A pawpet interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem by the same name. Submitted to the Funday Pawpet Show for their Halloween episode... ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKWroSj__k

Restoration Project #49 - Loewe-Opta "Bella" I was hoping to have that project finished by now, but there have been... well... issues. The day job picked up again, and also there have been a few other projects. While waiting for parts, I kept busy with these in an interleaved fashion. The radio is a Loewe-Opta brand, "Bella" model. It has AM and FM reception (eventually hopefully) and features a rather typical phono input as well. The rectifier is a more modern selenium one, so it's down one tube already. Originally, I thought I might do just a few capacitor replacements and be done with it, but it did show a bit more "wear and tear" than I expected... so buckle in! 0:00 Intro / Overview 2:08 Opening Case / Removing Chassis 3:58 Removing Tubes / Power Cord / Knobs 4:57 Tuning Dial Glass / Tuning String 6:35 Speaker Issue / Bezel 7:57 Dusting / First Capacitor Removals / Button Assembly 10:22 Audio Transformer / Final Capacitors 11:53 Rectifier / Illumination Lamp / Tuning Capacitor 13:25 Button Section 14:35 Mains Transformer / Speaker Nuts Take 2 15:48 Speaker Cover Fabric / Speaker Dusting 17:33 Chassis Scrubbing / Potentiometer Opening 19:40 Bezel Repair - Step 1 20:45 Cleanup Transformers 21:52 Bezel Repair - Step 2 23:33 Tuning Scale Paint / Case Glueing / Scraping off Paint 25:27 Fixing Dents / Filter Cap Test + Cleanup / Tube Test 26:30 Summary / Credits / Outtake Music (in order) My Train's A Comin' - Unicorn Heads Nine Lives - Unicorn Heads Wrong - Dan Henig Town of 24 Bars - Unicorn Heads Light Expanse - Unicorn Heads (YouTube Audio Library) You can support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/atkelar and also on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Atkelar and now also here by using the "Super Thanks" feature! Thanks to everybody who signed up already! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTDwU2LupX4

The complete set of video intros for the Fursuit Gameshow at Eurofurence 19 in Magdeburg, August 2013. Note that there is a short gap between them. These videos were played on the video walls as a show intro, game intros and credits sequence for our live stage event. I strung them together to make a single video file rather than uploading and spamming my YT account with 14 individual files. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GSFqRm6b0c

After I made the last video, Karpour asked me if I could have a look at one of his Windows CE based devices. An HP Jornada 820, where the screen had some LCD column problem. Every 10 or so pixels, one column was semi-dead, but only in the upper half and also only one or two color channels. To me it was clear that either the connection between the glass panel and the driver was faulty, the driver chip had experienced a meltdown or - unlikely but possible - the LCD controller on the mainboard had some damage. Karpour said, that he already had a replacement screen in a somewhat broken but compatible model that could be swapped out if needed. I agreed to give it a try, but suggested to skip any pixel-addressing fixes and go for the replacement screen right away, since it may damage the screen permanently if I tried something more... invasive. Doing some research about the Intel StrongARM chip showed that the CPU is also the display controller. So if that was at fault, I couldn't do much. The CPU is a tight BGA chip and I have no intention of reflowing one of those any time soon. Turned out to be "just" the display, because swapping the one from the broken model worked like a charm from the get go. The plastic was about as brittle as it can get... some of the threaded inserts just crumbled away. I used epoxy glue to secure as many of the lose parts as possible. Not shown in the video, but still an issue: The part that was broken in the damaged model is broken in all 820s it seems: There would be room for two screws to hold it in place, but HP decided that "one is enough" and so the entire tension of the hinge is always tugging on that one screw. Eventually the plastic there WILL break, as the hinge has a counter-spring to hold the display open or closed and it doesn't move easy on that side. Links: Wikipedia about the Jornada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jornada_(PDA)#Jornada_820 Karpur (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/karpour Donate a few bucks for some coffee (or some equipment upgrades): https://ko-fi.com/atkelar Music: My Train's A Comin' Unicorn Heads (YouTube Audio Library) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SjU_W3nOzM