years now.
They thought they had your nuts in a vise. But all they had was acorns.
I actually did the reverse when I was a kid with a VGA computer monitor lol my mom took my TV away as punishment but I still had my console (I'm forgetting which it was, probably n64) and I tried sticking the 3 color wires from the console into the wire for the monitor and it actually worked, but if I remember correctly it wasn't exactly color correct lol
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 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.
i have an old monitor that's 25 years old. still works great, but i have to do this kinda shit to connect it
The lies of Big Wire have shackled users for too long!
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