Ryan McDonough
Founder, Sometime Artist
CFO and co-founder @Accompany, acquired by @Cisco. Turnaround CFO @Ning, sold to Glam Media. Former seed VC. McKinsey trained. @Wharton School and @Haas School of Business.
Fun little retro TV project converting an Enjbrick kit into a fully functional TV/Computer/Retro gaming powerhouse.
I gutted a pre-packaged 8”monitor to reduce its size and get all the parts loose (display, driver board, controls, speakers). I then used tin snips to cut down the back of the housing with the glued in speakers still attached to the metal.
I then took a Raspberry Pi 4B and mounted it to some LEGO bricks. I found a good Micro HDMI to Mini HDMI connector to directly connect to the display driver board to the Pi.
Mounted the screen upside down to get the cables & driver board where I wanted and then rotated in software.
Other odds/ends: USB high speed port double sided taped to the bottom of the TV in the back for quickly using peripheral, added on/off USB-C male/female switch, and finally a battery pack with a USB-C out and USB in.
