hi Andrew Armstrong welcome to the back
office I think it's going to be a quick
one today just a package that arrived no
other description on it other than it
just says module so let's have a look
and see what a module is I should really
save these up and maybe do them all at
the end of it week but I'm too excited
to see what is awaiting me in here
because it could be a fascinating module
it could be the heart of a massively
amazing arcade project or oh actually it
is the heart of a massively exciting
arcade project
look at this it's a wonderous wondrous
thing I did think I would have to
actually mmm
note to self chase this up look at that
this is unbelievably fantastic now if
you're looking at this at home again why
are you so excited by this it's actually
a ribbon former HDMI cable and it's
useful for a project I've been working
on and although I probably might not use
that particular thing so this is my
Raspberry Pi in a box gaming system with
you can see just there that metal panel
that's the metal panel I'm going to use
which is a composite one however this is
the panel I was going to use originally
and this is a touchscreen HDMI power but
the problem was and I can show you this
is what this way round it was me going
the lid and to get the HDMI signal from
here to here was going to be almost
impossible because no cable would fit
there 90 degree adaptors and things you
know normal HDMI cable are really bulky
so this is a sort halfway house solution
and the reason is halfway house ago I
probably would still had to modify this
just to get this to fit properly by
announcing the original socket and
moving it around
but this ribbon actually allows you to
kind of route it rather easier through
the screen so you could still have a
hinge mechanism and unbeknown to me
they've actually modified the ribbon
cable because it's actually got enough
fibre coating and I'll show you that
climate coating will try to zoom in and
have a little look at it and that's
going to make it a lot stronger so you
can see they're just about it's got a
nylon coating adhere to it then on the
back you can just see the actual ribbon
itself and you just see your it's come
away a little bit so it's just stuck to
that so that's going to get a lot more
strength you know so resilience against
braking so that's going to be really
useful if you're using a panel and an
embedded project like that that's going
to save you a lot of room in the
internal hooking up of these things
because you're almost doing like a
systems integration you're not hooking
these up using soldiering and while
you're still just using normal
commercial connectors so that's always
going to be a dance for having to use
the old-school ribbon cable and I would
say old-school ribbon cable regular HDMI
cables that you'll get in your telly so
for me now if I did want to continue
that project I say I'm not going to do
that because I've got a composite screen
which looks fine in seven inch is that I
could de-solder that and it's a bit of a
pain in the arse a lot of connections
HRO but it's still doable and then
actually mount it at an angle and then
solder it you know glue this on there
and then I've got a cable that's just
running off this panel and I could use
that think gosh I don't have to do that
right now it would be cute mind if you
can see here the cable is actually
detachable the ribbon itself yeah you
can detach that if you could have a
suitable port here that you could just
hook these ribbon straight in if they
just do a standard ribbon format for
HDMI that'd be really great now it would
be nice I might investigate this there's
many occasions where you have to use
this ribbon cable to hook things up if
you can by the different size of size of
ribbon cable with this nylon pre-fitted
that'd be really useful or if you're
doing your own you could consider maybe
you can buy sheets of this nylon if it's
sticky back nylon and actually stick it
over your existing ribbon cut the you
know trim it to fit and then you have
this much stronger version but yeah they
you go isn't that funny I thought this
was going to be a very short 30-second
video and I think it's probably about
four minutes 20 at the moment but yeah I
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