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  1. Today I changed my old "Bosch" joystick into a #MouseTrap 🕹

    MouseTrap supports Twinstick controls but for these type of games buttons work better for me than a stick.

    I digged out my old joystick with a history back to 1985. The console enclosure I made of wood and in a wooden plate I had two CX40 mounted to play #Robotron on my #C64.

    I still can imagine how tidy it was built by my 14-year-old self... and then it got changed several times over decades and became a mess😉 If you wonder how the Roman Empire could fail, here you see😂

    Slaughtered a joystick and integrated its rapidfire unit but the chip broke some years ago. We are the Borg😂

    Added A/B button functionality when I got my #Atari7800 and added a switch to turn it off as it caused trouble on the Amiga.

    Now I've put the 7800 B button on the little black button from the broken rapidfire unit and wired the dpad on a second cable.

    Mouse control to major Tom😎

    Have to make key templates for #Stargate and #Missile Command 😂

  2. Today I changed my old "Bosch" joystick into a #MouseTrap 🕹

    MouseTrap supports Twinstick controls but for these type of games buttons work better for me than a stick.

    I digged out my old joystick with a history back to 1985. The console enclosure I made of wood and in a wooden plate I had two CX40 mounted to play #Robotron on my #C64.

    I still can imagine how tidy it was built by my 14-year-old self... and then it got changed several times over decades and became a mess😉 If you wonder how the Roman Empire could fail, here you see😂

    Slaughtered a joystick and integrated its rapidfire unit but the chip broke some years ago. We are the Borg😂

    Added A/B button functionality when I got my #Atari7800 and added a switch to turn it off as it caused trouble on the Amiga.

    Now I've put the 7800 B button on the little black button from the broken rapidfire unit and wired the dpad on a second cable.

    Mouse control to major Tom😎

    Have to make key templates for #Stargate and #Missile Command 😂

  3. Today I changed my old "Bosch" joystick into a #MouseTrap 🕹

    MouseTrap supports Twinstick controls but for these type of games buttons work better for me than a stick.

    I digged out my old joystick with a history back to 1985. The console enclosure I made of wood and in a wooden plate I had two CX40 mounted to play #Robotron on my #C64.

    I still can imagine how tidy it was built by my 14-year-old self... and then it got changed several times over decades and became a mess😉 If you wonder how the Roman Empire could fail, here you see😂

    Slaughtered a joystick and integrated its rapidfire unit but the chip broke some years ago. We are the Borg😂

    Added A/B button functionality when I got my #Atari7800 and added a switch to turn it off as it caused trouble on the Amiga.

    Now I've put the 7800 B button on the little black button from the broken rapidfire unit and wired the dpad on a second cable.

    Mouse control to major Tom😎

    Have to make key templates for #Stargate and #Missile Command 😂

  4. Today I changed my old "Bosch" joystick into a #MouseTrap 🕹

    MouseTrap supports Twinstick controls but for these type of games buttons work better for me than a stick.

    I digged out my old joystick with a history back to 1985. The console enclosure I made of wood and in a wooden plate I had two CX40 mounted to play #Robotron on my #C64.

    I still can imagine how tidy it was built by my 14-year-old self... and then it got changed several times over decades and became a mess😉 If you wonder how the Roman Empire could fail, here you see😂

    Slaughtered a joystick and integrated its rapidfire unit but the chip broke some years ago. We are the Borg😂

    Added A/B button functionality when I got my #Atari7800 and added a switch to turn it off as it caused trouble on the Amiga.

    Now I've put the 7800 B button on the little black button from the broken rapidfire unit and wired the dpad on a second cable.

    Mouse control to major Tom😎

    Have to make key templates for #Stargate and #Missile Command 😂

  5. I’ve had this idea of the ActivityPub Protocol powering Mastodon, Threads, & others in The Fediverse, as a kind of Rube-Goldberg Machine.

    What kind of Rube-Goldberg Machine ?

    The MouseTrap Boardgame from childhood !

    I captioned the following images to get the idea out of my head.

    cf. Two-Way RSS which remains Simple and Direct...

    | #ActivityPubProtocol #RubeGoldbergMachine #ActivityPub #ActivityPubMastodon #Mastodon #ActivityPubThreads #Threads #TwoWayRSS #RSS #MouseTrapBoardgame #MouseTrap

  6. Why did nobody tell me how delightful #SeeHowTheyRun is? #AgathaChristie inspired, dry humor, fun references, amusing meta commentary. Highly recommended, especially if you’ve seen #Mousetrap

  7. Teaching physics? Labs and resources! 🙂

    Friction lab
    Mechanical equilibrium lab

    3 stage rockets – human powered in the gym or hall

    #Gravity and #tides: Why Is There a Tidal Bulge Opposite the Moon?

    Inertial mass and gravitational mass lab

    Reaction time lab
    CPO #Kinematics labs

    Measuring data with smartphone apps

    #Magnetism: Lenz’s law demo & more!

    #Catapult and #Trebuchet build project
    #Hovercraft build project
    #Mousetrap racers

    kaiserscience.wordpress.com/ph

    @edutooters
    #science #physics #physicsteachers #highschoolscience

  8. Keeping students engaged and excited about science: Resources to incorporate engineering into physics!
    -> Hovercraft build project, Mousetrap racers, Catapult and trebuchet build projects, What is engineering?, How subways work, - and Boston's Big Dig

    kaiserscience.wordpress.com/ph

    @edutooters
    @science
    @scienceteachers
    #STEM #scienceteachers #NGSS #hovercraft #mousetrap #catapult #trebuchet #BigDig