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World's worst video card? The exciting conclusion

Ben Eater2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2019-2020
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3.2M views · 7 years ago · tutorial · evergreen

Ben Eater finishes building a minimal VGA video card from logic circuits. He explains analog RGB signals, stores an image in an EEPROM and builds a simple digital-to-analog converter to display it.

Recommended as an accessible, educational build that anyone with basic logic knowledge can follow.

Electronics & circuit designAudio & video engineering#vga#beneater#digitalelectronics#eeprom#dac#videocard

3 comments from Hacker News

@chrisdalke2020 · in “NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch”

If you're a visual learner, check out Ben Eater's channel: link He has a really great video series where he builds a small computer from scratch on breadboards. Also some other highlights: Reliable data transmission, more educational: link DIY VGA "video card": ▶ this video Super educational, but if you want to get into more embedded hardware hacking, I would say that building a homemade computer like he does is probably not a super exciting place to start. I'd recommend picking up some Teensy 4.0 microcontrollers and build some small hardware projects with the microcontroller before diving into lower-level circuitry.

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@MarioMan2020 · in “Brown: color is weird [video]”

Not the same thing, but you reminded me of this since it's in a similar vein. Ben Eater went through the entire process of building a VGA "video card." Anyone with a basic understanding of logic circuits has enough background to understand it. Worth a watch. Part 1: link Part 2: ▶ this video

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@cabaalis2019 · in “Let's Build a Video Card”

At 3:00 into the second video, he talks about hooking it into a computer. [1] It does a quick flash to what might be his breadboard computer. So I think he intends to connect this to the computer he has built. 1. ▶ this video

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