Mental Meanderings

Electronic Genius!

Ok, so I don't have a laptop and there have been many occasions when I wished I could go to bed with something other than a book or a DVD. I have a portable DVD player which I keep in my room (plugged in rather than using battery). It's wonderful to be able to deal with late night insomnia with this little magical gadget but I started wondering recently if I could hook up my spare playstation 2.

I dug the console out of a closet and started fiddling with wires. It took a fair bit of digging to find all the parts I'd need and eventually I had it all together except, of course, the DVD player has one set of points for Audio/Visual cords and the PS2 has a different set. Thus, I had a dilemma, an A/V male triplet needed to join to another A/V male triplet...

Anyway, after tiding myself over the weekend with NWN's and a good book ("Shadow Through Time Trilogy" by Louise Cusack - worth a read if you find it in your library.) Monday and payday arrived so I raced myself up to the nearest electronics store and got my hands on an adaptor. These things are clever little devices. So, home, and A/V males plugged into adaptor means.... *drumroll*

My PS2 works through my portable DVD player!

Now, the PS2 requires power so it's not portable but pretty much anywhere I can take my DVD player I can take my PS2 and plug it in. The adaptor was only a few dollars which is MUCH cheaper than a Playstation portable and now I can play playstation games in bed. That's what I spend yesterday evening doing.

NOW all I need is a really long A/V extension, and two USB extensions and I can play my PC via my DVD from my bedroom. lol J/K I'm not going to waste cord and fuss with having to switch them over ever time I want to work in here. I'd rather save up for a laptop. Or look puppy dog eyed at all my family around Christmas or my Birthday next year.

What electronic genius have you accomplished recently?