These devices can be had for not a lot on the Chinese second-hand electronics market, and after an extensive teardown he comes to the conclusion that besides their novelty they’re an older specification so not really worth buying.īut it does beg the question as to why such a product was put into production when the same task could have been performed using very cheap microcontroller.
Of course that won’t stop somebody who knows their way around Google’s mobile operating system for very long - at the end of the review, there’s some shots of the gadget running Minecraft and playing streaming video.
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As shipped they lack the Android launcher, so they aren’t designed to run much more than the calculator app. Perhaps not, as writes for CNX Software, when he reviews a simple non-scientific calculator that packs an Alwinner A50 tablet SoC and the Android operating system. But does that mean calculator development dead? By the 1980s though, they were old hat and could be bought for only a few dollars, a situation that remains to this day. It’s possible quite a few of our older readers will remember the period from the 1960s into the ’70s when an electronic calculator was the cutting edge of consumer-grade digital technology. Continue reading “Laptop Motherboard? Let’s Boot And Tinker” → Posted in Featured, laptops hacks, Original Art, Skills Tagged motherboard, reuse Overall, however, pressing the power switch will cause the board to boot. Sometimes, the battery will be on a daughterboard, other times, especially with new boards, there will be no CR2032 in sight and the board will rely on the main battery to provide CMOS settings saving functions – in such case, if you don’t use the battery, expect the first boot to take longer, at least. Speaking of those, some boards will not boot without a CMOS battery attached, and some will go through the usual ‘settings lost’ sequence. A bit of erratic behaviour is okay, since boards might need to do memory training, or recover after having lost some CMOS settings. If the board was unpowered for a while, first boot might take longer – or it might power on immediately after a charger has been plugged in, and then, possibly, power off. Let me walk you through some confusing situations you might encounter. However, there will be some caveats – it’s very firmware-dependent. Usually, when you plug some RAM and a charger into a board, then press the power button, your board should boot up and eventually show the BIOS on the screen. Now, let’s go through the practical considerations! Making It Boot Last time, I’ve shared my experience on why you might want to consider a laptop motherboard for a project of yours, and noted some things you might want to keep in mind if buying one for a project. If you want to learn a little more about these displays, check out this love letter to the VFD.Ĭontinue reading “This Retro Game Console Puts Vacuum Fluorescent Display To Good Use” → Posted in Arduino Hacks, classic hacks Tagged conways game of life, game console, noritake, snake, vacuum fluorescent display, vfd We really like the look of this console, and we appreciate putting an otherwise obsolete display to use in a creative way. We’d imagine Pong would be a good choice too, as well as perhaps Tetris if the display were flipped on its side. chose appropriately blocky games for the console, like Snake, Conway’s Game of Life, and the venerable snow demo. To celebrate the retro look of the VFD, both cases are decked out with woodgrain side panels. The display case connects to the controller with a ribbon cable and holds the VFD power supply and driver.
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The controller holds the Arduino Nano and all the controls, plus a piezo buzzer for fun. chose a two-piece design for his console, with a separate controller and display.
Turning on either set of segments yields one of the two base colors, while turning on both yields a sorta-kinda whitish color, if you squint a bit. Each pixel is composed of six short linear segments, with alternating red and blue colors. The Noritake Itron GU20X8-301 VFD is a “tricolor” display with eight rows of 20 rectangular pixels. In a lot of ways, the design of ’s Arduino-based VFD console is driven by his choice of display. So when we see something like a VFD game console, we just have to sit up and take notice. But this is Hackaday, and we don’t really pay much attention to what we’re supposed to do, but rather to what’s fun and cool to do. Small in size, low-resolution, blocky segments, and a limited color palette - all characteristics of the typical vacuum fluorescent display, any of which would seem to disqualify them as the display of choice for a lot of applications.
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