@paulgit @streakmachine Happy days! My peak was the BBC Micro - making stuff from scratch like: * a digital joystick (5 microswitches), * an analogue joystick (2 rotary potentiometers, axes arranged at 90 degrees, plus a microswitch) and * a 'graphics tablet' (2 potentiometers, one fixed to the baseboard, both joined together via perspex arms, and a microswitch at the crosshair target.) Built-in A/D converters and a good knowledge of trigonometry and BBC BASIC made it *easy.* I'll never recapture that sp

@paulgit @streakmachine Happy days!

My peak was the BBC Micro - making stuff from scratch like:

a digital joystick (5 microswitches),
an analogue joystick (2 rotary potentiometers, axes arranged at 90 degrees, plus a microswitch) and
a 'graphics tablet' (2 potentiometers, one fixed to the baseboard, both joined together via perspex arms, and a microswitch at the crosshair target.)

Built-in A/D converters and a good knowledge of trigonometry and BBC BASIC made it easy.

I'll never recapture that spirit exactly, but it'll be fun on the way to 'failure.' :)

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