{"id":1103,"date":"2018-09-21T08:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T08:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2018-11-17T08:24:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T08:24:59","slug":"monitor-and-tv-test-dongles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/2018\/09\/21\/monitor-and-tv-test-dongles\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitor and TV test dongles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made a couple of battery powered CR2032, TV and monitor test donges, using an MSP430 microcontroller. These dongles plug into either a VGA port or the RGB or Component plugs and allow you to test the TV or monitor without having to bring with you bulky test gear.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TV Test Dongle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1100\" src=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tv_test_dongle_10_top.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"983\" height=\"1312\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1099\" src=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tv_test_dongle_10_side.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1487\" height=\"1116\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VGA Monitor Test Dongle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1102\" src=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/vga_test_dongle_10_top.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1098\" height=\"1464\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1101\" src=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/vga_test_dongle_10_side.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1476\" height=\"1107\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I intend to use this to test TVs and monitors when I go thrift hunting.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll put up a page with more information soon. While these are already usable, they wont be released for a while longer due to some minor design issues that have to be dealt with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a couple of battery powered CR2032, TV and monitor test donges, using an MSP430 microcontroller. These dongles plug into either a VGA port or the RGB or Component plugs and allow you to test the TV or monitor without having to bring with you bulky test gear. TV Test Dongle VGA Monitor Test &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/2018\/09\/21\/monitor-and-tv-test-dongles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monitor and TV test dongles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}