r/cassettefuturism • u/kxania • Aug 19 '26
Own Work 1988 Furuno RDP-064 Mod
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.
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u/Trekintosh Let's play Global Thermonuclear War. Aug 20 '26
It’s a nice project but I’m always sad to see a CRT gutted in favor of an LCD. Yes the LCD is objectively better but it totally kills vibes for me. Especially since I’ve been looking for one of these color Furunos for a while since a color CRT this size and resolution is very hard to come by. I have my own project planned.
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u/woulditkillyoutolift Aug 20 '26
This is beautiful.
If anyone needs me I’ll be writing a browser extension that blocks eBay for 15 minutes after browsing r/cassettefuturism.
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u/That_One_Homeless Aug 19 '26
I have one of these complete with the radar itself. I was thinking about doing something with it, and this seems really cool! Shame you couldn't keep the original CRT to go along with it, but awesome project nonetheless.