New product in the Retro Hack Shack shop! Order it here! I have ordered a short run (i.e. qty 4) of development boards that run the FabGL project. Fabrizio Di Vittorio has written some stellar code that emulates many vintage systems including the Intel 8088 used in the original IBM PC, the VIC-20, various network terminals, and some homemade arcade
In my recent video where I turned an old Zoom modem into a Christmas tree ornament, I showed the code I used to make the LEDs blink and play the modem sound. This is a pretty simple program with some standard elements that I use all the time in my projects. I especially use the timer and the button state
In my YouTube episode on making plastic skulls out of milk jugs I showed a simple script to run on an Arduino to make the lights fade in and out. Here is the code you can use if you decide to build this project. Be sure to change the variables at the top of the script to match your setup.
On a recent video I show you how I hacked a US Robotics Courier modem to look and sound a bit more like KITT from the Knight Rider TV series. The project used an Arduino Pro Mini to drive the LEDs on the modem and a DFPlayer module to play some fun sounds. This project was pretty easy to do