Recent content by Trekintosh

These looked so much bigger in the computer...

Ai image generation has absolutely no place, full stop. Code has a measurable input and output. While there is an artistry to making it, at the end of the day, you can measure if it works or doesn’t works. (Personally I resent AI code writing entirely, but I can at least *see* an argument for...

here we go!

I think I really captured her intelligence.

I rearranged it like 5 times, much smaller now. I also trapped my idiot lizard in this one, everyone point and laugh at her.

Pretty simple, all told. I'll gussy it up with art but otherwise there should be plenty of room to fit all this in there without too much trouble. Ignore all teh headers except the main ones, I'm just using pin header footprints for convenience.

This is somewhat tangential but I'm doing all this because I wanna put a big stinky video card in the G4 iMac G3, so I realized I'm gonna need a way to get video from said stinky card to the CRT. I'm working on a little interposer board using a lot of the info and the pinouts from this wonderful...

I have one of these Que! Fire drives, the back section contains the USB and/or Firewire adapter board. For some reason this drive is just... missing it?

Really I’m desperate for any and all information I can get on how to do this properly, pci may be slow in the grand scheme of things but it’s far and away the most complicated and fastest bus I’ve personally touched.

Great questions! I don’t have a ton of answers because I have only a basic overview of how openfirmware works. I’ll have to lspci the machine later. I was hoping to find someone with OF experience to help patch it if it came to that. I wired the breakout basically the same as the...

Fun read, and impressive work!

I think I enjoy embellishing PCBs even more than designing them....

That was easy. Using Hirose LVDS connectors for the breakout ribbons. I'll mark these up with silkscreens and then double check some connections then send it to fab and see what happens. Don't worry, I'm not using the G4 iMac G3, I'll be using the original G3 logic board for testing until I...

Yeeeeesh, what an idiot. There sure aren't three pin 31's in the PCI address space. Not sure how that happened, I'm gonna guess I accidentally copy/pasted the 31 label instead of 28 and 29, which are conspicuously absent. Better still, I left the board at home because I thought I was done with...

Holy shit what a slog. Since this port doesn't have a name I'm officially designating it as the SL_Mezzanine port, since it's extremely similar to the tray loader's mezzanine. I didn't bother beeping out the ethernet and firewire pins, if someone *desperately* needs me to I can, but I would...