What should I do with this handful of tinybob's?

[Hooka]

I wound up with a handful of tinybob's and now I'm wondering besides making a tv-out cable that won't pull apart on me, what interesting things could/should I do with some of them or does anybody want something specifically that they'd pay for me to make for them? Kinda inbetween jobs atm, so I have free time and could use a little cash

 

[bismuthdrummer]

Eat them!

 

[levi]

TinyBOBs? Don't those already have the TV-out ports on them?  Or do you mean you've got a handful of the EXT connectors, not wired to anything.

 

[TrashyMG]

He's most likely talking about the little PCB BoBs (Break out Boards) which makes it slightly more easy to solder the EXT connector... It was a short run made by a community member (Peca?) several years ago: https://boards.openpandora.org/topic/3743-break-out-bord-for-ext-pcb-designer-needed/#comment-65105  

 

 

[WizardStan]

Eat them!

Quoting as my vote for best suggestion.

 

[FaeMinx]

How many do you have?

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Pictures !

 

[Hooka]

Yeah, just a few... Gonna make a nice little video cable for myself for sure...

 

[TrashyMG]

Ah so these have the EXT connectors already soldered on.

 

[Hooka]

ya afaik, might be one or two that are iffy, but a multimeter can always test that quick before I start soldering


FaeMinx: got 7

 

[Hooka]

bismuthdrummer: Nah, already full from eating a game design book earlier... too much fibre!

 

[Nardella]

"slightly more easy" That's an understatement, for me soldering those connectors (yeah it was me who sold them to Hooka) would have been unthinkable.


Yes I believe that it was peca who I bought the BoBs and connectors from. 

 

[Hooka]

Yeah, I think one's going direct to a tv-out cable and maybe try and make an ir out of the tx & rx on another, cause nothing was funnier than using a pocketstation to turn off every tv in the sony store all at once  Did the same with my Tapwave Zodiac at some point too, good times...

 

[WizardStan]

Man, I remember when I first started with the connectors, all the big ideas I had, all the excitement everyone else was experiencing about what we could do with them. Did anyone ever actually make something practical with their plugs?


Maybe it's a good thing the Pyra doesn't have an EXT port, just USB and serial connectors.

 

[TrashyMG]

Did anyone ever actually make something practical with their plugs?

I made a breakout connector board, breaking everything out to a 0.1 pitch connector... other than that a TV out cable and a replacement to the first one I made.

 

[levi]

I always planned to make a serial connector, and I might still make one, so that I can reuse my Pandora for its audio circuitry once I have a Pyra and once nothing new to test on my Pandora comes out.  Then I can control it from a PC or something else, without having to open any ports up on it.

 

[dan3008]

Why not look at the serial arduino stuff or similar ? Adding a micro controller directly to the Pandora would be fun and useful 

 

[HelenF]

and maybe try and make an ir out of the tx & rx on another, cause nothing was funnier than using a pocketstation to turn off every tv in the sony store all at once  Did the same with my Tapwave Zodiac at some point too, good times...

We were talking about IR transmission for TVs over here. If you think of a new solution, please post it!


https://boards.openpandora.org/topic/16054-pandora-as-infrared-universal-remote-control/?do=findComment&comment=328471

 

[NearTao]

I've tried a handful of ext out cables and tried to solder my own... nothing looks really that good unfortunately

 

[levi]

s-video out using my shop-bought TV out cable gets me a stable picture that's as good as that SD TV supports, but with only 280-odd lines per field, it's never going to be as pin-sharp as the LCD display.