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Thomas

Former cinematographer turned electronics maker. I build things with salvaged Soviet tech.

Tbilisi, Georgia

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This user joined on 06/23/2019.

My Projects

It's annoying to have to guess what 0-255 LED color value corresponds to the color you want in your project. This eliminates the guesswork.

RGB color interpreter

Adapting the keypad from a Soviet mechanical calculator (Быстрица-2) to generate digital signals.

Mechanical keypad for digital use

Resto-modding an old 20" iMac G5 iSight so the LCD can work as an external HDMI monitor for a laptop.

Hacking a iMac G5 into an HDMI monitor

An adjustable DC bench power supply made mostly from salvaged Soviet tech.

Power supply from salvaged Soviet tech

Projects I Like & Follow

An digital clock made out of 144 7 segment displays

7 Segment display array clock

RGB LEDs Triangular/Hexagonal Pixels Matrix.

RGB HexMatrix | IOT Clock

The fastest soldering ever

Soldering lightsaber

Using a terminal from 1976 as home automation hub. Because we can.

ADM-3A Dumb Terminal Home Automation Hub

Daniel Karpantschof

2021 Hackaday Prize

LVDS, eDP, connectors and controllers - let's learn it all

All About Laptop Display Reuse

An RS232C serial terminal using MC6802 & LED dot matrix display modules

6802 Serial Terminal

A Clock style barometer, that displays the current weather with different slides, driven by an arduino, 5 servos a PCA9685 and a bmp280.

Tempestas II, A Clock style Barometer

Working with an old Electronika MC6205 Neon dot matrix display

MC6205 (MS6205) Display

Retro-Futuristic 8-bit AVR based computer with 5" TTL CRT, PS-2 Keyboard, Serial Thermal Printer, PCM sound, and flash file system

Resto-Mod 8 bit microcomputer

A small voltmeter that sits on a breadboard's power rails

Breadboard Voltmeter

When your arm rises in a "face touching direction," a tilt switch activates a buzzer to let you know that your hand is causing trouble.

Don't Touch Face

Miniature, portable build of Wurlitzer's elusive keyboard teaching tool.

Wurlitzer Key Note Visualizer Replica

Revision 2 of the resto-Mod Dungeons and Dragons Digital Dice Tower based on a 1975 Bell & Howell IMD-202 Digital Multi-meter

1979 "Heathkit" D&D Digital Dice Tower

Tabletop dice tower in a retro Sears Silvertone radio case with voice output

Sears Silvertone Audible Digital Dice Tower

old flip-dot matrix display repurposed as a clock

Flip-dot clock

This is a 3D printed Electromagnetic 7 Segment display. Click Digit

Click Digit - Electromagnetic 3D Printed 7 Segment

A quick look at the new Cypress PSoC 6 boards and getting them connected to AWS IoT services

Cypress PSoC 6 and AWS IoT

Vintage military hardware converted into a retro timekeeping device

Rogue Missile LED clock

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Mitsuru Yamada wrote 12/12/2020 at 13:27

Thank you for liking my #6802 Serial Terminal ! I bought a Maksutov type astronomical telescope made in Moscow in 1995. Maybe it used Soviet era technology.

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danjovic wrote 04/17/2020 at 15:25

Thanks for following!

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