Fallout Terminal

>>1135282
if you are so worried then keep the monitor in the box and build around it.
yes screens can hold high voltage charges. watch videos and if you are confident enough wear rubber gloves, touch with one hand only.

>>1135282
The screens in the fallout terminals are (with default HUD color) green phosphor monitors. But imho the orange phosphor screens looked the best

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>>1135282
Save some time and remodel an old computer
Might take some searching on ebay but they arn't hard to come by. Find a controller for the screen or replace it, and then put a raspberry pi in it.

Pic related.

Other models that look simular are the Zenith Z-89 (and some other zenith models), ADM-3A terminal (closest matching I can think of) and an interesting one that wouldn't really match but still looks neat is the SIAC V2, which some times pop up on ebay. Try searching for "dumb terminal" or "vintage computer".

>>1135282
>If I take the CRT monitor apart and touch something metal will I zap myself?
Yes, some capacitors are deadly and if you are asking rookie questions like this, you are not nearly enough qualified to touch it, for your own sake. Do it knowing it is a risk and it kills a lot of stupid motherfuckers every year and you don't see it in the news.

>>1135282
OP, pls don't gut an old computer like >>1135327 said. Even if you don't like vintage computing, what he suggested is going to ludicrously hard, mainly because the standards used for old computers differ greatly from modern ones. Even if you manage to somehow find a controller for the screen, getting it to play nice with a raspberry pi is going to be difficult, if not impossible since it's going to use some monochrome, or other non vga compatible screen with a resolution that probably won't be supported by the raspberry pi, and then you have the keyboard input to worry about because there is AT (the that all computers today use), XT, and other lesser known standards that were used for keyboard signals. If you actually want to use an old computer, use it as a terminal to some modern PC instead.

>>1135385
>wahhh don't hurt vintage stuff
why, so it can sit on a shelf and decay unto
oblivion? most of the stuff that he posted can be
found rotting away in a dump for how common
they were back in the day, and finding a new screen
to replace the old one is easy as shit

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>>1135385
>what he suggested is going to ludicrously hard
http://hackaday.com/2014/02/08/raspi-powered-adm-3a-dumb-terminal/

>>1135399
>why, so it can sit on a shelf and decay unto oblivion?
Oh yeah, because OP is totally the kind of guy who won't get bored of this in 3 months or whenever he stops caring about fallout, only to let his terminal rot away on a shelf.

>>1135401
Did you even read the last sentence of my post? That is a dumb terminal. He hooked the thing up to a raspi using an RS232 adapter, no gutting required.

the deadly crt meme need to die
its only dangerous if you used the monitor just before disassembling, if you are anxious about that just let it rest several day, since the tube will slowly discharge itself due to the internal resitance of the THT circuit
also you can use a old minitel, it is small (something like 8 inch i think) but the electronic is very simple and its easily hackable to a rca monitor
=> http://www.cfp-radio.com/realisations/rea48/minitel-01.html (in french but full of picture)

As other anon said, if left un-powered on for realistically a couple hours, 98% of crts will self discharge enough to be reasonably safe. Some will however rebuild a charge, and as such, you /should/ use a hv probe to discharge the tube (Or at least a wire with a couple k ohm resistor hooked to the cage, on a rubber handled screwdriver). Realisticly however, you shouldn't need to touch the HV parts of the monitor unless the monitor is broken, and you should be able to just de-case the cage that the monitor is in, and mount the cage whole.

That being said, I am use to working with electricity. If you are inexperienced with electronics, leave hv stuff to the experienced.

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>>1135282

I'm working on a very similar project right now. It uses a 9" portable black and white CRT.

The high voltage capacitors should have a bleeder capacitor across them. This is designed to discharge them after 5 minutes or so of the monitor being off. It's common practice to intentionally discharge them just to be safe. Connect an alligator clip wire to a screwdriver. Clip it to the metal near the front of the tube, then slide the screwdriver under the suction cup TOUCHING ONLY THE PLASTIC HANDLE. That was a pain in the ass to do all the time so I verified the bleeder resistor was working properly and put a neon lamp across it to tell me when things were safe.

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>>1135502
>*should have a bleeder resistor across them.

>>1135331
>enough qualified