#blinkenlights — Public Fediverse posts

The Matrix has you (a little bit...).

#video #desktoys #desktoy #blinkenlights #LCD #terminal #Matrix #deskspace #workspace #IRC #matrixrain #geek #desk

A friend from the #BBS - an old hacker who collected old toys - left me his #Altair when he joined the Navy. That thing I did use quite a bit - but it was still a toy next to the PC as much fun as watching the #blinkenlights was.

I think there's something odd about inherited 8-bit nostalgia - it's like the confluence of the "earlier simpler time" bias combined with this moment where you could build up from basic principles to today so it feels especially much a moment sadly missed.

"My God, that's [the soldering master equivalent of] Jason Bourne."

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Melting vias and dancing around them. (I said earlier I couldn't find my good soldering iron...)

#soldering #kit #maker #LED #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #blinkenlights #Apple #Applelogo #rainbowapple #photo #vias

The #KITT effect circuit that I designed and simulated in #verilog actually worked at the first try. I'm surprised.
It's done with a 555 and a bunch of 74 ICs. Nothing fancy.

It's also totally useless, unless one needs to drain #cr2032 batteries watching #blinkenlights

I completed the SMD challenge! It was easy up to the 0603 components, but I had to use my binocular microscope after that. I lost the first 0201 LED when trying to flip it over, but thankfully held on to the second one. The 0201 LED was not marked for polarity, so I had to take a best guess looking at the part under the microscope.

#Soldering #SurfaceMount #Challenge #Microcontroller #LED #BlinkenLights