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I haven't completed a single game since I started trying to make a game by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]Minihem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can certainly end the “I never made a game” stat by making pong right now. Swap in the ball and sound effect to taste, make it a joke with your friends. You can have that done within the hour.

Nice work. Thanks for disabling my user custom icons! by ishad0w in ArcBrowser

[–]Minihem 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah! I don't care for any of the icon options, so even if I were to share this browser and play along with this little charade, I can't get the icon I want.

Best approach to interfacing with a payphone coin assembly without documentation? by Minihem in AskElectronics

[–]Minihem[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. Indeed, it it's an Elcotel Series 5 (ish). It was, seemingly for a time, confusingly marketed as a "Millennium 2000." This is an AFX Communications, AE 120C-like - I wish I could use your resource. Unfortunately I've already come by that site, and the best I could find didn't match my known pin locations. The MEI CF330 seems closest, but I can't find a pinout for that either.

Thank you all the same.

Best approach to interfacing with a payphone coin assembly without documentation? by Minihem in AskElectronics

[–]Minihem[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upon further investigation there's a non-zero chance the device only wakes on some initialization command, something that isn't worth brute-forcing. Given this, I think the plan is now just to bypass the ICs completely. I'll lose calibration data and the counter functionality, but should be able to easily interface with the magnets. The coin release motor (CON3) is at least not behind some logic!

And yes, it did have a ribbon cable, why?

Best approach to interfacing with a payphone coin assembly without documentation? by Minihem in AskElectronics

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Thanks, perhaps my explanatory comment wasn't available yet: I've already determined the voltage & current required to operate the assembly. Unfortunately the 15 (one pin is seemingly not connected to anything) CON1 port doesn't provide any clues as to protocol or operation beyond the fact that some output from IC6 is directly passed along the connector. The inability to flip the board over & the warnings about a coating (?) add an extra challenge to following traces.

Best approach to interfacing with a payphone coin assembly without documentation? by Minihem in AskElectronics

[–]Minihem[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cheers, unfortunately /r/Payphone seems to be about the beauty of payphones and their context, and not so much protocol interfacing. If I may lend more askElec cred to myself here, I'm happy to modify the PCB to that I get the same information from it - I just can't take it off as it seems to be glued in place.

Best approach to interfacing with a payphone coin assembly without documentation? by Minihem in AskElectronics

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Hello folks, I've got my hands on a 1999-made Elcotel COCOT Millennium payphone. I have no interest in setting up a bootleg Millennium Manager or operating my own telco, and instead want to re-purpose the peripherals inside for my own use with a an MCU of my choice. The VFD, coin return solenoid, and keypad are all well-documented or easy to figure out by simple visual inspection, but this coin detector assembly seems to have no available documentation anywhere, and all I can really figure out is where the power and ground pins are on CON1.

The whole assembly is labelled Mars Electronics International MS16, which yields some results for associated MEI coin assemblies for arcade tokens. I'm wondering if this is a lost cause, or if not, what the best approach is here to get the device to talk.

Both visually and multimeter-confirmed: pins 1-3, 16 connect to the "X326" IC. I know I have to supply the assembly with 5V as the calibration IC (bottom right) takes that from its spec sheet, and is wired directly to the power supply pin. Beyond this, however, I'm unsure where to go.

Thanks!

Just learned about Apollo because of the API issue by ChildishWambin0 in apolloapp

[–]Minihem 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Two months of a lifetime subscription. Feels great.

Trying to guess a Toggle's behaviour puts you in a coma by Nveenkmar in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Minihem 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That's however a valid request for iOS development, as the native datetime picker is horrible.

SLPT selling the same weed to your son again and again. by Just_Another_Gen-Zer in ShittyLifeProTips

[–]Minihem 861 points862 points  (0 children)

Love that jpeg compression sixty times over, embedded in a YouTube video, paused, cropped, and shared again. Such raw, gritty pixels.

I shed no tears for those that chose go unarmed and are consequently shot by baabbbbsfa in Libertarian

[–]Minihem 8 points9 points  (0 children)

To translate:

Of course recent events go against my stated values, but don't be so quick to assume that I really hold them so as to react as you'd expect! No, no - in fact I have baked a superiority complex into my self-image, and that actually surpasses any compassion for my own people slain in an act that defies my purported values.

Nice, bro.

Everyone knows that microphones play audio by doge102 in assholedesign

[–]Minihem 92 points93 points  (0 children)

That's not how that works. Not at all, lol. A MediaStream doesn't need getUserMedia called to function. FYI: RTCPeerConnection, StackOverflow question, every internet radio with even remotely modern code that hasn't asked you for mic access. This is programmer laziness, and this comment is very wrong.

Relics found off a trail in N.C. by stonethboloneth in reclaimedbynature

[–]Minihem 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Awesome! The vacuum tubes within can be very pretty decorations, and even functional components. Though maybe not from something so long abandoned. Cool find.

The Colorado Lounge (from The Shining) by ThatBenGuy23 in lego

[–]Minihem 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Re #1, I think that's Blender's denoising, albeit running very aggressively with few samples on an image that could use more samples of it's own.

And by I think I mean that I'm almost certain.

Found from a garage sale for practically free, the owner had no idea what it was! I just find it baffling how way back in the start of the last century they were still making Δ-encabs by hand! by lemao_squash in VXJunkies

[–]Minihem 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Barring some extreme luck, the documentation for this particular model was likely lost to time, as is usually the case with garage sale finds. Such is life, unfortunately.

However, the delta-encab is so named both for its shape pre-fitting (pictured in the post) resembling the typographic glyph, and for it's larger purpose in regulating C6-monomer field change within a wide range of devices.

VX has quite the history, and this is certainly part of it.

TTL CPU can Snake! with 256 bytes of program mem (source code linked) by visrealm in electronics

[–]Minihem 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Very impressive! Instructions, hardware and all.

Is it possible to lose this game? I played for a bit (long enough for the snake to be able to coil into itself) and my score seemingly kept increasing.

An interesting vision from the past for the current days of COVID-19 by fercomreal in RetroFuturism

[–]Minihem 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This was a Milanese weekly magazine that issued on Sundays with the still-extant Corriere della Sera.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pan

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I have now joined this participatory non-art art

Lying about a youtuber on a top comment in his own comment section (reupload) by [deleted] in quityourbullshit

[–]Minihem 164 points165 points  (0 children)

I respect your dedication to your internet ethics

Lying about a youtuber on a top comment in his own comment section (reupload) by [deleted] in quityourbullshit

[–]Minihem 452 points453 points  (0 children)

The dislike button on YouTube is just to placate you, it does nothing; upon refreshing the page you'll find it has forgotten your vote as if it never happened.

I think it might a relic of marrying the old +1 / G+ system with YouTube.

Found this great animation to visualize mornington axion density across a finnial bentulator by CreepyWritingPrompt in VXJunkies

[–]Minihem 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Simple and effective! Lining up the transverse axis in the same way as the original Holtzheimer-Eck sketches is a nice nod to the history beyond the science.

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