Man, was I screwed. I had this awesome laptop with a diy keyboard backlight and then it died on me just after the (already voided) warranty had expired and new mainboards were ~200€…It all started when I noticed that my ATI Radeon 5650M GPU had vanished in Windows, so I tried to reboot, enter theContinue reading “tl;dr – Reviving an Acer Aspire 3820 TG with a broken BIOS chip”
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Arduino Leonardo as a MAME interface
UPDATE: I made the thing a project on GitHub. You can find information and can download the source code for the Arduino and PC programs from the project page. Ok. So I found this old arcade cabinet for 1,50€ 😀 on Ebay and managed to carry it up the stairs. Looks dandy and even hasContinue reading “Arduino Leonardo as a MAME interface”
Setting up an Arduino + LPD8806 ambilight using boblight with XBMC on Ubuntu
An Ambilight is a great thing – if it works. I want to write about some of the hoops I had to jump through to make it work. This is very Linux-specific, but you might take away something for other configurations too… Here is the original adalight tutorial, which I used to get this workingContinue reading “Setting up an Arduino + LPD8806 ambilight using boblight with XBMC on Ubuntu”
Adding a “proper” keyboard backlight to an Acer Aspire 3820TG notebook
This thing started long ago when I got the laptop. I love it, but it really lacks a backlit keyboard. There was one excellent thread with people presenting solutions (add tiny switches, soldering to the bluetooth connector, to the USB breakout board etc.), but I found none of them really satisfying. I decided to voidContinue reading “Adding a “proper” keyboard backlight to an Acer Aspire 3820TG notebook”
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