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Twenty years ago, if you wanted an LCD for a project, you’d probably end up with something salvaged from a mobile phone or an HD44780 character display. These days, little …read more Continue reading Driving an OLED Screen With A 6502 Single-Board Computer
The humble desktop serial terminal may have long disappeared from the world of corporate IT, but there are still plenty of moments when professionals and enthusiasts alike need to hook …read more Continue reading A Thoroughly Modern Serial Terminal
What are your plans for the long weekend? If you don’t have time or don’t want to dive into a new project, why not dust off something left unfinished, or …read more Continue reading Termi2 is Siri Like it’s 1976
It’s quite probable that any of you who have built a keyboard will have done so using a matrix of keys connected to a microcontroller, or if you are old-school, …read more Continue reading An ASCII Terminal Like It’s 1974
Sometimes you need to get a project to talk to you, so you can see what’s going on inside. The ESP32 console Arduino library from [jbtronics] promises just that. The …read more Continue reading ESP32 Gets a Nifty Serial Console Library
Oftentimes, we’ll find ourselves using an PC attached to a project for serial debugging. Other times, we’ll be squinting at a status LED trying to remember the flash code we …read more Continue reading Embedded Dashboard Definitely Displays Data
Typewriters are something which was once ubiquitous, yet which abruptly faded away and are now a rare sight. There was a period of a few years in which electric typewriters …read more Continue reading An Old Typewriter Speaks To The World
The job of a dumb terminal was originally to be a continuation of that performed by a paper teletype, to send text from its keyboard and display any it receives …read more Continue reading This Arduino Terminal Does All The Characters
When [Michael Gardi] finished his scaled down DEC VT100 replica a few months ago, he made it very clear that the project was only meant to look like a vintage …read more Continue reading 2:3 Scale VT100 Terminal Gets Closer to its Roots
When he went shopping for a vintage serial terminal to go along with his reproduction PDP-8/I computer, [Michael Gardi] came down with a bad case of sticker shock. But rather than be discouraged, he reasoned that if his “retro” computer …read more
Continue reading 2:3 Scale VT100 is a Perfect Pairing for PDP-8/I Replica