[rescue] Anyone build this kit?

[Lionel Peterson]

Andy,

I built up my Tindie kit, it works fine stand-alone, haven't had a chance to
cobble together a serial cable and give it a try.

I'm curious about your 'bad data' issue, can you expand on that?

I'd be interested in a bit more details about PCBs you ordered. It looks like
a great project, any idea of cost of the parts (too lazy to head to
mouser/digi-key and look)? What is needed to program the PIC processor - I'm
not familiar with them.

Thanks,

Ken

> On Nov 13, 2021, at 14:19, Andy Wallis <rawallis at panix.com> wrote:
> o;?
>>
>>     Looks cool, I might build one or two when they're back in stock...
>>
>>     But I'm not getting rid of my VT's, they're way to hard to find
>> these days...
> I managed to get one from the tindie[0] site and build it. The overall
> options are nice with options for PC or Sun keyboards, ANSI or VT52
> encoding, and a host of other tunables. It is hard coded for 80 columns
> with an option for 24 or 40 rows.
>
> I've had issues with it because the serial header is TTL. I've tried a
> couple of TTL to RS232 converters, but it still comes back with bad data.
> I have one more TTL-to-RS232 device coming in tomorrow that I will test
> with.
>
> If that fails, I've ordered some PCBs from PCBWay for another version of
> the device that includes an onboard RS232 driver. This includes a DC
> barrel jack and a USB-A connector for keyboards instead of PS/2.
>
> 0: https://www.tindie.com/products/petrohi/geoffs-vt100-terminal-kit/
> 1: https://hackaday.io/project/173216-ascii-video-terminal
>
> -Andy Wallis
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