30 Mar
2005
30 Mar
'05
2:06 p.m.
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:31:25 +0100 (BST), Tony Duell
<ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In Queensland it's pronounced to rhyme with
judge,
chip, of when I've manange to get 2 machines
talking to each other by
cutting an RS232 cable in half and joining the wires with a chocolate
block [1], I've been known to paraody a line of Gilbert and Sulivan
[1] One of those plastic screw terminal blocks.
Don't laugh, I actually
did this once when I had to get two machines communicating and all I had
was a pair of pliers and a small screwdriver...
For testing a chip's output, (keyboard controller, I think), I cut and
soldered the strands of an IDE cable to each of the 25 pins, and then
fanned the other end out on a strip of duct tape. I duct taped the
duct tape (odd thing to say) sticky side up to a bit of pasteboard,
sharpied in some labels, and had filled in a graph paper with all
printables in the ~150 combos pretty quickly.
Oh yeah, now I remember why. Needed something to translate from 8-way
joystick to keyboard presses for an emulator. Since this is now only
remotely on-topic; what would you consider to be your most "artless
hack?" I mean, what klu(d)ge are you most proud of, and yet at the
same time a bit abashed (-fun- to say) to cop to?
-dhbarr.