Own The OSD Chip In Your Cheap Composite Monitor

What happened

The software is available as an Arduino library. [Ogrinz Labs] has built a Robbie the Robot suit, which is super-cool, but has a huge flaw.

When inside the suit, he’s too tall to do what the original Robbie actor did, which was to look through the “mouth” grille. He solved this with an inexpensive automotive reversing camera, but then realised its monitor had a built-in on-screen-display chip. After a lot of work, he’s published a GitHub repository that allows access to this thing for custom on-screen graphics.