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by hyperman1 1975 days ago
I do something like this every few months, and I've never tought them worthy a blog, to be honest.

It isn't particularly complicated. Base is a strong enough cardboard box from the local supermarket. I took screenshots of the console from an episode and cleaned them up with krita.

Electronics is a matrix where some rows have leds abd others buttons.

Software low level scans the matrix and drives leds and checks buttons. High level a state machine that changes state based on button presses.

I mainly us whatecer I have lying around at the moment, and don't spend much money on components.

The thing before this was a lego based crossroad with leds and an arduino