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That 1/6 scale VT100 is sweet!

codetrotter 6y ago
Agreed. I probably wouldn’t have noticed that there was more than one page if it wasn’t for your comment as I was only skimming over page 1. All others coming to the HN comments make sure you catch the demo video on page 4. Direct link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtmNOZVrz98 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtmNOZVrz98 Also to the author of the page, if you see this: I would recommend putting the video embed at the top of page 1 so that it is the first thing that visitors see. Nothing beats a good video for me, and the video you made is very good. So best to put it first IMO and then people can read about the details afterwards.
- Sprite_tm 6y ago
  You have a good point... I always tended to write my stuff down chronologically, with the reveal at the end, but I'm not sure if in the age of 10-minute Youtube videos that still works well. I'll see if I can at least link the last page, so people without patience can go there directly.
  - ducktective 6y ago
    Have you written a blog post about your dev machine? I see it is a thinkpad model. What distro are you using? Is that a tiling window manager? Are your dotfiles public? :)
    - Sprite_tm 6y ago
      Nothing special - Thinkpad T470s, running Debian, with Awesome as a window manager and Kitty as my main terminal. No public dotfiles as I feel most of them are duct-taped together and perpetually in the precarious state of only being one apt-get update away from failing because of something deprecated I put in 15 years ago.
      - ducktective 6y ago
        Thanks, now for the cliché: vim or emacs?
        Sprite_tm 6y ago
        None. Mcedit. I'm not even kidding.
      - gtsnexp 6y ago
        On a related note: what are you using for designing your 3d prints?
        Sprite_tm 6y ago
        OpenSCAD. Textfile in, 3d model out, just like I like it. As an indication: this is what I had to type in to get the VT102 model: https://github.com/Spritetm/esppdp/blob/master/case/vt100.scad https://github.com/Spritetm/esppdp/blob/master/case/vt100.sc...
helsinkiandrew 6y ago
Love the case - but it needs a better keyboard!

Agreed. I probably wouldn’t have noticed that there was more than one page if it wasn’t for your comment as I was only skimming over page 1. All others coming to the HN comments make sure you catch the demo video on page 4. Direct link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtmNOZVrz98 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtmNOZVrz98 Also to the author of the page, if you see this: I would recommend putting the video embed at the top of page 1 so that it is the first thing that visitors see. Nothing beats a good video for me, and the video you made is very good. So best to put it first IMO and then people can read about the details afterwards.

Sprite_tm 6y ago
You have a good point... I always tended to write my stuff down chronologically, with the reveal at the end, but I'm not sure if in the age of 10-minute Youtube videos that still works well. I'll see if I can at least link the last page, so people without patience can go there directly.
- ducktective 6y ago
  Have you written a blog post about your dev machine? I see it is a thinkpad model. What distro are you using? Is that a tiling window manager? Are your dotfiles public? :)
  - Sprite_tm 6y ago
    Nothing special - Thinkpad T470s, running Debian, with Awesome as a window manager and Kitty as my main terminal. No public dotfiles as I feel most of them are duct-taped together and perpetually in the precarious state of only being one apt-get update away from failing because of something deprecated I put in 15 years ago.
    - ducktective 6y ago
      Thanks, now for the cliché: vim or emacs?
      - Sprite_tm 6y ago
        None. Mcedit. I'm not even kidding.
    - gtsnexp 6y ago
      On a related note: what are you using for designing your 3d prints?
      - Sprite_tm 6y ago
        OpenSCAD. Textfile in, 3d model out, just like I like it. As an indication: this is what I had to type in to get the VT102 model: https://github.com/Spritetm/esppdp/blob/master/case/vt100.scad https://github.com/Spritetm/esppdp/blob/master/case/vt100.sc...

helsinkiandrew 6y ago

Love the case - but it needs a better keyboard!