Connecting two VIC-20s
Perhaps you don’t know, but VIC-20 has a built-in capability to communicate with other VIC-20 units. It is indeed very easy to get two VICs...
VIC-20 browsing the web: Live News (with ESP8266)
In this tutorial we will browse live news on the web with a VIC-20 connected to a cheap device acting as a web gateway. This...
VIC-20 and Arduino project 5: Live Meteo forecasts from the web
After entering the name of a city, we want to see its weather forecast for the next hours, with a graphic icon. This time VIC-20...
VIC-20 and Arduino project 4: Ultrasonic Breakout
“You are the controller”, remember this slogan? In this tutorial we make a movement-controlled version of the arcade classic “Breakout” using Arduino.
VIC-20 and Arduino project 3: Sound sensor
In this 3rd tutorial we will make the VIC-20 react to sound. One finger snap to change screen’s background color, two claps will change background...
VIC-20 and Arduino project 2: Temperature and Humidity sense & display
In this second tutorial we will use the cable we built in tutorial 1 to create a sensor of temperature and humidity displaying data on...
VIC-20 and Arduino project 1: Build the cable and pilot leds
Today we can conveniently use a VIC-20 to control external devices via a custom built interface we can make with an inexpensive Arduino. Possibilities are...
File Browsers on test: FB and DIRPLUS
With the always more spread use of SD2IEC devices here comes the need to navigate our folders and files, in order to use and organize...