Various hax

… or small hax overload

Intro

Let’s start with a photo of the week.
Proposed title – “Y U NO WORK ??!!”
Any idea what hardware it is? :>

Another day, another post … kinda delayed because of the VMworld conference.

Soooo, this is another post about small hacks that piled up for the past few weeks and are hopefully worth a look …. like this radiator massacre that I’ve found recently. 😀

SD2IEC built-in C16

My friend Gepard of Lamers asked me to install an SD2IEC inside his C16 that he bought some time ago.
I opened it and was kinda surprised by what I found inside …
Just have a look at the photos. I am putting it here just 4 t3h lulz 😉

… yeah … quite a nice soldering …
The switch mounted on a back of a case is a RAM changing mod.

Anyway, I needed to look for a nice place to install an SD2IEC.
Swap disk button and LEDs were hot glued above sd2iec PCB.

This is where I’ve put it.

And it works 😉

ZX Spectrum +2 Grey – emblem renovation

I’ve figured out a way to renew my Speccy +2 silver emblem.
Originally it was kinda worn out:

Since I didn’t have a small and stiff brush, I’ve made one myself 😉
… with a piece of wire

The idea was to use Aluminium spray paint.
Canned spray paint is never thick, therefore it fits this task perfectly.
I’ve sprayed a bit of it into a cup and gently painted emblem letters with my hacked brush 😉

C64 Powered via 1A USB charger

Yeah … I was surprised too 😉

Uber lame prototype is combined with a DC-DC step-up converter and a small PCB with a USB socket 😀

Here is how it works

C64c powered by USB charger ?? from pit on Vimeo.

I’ve also made a variation of it with a regular and cheap 9V DC power supply.
Again, with a cheap, Chinese DC-DC step-up converter.

I’ve quickly designed and 3D printed a small case for a converter.

I was testing it with C64(shortboard) running a Commando for 2 hours and nothing major happened.
I’ll be launching some heavy tests later.