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I’ve been debugging the horizontal line across the bottom of the screen for a while now and just realised it is the YouTube progress bar.

Change of plans for this afternoon! FPGA Friday is now SMD Assembly Afternoon.

if the Mac's analog board wants to have the computer connected, that can be arranged..

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oh no the Mac Plus might require a load on the +12v line in order for the power supply to stabilize, which is problematic for running it without a computer attached

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Horseless Carriage is overwhelming. It combines Tetris with Factorio with a competitive area control game.

It's interesting that signatures started disappearing -- mine has far fewer than shown in the folklore page folklore.org/StoryView.py?proj or in the presentation by Kottke.

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Did you know about the Easter Egg hidden inside the original Mac case?

Blue Noise Dithering looks nice, even with a 32x32 matrix, and is an easy fit in the Pixel Wrangler's video processing pipeline for live 1bpp monochrome displays.

@jwz and also using xrandr to map the region of the X display that is shown on the external HDMI connector

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@jwz this is using the breadboard version of the Pixel Wrangler to appear as an HDMI display to my laptop. github.com/osresearch/pixel-wr

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It is so liberating to have more than two channels! Now I can see the clock, data, and enable lines!

Booting Linux using the signboard from the side of a train as the display? Easy with the Pixel Wrangler.

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That’s better. Or worse, depending on your opinion of glitch art.

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