Mad Science at Home

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:15 pm

I was wondering if any other readers have mad science projects they're working on. Here's the scoop on my current work of evil genius:

http://kmt.hku.nl/~pieter/HARD/MON/MON.html#vga

Notice how straightforward that all is? As long as I don't burn the electron gun up with a bad scan rate, I should be able to SEND SIGNALS to a VGA monitor. A little elbow grease and breadboarding later, I could have a shot at building my own oscilloscope, pong game or Ominously Pulsing Monitor in the Background.

Micro_Fur · Post by **Micro_Fur** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:30 pm

A friend and I built a clock using an old pocket scope tube, he has a pict of it somewhere on his computer, I'll bug him for it. As for the section on SGI monitors, Sync On Green is what they use (I have an indigo workstation running the Elan 4000 graphics card with 3 GPUs as a private server for my apartment automation projects). I should post the NIXIE clock/ calendar I finished building last month. No software, all hardwire logic and reliable to the year 9999, too bad I'll never see that, the only thing it doen't account for are leap minutes/seconds and DST. It was my spawn of boredom!

Micro_fur - Who ever heard of a bi-polar, bi-sexual, bi-pedal?

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:00 pm

I just got an LCD display from the Tektronix junk store that is probably off of one of the color scopes. Now if I can just figure out how to drive the ruddy thing...

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:24 pm

Awww, yeah, I have an Oscilloscope now. A Tektronix 2215A analog scope, to be exact. 60MHz of bandwidth! Whoo!

Now that I can actually *see* waveforms rather than dividing them down into the human hearing range (which apparently is pretty worthless since I had no idea my speaker hookup was sharkfinning whenever I turned it to full power).

Remember kids:

"Ze true mad scientist does not make public appearances. He does not wear the 'hello my name is' badge! He STRIKES from below like a VIPER! Or on high like a PENNY, dropped from the tallest building aroundt! He has only ze one purpose: Do bad things, to good people, MIT SCIENCE!!!!"
--Dr. Chromedome