Back in December, my buddy Epitrope moved to NY, and was trying to get rid of the things he wasn’t going to transport across the entire US. One of these things was an older 720p plasma Zenith TV. He is a hacker extraordinaire, and after doing a bit of looking at the manual, saw that the protocol for the serial interface on the back is documented. He created a set of programs to communicate with this port to do some TV automation, which I thought was really cool....
This is my most recently completed project. “Complete” is a fairly subjective word though, as the likelihood that I pop the top on my Atari 7800 again soon is fairly high. The point of this project was to install the Atari UAV board inside my 7800 in order to get a much better video signal out of it. The Atari 7800 only supported one type of video output signal, ye olde radio frequency modulator....
I’m finishing up my yearly summer stint here in Craig, AK, and I thought it might be a good time to actually build that Home Theater PC that I’ve been dreaming about for the last 3-4 years. For those unfamiliar with HTPCs, the basic idea is to have an all-in-one computer that is good for all media duties that you may have relating to your television. In my case, that means being able to watch movies and TV shows from many sources, including Netflix and Hulu (because I don’t have cable), as well as being able to play videogames, both old and new....