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TWANG!
I have been a Patron of Robin Baumgarten for a while. He makes experimental hardware for games. His Line Wobbler one dimensional dungeon crawler is my favorite and I have always wanted to play it. It...
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TWANG Shield
While the my TWANG clone has been running great, I wanted to clean up the wiring, so I made a shield to plug into the Arduino. I previously used header connectors plugging into the Arduino. The...
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TWANG Play Testing
I took my TWANG Clone to ORD Camp, NERP and the Hardware Happy Hour Meetup over the past week. It got a ton of play time. I received a lot of feedback to work on. Observations and Feedback. It’s...
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Building a TWANG
Introduction First…. Most of the credit must go to Robin Baumgarten and Critters for the inspiration and firmware. While I have hacked and tweaked the firmware a lot, the basic design is still all...
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TWANG32 – An ESP32 Port of TWANG
I ported the TWANG game over to ESP32. I wanted to do this for several reasons. Cost: The ESP32 is generally lower cost than the Arduino Mega Speed: The ESP32 has a dual core 80MHz processor vs. the...
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TWANG Shield Rev. 2
I recently ran out of the original TWANG shields. I took the opportunity to make a few changes. Audio Jack The internal speaker is powered by the Arduino I/O pins. This limits it to the low voltage...
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Wooden Nickel Engraver Update
I got a chance to do some work into this project and I made some progress. The X,Y mechanism is a free standing H-Bot. Here is a bottom view. You can see the Y home switch and the bottom of the servo...
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NickelBot – Complete
The NickelBot is complete and it works great. The goal of the project was to create an easily portable machine that creates low cost items that could be given away at events like Maker Faires. I think...
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Polar Coaster Version 2
I recently decided to update the Polar Coaster project. The primary reason was to update the controller to use Grbl_ESP32 firmware. I also thought I could make it smaller, lighter and remove a little...
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#Inktober 2019 Project – Post 2
Reverse Engineering the Atari 1020 The field service manual is quite helpful, but the pin numbers of the connectors are not labeled and there are no part number. Between the manual and some...
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