Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Cheap LCD panel




So I found this little LCD monitor at the local thrift store ($10!) and decided to take a chance on it.  There was no power supply for it, so I opened it up to trace what was going on in this little DIN plug.  If you look close you can see where it goes across and has a diode (the backwards arrow) stenciled on the board.  After a little experimentation (and replaced fuses) I had the power side figured out.   It was rated at 12V and 10 watts, so it was fairly easy to find a power supply for it.

I found a power cord that had a female plug on it, and then wired that to my power points on the board.  

I then used a handy opening in the case and hot glued my new power cable in place.


And then viola!  I buttoned it all back up and hooked it to a DVD player to check out how well it worked.  This particular unit was a slave monitor with auxiliary input capability.  I suspect it was setup to be a system for a car where one sibling could watch a DVD and the other could have a game going on the monitor.

My first experiment with it ended up being my Raspberry PI with XMBC software.  Here it's doing a little display with streaming from my iPhone via AirPlay.  

It doesn't work bad for this, but it's hard to view the lettering with the resolution.  




Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Photo Booth Software Features and Benefits | sparkbooth

Photo Booth Software Features and Benefits | sparkbooth: - doesn't this just look like fun?   Set it up and let your guests have a great cheesy time in front of the camera . . . very cool.

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Monday, June 18, 2012

Resources for Church Creatives – Resolute Creative

Resources for Church Creatives – Resolute Creative:

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CheatSheet

CheatSheet - Very handy for knowing the shortcuts of an active application in Mac OSX.  Suddenly I feel a little smarter knowing what keystrokes do what.

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