It’s been too long since posting here, sorry about that. Many updates are posted to the Tinker Different forum.
BlueSCSI: The F4 XCVR and F4Lite XCVR products are now available. These are intended for use with systems such as Sun, SGI, and others which are natively SCSI2 and often do not work with the original BlueSCSI or my F4 BlueSCSI fork.
I will also work on a mounting bracket which enables XCVR model use with systems such as the Macintosh TV and others that use an edge connector with sliding bracket. The measurements have to be very precise and I don’t have one of these machines, so it’ll be a back and forth with someone that does.
Macintosh Portable Hybrid Recreation: This project is about 80% done. A new revision PCB is on the way which should fix a few issues, and it’s basically time to test this in a real Portable to see what happens. The last challenge is a signal called the “A/D line”. This reports battery level information to the Power Manager chip, and is an incredibly sensitive circuit. If it continues to fight and cause problems, I may replace the A/D circuit with a simpler and less fiddly design. This simpler design won’t be as accurate, but it will allow the Portable to function on both battery and while plugged in.
Backlit Macintosh Portable Display Flex Cables: A new round of these cables has arrived, which needs to be quickly tested and then I’ll put up a listing on this site. Note that I don’t have any of the connectors, and those would need to be moved over from your original cable. I will offer a connector transplant service, which involves sending in the original cable and a small charge for actually performing the operation.
Newton eMate Display Cables: Continuing my trend of recreating flex cables, a design for the eMate has been produced and is in testing. I came across a large set of eMates and will be refurbishing them for sale.
Newton eMate DRAM Upgrade: After the unfortunate failure of my eMate DRAM + Flash project, I pivoted and redesigned for DRAM only. These have a much higher success rate, and will be listed on this site at some point.
Original LC Series Replacement Power Supply: These are power supplies for the LC, LC II, and LC III. This project has stalled for a variety of reasons, from cost to opinions on whether there should be an external power brick or not. I have two designs, one which puts everything internally and another which uses an external power brick. The internal design would cost more, and the design using an external power brick would cost a little bit less. Unsure on the direction to go for the future of the project.
