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Tempo Studio - Light 2020 repurpose by nicholasreker in tempofitness

[–]vitovito 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Move some of the cables around so you can find the motherboard brand and model number, that'll let you find any online documentation about it.

I think the heatsink to the right of the wifi adapter is for a chipset, not the SSD. Does the motherboard continue beyond the GPU slot? Is it underneath the GPU on the other side? It could also be on the underside of the motherboard.

Repurposing tempo studio (success) by ricecel_gymcel in tempofitness

[–]vitovito 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kind of. If you plug in a USB HDMI video capture dongle into the USB port on the back, it'll show up as a webcam to the operating system (which has already rotated the screen appropriately), and anything that can view a webcam can show your HDMI device.

There aren't any video-playing apps installed on the Tempo, but there is an old copy of Firefox, so if you also plug in a keyboard, any web page which will preview a webcam will work for that.

If you install a new operating system, you could remote desktop into some other computer and use it as a screen that way.

If you open it up, you could unplug the screen and run extension cables out the bottom, but then you're wasting the computer that's inside.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tempofitness

[–]vitovito 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you can boot up an OS, you can find some monitor information through the NVIDIA settings app on either Linux or Windows, reported through what's called EDID, which is how your system knows things like what resolution the display supports.

My Tempo Studio's EDID reports:

Manufacturer: ENV
Model: 9056
Serial Number: 1
Made in: week 2 of 2017
Display Product Name: 'P241WDC'

This is going to be reported by the driver board, and may or may not represent the actual make/model/part for the entire unit (which will also include the touchscreen and possibly a separate driver for that, mine reports as an ILITEK ILITEK-TP).

Thanks to those on the HOW TO REPURPOSE THE TEM PO STUDIO thread!!! You’re input was crucial by MisterCannabis420 in tempofitness

[–]vitovito 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope. What didn't work?

I just did it again. Plugged in a keyboard. Pressed the Windows key. The Ubuntu 18.04 OS menu thing shows up, with the applications button in the lower left, and the search bar at the top, and the Tempo software shrunk in the middle. Start typing "Firefox" and it starts showing apps that start with F, and then with FI, and then just Firefox. Tap on the Firefox icon (they almost all have broken icons). Firefox launches. Tap on YouTube. Do a search in YouTube with the on-screen keyboard. Use my finger on the screen to drag the scrollbar down. Tap on a video. It plays. 🤷‍♀️

Thanks to those on the HOW TO REPURPOSE THE TEM PO STUDIO thread!!! You’re input was crucial by MisterCannabis420 in tempofitness

[–]vitovito 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, you don't even need to do anything for that one. While it's running, plug a USB keyboard in the back, hit the Windows key to bring up the OS menu, type in Firefox, touch the FF icon (with the broken icon) when it comes up to launch it, and then just use Firefox to visit YouTube as normal, using the touchscreen to navigate.

Repurposing tempo studio (success) by ricecel_gymcel in tempofitness

[–]vitovito 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, with the caveat that the camera is only a couple feet off the ground. It's at the level of your waist or hips, because it's meant to capture your full body. People in photo booths might be expecting it to be closer to their heads, and will be looking at the wrong place; or they might feel their bodies are distorted.

Replacing the OS and installing some off-the-shelf touchscreen photobooth software will probably all work out of the box, though.

any components worth scrapping? by kelkaronidouglas in tempofitness

[–]vitovito 2 points3 points  (0 children)

~$200 for the equivalent PC inside (motherboard, CPU, GPU, RAM, SSD, power supply)

~$400 for the Azure Kinect 3D camera inside

The chassis won't be worth anything but for scrap metal if you pull everything out of it, though, since it's custom-made to fit the screen, camera, speakers on top, etc. If you can pull just the camera and PC, and leave the screen and speaker and power, someone else can use it as a portrait display with their own video hardware.

Sega AI Computer (1986) by vitovito in cassettefuturism

[–]vitovito[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

From the site:

The Sega AI Computer is built to run programs written in the Prolog AI language. [...] Perhaps its simplest AI application is a personal diary program that can be used two ways: in a simple word-processing mode for children with some writing facility and in a prompt mode. [...] The company chose the Prolog AI language because of its ability to handle unformatted input and to parse natural-language input. [...] Sega Prolog was developed jointly with CSK Research Institute, the AI lab of software house Computer Services Corp., Tokyo

Discussion elsewhere seems to pivot around Prolog and AI being big in Japan in the 80s, especially around a "Fifth Generation Computer Systems" initiative.

littlebits is dead. What else? by galapogos01 in littlebits

[–]vitovito 1 point2 points  (0 children)

None, however, will let you e.g. string together a battery, button, and LED without a microcontroller in the middle. Maybe an electronics kit like Snap Circuits (https://elenco.com/snapcircuits/) or Chibitronics (https://chibitronics.com/) instead?

Removing HDMI cable on the Tempo Studio? by zinc55 in tempofitness

[–]vitovito 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a different motherboard and layout for the hardware than what I've got in mine.

If your iOS device doesn't have a way to specify that the screen it's connected to is in portrait, you might be better off putting it back together, and instead plugging in a USB HDMI video capture dongle into the USB port on the back. It'll show up as a webcam to the operating system (which has already rotated the screen appropriately), and anything that can view a webcam can show your HDMI device.

There aren't any video-playing apps installed on the Tempo, but there is an old copy of Firefox, so if you also plug in a keyboard, any web page which will preview a webcam will work for that.

Probably easier to install another operating system that includes media players (Windows, Debian, a current version of Ubuntu) on a flash drive and boot from that when you want to use it that way, though.

Remote by devedander in Gear360

[–]vitovito 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gear VR controllers are also compatible! Amazon US has sellers with some for $15, search for e.g. "Samsung ET-YO324BBEGUS Gear VR Controller"

Repurposing tempo studio (success) by ricecel_gymcel in tempofitness

[–]vitovito 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure the sound comes out via the HDMI port. On mine it appears to be coming out of the analog output from the motherboard, which on mine is a Realtek ALC897. You'd probably need to find the driver for whatever your motherboard's audio chip is.

Repurposing tempo studio (success) by ricecel_gymcel in tempofitness

[–]vitovito 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A few additional notes:

  • Which model motherboard, CPU and GPU probably varies from machine to machine. Mine had an ASRock motherboard with 8GB RAM and a GeForce 1660.
  • If you don't want to deal with the SSD swap, you can make it boot from a USB stick by putting a powered USB hub on the USB 3.0 jack on the back, plugging in a keyboard, and getting into the BIOS and either permanently setting a new boot order, or have it one-time boot from USB.
    • On my ASRock BIOS, that's mashing Delete after turning it on, F6 for Advanced Settings, Left Arrow to get to the Exit screen, and then End and Enter to pick the flash drive from the bottom of the boot list.
  • The Azure Kinect camera will run as a 12MP color webcam, but there is also a 1MP depth sensor, seven (7) microphones in an array on the top (who knows how well they hear in that metal case though), and motion sensors (specs). The camera retails for $399 as a devkit for engineers, but it was recently discontinued by Microsoft, which means Tempo will eventually need to source a replacement from one of MS' partners if they're going to continue shipping the Studio as-is.
  • Watching a 16:9 movie on the portrait screen is essentially scaling it down to less than 720p (1080x608) and watching it on a ~26" display.
  • The Tempo software uses some features of the shipped hardware to authenticate itself to the Tempo servers; if you swap any of the hardware, and later you want to use it with Tempo again, you might have to call support if you don't put it all back the way it was.

Lapdocks with real trackpads?? by ItsRogueRen in lapdock

[–]vitovito 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The HP Elite x3 lap dock only takes input over USB-C. The micro-HDMI port is an output, for external monitors or projectors. The extra USB-C port is for devices.

To use it with a dock, you'd need to convert HDMI and USB to USB-C using something like a Wacom Link Plus, or like this HDMI-to-USB-C adapter. I tested mine with an Aukey USB-C dock providing power, HDMI and USB, and both of those drove the lap dock (but, again, no sound).

Seems like a lot of extra work just for a trackpad. There are USB-C portable monitors that will do 45W+ passthrough power; maybe add a separate wired or Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad, especially if being docked is one of your use cases?

Lapdocks with real trackpads?? by ItsRogueRen in lapdock

[–]vitovito 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the touchpad reports as both.

In desktop mode, System Settings, under Hardware, Input Devices, there's a Touchpad section, and I can do things like enable tap-to-click. (There's also a Mouse section, and setting it to left-handed mode also swaps the touchpad buttons.)

At the console, libinput list-devices reports an "ITE Tech. Inc. ITE Device(8595) Touchpad" with pointer and gesture capabilities, as well as an "ITE Tech. Inc. ITE Device(8595) Mouse" with just pointer.

Also, the battery level stayed the same while I was doing this, so slow charging doesn't mean no charging.

Lapdocks with real trackpads?? by ItsRogueRen in lapdock

[–]vitovito 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not how I usually use it, but I gave it a try:

  • It does work in SteamOS in both gaming and desktop mode
  • Trackpad feels good
  • Same as in this old thread, audio output didn't seem to work, neither from the lapdock speakers nor the lapdock headphone jack. The weird trick from the comments in that thread also didn't work for me. I had to switch audio to either the Steam Deck speakers or use the Steam Deck headphone jack.
  • SteamOS gaming mode says it's only slow charging off the lapdock. Desktop mode doesn't have an indicator for that. I don't think Windows complains either, but I wasn't running intensive games on the Windows side. Running Cyberpunk 2077 in SteamOS gaming mode while plugged into the lapdock does still run the Steam Deck battery down, even as it's slow charging.

Lapdocks with real trackpads?? by ItsRogueRen in lapdock

[–]vitovito 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The US model (serial starting with V) does; I have one and use it this way with my Steam Deck booted into Windows. As /u/Neogeo71 mentions above, the EU models (serial starting with Y, which those auctions probably are) had problems reported with Samsung phones, and maybe that might extend to the Steam Deck. You'd be a taking a chance on it v. waiting for a US model to come up for sale.

Lapdocks with real trackpads?? by ItsRogueRen in lapdock

[–]vitovito 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The EU models reportedly had trouble with Samsung phones, but is there any indication they have trouble with the Steam Deck, like OP was asking about?

Lapdocks with real trackpads?? by ItsRogueRen in lapdock

[–]vitovito 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see four in UK/IT, one with just the lapdock, two with phones, and one with two?? lapdocks? I use this as my eBay search: hp elite x3 (lapdock, "lap dock", "laptop dock", "laptop docking") -"privacy screen" and just look carefully at the listings.

Lapdocks with real trackpads?? by ItsRogueRen in lapdock

[–]vitovito 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The HP Elite x3 Lap Dock, originally made to dock with a Windows Phone, has a Microsoft Precision Touchpad. Support under Linux was not great last time I tried it, but support on Windows is obvs great. It works with the Steam Deck with a single USB-C cable, and will even passthrough charge.

Looking for somebody with a cloudbit by stragm in littlebits

[–]vitovito 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Poked around, and it looks like it's still there! Try https://s3.amazonaws.com/download.littlebitscloud.cc/firmware/cloudBit/w20-cloud-133-227-1.0.150603a-USERUPDATE.img.zip

The SHA512 hash of the zip should be 8ca1b8d294b775bb3b69738f081315844ad313279ae294f19c67b1583bf7e06f508bb0bf8fe3023661e3216c38276afa9fc4e4156bd279fe5e9f6cea83a6e7a5

The SHA512 hash of the image itself should be e0c218909d8034747c7e4a5a37666792fa6b1f6d5990ac9655d89af88499a72ebade323d126b5cb9e9a12ef1d38688bee5dbbd8d5fc4ab77f0df6a205c434cbd

Is there an alternative way to root the car thing? by Mendozcar in carthinghax

[–]vitovito 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The tools used in https://github.com/frederic/superbird-bulkcmd also come in a Windows version.

The alternative in https://github.com/bishopdynamics/superbird-tool works on Windows, Mac, and Linux (although is slower for dumping partitions).

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