Posts Tagged ‘Simon’
My first published programs
Background This post has been a long time in the making. But a couple of things happened in the past week that prodded me to finally write it. Firstly there’s this epic thread from Shahid Kamal Ahmad about becoming a games developer in the early 80s. And then there was the awful news of the […]
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Tags: 1541, BASIC, C16, C64, CCI, Commodore, PCW, Plus/4, publishing, Simon, utilities
Arduino Simon – a little more
I wanted to add some diagrams to my original post, but didn’t have the right tools at hand. After some digging around I found a mention from @psd of Fritzing. I’m pretty happy with the results: I’ve put the Fritzing file up onto github, and also created a project on the Fritzing site.
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Tags: arduino, breadboard, circuit, diagram, Fritzing, layout, Simon
The title for this post comes from an old naval tradition, where a ‘make and mend‘ was time given to fix up clothing. These days sailors get their uniform from stores, and personal clothes from shops like the rest of us; so a modern day ‘make and mend’ is simply some time off. With the […]
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Tags: arduino, avrdude, bootloader, code, electronics, game, mend, Simon, stk500_setsync():, stripboard, welding
Arduino Simon
I My son got a great Xmas present in the shape of a Starter Kit for Arduino from Oomlout. After doing some of the basic projects I decided we needed something that we could get our teeth into. After a little pondering Simon came out as a worthwhile challenge. Back in the 80s I’d written a version […]
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Tags: arduino, breadboard, button, buzzer, code, electronics, game, LED, pin 13, Simon
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