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Play Station 1 - PSX

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Today, I am back to my all hobby from years ago. That is PlayStation, 1 of my first consoles I played. As described on  wikipedia, You guys would know that Sony has release hardware for all regions but locked other regions so you can only use CD from regions u bought. I got this ps from my friend, seem case not original from Sony. AT back of this PS give me SCPH-9001, but after open the case it gaive me PU-20 board.  This PU-20 board as show in wiki is SCPH-700x model, haha how they put SCPH-700x board in a 900x case? So this is modified version. Lets take more photo after open iron case: Oh here is the mod chip as I searched before: 12C508, this psone is hacked version. But it look undocument  when searching on web, darn! So I wipe them out and try another opensource solution: PSnee How to connect diagram: Pin assignments PSNee psxdev PlayStation Arduino Atinny name ps pin...

Raspberry Pi B+, Raspbian Stretch lite + MATE desktop.

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Install Raspbian lite is as u install arch linux: everything is just enough to use, simple but effective. Lets talk about Raspberry Pi B+: just CPU 1 core, 512MB RAM, so slow comparing to pi 2 and pi 3 Let's update raspbian to the lastest version: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Next we are installing xserver and xinit : sudo apt-get install --no-install-recomends xserver-xorg  sudo apt-get install --no-install-recomends xinit Next we install MATE desktop: sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-core  Last we install login manager: sudo apt-get install lightdm  Here are the pictures of MATE desktop running on Raspberry Pi B+: Below is htop running showing CPU, memory of Pi: 

Mini raspberry pi project.

I'm very lazy to write what I did at my hobby. Today I'm trying to change that by starting writing something. I'm very pleasure to accept people ideas for this blog better. Raspberry pi is very interesting with its hardware, OSes, and community. I tried many project on internet and very interested at printer server and radio player. Lets start! When beginning this post, Raspbian stretch lite was published so I start with it. Get the img file from official website, burn it with win32disk image, power on and begin: First we need to expand img to full of your mini SD card sudo raspi-config     Next is upgrade your OS sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade  About noise in output: bcm sound card is terrible with noise in power supply. If you got a good power supply, it is OK. But cheap Power supply make will make output noise, so get an USB sound card is recommended.   sudo raspi-config  choose output audio is auto so...