{"id":460,"date":"2019-10-15T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T16:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/?p=460"},"modified":"2019-10-15T12:03:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T16:03:05","slug":"retrocomputing-altairduino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2019\/10\/retrocomputing-altairduino\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrocomputing: Altairduino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I picked up this Altairduino unit back in 2017 or 2018 I think. The original came with a narrow bamboo case, and I ran into fitment issues and took a break from the project, although I had gotten the electronics portion working. At its core, the project uses an Arduino Due, and simulates the loading of 8&#8243; floppies from files on a micro SD card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/byGgq8awA3\">pic.twitter.com\/byGgq8awA3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; baabalicious (@dc540baab) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dc540baab\/status\/1182331207134191626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, a blue and white case was made available to simulate the original Altair 8800 case.  It&#8217;s a bit deeper as well, and comes with an expansion board with a hardware terminal emulator, external serial port, VGA, PS2 keyboard socket, etc.  I finally got around to put my Altairduino into a box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I&#8217;m struggling with the serial port functionality and\/or the SD card reader. But even without those, I can play kill-the-bit and pong with the switches and LEDs on the front panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up this Altairduino unit back in 2017 or 2018 I think. The original came with a narrow bamboo case, and I ran into fitment issues and took a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2019\/10\/retrocomputing-altairduino\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retrocomputing: Altairduino&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}