![]() The base computer costs $17 at time of writing but thats for true hardcore level 0 soldering machine geeks. We got the vocore2 ultimate and the vocore 4inch (usb-mini) lcd screen. The whole thing is we dont feel ready to be a soldering geek b/c so far all soldering in life turned out to be close to avant-garde monsters from Software would use for dark souls (it usually worked but ... *no comment*) practice (makes perfect?) "NEEDS MONEY" actually... So the thing is we picked a vocore2 ultimate and a 4 inch screen b/c of the dock that has usb IO, microUSB io (for serial connection as well to login), ethernet jack, sound jack, microsd slot all present in 1cm³ AND if we ever want to get to the GPIO data points and the voltage/current throughput points we can always dislodge it from the dock, taking off the plastic casing isnt very hard. We had one before but bent a pin somehow and after much mucking about and making it work again several times in the end we succeeded in totally rekking it. which is better done with a $17 pc than a rig that can run Icarus on windows at 30 fps (... no comment). We are fairly new to the electronics part but decided to pick it up since one needs to have something to do between bouts of insanity on the few clair hours of the day which happen mostly at night and the kid always wanted to (its pretty close to the computer as is and logical AND is c64 asm is likely the same principle) The screen is 4inch, not because it is easy or for the $20 difference but b/c its the lowest power use of all screens AND regardless the physical size all screens have the same resolution , colour depth and sync rate (30/24fps depending on color depth). So this minimal setup (which is maximal for the system used in fact) when the wifi runs full throttle + screen should stay under 5V/500milliamps - probably even with a small silent fan on top it will still stay under that. Thats an essential requirement for our post-apocalyptic affordable setup here. |
![]() o the time - well thats okay because we got nothing to prove and the last thing wed want is to help out a specied that rekt us , and ESPECIALLY give crotter any ideas they earn on while keeping us dry ... the body calls for first cycle too. whoever says what : we have no friends (on purpose since here) and no one actually knows anything about about the last 20 years or so so at best you get old third-hand information, DONT BOTHER ---oooo well, if you end up in a state where everythings a trigger because you into a thing made of mostly holes and stuck you in a place where every pebble is a trigger and had our life and were born in this hole ... THEN MAYBE you get to speak about that, otherwise stick to the topic ... please :) one of the funny bits is that the kodak pixma took about the same dive that western digital super purple BUILT FOR 24/7 security systems did , some 20-30cm and where 2terabyte of data are fubar beyond affordable (cant really spend €1500 on a maybe) the kodak screen like split immediately too - 20cm drop ... AND we dont know the model, we just know its 3 inch, its not that these things are hard to replace but since its a brand machine it probably gonna akt up when you dont put the exact same prefab model especially bought by the million and not available to plebs into it ... thats too bad, even if its "only a hundred dollar" we cant afford another one so taking pics is by intuition because all the screen displays is white and a tear - - - lets hope the other one doesnt |
![]() well at least half of that is scrapware we got for free so dont trouble come looking for the money, there is none b/c if there were we wouldnt sit HERE and we WOULD have a roadblasters original arcade cabinet too. the camera fell 20cm (as did the backup drive) and the screen broke and all data gone so sharp images are a gamble (kodak doesnt say what type of screen is installed so even if we know replacing it probably isnt too hard, we cant just go ordering "a 3inch screen" ... its probably something custom to make sure you cant repair it simply. so what works : everything so far with the current image and dhcp enabled on LAN (not wifi - dont NEED wifi hence dont HAVE wifi since WIFI is open to the kid sitting outdoors with the phone, looking for WIFI b/c in the social housing hood, money aint cheap like disneyland and we dont wanna get neighbourhood cop come asking "why were you looking at al qaeda decapitation videos" .. since we werent ... you see ? as this is not disneyland this is not disneyland and that's that thus : wed like to try and make a screenshot from /dev/fb0 first , and in ash nonetheless b/c for the love of life we dont know how to cross-compile an executable (yet) b/c we never done that. but shell scripting should work, speed is not the essence here. The audio works but it suffers from serious interference AND so far we couldnt play a sample b/c it keeps giving decoder format errors ... which might or might not be a bug. But one thing : wed like to get at least this down before we open up the breadboard'502 section cuz if we cant hack this we might burn something fubar there and as said before : money aint cheap, i dont see crotter sending us a billion to dev a new laser either so this is it (we're still looking for landmines and barbed wire tho to make it to 2050 here) |