Test Gear Wall Art Posters - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / testgear

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 15, 2017, 01:06:03 am
content: This is a thing now apparently:

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2017, 01:31:28 am
content: That's auto-generated from the scraped popular searches. Amazon does this for mugs and random images from the internet. The results are predictably bizarre.

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 15, 2017, 11:06:51 pm
content: I've been thinking of getting large prints of some of the pics I've taken of my equipment and other electronic gear to hang on the wall - the wire-wrapped HP 5360A backplane springs immediately to mind. Maybe seeing this will push me off dead center to do so...-Pat

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2017, 03:18:28 pm
content: Having a nice old color inkjet printer which took bottled ink (so did not cost an arm and a leg to use) would be just awesome!You could turn ay image you took or found into art for a day so to speak. Like it, keep it, don't like it, recycle it.

author: AllTheGearNoIdea
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 16, 2017, 09:23:15 pm
content: It may be a silly idea but I would rather physically screw old test gear to the wall. My friends call it garage Art. I have lots of old ammeters and telephone screwed to the wall in my workshopRegards AllTheGearNoIdeaChris

author: edavid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2017, 09:30:27 pm
content: Quote from: AllTheGearNoIdea on September 16, 2017, 09:23:15 pmPhoto please?

author: bjcuizon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2017, 09:52:23 pm
content: Quote from: AllTheGearNoIdea on September 16, 2017, 09:23:15 pmNow thats what you call 3D!

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2017, 09:54:14 pm
content: Some PC wallpaper here of HP kit that is rather nice:https://www.flickr.com/photos/144543740@N05/with/31700826355/

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2017, 10:09:34 pm
content: I can see the makings of a great gathering spot for geeks in this idea.Quote from: AllTheGearNoIdea onTodayat 15:23:15

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2017, 10:32:51 pm
content: Only stuff I have on the walls is a copy of the EM chart Dave has, on canvas, and an old PCB from previous work, as well as an old Ericsson telephone. That and assorted paintings, plus a collection of neon sign glass on a board.

author: AllTheGearNoIdea
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 16, 2017, 10:36:29 pm
content: I think the magnetic core memory Dave looked at last week just has to go on the Eevblog wall.Come on Dave screw it on - screw it on - screw it on etc.AllthegearnoideaChris

author: AllTheGearNoIdea
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 16, 2017, 10:45:10 pm
content: Quote from: bd139 on September 16, 2017, 09:54:14 pmbd139. That's not wall art that's serious hardcore under the counter Tech porn. Thanks for sharing pass the Kleenex please. That Nixie tube counter is just so hot!AllthegearnoideaChris

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 17, 2017, 11:44:34 pm
content: A long time ago I used to know this guy who lived in the Berkeley flatlands and had his own home recording studio. Because it was cheap, deadened sound and was kind of translucent(he embedded lights in it) and looked kind of neat he covered the walls of his recording room with well cut out pieces of molded styrofoam packing material, just shapes, he used them like bricks. The net effect was fairly smooth, there were no ragged edges, and quite cool, kind of HR Geiger like..Of course it violates a zillion regulations. (because foam is flammable)

author: Shock
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2017, 01:08:35 am
content: Yeah your options there are cancer or death by toxic inhalation followed by cremation.

author: andtfoot
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 18, 2017, 02:11:20 am
content: Quote from: AllTheGearNoIdea on September 16, 2017, 09:23:15 pmFor some reason that reminds me of this I spotted on a wall in LA recently...

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2017, 02:47:27 am
content: I like the new geography in the mural / construction above!Wouldn't a pub or cafe where the walls are all covered with racks full of old gear, thats functional and hooked up each day in a new way and free to fool around in an artistic way, be fun?With lighting thats appropriate, maybe red LED lighting like they would have on a bomber or (something so that the light didn't destroy your night vision?) Very low lighting so that all the equipment lights, scopes, nixie tubes, etc. were maximally visible.Quote from: bd139 onYesterdayat 15:54:14https://www.flickr.com/photos/144543740@N05/with/31700826355/

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2017, 07:53:21 am
content: Scans of a commercial calendar from the late 70s:https://entertaininghacks.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/images-of-late-70s-burr-brown-thick-film-hybrid-ics/And in my dining room's display cabinet there is:https://entertaininghacks.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/rescuing-a-broken-tektronix-465-crt/

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 22, 2017, 03:09:04 am
content: Well, I went ahead and ordered 20 x 30" prints of the 5360 backplane, the tube in my avatar, and the amp that tube resides in. They arrived today and I think that they look good. They were printed on Kodak 'metallic' paper. Now I'm waiting for frames.-Pat

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 05, 2017, 05:36:50 am
content: I finally got around to mounting two of the prints. I'm happy with them, and they're certainly 'different' (though I should have gotten frames with antireflective faces...) The final picture of the tubes in the ST-70 audio amp is a smaller one that's actually printed on an aluminum plate.The HP 5360A backplane, being examined by two of the resident art critics:Transcendent T-16 output tube (6C19Pi Russian triode):And finally the print on the aluminum plate - several of the tubes in my ST-70 clone:They look better in person; the reflections from the lights and the rest of the room make it a bear to get a decent photo of them. These photos were taken in rather dim light with my phone, so they're a bit on the grainy side. The first two prints are on Kodak 'metallic' paper, and really do have a sort of glow to them in the light - the gold plated wire wrap pins and the glowing tube cathode look quite nice. The prints themselves are 20 x 30" (~50 x 75cm), and the frames are 24 x 36" (~60 x 90cm. The aluminum print is 12 x 18" (~30 x 45cm), and the aluminum plate itself is 0.050" (1.3mm) thick.I see me doing more of these...-Pat

author: bjcuizon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2017, 06:43:41 am
content: Looks really nice!I bet your critics will feel warm near those glowing "tubes"

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2017, 06:54:40 am
content: not for faint hearted (tranvestite)...http://keywordsuggest.org/gallery/1349288.html

author: Rbastler
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2017, 07:13:18 am
content: Now I want some tooI have enough amps and tubes to use as wallpapers. Especially Im thinking of magic eye tubes and really old tubes. RENxxxx with mesh anode.Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2017, 10:29:52 am
content: Quote from: Rbastler on October 05, 2017, 07:13:18 amYes, t'would be nice to see magic eyes again. And dekatrons.

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2017, 11:02:18 pm
content: You have a great web site, tggzzz!Quote from: tggzzz on September 18, 2017, 07:53:21 am