LAYEREDJust playing a bit to mimic an MO-Disc using an SD-Card scaled 1:2 for my #NeXTcube mini.
This was a fast one. Last night I designed a small 2 layer #GPIO stacking header board for the #RaspberryPi that will be used in my #NeXTcube mini to provide a power and activity LED. It's in production at #JLCPCB already.
Alexander Deplov ๐ฉ๐ชHere is a demo showing how such software produces a human voice.
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@13pt8plus Something for the background:
I'm building a #NeXTcube mini (1:2). NeXT had these sound boxes (see image). So, I want install a HiFiBerry AMP into this box. This amp normally should be plugged onto the GPIO port. You get it? So, the plugs and sockets shout be not too big and ideally round shaped.
Blake PattersonThinking of NEXTSTEP this morning...I'd guess many aren't aware of the unusual color display arrangement.
The NeXTstation, which was the first "affordable" color solution for NEXTSTEP, has a 16-bit framebuffer, but instead of rendering the desktop in 65,536 colors (as per Windows or Mac hardware, say), it rendered in 12-bit color with 4-bits of alpha channel (transparency).
That means it had a palette of 4096 colors, with all colors available at once on the display (not like, say, the Amiga or Apple IIgs with a 4096 color palette, but video modes with a small subset of those colors available (yes, yes, HAM mode excluded). Additionally, anything on the screen had 16 levels of opacity available.
It's interesting to see in person, on the actual hardware (especially on a good LCD display). With dithering, it looks very close to 24-bit truecolor.
(The NeXT Dimension color board for the Cube allowed 24-bit color with 8-bits alpha, but that was not so frequently used -- less so than most NeXT hardware even...)
But that's not nearly the weirdest that NEXTSTEP-capable hardware got, when it came to color video display...
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Today I did some research on possible legal aspects regarding the sale of products that contain electrical/electronic components. To my regret, there are a lot of requirements and regulations here in the EU that have to be met and complied with in order for a sale to be permitted at all (CE & RoHS conformity etc.).
It looks like I won't be able to sell my #NeXTcube mini as a whole. That could cause me huge problems. So I think I will sell just the case itself. That is a great pity.
Oh wow! I had a similar concept in mind for my #NeXTcube mini to replicate a 1:2 MO drive. Interesting to see that others are thinking along the same lines. ๐
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I spent two years trying to make SD Cards more nostalgic
The very first test prints of three parts of my #NeXT #MegaPixel display. And oh boyโฆ the middle part (that one with the ribs) is a nightmare for #FDM printing! Horrible post processing getting rid of the support material! This is wh. y I'm thinking of buying a resin printer. The customers will appreciate it too. Because the parts will have WAY BETTER surface quality!
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Oh wow! You wake up on Saturday morning to a full inbox of new #NeXTcube mini interested parties and lots of boosts and favs here on Mastodon. What happened? ๐
For those interested in my #NeXTcube mini and the #MegaPixel Display: I invite you to join me in my Slack workspace. Here, questions are answered or things discussed more quickly. So if you like, come in and spread the word...
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https://join.slack.com/t/layeredwork/shared_invite/zt-2w7fwk22b-_KGgYX1NamCrvUyCFiwb5Q
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