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| Posted: 07:40pm 18 Oct 2019 |
Yeah, saw it.
It is a nice project, the history is interesting. He wants to makes something cheap for the masses.
His first idea was way better, use something people already have to teach something new. The latest single board, how ingenious put Together, needs lots of stuff to become a teaching system. Keyborad, controller, analog tv, power brick. What is this different from a 5 dollar pi zero with retro pi software? The connectors ?
I may be sceptical, but if you really want to pull this off, you may be better served with a good basicinterpreter on a laptop, and a good way to provide gpio. Something like an arduino nano, just as usb powered and controlled gpio, with seemless support in the basic interpreter, as if the arduino was a parallel printer port like the old days.
The laptop or pc is something people could have, the addition costs near to nothing.
Maybe an idea for mmbasic dos version?
Edited 2019-10-19 05:42 by Volhout
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