@PixRetro

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Nerd... Old games, old audio, Mental Heath sufferer, looking for something better
Testing this thing out... #fedi22 #gunpla #gundam #minidisc #chiptune #crafty #RetroGaming #zxspectrum #adhd
Time for yet another #sidequest... I need help.. I have the desire to gut some old laptops to put #raspberrypi's in them... I know you can get driver boards for laptop monitors to give hdmi or other video inputs.. just unsure exactly what I need to get... One of them is a 17" 1440 x 900 resolution... The connector is 30 pin and I think 0.5mm pitch? It's half a mil between the pins though the pins are 1mm centre to centre... And the other is a netbook 10" screen 1024 x 600 with 2 x 15 pins
On one of my typical #sidequest manouvers I manged to find a gpio extention ribbon for #raspberrypi that I cut down so I can make the #audiohat on my #moodeaudio server more... portable? Either way I'm going to sort a case out for it and somehow put a screen and maybe add some buttons to make it more of a media playing gadget... or something like that... :D
Well.. 6 and a half episodes of #gundamunicorn in and no real issues so far... looks less rubbish than the sales pic so far... only one peg I had to remove and and some flash here & there... but I've also #adhd'd my way through and realised I need food... go me... #gunpla #hyperfocus #soooohungry
Woah!!! RED #polycaps!!! I've never seen that before on genuine kits! Can any fellow #gunplabuilders confirm if the legit kit is the same??? Or am i gonna have to buy one for comparison?? #sidequest
Maybe its time... #janky #knockoff #fakegunpla #HG #Gundam #Unicorn... it looks terrible... muahahahahah...
Todays #stupidprojectoftheday... I have set up a small #musicserver using #moodeaudio , #RaspberryPiZero2W , #pidacpro and a random #satausbhub from #aliexpress... My twitchy brain wants to make it portable... ish... not necessarily full ipod style but maybe physical controls and a screen so it doesn't need an MPD client or to use the web interface... I really need to set up my blog again properly and start using it... lol...
Well... day job done... #Kidizoom thoroughly butchered... #oops.. but managed not to shred the camera ribbon which seems to be what other have done... time for some poking and some #research into what is on it and if anything is salvagable... or if it's just a case that i could have 3d printed a case rather than making the mess that I did... #picamera advice welcomed! 😁
Well... #pi4 #raspberrypi for size comparison... seems like this idea might have legs... I have many #PiZero2W and even a #computemodule5 if I need to save more space... if only I didn't have a day job to work on this...

#stupidprojectoftheday I bought this #vtech #Kidizoom digital camera with built in thermal printer from a charity shop for £2 (ish?)... i would kind of like to either upgrade the camera... as its a kids toy it isn't great... or try to convert the printer to USB for #linux or even #serial to work with #retrocomputers... i have no idea where to start or how to do it.. but putting it here may make me feel like i should do something with it.., lol...

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Wooow!! Just found my #zxevolution i bought ages ago... my next job will be to make a proper case for it... if it still works!! #fingerscrossed #wishmeluck #stillateforwork #zxspectrum #speccy