People from TI-Planet already know, I like to relook my calculators ^-^Yeah, you bother us with this a lot jk :P
But in the french community, nobody cares :PI do care, I watched your "Golder editions" and noticed that the word "Golden" was mispelled :P
Excepted KermMartian with his two "ultimate calculators", I don't know anybody who has a beautiful tunned calc...I have a tunned calc but it is not beautiful :P
Is anyone there with an artist talent ?Well you saw my Buzz Lightyear iirc ;)
I do care, I watched your "Golder editions" and noticed that the word "Golden" was mispelledit was to make an analogy with "Silver Edition" !
How do you do these? These are so coolIf you want to see, I made the 84+ yesterday on TCAP (french visioconference about calcs on saturday evenings.).
Hate to derail this thread, but I have no idea how tuning is being taken to mean skinning or such. Anyone care to explain?In the French TI community, it was a very common slang word used for calculator customizing that involves painting your calculator. Kinda in the same fashion as car tuning.
you don't need to remove the screws to make something great (I did not to make the 84+, DJ_O too for his 83+ :P ).
In addition, it would lose the collateral.
(Oh, please excuse if "tuning" is not the good word... How would you say ?)
Sweet! I want to hack my trusty 84+ as well, but it will involve some pretty technical stuff. I want to embed my soundchip in it for example. The prototype is rather large, so I need to do some redesigning and use smaller parts. ....Have you ever thought about using an FPGA to (try) put most of your hardware inside a smaller footprint? I'm afraid you would need to learn yet another language (hardware) VHDL/VERILOG (Hardware description language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language)). But then again, dutch people normally speak at least a half-dozen languages ;), so it may be a worthwhile effort for guys that like hardware modding...
Yeah I think tuning (or tunning?) is an anglicism used in Quebec and France for what in English you call modding. However, for cars, tuning is used in both French and English (although in French it's obviously not the official way to say it but rather slang). For cars, it means to modify a car appearance or performance. For calcs it's mostly modifying their appearances, but it isn't as common to see it used when it comes to improving their performances (eg by adding backlighting). See this site from France (translated in English) for example, where it only explains how to paint your calc: http://www.ftp83plus.net/ModA.htm and overclocking is in a separate site section. But then check yAronet tuning sub-forum and you'll see backlighting threads too http://www.yaronet.com/sujets.php?f=26 (in French).you don't need to remove the screws to make something great (I did not to make the 84+, DJ_O too for his 83+ :P ).
In addition, it would lose the collateral.
(Oh, please excuse if "tuning" is not the good word... How would you say ?)
Tuning isn't really used that way in English (as far as I know). We would probably just say "customizing" or "modding" (short for modifying). Customizing and modding are broad terms though. They refer to any unique changes they you might have made. :)
I know what fpga's are, but those are quite expensive compared to a $3 atmega328 microcontroller and you need a PROM to store the hardware configuration in.Sweet! I want to hack my trusty 84+ as well, but it will involve some pretty technical stuff. I want to embed my soundchip in it for example. The prototype is rather large, so I need to do some redesigning and use smaller parts. ....Have you ever thought about using an FPGA to (try) put most of your hardware inside a smaller footprint? I'm afraid you would need to learn yet another language (hardware) VHDL/VERILOG (Hardware description language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language)). But then again, dutch people normally speak at least a half-dozen languages ;), so it may be a worthwhile effort for guys that like hardware modding...
Here is an example:. Special attention to (in description) :
"It is noteworthy that inside the FPGA there is no soft core micro or CPU, just hardware implemented in VHDL. The hardware consists of a RS232 UART for rx/tx, a SID chip, a 16KB FIFO buffer and some glue logic / state machines to make it all tick along."
I know what fpga's are, but those are quite expensive compared to a $3 atmega328 microcontroller and you need a PROM to store the hardware configuration in.Yeah good point, but sometimes students have friends at universities working on FPGAs where you can get them almost for free. Keep looking for 'professional' relationships. Mind you, FPGAs are getting cheaper and cheaper, so, IMO, you should consider that an option when some more complicated project comes about.