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Awesome work! I'd love to test this out! 🎉

Excellent, I'm glad you were successful in increasing the video bit rate on your device. The original resolution (in a 4:3 aspect) of the device is 1728x1296. I've recently found that I can bump up the resolution to 1920x1440, which gives a nice resolution increase, especially if you consider...

FYI, I've uploaded the STB v1 hard drive image, you can download it here. The original file was a .dmg and needed some help to convert it into something usable. Now it's a BlueSCSI compatible .HDA file. It will also work in an emulator.

Good to know. Yes, Kodak's firmware does a lot of auto-color / auto-white balance which can sometimes have undesirable results. Great! (y)

I posted it on Twitter, here's the download link (use the second download): https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac84-poster-kits-cd I made the HD icon a few years back using Icon Factory's software. Sean needed a HD image for his Mac TV, so I set one up for him... with some custom icons and some...

This is SO cool, thanks so much for sharing! The montage at the end is particularity fun. Well done!

It was an absolute blast and a whirlwind! I hope to share some photos and video soon. Thanks to everyone who stopped by and said hello!

The v2.0 file is only with the original bit rate (6400) and the default resolution. I haven’t had a chance to modify it or test any mods. However the steps are detailed in the initial post if you wanted to try it yourself. To clarify, there are two versions of the product. From what I gather...

I'll see you all there, very excited for the event this year! 🥳

Great! Glad to hear it :-) I will say that adjusting the resolution / bit rate on the 2.0 firmware seems to be the same process for version 1.0. I'll dig into this a bit more after VCFMW.

@Dare was kind enough to send their board my way. Version 2.0 of the Kodak firmware has been preserved. You can find it here. Doing a quick comparison in a hex editor, both firmware files have differences and are not identical. Warning! I have no way to test the v2.0 firmware just yet. So use...

Hi Thomas, Thanks for the kind words. I'm happy to provide some insight into these devices. I'm sorry Kodak couldn't provide you with any update files. Of course, in a perfect world user modification wouldn’t be required. It would be great if Kodak had some type of resolution or video bit rate...

Yes! Thanks for the great article. It’ll be interesting to see if we have all the pieces to make a bootable system with video out! 👍

For almost 17 years I've been tinkering around with the Apple Interactive Television Box, or Set Top Box (STB). If you don't know much about the device, there's a great wiki for it here. But essentially, it was a semi-Macintosh LC 475 designed to support multimedia playback and interactive...

I am working with user Dare to dump their version 2.0 firmware, but we ran into a hardware issue. As soon as we figure it out hopefully we can help you restore your firmware to the version that shipped on your device.

The rainbow cables on the left control the motors, if you mix them up you'll know it - as on the initial startup it will start the motors and not stop (instead of a brief motor start then stop). That's what happened to me, you can easily flip them around. What serial device are you using? I'm...

You can leave 3.3v empty. You only need Ground, TX and RX. I hope you got the device apart, I filmed a bit of a how-to to carefully take it open as the ribbon cables can be annoying. I used long cables and routed the 3 for the serial connection out back through the vents. I'll edit this post...

Hey Dare, that would be excellent! The biggest challenge will be removing the board and soldering 3 small cables to the serial contacts. This assumes your model has the same hardware. I'll make a tutorial for you and will post it here when I'm done.

Thanks! I'm so glad this may help you get better quality out of your scans. I also found that my camera was slightly out of focus, but it's glued to the focus ring / lens and a bit of a pain to undo (I used a hot air gun on a low setting from a few inches away). I haven't done extensive...

Another update: I've successfully connected an Arduino Nano (acting as a UART TTY serial to USB adapter) to the Kodak digitizer, which had nicely labeled and exposed serial connections. Setting the baud rate to 115200 allows me to connect and access, with plenty of things to look at! 🎉 It let...