After some fiddling around I managed to modify my trusty old nomad to output a true PAL 50hz signal so that I can play my Australian and European games on it. This was done by firstly changing the pins on the CXA1645P/M so that it outputted PAL colour this was done by changing pin 7…
After playing my Sega Nomad for a little while with my modified lithium battery I started to become quite annoyed at the screen quality, in particular the edge bleeding and motion blur. I’m sure that anyone with a Nomad will sympathize with this problem. So I’ve taken the plunge and am performing a screen mod…
I was getting tired of the worn zero force insertion cartridge slot never seating properly on my old NES. I also quite like using the game genie on insanely hard games like Contra to give myself more lives and such. One day with far too much time on my hands I thought that It might…
I’ve seen a few mods around for converting the Sega Nomad rechargeable battery to a Li-ion battery, the advantages are the higher capacity, low selfdischarge and lower price. Most if not all of the old NiMh that you will get your hands on will be rubbish with a very low charge capacity, if any at…
I used to work part time as a car audio fitter and auto electrician back when I was studying and needed a part time job. Somehow I ended up with a whole heap of warranty returns and ex demo gear given to me for free or at very low cost which I just couldn’t say…
This shows the process of adding a flash shoe to your split cam using simple components and a minimum of effort. The first thing to do is remove the front of the split cam by removing the screws inside the film bay. This shows the mechanics of the Split Cams shutter, as you can see…
Here are the materials required to make possibly the easiest and best land camera battery conversion ever. You will want an LED torch, an old 9 volt battery snap, a Velcro cable tie and a soldering iron. The LED torch can be gotten from ebay very cheaply, $3 with postage in my case, and comes…
Here is perhaps one of the simplest and neatest battery conversions for the 3 volt Polaroid Land Cameras that you will see anywhere. Here you can see where i have broken the old battery retaining clips of the original Polaroid battery holder in order to give me a plastic frame on which to mount my…
The Polaroid Land Cameras were originally designed to be used with flash bulbs and as such use what is called M-sync for the flash synchronization. M-sync fires the flash before the shutter opens (as opposed to X-sync which fires when the shutter is fully open) so that the bulb has time to ignite and illuminate…
A friend of mine found a nice Smiths heating unit with the optional de-misting attachment for me which I was very grateful for. I had to modify the manifold heating pipes and engineer a flow tap for the heater out of an old ball valve, some steel tube and a brass wingnut that I had…