rossumblog    A software speech synthesizer for the Atari . Make your talk Sing Say rude words Add voice to your own games and relive the glory days when computer speech had a charming personality and bounded intelligibility. See it in action on YouTube. Source code at https: github.com rossumur...

rossumblog    Find yourself stuck indoors during a pandemic Why not build an open source settop box and connect to the only microcontroller powered video streaming service See it in action on YouTube. Source at https: github.com rossumur espflix. ESPFLIX is designed to run on the ESP within the Arduino IDE...

rossumblog    Supports NTSC PAL color composite video output, Bluetooth Classic or IR keyboards and joysticks; just the thing when we could all use a little distraction ESP BIT is designed to run on the ESP within the Arduino IDE framework. See it in action on Youtube. Schematic is pretty simple: ...

rossumblog    Play retro color bit games on your TV from an Arduino. Arduinocade features old school color bit graphics tiles, sprites, smooth scrolling, simple D and sound voice wavetable synthesis . All video and audio signals are generated with three resistors, an upgraded crystal and a little...

rossumblog    Play Zork on your TV with an Arduino. Who doesn’t love Zork . Who doesn’t love Arduinos Why not grab a few cheap components and build an Arduino gadget capable of playing all the classic Infocom games on your TV from the comfort of your couch. A few years ago I ported a Z Machine player to

rossumblog    With all the fuss over Kindle Fire I thought it might be fun to see if the humble Bit microtouch hardware would do a servicable job as an e reader. With a bit of fiddling it turns out to be a quite capable if not entirely practical eBook. There are hundreds of thousands of books available in the...

rossumblog    A tiny working model of a retro computing icon offers a blend of nostalgia and sillyness. My first computer was an Atari . My first disk drive was the magnificent Atari . Overwhelmed by a recent wave of nostalgia from playing Zork for the first time in years I have built a working

rossumblog    When I was a boy I burned and listened to much midnight oil playing Zork and many other Infocom text adventures hunched over my Atari . I have never forgotten profound delights of the exploring the darker regions of the Great Underground Empire: clever puzzles, lurking grues and snarking k...

rossumblog    Good news for those who always wanted a microtouch but didn’t have the time to build one: they are now available from the nice folks at adafruit. If you get one be sure to use the rossum coupon code at checkout for a discount. This version is powered by the delightful atmega u . It

rossumblog    There are a number of cheap and adorable OLED displays appearing on ebay and elsewhere. But their parallel interfaces, enigmatic driver ics and funny voltage requirements make them tricky to use. These breakout boards make it easy to connect an oled to an Arduino or any other device with a SPI...