What do totems do when nobody is watching?
They jam to an awesome techno beat!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9x7...
@channelmaniac.bsky.social
Owner of a small business, board member of a non-profit, and one of the organizers of VCF Southwest. You can find my projects and contributions at https://github.com/channelmaniac
What do totems do when nobody is watching?
They jam to an awesome techno beat!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9x7...
What's your must-stop when traveling? We don't have White Castle in Texas, so when I travel to areas where they are, I have to stop in. :)
It's a guilty pleasure.
Image created from PCB gerber files showing a hidden message on the copper layer that is a tribute to Monty Python.
It's fun to add easter eggs to projects. This is on the 8031 Microcontroller-based computer I released at VCF Southwest in 2023.
The easter egg is a throwback to Monty Python's parrot sketch and fits perfectly since most of the CPUs used for this came from parted out casino gambling machines.
They are purposefully watering it down. Their corporate masters are in fear that there may be more to be taken down.
31.07.2025 14:54 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Might as well put crab fisherman and police officer there. That's a very labor intensive list, not something you can automate via computers.
30.07.2025 16:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0That explains her Epstein Visa...
30.07.2025 10:23 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Did the unthinkable and found a stash of NOS Neo-Geo custom ICs.
They are up on my web site at: www.arcadecomponents.com/neo-geo.html
Hope these help you keep your systems alive and well!
Who has been sober now for a bit over 4 years, 5 months now!
25.07.2025 08:22 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Never meet or learn more about your heroes. Once you look past that veil, you're bound to be disappointed... Especially if that person turns out to be a bigoted alcohol, drug, and spouse abuser.
25.07.2025 08:17 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0May his magic underwear be forever streaked on the underside.
16.06.2025 13:21 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Bigly crowds!!!
15.06.2025 13:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Cone of shame! My weenie dog gets hers off Wednesday. She had her bladder full of stones... full... EEEK!
15.06.2025 13:30 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Restoring a very old, late 70s computer, a SOL-20, with an incredible homebrew modification: An NSC800 CPU replacement for the 8080A.
What's so cool about that? It's a Z80 compatible CPU which greatly expands the software that it can run.
And I reverse engineered it
github.com/channelmania...
There's only room for one king in America...
13.06.2025 21:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hate crimes suck, especially in Texas. Capital Murder in Texas is murder in the commission of another crime. Since hate crimes are only a sentencing consideration, they don't help raise the crime to Capital Murder.
06.06.2025 07:44 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This Simpsons arcade board took damage from a wiring short inside the cabinet. It came in through the Player 1 Coin Input, damaged it, then took out this custom chip and four ROM chips.
Luckily I had a parts Lethal Enforcers PCB here to salvage a replacement custom chip. I hand soldered this in.
Every once in a while a rare game gets shipped in for repair.
Unfortunately, this Atari Liberator arcade game board worked 100% on the bench. The owner, a local arcade, has to do some more troubleshooing inside the game cabinet. I gave them some pointers on what to check.
Just do a government takeover of Acxiom and you have a huge head start on the amount of data already collected.
31.05.2025 15:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Any GenXers out there?
Remember this Jewel?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZ...
Chili dogs are OK... only if you skip the Root Beer!
30.05.2025 23:47 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Would YOU like to learn at Harvard?
Woud you like doing it for FREE?
They have 133 FREE courses online ATM...
pll.harvard.edu/catalog?pric...
You have an open trace / floating logic somewhere. That's what caused the video to change as you touched things. Broken pad/trace connection, pulled plated thru hole, corrosion or physically damaged trace, etc... Use a logic probe with your finger on the tip to find where.
30.05.2025 06:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Want to go and learn at a prestigious university? One that rejected our false king and his son?
Want to do it for FREE?
There are 133 free courses available.
pll.harvard.edu/catalog?pric...
Macintosh SE motherboard with both BIOS chips and the SCSI Controller IC replaced to finish the repair.
Another Macintosh SE is ready for the VCF Southwest fundraising auction. Replaced 2 bad BIOS ROMs and a bad AM5380 SCSI Controller IC.
29.05.2025 06:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I shared it with the Snopes Tips group on Facebook. They can help spread the word.
28.05.2025 01:23 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Joe needs to bow down and publicly fellate Mango Mussolini with kind, bigly words. Diaper Don responds best to praise and not posts like Joe is doing.
26.05.2025 22:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0For our third year we finally broke into some kind of mainstream media with our expo! We're expecting 1500 attendees this year.
Who knew it would be so difficult to get this done beyond self publishing on area event calendars and having to pay to get that spread?
dallasrightnow.com/blog/the-vin...
Kits are ready for the Intro to Surface Mount Soldering training I'm doing at VCF Southwest next month!
26.05.2025 15:48 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Because Kid Rock and his fans KNOW the Art of the Deal! They know just how much meth they can trade their catalytic converters for.
26.05.2025 08:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0