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Retro Gadgets: A game about soldering and tinkering with old school electronics
- PopAlongKid 4y agoThe real life, physical experience may still be available. >using tools to snip them off the plastic sprues, then connecting, painting, and even stickering them Used to do that as a kid, with model car kits bought at the local toy and hobby store.[0] >the kind of person who owns a soldering iron and wields it like a pro Spent the better part of a pre-teenage summer once assembling a Heathkit[1] multi-band radio receiver -- dozens if not hundreds of resistors and capacitors to solder! [0]https://www.revell.com/products/cars/ https://www.revell.com/products/cars/ [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathkit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathkit (the heathkit web site seems to be out of service at this time)
- sitzkrieg 4y agoplastic sprue kit building exists digitally too tho, the only thing missing is the glue and paint thinner smells https://store.steampowered.com/app/1164250/Model_Builder/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1164250/Model_Builder/ on the heathkit note i got the same feeling a few years ago soldering a QRP+ kit up. comes as mostly bare pcb and 100s of through hole components. winding all of the tuning inductors by hand and about 6 hours of soldering later i had a working 5w cw rig https://qrp-labs.com/qcxp.html https://qrp-labs.com/qcxp.html
- tomatotomato37 4y agoThere's currently a demo for this a available in steam's big demo event thing and I have been enjoying it. What the article fails to convey is that it has a fairly robust Lua/Luau interpretor in that powers everything, so you can actually create pretty complex things. If you ever messed with PICO-8 it's pretty similar; I suggest you try it out.
- gaudat 4y agoAny lo-fi Butterfly sound chips in this?