+selgus Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 This is a little project I've been working on, a VT100 serial terminal made from an Atari XEGS keyboard, a 1.8" 160x128 262K color TFT OLED display, an Atari XE game cartridge shell, a LiPo battery with a USB charging circuit and a custom circuit board I designed around an ATMEGA328 micro controller to drive the display and do the VT100 emulation. The keyboard will have DB-9 and RJ11 connections on the back to attach it to any device that talks serial and allows the unit to be a self-contained serial monitor terminal. I needed a serial terminal to test out some I2C code/hardware I've built for my R2-D2 project, and this gave me an excuse to use an Atari again. The second cartridge shell on the left was my first attempt.. I was going to use a 2600 cartridge shell, but it made the display look too small and everything fit into the XE cartridge shell, so I switched. The XE cartridge plugs in permanently to the keyboard and will be tilted on an angle. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottinNH Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 This is a little project I've been working on, a VT100 serial terminal made from an Atari XEGS keyboard, a 1.8" 160x128 262K color TFT OLED display, an Atari XE game cartridge shell, a LiPo battery with a USB charging circuit and a custom circuit board I designed around an ATMEGA328 micro controller to drive the display and do the VT100 emulation. The keyboard will have DB-9 and RJ11 connections on the back to attach it to any device that talks serial and allows the unit to be a self-contained serial monitor terminal. I needed a serial terminal to test out some I2C code/hardware I've built for my R2-D2 project, and this gave me an excuse to use an Atari again. The second cartridge shell on the left was my first attempt.. I was going to use a 2600 cartridge shell, but it made the display look too small and everything fit into the XE cartridge shell, so I switched. The XE cartridge plugs in permanently to the keyboard and will be tilted on an angle. Nice idea, and great recycling of hardware. How's this going? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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