 Okay, so it looks like he's plugging a GameCube controller into the back of a Sony BVM here and playing Super Smash Bros. Melee straight From the back of the Sony BVM Shank you're a madman and I absolutely love it Hey everybody welcome back today to Retro Tech it is January 2023 and we have an amazing accomplishment in The world of the CRT yes our good friend shank over at shank mods has done something unbelievable he has combined a Sony BVM D series monitor with a Input card that goes in the back of this monitor and it is a we on a card So you get a full we on your video card that slides in the back of the Sony BVM and Gives you a portable CRT apparently with full we capabilities, so let's just get in here We're gonna check out a little bit more on what I'm talking about first off. Let's go check out shanks thread This is what we saw here earlier in the opening where we can see the Sony BVM right here this is the D series D9 monitor and That little monitor doesn't have an input card normally Standard with it you have to add an input card and so this is a great Homebrew project that is based around the work of another amazing Engineer in the hobby and field of retro and that is Martin And we're gonna talk about Martin here in a second after we look quickly at this project and get a little bit More of an idea for what it is now shank has put some amazing pictures here of what he's done and The process that he worked through here on his Twitter and that's what we're gonna be looking at So if you want to check this out, you can go to at shank mods and look at all these things first off This is the back of that Sony BVM now. You do see some VGA style inputs here. Those are actually to communicate between the Monitor and other communication devices so you can tell the monitor what to do with an external controller a different monitor And that way you can feed them into loops and again give them different commands. That is not an input board So there's no video inputs through those inputs. You have to use this bay area and add a card These are the original cards. This is the most common and most popular one right here That's the BKM 129x from Sony and that one gives you the ability to run RGB s or component video into this monitor And so that's the one that everybody wants. It's the one that's the Sony manufactured Version of this and all this goes back to a friend of ours work that I mentioned a second ago that is Martin Heinfeldt And he is an engineer who's been working on reverse engineering things For us like these amazing cards He did one for the BVMA series and the D series and he also has like some mini remotes I've got a lot of his items here that I've just not had the time to really focus on And feature yet in full videos But he does have a website where he's published all his work It's open source emmerhacks.com right here And you could see that he's been working on a remote for bvms Just a really passionate guy about crts in general and doing things like mods fixing old Problems with display screens and and again working a lot on crt projects So shank took what martin had done in reverse engineering this bk and 129 x and he took that and he decided to Take a trimmed down version of the we motherboard. That's what you're seeing right there on screen You can see it's smaller than the original card So this is the pcb that he designed and threw together Does have some cooling. It looks like um through this hole here And then your mother board is installed right there on the we and then it was based on arduino programming That is custom and here we go. Look at this. We can see him actually just slide That's how those cards work. You slide them in there and then once you power that bvm on Whether you use in the original wall power or if you happen to have a battery pack that still manages to output Enough voltage to power the bvm. Then you can use that With this monitor and power this have a completely portable crt On the go. So that's pretty much everything on here that's been publicly knowledge from shank himself Does look like this is not going to be a Thing that's readily available to the public. I would not Please do not go bother and shank to make one of these He just told me that this was a project. He always wanted to do I'm sure this might work and relay down the road to some big huge thing. He's doing. I have no idea I'm just thankful that I got to see this and be a part of all this I've been like watching the progress of this whole project from discord and it's a lot of fun and The good thing is is this expands on what the capabilities are of these open source cards I'm not trying to say that, you know, uh, hopefully maybe shank will publish a lot of this work That's up to him, obviously But this might lead to other things that are made into cards for bvms The good thing about this card is if you did have this reproduction cards You could put this in any of the l series pvms. So that makes the 20 l5 Uh a fully amazing monitor that you can have a card to put a we in if you're smart enough to recreate what he has Done once he you know shares those files publicly if that's something he wants to do But if not, it's completely cool to just see this here and know that it's capable of doing this If you want to find out more information on this definitely check check out shanks social media profiles and then finally do watch the little short video which I'll have clipped In a comment below and wow, what a just an amazing project For the beginning of the year here from shank To do this because I feel like again this could lead down the road to other things that just could be invented that are cards And you totally talk about something that is completely Customizable for a bvm But unnecessary but just amazing. I love it. I love everything about this project. Thanks shank again Please again, go check out his stuff. I appreciate it. Hey, I've got a lot of things coming this year guys. I've just been Really pushing Things behind the scenes here in the shop So look for a big video coming soon to let you know everything that's going on here What we've got planned for 2023. I think it's going to be an awesome year This little project was just too cool not to make a short video about So if you're interested for more information again, check out the things I've linked I will also make a link to martin's website and his social media profile So you could see some of the other things that he's working on for things like retro gaming crt's and you know, whatever else he's managing to Reverse engineer on his own. So thanks again everybody. I'll see you all next time with some more retro content