Your optical mouse sensor is also a low res camera. In older models you could dump the picture through a debug mode.
Also, LEDs can also act as light sensors. Food for thought.
Also, LEDs can also act as light sensors. Food for thought.
- He uses retrobrite frequently. This is a controversial practice (personally, I'm against it). Basically, restoring a yellowed case to a closer-to-original color. The long term effects of this process are unknown (some speculation is that it makes plastic brittle, which is bad enough already on some of this older hardware) - it's probably okay to do it to an Apple II, but maybe not rarer hardware.
- His work is shoddy - frequently, he powers on 30+ year old machines without inspecting the caps. He uses a screwdriver on metal to clear adhesive. When a component is malfunctioning, he does't have the capability to examine it with a scope - sometimes, it's just a bad joint you know?
- He runs an entertainment channel. This means he moves fast. It leads to the above shoddy work but also means that he needs a complete project for video views - 8bg will spraypaint a faded case to a new color and call it done.
- RaspberryPi conversions. Man, I hate these. Let the thing be the thing that it was and let a Pi be a Pi.
And you know, this is probably fine for commodity hardware like TRS80s and Apple IIs. And, he does a good job of cutting videos showing logical progression to make them easier to watch. But, you'll notice that he never does workstation, graphics, or other esoteric hardware - that stuff is a legitimate challenge to restore aside from cleaning goop and retrobriting the case.
As an undergrad, I had to write a 'chat-program' where two LEDs on Arduinos were used for communication; essentially blinking at each other, acting both as sender and receiver. Fun times!
Makes me wonder if our eyes could be made to project light.
https://www.livescience.com/7799-strange-humans-glow-visible...