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Stardate: 20181230.18h50
Last Modified: 20190107.14h30 (see ADDENDUM)
Location: Guest room
Input Device: Cybah Rig
Audio: nummuch
Visual: the shell
Energy: 60%
Mental: 70%
Emotional: accomplished.

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EDIT: FMD is made by Olympus, not Fujitsu.

Currently, I am optically jacked into my updated cyber rig
(cyberdeck?) The display is the Fujitsu FMD-250W.  The
computing device is a Raspberry Pi Zero W.  The input device
is a Fellows Stowaway folding USB keyboard.  Operating System
is Raspbian; Editor is nano.

I had some time this afternoon to fire up my soldering iron
and add a composite RCA jack to the Pi Zero W.  Quick job, no
issues, easy instructions available. [1]

The Fujitsu FMD-250W uses either S-Video or composite for
video input.  Since I no longer have a "classic" Raspberry Pi
with the composite video connector, I soldered one on a Pi
Zero W.  The FMD was the device I had previously used with my
Nokia N900...which I still want to get working again.

What took the longest was the configuration.  It took me
awhile to find a font size that I was happy with.  I ended up
settling with using TerminusBold @ 11x22.  The screen is not
quite wide enough to read phlogs without wrapping with this
font, but good enough.  These pages were helpful. [2] [3]

The Pi is currently powered by a USB phone charger, but the
display is using a wall wart.  I would like to consolidate
the power and have the whole setup drawing from one power
source.  It would be kinda cool, tho extremely geeky to make
this rig mobile.  I would probably fit in with CrashOverride
and his partners in crime at the phone booths at Grand
Central Station...and look totally ridiculous to boot!

Here are some build pics:

Jack soldered to Raspberry Pi Zero W [4]

TV Test with RetroPi and 2.5" Pocket TV [5]

Cyber rig with FMD, Pi0w, keyboard, and battery. [6]

(BTW, what's the protocol for posting pics in the
phlogosphere?  I've been adding them to my gophermap and
linking them that way for download.  Seems kinda kludgy.  On
the fence re: using HTTP.)

Even now, I'm already thinking of further upgrades.  It would
have been nice if both channels on the headphones were still
functional for audio.  Perhaps I can fix or find a
workaround.

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/rca-pi-zero/

[2] https://tinyurl.com/395j9k6

[3] https://cutt.ly/RWktm

[4] https://tinyurl.com/yd3goskp

[5] https://tinyurl.com/y86ygxhh

[6] https://tinyurl.com/y82cbkxc

SDF's URL shortener seems to be down, just when I need to use it.
*sad face*

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FYI, I have replaced the following URLs:

[4] http://xiled.sdf.org/phlog/2018_files/20181230_pi0w_video1.jpg
[5] http://xiled.sdf.org/phlog/2018_files/20181230_pi0w_video4.jpg
[6] http://xiled.sdf.org/phlog/2018_files/20181230_pi0w_video5.jpg

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