Did something similar with an IDE drive, when I couldn’t afford a new ribbon cable.
Wait until you realize you only need 4 of those pins.
They routed the serial port to the other side of that header.
Wait until you realize you only need 3 of those pins.
I’ve been there before.
Was trying to figure out how a still functional but LOOOOOOOOOONG since defunct companies sensor worked.
Actually a repost with another text. But still funny.
VGA stands for “vestigial garbage adapter” after all.
Ouch, I just assumed it was the serial port and didn’t even look how it’s reversed. There must be all kinds of fun things you can do by hand-writing VGA data.
The VGA connector is actually reversible! Once. given enough force. It also doesn’t actually work properly when installed upside down.
Well, by “reversed” I meant that the cable has pins, and the computer has slots, what is the inverse of serial. Not that it’s upside down.
You can’t plug a serial cable in it and make it work, no matter how much force you apply. You can probably do the opposite, and plug a VGA cable on the serial port with the exact right amount of force, though.
All connectors are compatible given enough violence.
I mean VGA is good for 1080p 60fps which honestly is a plenty high resolution even today. Sure you can get higher resolution and you can get higher refresh rates, but for a ~20" panel 1080p/60 is a sweet spot and you can get some really good panels for pretty cheap these days at 1080p/60
Oh I was just joking about this janky adapter. It worked great paired with a CRT.
This reminds me of how my speakers work.
I have a 3.5mm jack for my speakers that converts to an RCA jack at the end, I also have T-intersection that goes between an amplifier and the RCA jack to intercept the signal and send it BACK to a set of desktop speakers.
Why? Bootleg surround sound, I know it’s just stereo, but hey, more speakers! Also it sounds better, and it can get louder.
It may get louder, but does it go to eleven?
I learned the “more speakers = more better” when I once had 2 radios tuned to the same station and noticed it sounded better with both playing than either one turned off
I have an old Logitech 5.1 surround system, and there is a “stereo x2” setting that’s pretty much exactly that.
You should see some of the contraptions I’ve done (or had done) over the years. Like basically taking a a BGA FPGA off the board, soldering wires to the pads, and soldering the other ends to the balls of a different brand of FPGA to get something working while switching suppliers.
Please tell me you took pics.
The prototype exists - somewhere - in my office, but I can’t provide pictures, sorry.
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This guy made a sad face. You have to provide a picture now. We can’t sleep unless you do!
Put the “eh” in NDA
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Had to rig up an rgb light strip like that last week
Didn’t someone do a test and an old wire hanger worked as well as an audio connector as an expensive wire?
This disturbs me to look at. I don’t care if it works.
That’s not Zombo COM1:, that’s the serial port, the one above it. This is Zombo VGA.
i have an old monitor that’s 25 years old. still works great, but i have to do this kinda shit to connect it
I actually did the reverse when I was a kid with a VGA computer monitor lol my mom took my TV away as punishment but I still had my console (I’m forgetting which it was, probably n64) and I tried sticking the 3 color wires from the console into the wire for the monitor and it actually worked, but if I remember correctly it wasn’t exactly color correct lol
This reminds me of The Etherkiller
Normal harddrives and cdroms want +5VDC and +12VDC. We give them 120 VAC. They like it. Ohhh, they like it.
🤣
More power = more gooder
This coupled with my having just watched the interview with a steam engineer taking about 5 layer pcbs is making me question if I may not be a furry.
