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I’ve just finished assembling my VT132 standalone kit from The High Nibble. It was an enjoyable build and pushed my soldering skills with soldering the tiny pins on the ESP32 chip. Initially I had issues getting solder to flow onto the tiny pins and pads, but I changed to a thinner tip which worked well. …
A while back I posted about a number of BBSes that are accessible online, and can therefore be easily ‘dialed’ with ATD using a WiFi Modem over the internet. I recently came across this huge list of online resources accessible via telnet and took a look through some of them: https://www.jumpjet.info/Offbeat-Internet/Public/TelNet/url.htm It seems like most …
I’ve played with Packet Radio using a Raspberry Pi a number of times in the past, and have a posted a number of posts – here’s some of my previous posts: At one point I set up a Node.js app that used a library to read ax25 packets over Serial, and then Tweet received packets …
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I’ve been playing with the wifi AT modem on my VT132 and have been dialing up a few BBSes to test it out. Interesting ones I’ve looked at so far: bbs.fozztexx.com THE bbs for r/retrobattlestations. Active message board, simple but worth a look The Cave run by Benj Edwards (see https://www.howtogeek.com/686600/remember-bbses-heres-how-you-can-visit-one-today/) Particles! particlesbbs.dyndns.org:6400 – active …