Here at Hackaday we are a diverse group of writers, some of whom have worked outside the field and others whose work appears in the pages of other publications in other fields. One of them is our colleague [Lewin Day]And he wrote a great essay for it Utopia a An attempt to keep alive an obscure part of American automotive electronics history. We think of big-screen car consoles as a new phenomenon, but General Motors equipped some of its models with small Trinitron CRT displays in the late 1980s. If you own one of these cars, if you don’t see it, the CRT is probably malfunctioning [Jon Morlan] And repair and restore his work.
Lewin’s article goes into so much technical detail that we won’t simply repeat it here, but it’s interesting to compare careful repair methods with replacement or imitation. It would be relatively easy to replace a CRT with a modern LCD display showing the same video, and even use a modern single-board computer to simulate most of the dead system. But we are fully aware that for many car enthusiasts this is not the point but the reality Damn CRT On the dashboard that makes the car. We probably won’t drive a 1989 Oldsmobile Toronado. But we definitely want to equip this special edition in the future.
It is worth paying attention to Lewin’s car writing. He once took us on a motorcycle camper.
