BASIC POCKET COMPUTER - Why did you do it the hard way?

Ben,

I loved your show but you did it the hard way!

An unmodified Chatpad has a 19200 serial interface which pumps out keypress and depress events.

All you needed to do is connect the keyboard directly to the Arduino with a pencil plug socket and use simple keyboard driver that converts the chatpad keyboard events into ASCII code for the BASIC.

Cheers!

Very Compact

0 AniGeek over 14 years ago

he might have done it that way for video timing purposes
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0 COMPACT over 14 years ago in reply to AniGeek

Do you mean to pack out his video clip out to 15 minutes?
There is no accurate video timing required for the LCD module.
The LCD interface used is bit bashed.
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0 AniGeek over 14 years ago in reply to COMPACT

no i mean he probably did it to fill out his time requirements for the episode because with rev3 they have a time block space they have to use for length and they have to have it within those parameters. rev3 has strange ways of presenting their videos length wise
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0 benheck over 14 years ago

I did it that way because I didn't realize the stock chatpad would have worked just fine.

But now I know!
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0 Catwell over 14 years ago

Behold! The future of digital communication.

Seiko UC-2000

This 10x4 screen, micro-computer of 1984, sports 4K ram, with 26K ROM space. (being games and Microsoft Basic programming evnironment.)
It even had a small printer and full size keyboard. Both keysets act as a dock for the watch.

Everything old is new again.

Cabe
http://twitter.com/Cabe_e14
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