If any of my claw-machine subscribers migrated over here...or anyone that would like a quick laugh, I thought this was worth sharing.
I didn't feel like it was worth it's own Youtube upload, but defiantly worth a re-post.
"You never win, but lifting something a few inches in the air is always kinda exciting."
ThereIfixedit.com link, click me.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
5inch drive to CD player
Before I begin, the dog ran across my keyboard and broke the "I" key, forgive me if I don't catch all of the missing letters. There will be a video uploaded the first weekend I re-burn a CD that will not be of copyright infringing material. Check up on the youtube channel erry now and then.
A local second hand store had a small plethora of car radios, and I was trying to think of something could do with one. Finally came up with an idea. I enjoy me some portable CD and cassette players, but headphones and speakers are frequently, and inevitably separated. I've been meaning to integrate some speakers in to a build. I think I have a nice looking build now.
I still don't have a way to hold the drive shut because it all screwed to the frame of the old mechanisms, but the old car CD drive fit wonderfully, with almost no modifications! There were two main components, the board and disk reader. The reading slot loaded in perfectly, and rested at the height of the slot.
When the board was turned a quarter of the way, it rested nicely on top, with the exception of the component by which I am holding it in the picture below.
Plan A was to take the part off the board, and solder an inch of wire to each of the 28 connections, that way I could fold it back and stack it. Once I studied it, I noticed it was mostly radio components, fired up the board, and it's been running fine without it. The grounding shield to the antenna and RCA jacks was put in too well to remove, so I helped it fit too.
as you can see, the module to the left is still uninstalled, however, the front panel was planning to permanently remove, I was forced to keep thanks to the micro-controller. This was an easy mod, 8 pins, 9 f you count extending a grounding lead. I discovered I needed this when I put in a test CD, and realized I had no eject button, nor is there a mechanical release like there is in CD drives with a tray. Right now I just have the panel laying there, I will be attaching it subtly to the back.
It is currently powered through an RCA jack for windbag reasons I have mentioned before, and will link to when I find where. I don't particularly feel like re-typing them. Look around posts on rebuilding monitors, prolly clogging the tubes somewhere.
I used a small speaker from an answering machine that met it's eventual demise on the 4th of July. I got a chance to salvage parts before things got too bad. The quality is not great, tinny, but sufficient. If I want more quality, I'll sit in the car. I'd link a picture of the burned device if I could find it. It's either a video, or picture, somewhere among 500gb of DSCN---'s.
I did a little testing today. Sat out in the car fussing with it, I needed to step it up to house current and bring it back to 12v as I had insufficient parts to just draw from the car.
I also had to do a little scissor work to get the power from a standard CD jack to an RCA jack. I have a feeling this is going to hit "There I fixed it" soon.
A local second hand store had a small plethora of car radios, and I was trying to think of something could do with one. Finally came up with an idea. I enjoy me some portable CD and cassette players, but headphones and speakers are frequently, and inevitably separated. I've been meaning to integrate some speakers in to a build. I think I have a nice looking build now.
I still don't have a way to hold the drive shut because it all screwed to the frame of the old mechanisms, but the old car CD drive fit wonderfully, with almost no modifications! There were two main components, the board and disk reader. The reading slot loaded in perfectly, and rested at the height of the slot.
When the board was turned a quarter of the way, it rested nicely on top, with the exception of the component by which I am holding it in the picture below.
Plan A was to take the part off the board, and solder an inch of wire to each of the 28 connections, that way I could fold it back and stack it. Once I studied it, I noticed it was mostly radio components, fired up the board, and it's been running fine without it. The grounding shield to the antenna and RCA jacks was put in too well to remove, so I helped it fit too.
as you can see, the module to the left is still uninstalled, however, the front panel was planning to permanently remove, I was forced to keep thanks to the micro-controller. This was an easy mod, 8 pins, 9 f you count extending a grounding lead. I discovered I needed this when I put in a test CD, and realized I had no eject button, nor is there a mechanical release like there is in CD drives with a tray. Right now I just have the panel laying there, I will be attaching it subtly to the back.
It is currently powered through an RCA jack for windbag reasons I have mentioned before, and will link to when I find where. I don't particularly feel like re-typing them. Look around posts on rebuilding monitors, prolly clogging the tubes somewhere.
I used a small speaker from an answering machine that met it's eventual demise on the 4th of July. I got a chance to salvage parts before things got too bad. The quality is not great, tinny, but sufficient. If I want more quality, I'll sit in the car. I'd link a picture of the burned device if I could find it. It's either a video, or picture, somewhere among 500gb of DSCN---'s.
I did a little testing today. Sat out in the car fussing with it, I needed to step it up to house current and bring it back to 12v as I had insufficient parts to just draw from the car.
I also had to do a little scissor work to get the power from a standard CD jack to an RCA jack. I have a feeling this is going to hit "There I fixed it" soon.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
This OS needs a name ("Windows 8 Dev. Preview)
I wasn't planning on posting this early. Since the video tags won't update for a few hours, and I keep getting emails on the subject..."well, here you go".
I hate redundancy, and I am going to try to avoid touching on anything that can't be found here.
The name "Windows 8" is not mentioned anywhere in the actual operating system, and is only mentioned on the download page. I hope the name doesn't stick.
As it was so adequately put by XKCD, there is no real difference in any operating systems anymore. Chances are, if there is a compatibility problem, there's am emulator to fix it. A lot of the navigation of the operating system is a bit cumbersome. To get to paint, I had to right click the dekstop -> new -> Bitmap -> right-click -> open with -> Paint. The search index is not quite there yet, and neither is the accessibility to the accessories.
I hate tile view much less that I thought I would, and the task manager (as long as you have the "advanced view" box ticked) looks like a turn for the better.
I have a slight problem with the recycling bin being corhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifrupt every time I click any file, but other than that, it's a fun operating system to use. It's a head turner in public. I installed Firefox because I rely on WOT too much to revert to IE. I'm currently running it on an old Presario with an ATI card, and 128mb of RAM, and it's out preforming the Unity lags by leaps and bounds.
If the above image is cut off, click here.
The 7000build of Windows 7 was not even able to install on my computer (2002 Gateway 512 MB RD RAM Pentium 4) but by the RC, it was outperforming the factory XP install. If the Dev preview improves like this, there will be no competition.
I hate redundancy, and I am going to try to avoid touching on anything that can't be found here.
The name "Windows 8" is not mentioned anywhere in the actual operating system, and is only mentioned on the download page. I hope the name doesn't stick.
As it was so adequately put by XKCD, there is no real difference in any operating systems anymore. Chances are, if there is a compatibility problem, there's am emulator to fix it. A lot of the navigation of the operating system is a bit cumbersome. To get to paint, I had to right click the dekstop -> new -> Bitmap -> right-click -> open with -> Paint. The search index is not quite there yet, and neither is the accessibility to the accessories.
I hate tile view much less that I thought I would, and the task manager (as long as you have the "advanced view" box ticked) looks like a turn for the better.
I have a slight problem with the recycling bin being corhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifrupt every time I click any file, but other than that, it's a fun operating system to use. It's a head turner in public. I installed Firefox because I rely on WOT too much to revert to IE. I'm currently running it on an old Presario with an ATI card, and 128mb of RAM, and it's out preforming the Unity lags by leaps and bounds.
If the above image is cut off, click here.The 7000build of Windows 7 was not even able to install on my computer (2002 Gateway 512 MB RD RAM Pentium 4) but by the RC, it was outperforming the factory XP install. If the Dev preview improves like this, there will be no competition.
Friday, November 4, 2011
nEW gROUNDS
In the future, I'm going to be adding more pictures to posts, don't run off Youtube type people.
The short end of the lack of video on the channel is due to the lack of camera. I have defaulted to my phone, which can shoot beautiful HD shots with decent audio. Unfortunately, I have no editor that can work with it. In addition, my tenancy to just ramble what should be a three minute video all the way up to a half hour makes the task of editing myself back down to three minutes a bit mundane. Time was another restraint. Here I can work on a post a few minutes at a time, rather than make an all day project of posting. Making a video on my inability to make a video is a recursive task, and took some effort.
If you haven't noticed the site doesn't exist anymore, the site doesn't exist anymore. It hasn't for a few months. Most of the comments I recouped on the original site were about it's raw HTML looking 90s-esk (even though I added a substantial amount of java) I caved. I am rewriting it with a 90's motif in mind.
The short end of the lack of video on the channel is due to the lack of camera. I have defaulted to my phone, which can shoot beautiful HD shots with decent audio. Unfortunately, I have no editor that can work with it. In addition, my tenancy to just ramble what should be a three minute video all the way up to a half hour makes the task of editing myself back down to three minutes a bit mundane. Time was another restraint. Here I can work on a post a few minutes at a time, rather than make an all day project of posting. Making a video on my inability to make a video is a recursive task, and took some effort.
If you haven't noticed the site doesn't exist anymore, the site doesn't exist anymore. It hasn't for a few months. Most of the comments I recouped on the original site were about it's raw HTML looking 90s-esk (even though I added a substantial amount of java) I caved. I am rewriting it with a 90's motif in mind.
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