Remember in the 80's you had Time Life Music and Session Presents computation commercials? We need a "Revco Music presents..."Ben Heck Live From The Bench" on LP, cassette, or 8 Track. Finish it with a "Ben Heck International Electronic Correspondence School" with the quote "Do you want to make more hacks, sure well all do" with a Sally Struthers narrating and a Life size painting of Ben in the background holding the cat.
"Be our guest" because he also plays Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, I love your discrete references Ben, now I have yet another song in my head from Mr Heck 🤪
Those mini Black and White CRTs fascinated me SOOO much as a kid, i even once saved up about 100 bucks of money and went out and bought one when i was.. 13 or14 or so. It was just sooo freaking cool but i just dunno why. Maybe it was because it was so obscure. A little TV with all analog controls and a sharp black and white picture without the mask pattern that colour TV sets have.
27:47 I sent you that Betamax copy of Dirty Dancing back in 2017 as a bad joke following some comments you made during your PlayStation-SNES livestream about having Dirty Dancing on almost all formats EXCEPT Betamax. Glad to see it has come full circle and itself was used as a bad joke. Best $5 I've ever spent.
I got a version of Bud who is now 16, he's called coco - can't remember why. He busts stuff and wrecks stuff but I still love the old fella. Follows me round like a dog. I love gingers, he's my pal. He gave up catching birds and mice long ago now he eats, sleeps and follows me waiting to sit on me or lie on me. You got a bud for life with him... Look after the old boy, gingers are thoughtful and caring cats.
Grammarly makes the bulk of money from businesses as it has a feature that allows you to make a ruleset that all communication has the same "language" e.g you may want emails only going out if they sound professional or sound friendly. It saves employing a full time email moderator and don't have to worry about emails being delayed due to moderation.
Gotta love CRT's, even small black&white ones, total bummer that bud broke the first. Also really like that idea with the kitchen cabinet handles, it does totally make it look like some old ISS part haha, nice one
holy crap, they were still making black and white TVs in 2001? Also, I love percussive maintenance handles. makes it so much easier to perform drop testing.
I used to grow patches of oat for the cat to nibble on, and it stopped eating house plants. Just threw some seeds into a mug-sized container (maybe even a mug) with dirt, when is started growing I offered it to the cat, and after a while somehow it learned this is his.
Two years ago I bought a Karaoke machine from a thrift store for five bucks. A year later I took it apart and modified the case with the tablesaw and stuffed a Raspberry Pi Zero in it. I also have plans to toss in a terminal board, AV connectors and maybe a DAC so I can plug in some HDMI devices into it. I've also been thinking to build a retro style TV case, I'm talking about something that looked like from the 50's early 60's.
I got from a thrift store a karaoke DVD with 5" color screen. It looks like a standard portable CD, have radio, TV, plays CDs and DVDs. The bad thing is that the screen is very dim, burnt, many hours of usage. Maybe I can find a good and cheap screen for it, color tube are kinda rare and expensive. I was planning to make an Osborne style all-in-one Spectrum computer.
@@sebastian19745 You can swap out the CRT but keep in mind a couple of rules. Try and use the same size, you can go bigger but do not go smaller. Takes less voltage to drive a smaller CRT and over driving a smaller CRT will produce X-Rays. If you go bigger you can go up only a couple of inches before it's too weak to drive the CRT and you end up with a soft weak raster/picture. It's hard to find small color CRTs. The smallest I am able to find are 9" but costs an arm and leg for one.
@@lelandclayton5462 Yes, the original tube is 5" CRT and i´ll go up to 7" but they are very hard to find and quite expensive. That is why I put the project on hold. I might find an similar one at the thrift store, so, patience.
I think it'd be very interesting to see how you got the measurements into CAD. Measuring complex shapes to print parts that fit well is something I struggle with, so I would love to see how you did it.
I probably hot glue a Raspberry Pi onto the side, connect a floppy drive on the other side with hot glue and hot glue a short extention on it. And then plug a keyboard onto it, run freedos on it and make it a text editor. Maybe paint it black and put some artificial wood tape around the sides to look like a 70's TV.
Hey Ben! After watching your cat walk all over the workbench, I remembered some gadget I saw on Jackson Galaxy's channel (he's a cat expert). There's a company that makes a device where a can of compressed air is hooked up to a PIR sensor. When the cat walks in front of the sensor it lets out a short burst of air that surprises them (they don't like it). By putting them on countertops or pretty much any place you don't want the cat to go, they learn that it's not a fun place and stop going there. I think you might want to get one of those even if it's just for taking apart to see how it works 😉
Damn you beat me too it, I have an old b&w tube rigged up and I'm making my own crt controller, I didn't want to just feed it composite video. thought it might be nicer video... Or just fun to do. The computer I want to build will be around a z180 just to be a bit different and get that sweet sweet 1mb of address space.
This looks slick! I need a 3D printer! Also, I want to see more of your cat! Also, "Aw, this is the beta[max] version of Dirty Dancing" is a sentence that hasn't been uttered since 1988.
portable ZX81! i always wanted to build one out of a similar TV i own, including a decent keyboard and an integrated tape deck there's even all new ZX81 PCBs that you could possibly build up
dang it, yesterday "Knowing Better" released his videos about US company towns (go watch it!), including a referene to the song "16 tons" and here you are on the SAME day singing the SAME song! Coincidence?! Most likely yes. Keep up the amazing work Ben!
Do we really need other stores? They sometimes give you 11% off if you can fit it in a paper bag. The Tech Connections guy uses them. Oh, and they have everything you need to build a makeshift ceiling light -- including the junk food and coasters. You know it's not worth a back-wrenching session on a ladder if you don't have gooey froot wedges as your breaktime reward.
I also have a bottom of the barrel b&w portable crt tv. Manufactured 1998. It was an impulse buy from a store we have here called "The Back Lots" absolutely FASCINATING store! It does get used from time to time. And it does a good job.
Hey Ben , you are one of the very First widely known game console portable makers in "modding" ,,,you are often referred to as "The-MOD-FATHER" , of gamesystem modding ,, I'm a big fan of yours since I saw you on Tech-TV ,, so I'm always amazed when you make a Console into a handheld with newer features than your previous handheld build ,,,🐒🦆😋😸😸👍
Love the compact design you were able to do. I wanted to find a small color ctr to mount in my mac classic and put a raspberry Pi in it for a retro console. And I had that exact VCR as a kid!!
You just reminded me that I have the RCA version of that TV packed away in my basement. Now I want to do something with it... Also, I have Bud's twin brother napping in front of my keyboard. His name is Sol and he looked up as soon as Bud came into view
I used have couple of these tv back in the 90s I remember when power go out when I was kid living in the out middle of nowhere and my dad setting up the one we had on main tv and watching Nascar and turning off during commercials to save on battery power. I used have also one those Karaoke machine with a black and white screen I remember hooking up my VCR to it watching Mrs Doubtfire on it . Cause the one I owned it had RCA video/audio input and output. Course I always remember those tv being a batteries eaters. I remember you could buy one for like 15 20 bucks and also I remember when they made boomboxes with then CRT as well.
Nice classic design, looking forward to the final design. Suggest ha shielded cable was used for the video signal since it will be traveling in and around sources of interference.
See you have the same Fallout fantasy I have for these. ;) I think approximate phosphor color CRT overlays could do those kind of monochrome tints like Green and Amber. Small CRTs would be better for the average 3D print size most people have. I think the Space:1999 communicator was probably the most accurate 80s approach to that idea, any larger and you get into vintage military backpack phone territory. Watched Brazil again and those consoles with the exposed flybacks looked very unsafe for actors to use heh. Got a couple Karaoke machines that take up too much shelf space that need repurposing, I'm not the singer you are heh. Picked them up since they likely have the youngest lowest hour CRTs you can get secondhand. Fun later day units, got one where they stuck a cheap webcam on top and trying those CD+Gs natively. Skies the limit on projects like this, PVM style, Pip-boys, mini computer monitors, vintage tube TV style, Blade Runner car dashes, game console screen toppers, etc. Yeah, who said adults weren't impressionable too? Anyway sweet design, think a middle sheet metal sleeve like a PC case would be a good variant.
Great video! To kill a Mockingbird is one of the greatest book ever written. The movie is great too. If you feel like being depressed, look up how bad Harper Lee was treated at the end of her life. Pathetic. The company store song always reminds me off a movie that I caught on TV when I was a kid (1980s maybe). It was about a family, and the dad found a job at a place but soon he discovered that he couldn't leave and had to buy only from a company store. I haven't been able to find the movie yet.
This series of monitor were most frequently used with security systems, set up just like an old computer monitor. Monoraul in, audio in, maybe a downstepped 555 to get it to automatically 'change channels'
Is your step dad's flip up CRT the one used in Blade Runner? I have one of those and they are pretty neat. They mounted one upside down in Deckard's bathroom in the movie. Because you know, futuristic means upside down TVs.
I actually did my own CRT cyberdeck build last year using a similar cheap-o portable TV. It's just a raspberry pi 3 in a 3D printed case with the necessary TV bits, video fed into the TV's convenient composite in. I find that it takes a ton of adjustments to get a good picture for most normal stuff. Video playback usually looks pretty good but desktops and terminals take a lot of tinkering.
@@BenHeckHacks Yup, just the plain RPi composite out. I wasn't impressed with the picture on mine either, but video playback usually looked okay. Edit: I just remembered, using the Pi I had problems with vertical hold, but my TV had a pot to adjust it with
This is very similar to a personal project of mine; sony made a neat little portable 5" color trinitron CRT, and I tried to make a portable game console out of it. It all worked out fine, but the thing weighed more than a late 80s laptop. Good luck with weight management, Ben.
I've posted the Thingiverse files link in the descriptions, also here: www.thingiverse.com/thing:5220983
thanks alot
i do have a 5.5 inch how much bigger should it be
Thanks!!
Thanks so much
Was your video copyrighted because of you singing all this popular songs?
Thank for spending your creative energy for the Tedious Measurements for the rest of us! Thank you! Please
dude you are so funny and like so low key and humble about being a straight up engineering and electronics wizard. love your vids dude
I'm thinking Vectrex Handheld! Or maybe a mini FPGA vector arcade Asteroids, Lunar Lander, etc...
I don't even have to watch your vids to enjoy them. Your ramble is AAA quality
Remember in the 80's you had Time Life Music and Session Presents computation commercials? We need a "Revco Music presents..."Ben Heck Live From The Bench" on LP, cassette, or 8 Track. Finish it with a "Ben Heck International Electronic Correspondence School" with the quote "Do you want to make more hacks, sure well all do" with a Sally Struthers narrating and a Life size painting of Ben in the background holding the cat.
You always make your videos so fun. I could watch things being fixed all day.
"Be our guest" because he also plays Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, I love your discrete references Ben, now I have yet another song in my head from Mr Heck 🤪
I need this to replace one of my headlights. Retro car show
Those mini Black and White CRTs fascinated me SOOO much as a kid, i even once saved up about 100 bucks of money and went out and bought one when i was.. 13 or14 or so. It was just sooo freaking cool but i just dunno why. Maybe it was because it was so obscure. A little TV with all analog controls and a sharp black and white picture without the mask pattern that colour TV sets have.
Haha me too.
27:47 I sent you that Betamax copy of Dirty Dancing back in 2017 as a bad joke following some comments you made during your PlayStation-SNES livestream about having Dirty Dancing on almost all formats EXCEPT Betamax. Glad to see it has come full circle and itself was used as a bad joke. Best $5 I've ever spent.
Thanks again! Now my collection is complete and I can... Die happy? I mean, there are worse films...
I got a version of Bud who is now 16, he's called coco - can't remember why. He busts stuff and wrecks stuff but I still love the old fella. Follows me round like a dog. I love gingers, he's my pal. He gave up catching birds and mice long ago now he eats, sleeps and follows me waiting to sit on me or lie on me. You got a bud for life with him... Look after the old boy, gingers are thoughtful and caring cats.
Have you done anything with that TV since?
im really excited to see where this goes
That CRT would made for a perfect TRS-80 Model I luggable! =wink wink= =poke poke=
Tempting. I kind of want to try a system I haven't before...
Grammarly makes the bulk of money from businesses as it has a feature that allows you to make a ruleset that all communication has the same "language" e.g you may want emails only going out if they sound professional or sound friendly. It saves employing a full time email moderator and don't have to worry about emails being delayed due to moderation.
As always, another awesome repurposing of landfill bound electronics. Thank you for taking us through this wonderful adventure. You're the Best!
Looks like a great start to an awesome new portable!
3D printing - such an enabling technology. Knowing that you can easily print iterations is a bonus.
I have never seen a side-loader VCR.. How freaking cool is that?!
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Looks awesome!
Would have been cool to see how you measured all those curves, as that is something i struggle with in CAD
Gotta love CRT's, even small black&white ones, total bummer that bud broke the first. Also really like that idea with the kitchen cabinet handles, it does totally make it look like some old ISS part haha, nice one
also got my kitten the same time as you, so enjoying seeing the both of them grow into silly adult kitties
holy crap, they were still making black and white TVs in 2001?
Also, I love percussive maintenance handles. makes it so much easier to perform drop testing.
Wow! I really like the design of that CRT "cage" with the 3D printed parts and threaded rod. Gives me some ideas for my own projects...
I used to grow patches of oat for the cat to nibble on, and it stopped eating house plants. Just threw some seeds into a mug-sized container (maybe even a mug) with dirt, when is started growing I offered it to the cat, and after a while somehow it learned this is his.
Not a bad idea! Thanks!
There are some eatable plants that helps cats with digest problems. Mine is only eating from it when she has lot of furr to "process".
You know it’s gonna be a good one when it starts with “So here’s this thing I had laying around on my back porch”
Two years ago I bought a Karaoke machine from a thrift store for five bucks. A year later I took it apart and modified the case with the tablesaw and stuffed a Raspberry Pi Zero in it. I also have plans to toss in a terminal board, AV connectors and maybe a DAC so I can plug in some HDMI devices into it. I've also been thinking to build a retro style TV case, I'm talking about something that looked like from the 50's early 60's.
I got from a thrift store a karaoke DVD with 5" color screen. It looks like a standard portable CD, have radio, TV, plays CDs and DVDs. The bad thing is that the screen is very dim, burnt, many hours of usage. Maybe I can find a good and cheap screen for it, color tube are kinda rare and expensive. I was planning to make an Osborne style all-in-one Spectrum computer.
@@sebastian19745 You can swap out the CRT but keep in mind a couple of rules. Try and use the same size, you can go bigger but do not go smaller. Takes less voltage to drive a smaller CRT and over driving a smaller CRT will produce X-Rays. If you go bigger you can go up only a couple of inches before it's too weak to drive the CRT and you end up with a soft weak raster/picture. It's hard to find small color CRTs. The smallest I am able to find are 9" but costs an arm and leg for one.
@@lelandclayton5462 Yes, the original tube is 5" CRT and i´ll go up to 7" but they are very hard to find and quite expensive. That is why I put the project on hold. I might find an similar one at the thrift store, so, patience.
I am going to start adding drawer pulls to my projects. That was a super nice touch and totally change the look.
Bud could use some.
@@endgovernmentextremism When no-one is watching, Bud finds the nearest phone booth and becomes rack mount
Having a whole wall of them with the same video of Bud playing would be both neat and crazy.
Love that side-loading VCR. A JVC in disguise by the looks of things.. 📼
I think it'd be very interesting to see how you got the measurements into CAD. Measuring complex shapes to print parts that fit well is something I struggle with, so I would love to see how you did it.
Heh I wonder how many watch these videos just to hear Ben sing/perform obscure 80's music.
Great project and video. Really looking forward to the next episode. The NASA-handles look amazing!
dig the projects!!! thanks for the content Ben!
It's been 7 months. Any plans for the CRT?
I’m also waiting patiently 😂
I probably hot glue a Raspberry Pi onto the side, connect a floppy drive on the other side with hot glue and hot glue a short extention on it. And then plug a keyboard onto it, run freedos on it and make it a text editor. Maybe paint it black and put some artificial wood tape around the sides to look like a 70's TV.
wow.. i get nostalgic when someone mentions any year before 2019
Later, Bud would retire under the sofa, crying while reading Dostoyevsky.
He said Menards, drink!
Hey Ben! After watching your cat walk all over the workbench, I remembered some gadget I saw on Jackson Galaxy's channel (he's a cat expert). There's a company that makes a device where a can of compressed air is hooked up to a PIR sensor. When the cat walks in front of the sensor it lets out a short burst of air that surprises them (they don't like it). By putting them on countertops or pretty much any place you don't want the cat to go, they learn that it's not a fun place and stop going there. I think you might want to get one of those even if it's just for taking apart to see how it works 😉
I'll look into it. I've used "Panther tape" to make surfaces sticky to stop him.
@@BenHeckHacks There's also a product called "sticky paws" that's designed just for that. He probably has both in his shop.
Every CRT saved is a good thing!
Bud was thinking "I see him break old and cheap electronics all the time, let me help him with this one."
Damn you beat me too it, I have an old b&w tube rigged up and I'm making my own crt controller, I didn't want to just feed it composite video. thought it might be nicer video... Or just fun to do. The computer I want to build will be around a z180 just to be a bit different and get that sweet sweet 1mb of address space.
This looks slick! I need a 3D printer! Also, I want to see more of your cat! Also, "Aw, this is the beta[max] version of Dirty Dancing" is a sentence that hasn't been uttered since 1988.
Looks nice Ben awesome built keep up the good work man 👍
"Buddy, why are you so needy?" Ben discovers he bought himself a cat.
portable ZX81! i always wanted to build one out of a similar TV i own, including a decent keyboard and an integrated tape deck
there's even all new ZX81 PCBs that you could possibly build up
dang it, yesterday "Knowing Better" released his videos about US company towns (go watch it!), including a referene to the song "16 tons" and here you are on the SAME day singing the SAME song! Coincidence?! Most likely yes. Keep up the amazing work Ben!
Lot of weird coincidences on YT lately and I swear they aren't planned! This isn't the game journalism industry after all :)
I seriously want to hang out with Ben and play with electro stuff.
Is Menards the only store you have?
Do we really need other stores?
They sometimes give you 11% off if you can fit it in a paper bag. The Tech Connections guy uses them.
Oh, and they have everything you need to build a makeshift ceiling light -- including the junk food and coasters. You know it's not worth a back-wrenching session on a ladder if you don't have gooey froot wedges as your breaktime reward.
A Weapon to Surpass Plastic Gear
fun fact: these can be picked up on eBay for around $35 - nearly double the Walmart clearance price back in the day!
Yes I know, I had to buy another after bud broke the first one. Far more than the $4 I spent at St Vinnys for original.
@@BenHeckHacks it's a very cool project. Can't wait to see how it progresses. Stay awesome, my dude.
I also have a bottom of the barrel b&w portable crt tv. Manufactured 1998.
It was an impulse buy from a store we have here called "The Back Lots" absolutely FASCINATING store!
It does get used from time to time. And it does a good job.
Thumbs up for the procedurally generated Mega Man song.
Someone should insert real Megaman audio into it, and turn it into the Megaman song it deserved to be
I preferred the awesome cover of the wonderful Laura Branigan song
Hey Ben , you are one of the very First widely known game console portable makers in "modding" ,,,you are often referred to as "The-MOD-FATHER" , of gamesystem modding ,, I'm a big fan of yours since I saw you on Tech-TV ,, so I'm always amazed when you make a Console into a handheld with newer features than your previous handheld build ,,,🐒🦆😋😸😸👍
Love the compact design you were able to do. I wanted to find a small color ctr to mount in my mac classic and put a raspberry Pi in it for a retro console.
And I had that exact VCR as a kid!!
bens metal gear impressions are spot on
bud is hungry for some 'long pig'
No Ben, make it into a wrist watch
Farscape is actually one of my all time favorite shows, I have the entire series and the stand alone movie all on DVD.
hell yeah cyberdecks! the pull handles look awesome
Great video! Would be super interesting to see a CRT tv repurposed as vector graphics display.
I like the idea, been trying to find a use for these old b&w crts
This is like if lgr was an electrical engineer
This is exactly what I've been thinking of building.
Glad I come from the same era of uncle Ben, self-control is good.
You just reminded me that I have the RCA version of that TV packed away in my basement. Now I want to do something with it...
Also, I have Bud's twin brother napping in front of my keyboard. His name is Sol and he looked up as soon as Bud came into view
I have no clue who you are but you are exactly the right amount of nerdy to fit in you remind me a lot of me and my dad actually
He's Glen Beck, no wait! Hen Beck... Ah Heck!
I used have couple of these tv back in the 90s I remember when power go out when I was kid living in the out middle of nowhere and my dad setting up the one we had on main tv and watching Nascar and turning off during commercials to save on battery power. I used have also one those Karaoke machine with a black and white screen I remember hooking up my VCR to it watching Mrs Doubtfire on it . Cause the one I owned it had RCA video/audio input and output. Course I always remember those tv being a batteries eaters. I remember you could buy one for like 15 20 bucks and also I remember when they made boomboxes with then CRT as well.
That’s a brilliant build
im not kidding you when i say i have the exact same zenith side loader. exactly. worlds easiest clock to set.
Dude. I’ve got a few shitty tv here. One even has the av in port. So happy you did all the heavy lifting on the stl!
Nice classic design, looking forward to the final design. Suggest ha shielded cable was used for the video signal since it will be traveling in and around sources of interference.
Now you can make backplane pluggable retro computers you can swap out. C64 today, Atari 800 tomorrow, spectrum the next day and so on lol
3d print a case and make a miniature monitor, then make a functional mini Apple II to go with it lol
See you have the same Fallout fantasy I have for these. ;) I think approximate phosphor color CRT overlays could do those kind of monochrome tints like Green and Amber. Small CRTs would be better for the average 3D print size most people have.
I think the Space:1999 communicator was probably the most accurate 80s approach to that idea, any larger and you get into vintage military backpack phone territory. Watched Brazil again and those consoles with the exposed flybacks looked very unsafe for actors to use heh.
Got a couple Karaoke machines that take up too much shelf space that need repurposing, I'm not the singer you are heh. Picked them up since they likely have the youngest lowest hour CRTs you can get secondhand. Fun later day units, got one where they stuck a cheap webcam on top and trying those CD+Gs natively.
Skies the limit on projects like this, PVM style, Pip-boys, mini computer monitors, vintage tube TV style, Blade Runner car dashes, game console screen toppers, etc. Yeah, who said adults weren't impressionable too? Anyway sweet design, think a middle sheet metal sleeve like a PC case would be a good variant.
Amazing! It is a very common tv, even here in italy, exactly the same. Can you share to us the drawings?
"at this very moment Britannia burns"!! I loved the Ultima quote!!! ;) VII and VI is by far my favorite of the series!
Correction: Buying a second tube did not cost you anything. Keeping Bud around is what cost you $35.
"Dad, can I have some money for this thing" and he's like "Be our guest!"
I see what you did there.
Great video!
To kill a Mockingbird is one of the greatest book ever written. The movie is great too.
If you feel like being depressed, look up how bad Harper Lee was treated at the end of her life. Pathetic.
The company store song always reminds me off a movie that I caught on TV when I was a kid (1980s maybe). It was about a family, and the dad found a job at a place but soon he discovered that he couldn't leave and had to buy only from a company store. I haven't been able to find the movie yet.
You could possibly make a Compaq Portable/ Portable II style using a mini-ITX board if you don't want to go the Pi route.
I love watching Ben & Bud.
"🎵St. Peter don't you call me cause I can't go.🎵"
"🎵I owe my soul to the company store.🎵"
One of those TVs appeared on Everybody Love’s Raymond! Also, I have one of those that has composite in.
This series of monitor were most frequently used with security systems, set up just like an old computer monitor. Monoraul in, audio in, maybe a downstepped 555 to get it to automatically 'change channels'
They also make good old computer monitors if you want to act like SteveTheWoz in Pirates of Silicon Valley
Long pig, wasn't that the production name used for Soylent Green?
Ahhhh!!! CRT tone!!! How I miss your absence!!!🙉
I got given one of these (different model, same fluff)
Was going to build it into a mini arcade machine, but yeah, that tube length
I have a kbtoys tv like your tv. Thanks for the video, I can now add composite to it.
Do you have an STL that you can share please?
Is your step dad's flip up CRT the one used in Blade Runner? I have one of those and they are pretty neat. They mounted one upside down in Deckard's bathroom in the movie. Because you know, futuristic means upside down TVs.
It's a panasonic TV radio combo from 1970
@@BenHeckHacks If its the TR-535 then thats the model. They are not rare but they fetch some decent prices ($50-120)
I'm just here for the singing.
We're kids in-cor-po-rated, K I D S, YEAH
Kids in-cor-po-rated, K I D S, Whoa-a looks like we made it, to kids incorporated...
I come for the projects. I stay for the music quality.
Great video Ben. Also don't make fun of bud, it's not his fault he can't read.
I remember in school having to read to kill a mocking bird. Actually not a bad book
I actually did my own CRT cyberdeck build last year using a similar cheap-o portable TV. It's just a raspberry pi 3 in a 3D printed case with the necessary TV bits, video fed into the TV's convenient composite in. I find that it takes a ton of adjustments to get a good picture for most normal stuff. Video playback usually looks pretty good but desktops and terminals take a lot of tinkering.
I tried attaching a Pi and couldn't get a good picture. Did you use the Pi composite?
@@BenHeckHacks Yup, just the plain RPi composite out. I wasn't impressed with the picture on mine either, but video playback usually looked okay.
Edit: I just remembered, using the Pi I had problems with vertical hold, but my TV had a pot to adjust it with
@@greenboy256 This TV couldn't get the horizontal lock right. Like the H hold knob was way off.
you cat is fucken crazy knocks a whole tv tube off the table
the handles look really cool. an osborne-style portable commodore or atari would be neat
This is very similar to a personal project of mine; sony made a neat little portable 5" color trinitron CRT, and I tried to make a portable game console out of it. It all worked out fine, but the thing weighed more than a late 80s laptop. Good luck with weight management, Ben.