Microtronic Phoenix

Thank you all for giving us a lot of likes - we appreciate your love! 

Just wondering - would some of you be interested in purchasing a Microtronic Phonix on Tindie? As a kit or fully assembled? How important would an (extensive) English manual be for you? Or do you think that you got live with the English documentation that we already have? 

https://www.tindie.com/

Let us know your thoughts please!  

Phoenix enthusiast venice1200 determined how to maximize the contrast of the 3661AS LED displays. He is using two filters layered on top of each other - a black and a red one. The contrast is stunning; see the following pictures for black+red, black only, red only, and no filter:

Github user venice1200 has created a 2095 cassette interface emulator descendant that allows for direct upload of programs to the Microtronic (or Phoenix) via an Arduino-based USB connection from the PC (no SD card required). On the PC side, a Python script is used to transfer MIC files directly into a Microtronic / Phoenix running the PGM 1 program loader. An Arduino Nano is used for the USB connection. Check out the project Github for more details about this great project. Thanks for sharing it with the public, Venice1200!

Update: tested it myself this morning - and works as advertised! 

Excited to share these two cool Phoenix builds by Morky and Venice from the Classic Computing Forum - they look stunning and worked out of the box! 

Great job, guys!

The Microtronic Phoenix is by now Featured Project for an extended period of time - thanks, Hackaday, really appreciate the support! 

Many thanks to Gareth Halfacree from Hackster.io for posting on Hackster.io about our project: 

https://www.hackster.io/news/the-four-bit-busch-microtronic-lives-again-as-the-microtronic-phoenix-complete-with-original-rom-2a5c7ccecba7

Thanks to Microchip Makes for posting / tweeting about our project! We are honored to be recognized by the creators of the ATmega, thank you guys!

https://x.com/MicrochipMakes/status/1915043780295905673

https://www.instagram.com/p/DIb10xrJjS2/

https://x.com/microchipmakes?lang=en