I used to have a “home entertainment system” to play music (MP3), radio (web streams) and movies (via a beamer). The music/radio portion ran on a raspberry pi 1, the movies I played from a Lenovo desktop.However, all parts were om the edge of their usable lifetime or already broken. Old setup My old setup …
Tag Archives: IIVQ
Key organizer from old shoes
I made key hangers from old hiking boots
A pouch for my passport
How I seam a pouch for my passport
Repairing my fridge
I have a fridge I bought in 2009. In the door, there is a tray that holds heavy items like yoghurt cartons. That tray was held up with two tiny tabs on each side, which fall in a slot in the side of the tray. In 2013, those tabs broke off, which rendered the tray …
Using the LCD
I found an old beaten-up CD player a while back, and decided to take out the human interface card, with the LCD and buttons on it. In a previous episode, I managed to get the LCD to do something. Now, I will try to let it do exactly what I want it to do! The …
Controlling the card
I found an old beaten-up CD player a while back, and decided to take out the human interface card, with the LCD and buttons on it. In a previous post, I found out where all the connections on the PCB go and how they connect the buttons, LCD and chips together and what they do. …
Interfacing with a human interface card
I found an old beaten-up CD player (a Philips AK601) next to the trash container a while back.I picked it up, found it not worthy of being taken back into use, so I decided to open it up and maybe gut it for parts. I found a couple of motors inside, but what really drew …