u/kxania

This is is a modified Furuno marine radar that I stripped the guts out of and turned into a raspi PC.

Some background; I received this as scrap as part of an old project yacht I bought some time ago. It was originally a CRT display marine radar used for tracking landmasses and other bodies in the ocean.

I decided to totally strip it, install a raspi with a 7-inch LCD and repurpose the buttons and dials with the intention of turning into an FX box for my synthesizers (think reverbs, phasers, distortion, etc).

The entire process was quite simple as I had heaps of room to work with. I'd never done any kind of electronic work before such as building my own circuit boards of even soldering for that matter.

All in all I learned a lot and the next one will be a lot easier (as I have a second one!). There's still a few things to fix on this v1 machine , such as 2 push buttons not firing, and the entire 3D-printed buttons needed to be redesigned from scratch, but the entire experience was a lot of fun and I feel satisfied repurposing something that likely otherwise would have ended up in landfill.

This is is a modified Furuno marine radar that I stripped the guts out of and turned into a raspi PC.

Some background; I received this as scrap as part of an old project yacht I bought some time ago. It was originally a CRT display marine radar used for tracking landmasses and other bodies in the ocean.

I decided to totally strip it, install a raspi with a 7-inch LCD and repurpose the buttons and dials with the intention of turning into an FX box for my synthesizers (think reverbs, phasers, distortion, etc).

The entire process was quite simple as I had heaps of room to work with. I'd never done any kind of electronic work before such as building my own circuit boards of even soldering for that matter.

All in all I learned a lot and the next one will be a lot easier (as I have a second one!). There's still a few things to fix on this v1 machine , such as 2 push buttons not firing, and the entire 3D-printed buttons needed to be redesigned from scratch, but the entire experience was a lot of fun and I feel satisfied repurposing something that likely otherwise would have ended up in landfill.