Collaborate Disseminate
In the home computer market of the 1980s, there were several winners that are still household names four decades later: the Commodore 64, the Apple II and the Sinclair Spectrum, …read more Continue reading Adding Composite Video to the Mattel Aquarius
Today, acronyms such as PAL and initialisms such as NTSC are used as a lazy shorthand for 625 and 525-line video signals, but back in the days of analogue TV …read more Continue reading System Essentially Contradicting American Methods
In the United States, analog TV broadcasting officially ended in 2009. While the transition wasn’t without hiccups, we did lose something along the way. For [Emily Velasco], she misses the …read more Continue reading Creating GIFs For The Channels Between Channels
Just because a microcontroller doesn’t have a dedicated video peripheral doesn’t mean it cannot output a video signal. This is demonstrated once again, this time on the ESP32 by [aquaticus] …read more Continue reading Generating Composite Video On ESP32 With LVGL GUI
We’ve covered plenty of clocks powered by the ESP32, but this one from [Marcio Teixeira] is really something special. Rather than driving a traditional physical display, the microcontroller is instead …read more Continue reading ESP32 Clock Pushes Outrun Graphics over Composite
[John Floren] found a nice old black & white TV in a thrift store, and as so many of us would, he decided to take it home. He was surprised …read more Continue reading Black and White TV Was Hiding A Special Input Board
If you’re interested in circuit bent video but not sure where to start, the excellent guide [LoFi Future] has come up with for modifying the cheap and readily available GBS-8100 …read more Continue reading RAM Fiddling Turns VGA Converter into Video Synth
One thing about vintage computers is that they depend greatly on whether or not one can plug a compatible monitor into them. That’s what’s behind [Tube Time]’s Graphics Gremlin, a …read more Continue reading Retro ISA Card Means Old, Slow Computers No Longer Need Old, Heavy Monitors
There was a time when only the most expensive televisions could boast crystal clear pixels on a wall-mountable thin screen. What used to be novelty from “High Definition Flat Screen Televisions“ are now just “TV” available everywhere. So as a change of pace from our modern pixel perfection, [Emily …read more
Continue reading Escape To An Alternate Reality Anywhere With Port-A-Vid
Childlike imagination is a wonderful thing. The ability to give life to inanimate objects and to pretend how they’re living their own life is precious, and not for nothing a successful story line in many movies. With the harsh facts or adulthood and reality coming for all of us eventually, …read more
Continue reading Arduino Music Box Turns Stuffed Animal Into TV Personality