This entry is a summary of what I built for my dad's 50th birthday, in 2017.
The plan was to get a vintage TV to play some shows from the 70s-80s, and operation should be seamless.
The sacrificial lamb, found in the flea market:
The tiny sticker says "It works"
With the lid off
The tuner
The attack plan:
Getting the raspberry pi to output video to the TV
Because the raspberry only outputs composite video, I needed a 'composite RF modulator' that'd convert the signal to a format that this TV can display.
These modulators output different channels at different frequencies.
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