Joe Burks
wavicle9.bsky.social
Joe Burks
@wavicle9.bsky.social
I make retro-style hardware for the 8-bit nostalgia feelz.
I think they universally think "Wow, if Americans will pay that much for our products, maybe we can increase our prices once the tariffs go away and sell it to them as a generous discount just for them."
May 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
VHS re-encodes the signal. VHS tapes have ~3MHz of bandwidth to encode the video signal (half 6MHz NTSC). For "acceptable" picture quality, luma was overemphasized and chroma QAM is superimposed at about 400KHz. The horizontal chroma resolution is ~40 pixels. And we liked it!
May 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
About like this? The N in QFN stands for "no-leads". Makes standard rework methods less than ideal. Usually I tin all the pads, make sure all the pads have a good bit of flux, put the IC in place, and let the hot air at it. Occasionally some IC pads don't wet and I go back with an fine-tip iron.
February 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Is that a QFN chip? I hate reworking those. They show up in both VERA and my OPM2151 so I've done it a fair bit, but I've never been happy about having to do it.
February 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Yes, that is wrong. You should get two and double the extra RAM that it provides.
January 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM