Let's Build a Video Card
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Let's Build a Video Card
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#2I was surprised to read how much his materials cost for this. $88, all told - you would think building a (pretty much the simplest possible) video card would be cheap!
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#3I was surprised to read how much his materials cost for this. $88, all told - you would think building a (pretty much the simplest possible) video card would be cheap!
$56 of which is breadboard and hook up wire - I'm sure it's possible to have a custom pcb fabbed for about $20,and if you do small runs to have the pcb cost drop to less than $1.
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#4I was surprised to read how much his materials cost for this. $88, all told - you would think building a (pretty much the simplest possible) video card would be cheap!
About half of that cost ($40) is the 5 breadboards needed to connect the circuit together. Building it on something more permanent like veroboard would cut that cost down significantly.
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#5The "8-bit breadboard computer" (https://eater.net/8bit) series is phenomenal. The videos are so clear and so well explained - after watching them I ordered the clock module kit, and now I'm addicted to electronics. Before, electronics seemed so abstract to me. After watching the videos and messing around with the kit, I was able to come up with an idea for something I wanted to make and then (fairly) confidently IMPLEMENT it on a breadboard.
Ben Eater is a fantastic teacher. You forget how different "knowing" and "teaching" are, until you get a great teacher!
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#6I have watched these videos and they are really facinating. I wish there was more stuff like this and less vague clickbait titles.
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#7I'm interested in learning more about VGA and HDMI, because I'd like to build a hardware freeze button.
On an old church projector, there was a button on the remote so I could freeze the screen. Then I could switch from PowerPoint to QuickTime Player (or whatever else) without disturbing everybody who was watching. Newer equipment (some projectors, most TVs) lack this feature. I'd like to build a box that stores the current frame in RAM, and has a simple toggle switch between the stored frame or the live video feed.
After a recommendation for the NeTV, I asked bunnie, and he said that the NeTV2 is a good choice for HDMI. It's pretty expensive though, and doesn't support HDCP.
https://github.com/AlphamaxMedia/netv2-ideas/issues/21
If anybody else has some guidance about how to proceed with this project, or some mutual interest that could translate into nagging me to actually do it, please get in touch!
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#8I was surprised to read how much his materials cost for this. $88, all told - you would think building a (pretty much the simplest possible) video card would be cheap!
He's basically building it the way the people that invented it would have first built it, before they miniaturized it. It's not surprising that it would be somewhat expensive.
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#9The "8-bit breadboard computer" ( https://eater.net/8bit ) series is phenomenal. The videos are so clear and so well explained - after watching them I ordered the clock module kit, and now I'm addicted to electronics. Before, electronics seemed so abstract to me. After watching the videos and messing around with the kit, I was able to come up with an idea for something I wanted to make and then (fairly) confidently I…
This video series singlehandedly inspired me to delve into hardware (i'm a software guy). It's INCREDIBLY well done, and easy to follow.
Fast forward to now, when I've blown several hundred dollars on electronics supplies lol. Plus Ben has a great voice to listen to, so there's also that.
Re: Let's Build a Video Card
#10The "8-bit breadboard computer" ( https://eater.net/8bit ) series is phenomenal. The videos are so clear and so well explained - after watching them I ordered the clock module kit, and now I'm addicted to electronics. Before, electronics seemed so abstract to me. After watching the videos and messing around with the kit, I was able to come up with an idea for something I wanted to make and then (fairly) confidently I…
YouTube randomly recommended the first part of the video card series to me a few weeks back. I'd never seen this channel before. I checked it out just to get the general idea of what he was doing but figured I'd bail on it a few minutes in once I couldn't follow along anymore.
Instead I got completely sucked in. His explanations were so clear I was able to understand the majority of the process and could possibly even replicate it or guess at the next step after watching for a bit. I felt like I learned more in that 30 minute video than I did in my whole year of high school electronics that scared me away from this sort of thing twenty years ago. My interest in doing some small projects is definitely piqued now.