Conrad

Conrad

@ericconrad.com

SANS Fellow, CTO of Backshore Communications, GIAC GSE #13, SABR member, golden age arcade restorer. Peaks Island, Maine

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To all the new folks here: welcome to Bluesky! My posts are a mix of infosec, arcade restoration, baseball, and other random stuff Here's my garage arcade. My son and I restored these games (many were DOA) Pictured are: Tempest, Scramble, Donkey Kong, Nintendo VS Tetris, Millipede and Asteroids

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like.

Danny Kelly @dannykelly.bsky.social

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like. Arriving in Sorrento to find Batman was already here.

I worked in Paris last week and head to Amsterdam a week from Saturday. Denmark for fun in the middle My wife and I are on a Thomas Dambo Troll hunt. Meet Green George in the Freetown of Christiania, the first of many we plan to find An easy walk from Copenhagen's Old Town www.thomasdambo.com

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And finally: meet Teddy Friendly, troll #14 and the last forgotten giant. Our 28th troll on this trip: we found 21 in the wild and 7 at the ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art My wife flies home today and I head to Amsterdam for work. We had a blast touring Denmark and hunting Thomas Dambo's trolls

I worked in Paris last week and head to Amsterdam a week from Saturday. Denmark for fun in the middle My wife and I are on a Thomas Dambo Troll hunt. Meet Green George in the Freetown of Christiania, the first of many we plan to find An easy walk from Copenhagen's Old Town www.thomasdambo.com

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I worked in Paris last week and head to Amsterdam a week from Saturday. Denmark for fun in the middle My wife and I are on a Thomas Dambo Troll hunt. Meet Green George in the Freetown of Christiania, the first of many we plan to find An easy walk from Copenhagen's Old Town www.thomasdambo.com

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We found Thomas Dambo's Six Forgotten Giants near Copenhagen today Here's Sleeping Louis, troll #12. I heard a child playing inside (you can crawl through his mouth into his belly) and told my wife "I hear a kid." He responded "I'm a kid!" and poked his head out www.thomasdambo.com/works/forgot...

Meet Hilltop Trine, Thomas Dambo troll #17 She's reading a book while sitting on top of a small hill in the Quark Nature Centre in Hvidovre, Denmark

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I worked in Paris last week and head to Amsterdam a week from Saturday. Denmark for fun in the middle My wife and I are on a Thomas Dambo Troll hunt. Meet Green George in the Freetown of Christiania, the first of many we plan to find An easy walk from Copenhagen's Old Town www.thomasdambo.com

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Here's Jeppe Væktæppe, troll #150 "I got the idea for Jeppe Væktæppe under a patchwork blanket while playing peek-a-boo with my 1.5-year-old twin boys where I realized that the scale from a troll to an adult human was the same as from an adult human to a baby." www.thomasdambo.com/works/jeppev...

I worked in Paris last week and head to Amsterdam a week from Saturday. Denmark for fun in the middle My wife and I are on a Thomas Dambo Troll hunt. Meet Green George in the Freetown of Christiania, the first of many we plan to find An easy walk from Copenhagen's Old Town www.thomasdambo.com

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Meet JensNej, who is gazing into a mirror he's holding above his head. Thomas Dambo troll #113 "For when he looks into the mirror, Heavy stones become light feathers. An autumn turns into sunny weather, And chestnuts turn into lingonberries." More info in the alt text trollmap.com#/jensnej

I worked in Paris last week and head to Amsterdam a week from Saturday. Denmark for fun in the middle My wife and I are on a Thomas Dambo Troll hunt. Meet Green George in the Freetown of Christiania, the first of many we plan to find An easy walk from Copenhagen's Old Town www.thomasdambo.com

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This is Ene Øjesten (One Eye Stone), Thomas Dambo troll #81 She lives in a farmer's field, with cows grazing around her "Her story is that she has wandered around the area where she found a magical stone... With the stone, Ene can see into the future" www.thomasdambo.com/works/ene-oj...

I worked in Paris last week and head to Amsterdam a week from Saturday. Denmark for fun in the middle My wife and I are on a Thomas Dambo Troll hunt. Meet Green George in the Freetown of Christiania, the first of many we plan to find An easy walk from Copenhagen's Old Town www.thomasdambo.com

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Found four trolls while driving from Odense to Aarhus Meet Bitten Røverdatter (Bitten the Robber's daughter), troll #159 "In the Middle Ages, the Vissenbjerg robbers lived in the forests around Vissenbjerg and spread fear and terror among travelers" (more in the the alt text) trollmap.com#/bitten

I worked in Paris last week and head to Amsterdam a week from Saturday. Denmark for fun in the middle My wife and I are on a Thomas Dambo Troll hunt. Meet Green George in the Freetown of Christiania, the first of many we plan to find An easy walk from Copenhagen's Old Town www.thomasdambo.com

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Meet Måne Mor, Thomas Dambo troll #100. She is the mother of all trolls. "To find it, you needed to scan the QR code on the metal signs on all my first 99 Trolls, or decode the riddle written inside the cover of my book Trash Trolls and Treasure Hunts." www.thomasdambo.com/works/maane-...

I worked in Paris last week and head to Amsterdam a week from Saturday. Denmark for fun in the middle My wife and I are on a Thomas Dambo Troll hunt. Meet Green George in the Freetown of Christiania, the first of many we plan to find An easy walk from Copenhagen's Old Town www.thomasdambo.com

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I worked in Paris last week and head to Amsterdam a week from Saturday. Denmark for fun in the middle My wife and I are on a Thomas Dambo Troll hunt. Meet Green George in the Freetown of Christiania, the first of many we plan to find An easy walk from Copenhagen's Old Town www.thomasdambo.com

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We are lucked out and are in Denmark while Tomas Dambo's exhibition The Garbage Man is at the Arken Museum of Contemporary Art There are seven Thomas Dambo trolls at this exhibition, plus the Garbage Man Details in the alt text www.arken.dk/en/exhibitio...

MOAR TROLLS, plus the Garbage Man Tomorrow we drive to Odense, where both Thomas Dambo and Hans Christian Andersen were born We will hunt trolls along the way

I worked in Paris last week and head to Amsterdam a week from Saturday. Denmark for fun in the middle My wife and I are on a Thomas Dambo Troll hunt. Meet Green George in the Freetown of Christiania, the first of many we plan to find An easy walk from Copenhagen's Old Town www.thomasdambo.com

Here's Suttetrolden Sanka, who lives in a kindergarten playground in Copenhagen "Sanka was the happiest troll in the world, because he lived right in the middle of a playground and was surrounded every day by hundreds and hundreds of children who fed him pacifiers." Full story in the alt text

Berzerk always ends this way, just like life Vectrex is famous for it's audio buzz (improper shielding of the audio amp, right next to the vector CRT yoke) My son and I recapped the Vectrex PCB and shielded the amp while we were at it. No more buzz 2/2 int03.co.uk/blog/2016/02...

Happy 60th anniversary, Star Trek! If you are anywhere near Ticonderoga, New York: I cannot recommend this tour enough. Here's me in the captain's chair

Conrad@ericconrad.com

Had a blast at the Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga New York I'm going to hack my IDS console to show the fourth image for critical alerts www.startrek.com/news/visitin...

Q*Bert's back! Recapped the monitor (plus a new flyback) and rewired the cabinet (the last arcade tech that worked on this was a hack) I have a Taito-badged coin door that I'll swap in and I need to get rid of the coin box lock bar. The original 80s fluorescent marquee light still works somehow 1/X

Conrad@ericconrad.com

Picked up a Q*Bert cabinet over the weekend. Released in 1982 by Gottlieb. It's completely dead, so I'll be restoring it. Everything's there (original PCBs, CRT, power supply, etc). Will update this thread as I work on it Here it is in my truck before I drove it home #conradsarcade qbert

(I'll replace that marquee tube with an LED) I still have the original (non-working) PCBs: sourcing a working set is next. It's currently running on a JROK Mystar FPGA via a JAMMA adapter, which also adds Mellow Yellow Q*Bert, Q*Bert's Qubes, and others 2/X www.arcadeshop.com/i/1060/mylst...

arcadeshop.comMylstar/MSF Multigame JAMMA PCB  Limit one pcb per customer, per order. All-in-one design integrating video/CPU board and soundboard. Standard JAMMA connector with trackball header and optional Horiz & Vert video sync out...

People: You can't just post one line from a song and expect everyone to know the song ME: PEACHES COME FROM A CAN

Laura Braunstein@laurabrarian.bsky.social

People: You can't just post one line from a song and expect everyone to know the song ME: I can't stand it, I know you planned it

My Taito QIX (1981) restore/reconversion is done, minus clean-up work I bought this cabinet (DOA) for $200. It had been converted to Terra Cresta by some hack in the late 80s. The original boards, control panel, marquee, wiring harness, etc., were long gone Iconic and groundbreaking game 1/X

QIX was designed by the husband and wife team Randy and Sandy Pfeiffer. One of the few games released by Taito US (along with Zookeeper) Here's what it looked like when I got it. I planned to buy the DK Jr. next to it, but couldn't leave a $200 QIX cabinet behind dinogame.gg/blog/history... 2/X

I recapped the G07 PCB and replaced the dead flyback. Then I started the long journey of finding original QIX PCBs, control panel, glass marquee, etc. Thankfully: the glass bezel was original There are two incandescent blinker bulbs behind the marquee. The instruction card is backlit 3/3