Recent content by Daquantrius Johnson

Huh. Apparently I just had to turn the screen extension off and on again on my PC to get it to work. Why does that always work?

@jefflongo I did switch to the VGA mode. With no input it shows a blue screen and "VGA" in the top left, with input the backlight shuts off and there's nothing whatsoever. @Arceus what do you mean by "try connecting the VGA to a different device?" The screen to a different computer, or the...

Correction: I was a complete idiot and didn't realize the screen was so dark because the wii dark or whatever it does when you don't do anything for a while. VGA's still completely broken tho :(

I'm stupid. I bought this off of eBay and didn't realize this listing wasn't the exact same thing. It doesn't have an HDMI socket and it would just be dumb to solder one on, but it's the same board,so ig China's the winner of this round .

ey b0is So I bought this screen (https://www.buydisplay.com/default/4-3-inch-800x480-tft-lcd-display-with-hdmi-vga-video-av-driver-board). It works to some degree. when there's no signal the backlight is fine. the buttons work, etc. But when I plug in a VGA source (my PC), the screen goes dark...

Sorry for awful Android quality, but Am man now (re-uploaded for mobile)

That was it. Apparently the preamp doesn't like surprisingly good cheap Chinese amps.Thanks.

Life. anyways, finally got to working on my wii again. Got a surprisingly good headphone amp for $20. Tested it and it worked (almost perfectly). Hooked it up to my wii (AV pins, preamp powered by 7v). Incredible static. I'm using shielded wire from some charger (the shield threads also act as...

Re-purposed usbc cable for removable GCC slots.

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School is hard.

hmm.... so it appears that this cool looking multimeter I got for Christmas actually sucks.......................a LOT my wii/regs might not actually be dead....

nvm my wii might be alive all my regs worked I was just bamboozled by the evil that is a bad multimeter

You've heard of wireporn messes, now get ready for...........an even worse wireporn mess........but with a screen now.

oof. Rip that idea. welp time to fire up the old fpga and get to workin'