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Author Topic: Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?  (Read 2571 times)

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Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?
« on: October 25, 2012, 01:17:02 pm »




What would you do to this?
Looks like a Portable DVD player with some pcb atatched. Obvious Arcade button for what purpose unknown..

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Re: Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2012, 01:33:32 pm »
If the screen doesn't have an input you can work with, I'd make a fight stick out of the base.

It probably just plays a video when the button is pressed to demonstrate the speakers.
Might be useful for a museum or some type of orientation. 


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Re: Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2012, 01:36:46 pm »

That screen is so tiny it wouldn't be worth the effort of hacking it.  I say stick it in a corner with a DVD that loops something like 80s game commercials or episodes of Red Dwarf.

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Re: Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2012, 01:42:23 pm »
You could make a daily affirmation video.
Get up every morning, hit the button, and see yourself telling yourself:

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Re: Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2012, 03:33:01 pm »
Small screen could be good for a handheld system.

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Re: Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2012, 04:06:15 pm »
Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?

Take a shower!   ;)

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Re: Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2012, 04:45:48 pm »
Rule 34, newb. 

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What?  Play Zelda on it?   :dunno

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Re: Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2012, 05:20:55 pm »
Rule 34, newb. 

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What?  Play Zelda on it?   :dunno

He'd explain the reference, but it would violate rules 1 and 2.  :duckhunt


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Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2012, 05:34:57 pm »
Rule 34 is probably not that good idea for time being.. Plenty of tech gear for that allready! :-)

I just got hit with the flu, need to not die. Be back tomorro if i live..

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Re: Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2012, 10:49:54 pm »
I just got hit with the flu, need to not die. Be back tomorro if i live..

you probably got sick from the dumpster. you didn't eat anything out of there did you?  :)

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« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2012, 05:11:54 am »
Hehe.. This night was awfull!
Fever all trough the night (hear the song in your head now?)

This is from an electronic waste compartment at work, a shopping center, so I don't see that dumpster as bad for My health.. Hehe

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Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2012, 01:36:40 pm »



Disassembly started.
As you can see, there is a SD card in there. It holds a speakers.avi file. Should I host it? Curious enough?

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Re: Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?
« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2012, 01:54:10 pm »
This is the video that was on the SD card..
Here is logitech's own clip on the product.

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Re: Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?
« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2012, 04:06:34 pm »
If the screen doesn't have an input you can work with, I'd make a fight stick out of the base.
I think I might do the fightstick, the screen seems to be a digital picture frame without inputs (possibly hackable tho).

It probably just plays a video when the button is pressed to demonstrate the speakers.
Might be useful for a museum or some type of orientation.
Spot on!

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« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2012, 07:09:43 pm »
Contacted logitech today to Get som info on the display and the pcb attatched.
They didn't five that kind of information. :(

Anyone know what voltage this guy would need?
Thinking this screen could end up being a hiscore display or something..

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Re: Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?
« Reply #15 on: October 27, 2012, 07:35:12 pm »
Contacted logitech today to Get som info on the display and the pcb attatched.
They didn't five that kind of information. :(

Anyone know what voltage this guy would need?
Thinking this screen could end up being a hiscore display or something..

You might try contacting these people:
http://www.arken-pop.com/pop/casestudies/Logitech.aspx

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Re: Went dumpster diving, found this. What do?
« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2012, 01:10:30 pm »
free SD card... ain't even mad!