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Wolfenstein in 600 Lines of Code
What’s more impressive, the fact that this Wolfenstein-like game is 600 lines of code, or that it’s written in AWK? AWK is a language primarily used for text processing. But if you can write code the...
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Bringing A Teletype Into The 21st Century
Before modern CRTs with ancient VGA connectors, and before fancy video terminals, the display for computers large and slightly smaller was the Teletype. While many of these Teletypes were connected...
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Dumb Terminals And Raspberry Pis
Back in the old days, the cool kids didn’t have an Apple II or a Trash-80. The cool kids had jobs, and those jobs had Vaxxen all over the place. The usual way of working with a Vax would have been a...
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By the Glow of the CRT
If you are a certain age, you probably remember writing software (or playing Adventure) bathed in an amber or green light from an old CRT terminal. If you are even older, you might have found it way...
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Raspberry Pi Hitches Ride Inside Vintage Terminal
When a dumpster dive yielded a vintage video display terminal, [dennis1a4] knew just what to do — bring the Heathkit H19 back to life and stuff a Raspberry Pi inside. The early days of the personal...
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Replica Fallout Terminal
If you’ve played Fallout 4, you’re familiar with the wall-mounted terminals in the game. They’ve got a post-apocalyptic aesthetic and the glowing green screen that calls out to anyone that grew up with...
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Hackaday Prize Entry: Pocket Serial Terminal
When you have a microcontroller or other microcomputer on the bench in front of you and it lacks the familiar keyboard and display of a modern desktop computer, what do you do when you wish to program...
View ArticleTiny, Wearable 8-Bit VT100 Terminal
In the modern era of computing, the end-user is often quite far removed from the machine they’re using. At least in terms of abstraction levels, the user experience of most computers, smart phones, and...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Zero Drives Tiny RC Truck
We’re not sure which is more fun – putting together a little RC truck with parts laying around on your workbench, or driving it around through a Linux terminal. We’ll take the easy road and say they’re...
View ArticlePocket-Sized Workstation Sports Pi Zero, Pop-Up Screen
Many of us could use a general-purpose portable workstation, something small enough to pocket but still be ready for a quick troubleshooting session. Terminal apps on a smartphone will usually do the...
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Ask Hackaday: Whatever Happened to Wire Wrapping?
Back in the 70s when I started getting interested in electronics, tons of magazines catered to the hobbyist market. Popular Electronics was my favorite, and I think I remember the advertisements more...
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Run a Linux Terminal on Cheap E-Ink Displays
If you haven’t kept up with the world of e-ink displays, here’s some good news: they are pretty cheap now. For as little as $15 you can get a small e-ink display that has good enough performance and...
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Linux Fu: Controlling the Terminal
A Linux terminal has a lot more features than the TeleType of yore. On a TeleType, text spews out and scrolls up and is gone forever. A real terminal can use escape characters to do navigate around and...
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1970s Lab Equipment Turned Retro Pi Terminal
When it was released, the Beckman Model 421 CRT controller represented the latest and greatest in liquid chromatography technology. Its 12 inch screen would allow the operator to view critical...
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Behold The WT-220: A ‘Clever’ VT-220 Terminal
[John Whittington] failed to win a bid for an old VT-220 serial terminal on eBay, so he decided to make his own version and improve it along the way. The result is the Whitterm-220 (or WT-220) which...
View ArticleArduino Revives A Classic 1980s Minitel Terminal
Before there was the Internet, there were a lot of would-be Internets. Compuserve comes to mind, as do Prodigy, GEnie, Delphi, and the innumerable BBS systems that were once gateways to worlds beyond...
View ArticleA Raspberry Pi Terminal Fit For Fallout 76
The Fallout series of video games provide a wonderful alternative history that answers the question of what might have happened had the microchip never been invented. Yes, most things run on tubes, and...
View ArticleVintage Terminal Converted For Galactic Use In Time For May The Fourth
“Not as clumsy or random as Windows. An elegant terminal, for a more civilized age.” [Ben Kenobi] might well have said that about the Hewlett-Packard 264x-series of serial terminals, in use starting at...
View ArticleA New Way To Remote Terminal
Thanks to the wonders of the internet, collaborating with others across great distances has become pretty simple. It’s easy now to share computer desktops over a network connection, and even take...
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A Bootable Greeting For The Xenomorph In Your Life
When he needed a gift for his Alien superfan friend, [Stephen Brennan] decided the best way to put his unique set of skills to use would be to create a bootable Linux operating system that captures the...
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