towmater

You've inspired me, rather than order connectors, I've just torn apart the DVI cable, and it looks like a fairly simple job to whack-off a gender changer. (I think that's how EEVblog would state it.)

I didn't think about that, it would need to a very short DVI cable, or a gender changer, or swapping out the little board hanging off the Sophia. Or perhaps a lot of soldering fine wires.

The Monoprice audio+DVI to HDMI combiner arrived, and works beautifully. Not only is there no detectible latency (It's probably not doing much in the way of conversion) but it also inexplicably fixed a problem where my HDMI monitor would blank out occasionally with the raw Sophia signal.

Saved a lot of money by buying this broken Spectrum. As long as it isn't a bad ULA they are pretty easy to fix, and this one just had a bad RAM chip.

Looks like Monoprice has an Earthday discount code, so I pulled the trigger, I'll find out if there's much stick latency in 3-6 days... of shipping latency.

It seems many Spectrums had 3904 transistors installed backwards, messing up the composite output. Could be the same here?

I replaced, or more accurately overlaid, tact switches in place of the rubber buttons, in a Lynx 1, making it much more playable.

I realized that I have gathered a small pile of chargers and batteries for those old, "worthless" <12Mp point-and-shoot cameras, so I hit on the notion that they would be a great way to power handhelds, by installing the batteries and chargers as one piece inside the battery compartment. Here's some examples where it works well.

From last month's Akihabra haul: The floppy plugs into the cartridge slot, and doesn't seem to allow passthrough to run the Basic language cart. Is there a way to save or load from disk Basic programs? Perhaps there is a different version of Basic that runs from disk? (I gather there is a tape option, but that can't be the only option.

The sign outside TRU said "30% off everything in store" and another said "nothing held back" and of course, in tiny print "exceptions apply" All electronics were only 5% off, not even covering taxes. I for one welcome our new Amazonian overlords.

I will offer $35.

I found a Ma Bell rotary, put a usb sound card in it, and an arduino to ring the phone. I then used it to call into users in my VR game, in the game the user can see and hear a virtual rotary (it takes place in the 1960's) and the user can also initiate a call from VR, hence the ringer function. Here's a photo for no particular reason.

Those are pictures of my Adam! I added the SD extension, and velcroed it inside, making it easy to access by popping the lid, but otherwise neatly hidden.