Build your own 8 bit! the FIGnition thread.

[Carlos]

Nice one! I am glad about that, It deserves a good exposure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO6YX-VAPe4&feature=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO6YX-VAPe4&feature=plcp

[Carlos]

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good news!
some early progress with the I2C 2-wire interface


not by me ( I don't know whats going on in this picture! )

by another contributor fig8r, looks cool.

[zapiy]

What can I do with this? Can it be a media Center and emulate yet?

[Carlos]

What can I do with this? Can it be a media Center and emulate yet?

no not this one, this one is a Basic 8 bit computer- you need to be looking at a PI or Arduino or the Android dongle thingy, I have also stumbled upon a competitor to the PI already!

http://www.olimex.com/dev/pricelist.html">http://www.olimex.com/dev/pricelist.html

[Carlos]

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ho ho ho now I have a keyboard.

[TL]

Very nice! 

[zapiy]

Love it fella. How's it coming along?

[Carlos]

Love it fella. How's it coming along?

its all done, that little green pcb is the FIGnition, and the rest is the keyboard to work it  I am now writing a space trading game for it!

[zapiy]

Brilliant.

Can not wait to see it.

[Carlos]

well, i have now made an interface for it that supports PC coms and that can run a standard keyboard at the same time #justsayin   

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[dougtitchmarsh]

Just the way I like to see things, au naturel without any coverings. Great work Carl

[Carlos]

I have just published the 'how to build' of the Interface kit.


https://sites.google.com/site/figgipad/">https://sites.google.com/site/figgipad/