Together at last: the TRS-80 Model III that I learned to program on, sadly no longer works, probably needs some new capacitors, along with the Tiny Model III from @trevorflowers running the Breakout BASIC code that I wrote on its big brother!

More here https://www.grwster.com/projects/2024/tinymodel3/

“Billboard Bubble Metric”

You know it’s a crowded field of shit when it’s worth spending money on a billboard to brag that you were able to dial down hallucinations for only a little more toxicity, or maybe increased toxicity is a selling point?

Whee, my entry for the Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2025, written in BASIC and running on my Tiny TRS-80 Model III from @trevorflowers

https://logiker.com/Vintage-Computing-Christmas-Challenge-2025

I fell down a rabbit hole after learning about how four army buddies did the calculations to solve for the optimum strategy in blackjack by hand on electromechanical desk calculators over a period of two years in the 50s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse_(blackjack)

and this was the result (python code that replicates their calculations)
https://github.com/grwhitehead/blackjack

I don't even play blackjack ;-)

Still glad I wrote this little utility to decode colorblind-hostile status LEDs ;-)

https://www.grwster.com/projects/2021/isitredorgreen/

Whee, with the latest improvements to my desktop clockwork toy I got the error down to 1.33 ms per second. I'm pretty happy with that!

I wrote about it here https://www.grwster.com/projects/2025/clockwork/

Maybe I should submit it to the @hackaday One Hertz Challenge ;-)

PSI = LBS/🔲"

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