I would really appreciate it if nobody looked at the PS/2 to USB adapter currently on my workbench, kplzandthx.
You can do anything at Zombocom
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wjrii@lemmy.world 1 day ago
affiliate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
could you attach a picture of it? i want to be sure i don’t accidentally look at it by mistake
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I may have recently retired my IBM->PS/2->USB daisy chain because I was gifted a modern mechanical keyboard…
wjrii@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Well, I feel 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 stains worth 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.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
That’s not Zombo COM1:, that’s the serial port, the one above it. This is Zombo VGA.
sundray@lemmus.org 1 day ago
Somehow that VGA port became a cenobite.
Mim@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It has such sights to show you.
cadekat@pawb.social 1 day ago
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.
Kenny2999@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Plot of the next disney hellraiser movie
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 hours ago
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.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“Welcome to Zombocom.”
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
i appreciate the title very much!
The only limit is yourself!
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 day ago
😂 that’s great
causepix@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
I wonder… do we have any kind of cablegore or tech gore community around here?
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Be the change you want to see in the world.
I’ll join you.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
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.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Wait until you realize you only need 4 of those pins.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 13 hours ago
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.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Kids these days with their colors.
NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
They routed the serial port to the other side of that header.
jim3692@discuss.online 13 hours ago
Wait until you realize you only need 3 of those pins.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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.
Mpatch@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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.
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
They thought they had your nuts in a vise. But all they had was acorns.
Gladaed@feddit.org 12 hours ago
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.
Aeri@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
I have an old Logitech 5.1 surround system, and there is a “stereo x2” setting that’s pretty much exactly that.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
It may get lost, but does it go to eleven?
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
This reminds me of The Etherkiller
Gork@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
Normal harddrives and cdroms want +5VDC and +12VDC. We give them 120 VAC. They like it. Ohhh, they like it.
🤣
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Please tell me you took pics.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The prototype exists - somewhere - in my office, but I can’t provide pictures, sorry.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
VGA stands for “vestigial garbage adapter” after all.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The VGA connector is actually reversible! Once. given enough force. It also doesn’t actually work properly when installed upside down.
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 day ago
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
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve been there before.
Was trying to figure out how a still functional but LOOOOOOOOOONG since defunct companies sensor worked.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day 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
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
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.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The lies of Big Wire have shackled users for too long!
bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Did something similar with an IDE drive, when I couldn’t afford a new ribbon cable.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Had to rig up an rgb light strip like that last week
Bazell@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Actually a repost with another text. But still funny.
TomMasz@piefed.social 1 day ago
This disturbs me to look at. I don’t care if it works.
marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
“propagated” I see what you did there
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
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
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