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Virginia Beach Virginia Early Febuarary 2025
Early February 2025 looking across Lake James towards Regents University in Virginia Beach Virginia -
Content Survey
A survey concerning content has been posted over in the community forum for the Retired Techie Channel ( https://www.youtube.com/@retiredtechie/community ).
Admittedly it is somewhat limited by the YouTube Survey parameters I am working with, only four choices. But please take a moment to add your vote and comments.
Thank You.
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Basic Electrical Circuit Analysis
Back to my Roots
I am going back to my roots. This is where I started back in the late 1960’s. Computers really were not a thing back then, at least for the hobbyist. Instead I had a box of electrical components and parts, a few of those plastic breadboards, and a really cheap multi meter to play with.
Besides bread boarding simple circuits, I used to also get the old Radio Shack P-Box kits which let one build some more complex items.
Eventually you move on to designing your own circuits. You don’t know what you are missing until you spend the day in a public library poring over parts specifications (no internet back then). Photo copiers were expensive, so you always brought along a couple of those black composition books and few trusty Number 2 Pencils.
It was always a rush when I got something I had designed to work the way I wanted it too.
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Iwo Jima Japan, in the Ogasawara Archipelago
Iwo Jima (Sulfur Island) Japan North West beach below the Old US Coast Guard LORAN Station, circa 1977. -
Updates: Attempting to use Canon G5X as webcam
January 19th 2025: CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit)
Various normal methods have proved to be ineffective at creating a consistent clean HDMI output from the Canon Power-Shot G5X Mark 1. However there is a program/methodology that can be put on a bootable SD card and loaded into the camera memory that might provide additional functionality.
There is an interface on Canon cameras, and some scripting can be done. Over the next few weeks I will be exploring CHDK, which takes advantage of the Canon camera API and loads additional options. Canon seems to have missed the boat on clean HDMI output on many of their older cameras, and this may be the best chance to achieve that. I can understand somewhat, as this is a ten year old camera, and people were not thinking of using these cameras for recording video content. Also sort of explains the absence of a remote microphone jack on the camera.
Will add an update once I figure out if the CHDK system will work the way I want it too.
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