I Thought It Would Be Easy… It Wasn’t

Usagi Electric October 20, 2024
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Welcome to Usagi Electric! On this channel, we dive into old school technology, focusing heavily on vacuum tubes. My primary goal is to build computing circuits based off the legendary machines of yesteryear, only with a slight modern twist. All the tubes will be operating with very low voltages on the plate, making the projects safe and easy to follow along with. So, lets grab our multimeters, some random tubes and a low voltage power supply and have fun! Usagi Electric covers one of my main passions, while my other main passion can be found over on Usagi Motors.

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This TI-810 Printer was very kindly donated by BoxcarJim and it was in such unbelievably good shape, I thought it would be a walk in the park to bring back up. But, as I’m sure most of you are keenly aware, printers always throw curve balls. We had all sorts of failures to overcome and then the nightmare of cabling. In my defense on the cabling issue, I had the wrong manual, which made life way more difficult. We got there in the end though, and bent this thing to our will! If you want to know more about the Centurion, the wiki is full of just about everything we know: https://github.com/Nakazoto/CenturionComputer/wiki If you want to support the channel please hop over to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/usagielectric Also, we now have some epic shirts for sale! https://my-store-11554688.creator-spring.com Come join us on Discord! Discord: https://discord.gg/p7UsfHD Intro Music adapted from: Artist: The Runaway Five Title: The Shinra Shuffle https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847 Thanks for watching! Chapters 0:00 Something is missing 1:10 Filling the void 3:15 Surely it just works, right? 4:06 Disassembly, cleaning and paint 5:59 A look at the PCBs 8:02 Troubleshooting the Error light 10:57 A battle with the encoder 15:03 Testing and more problems?! 19:17 The final boss, hooking it up to the Centurion 23:35 Cut! Let’s try that again! 27:12 Relaxed bunny!

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