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That will be fun! My NXT works like a charm when controlled with LEGO Blockly. Have fun! Thorsten

Here is a link how to do that - and you really should, because this is absolutely interesting!!! Best Thorsten

I am on Flensburger Strandlager - the fridge smiles at me - Tyskie is waiting. Enjoy! Best, Thorsten

What a nice build!!! It reminds me of - wait - here it is: Murph: Tell me a little about this electric piano, Ray. Ray: Ah you have a good eye my man. That's the best in the city of Chicago. Jake: How much? Ray: Two thousand bucks and it's yours. You can take it home with you. As a matter of fact I'll through the black keys in for free. Jake: Two thousand for this chunk o'shit? Come on Ray. Murph: I mean really Ray, it's used, there's no action left in this keyboard. Ray: Excuse me, I don't think there's anything wrong with the action on this piano. Really enjoyable music shop! All the best Thorsten

That's me! I feel exactly the same. For me, "recently" began 5+(+) years ago, make it less than a decade. I am 64 and 1/2 years old: At this age, it's much easier to categorize timelines into decade sized temporal bins: Everything less than (full) decade = recent(ly), decades = some time ago, decades = living in America, decades = World Wide Web decades = fell in love with my wife decades = fell in love with LEGO It makes my life so much easier when people ask me www (what was when) ... True that! Yeah. I joined EB some time ago ... Was a good one though! Best Thorsten

Same here. Here's to @Peppermint_M Thank you very much for that nice essay! I am all with you, share the same questions and said it elsewhere. I voted 2 because I did not know I could cast more votes. Not the point: I am fine will all but 1. Actually, that is more like climbing up rather than plunging anywhere :D The moment I drilled a 2 mm SPAX screw through a couple of LEGO plates to make a (hidden) switch for my motorized Crocodile, I lost all bad feelings. Finally, as some here said regarding mixing pieces: I don't mix any GoBricks pieces with LEGO pieces - when I need really high quality bricks, I choose the GoBricks bin. Thank you again for the nice write-up Thorsten

I believe, I am getting it! Sorry ... You are running DOS based emulators for different computers in the DOSBox-X (i.e., TC Logo connect TLc) emulator running in Windows on a PC, is that correct? If so, I don't know as of now it depends on how the vintage computer DOS emulators (VDEs) talk to the DOS world AND what the program/computer you are emulating is doing to speak with the VDE. And then how the VDE channels that to TLc. From there it is clear: Calls to the serial ports are handed down to USB port as described in the conf. file in TLc or DOSBox-X and calls to #9771 are doing the same on TLc via Diego's interface. That becomes rather ... complex. But who knows ... Best Thorsten Did you see/hear about the Tunguska-like event triggering a monster tsunami in the General LEGO Discussion forum, Community poll thread, hitting the EB shores on Saturday at 02:30 PM (now at 23 pages on my laptop, and counting)? Phew. Guess we'll have to wait with our vintage forum a little longer until the tectonic stress relaxes a bit Looking forward to your video! Best Thorsten

So this png file directly pasted using a Bricklink link (shown also above) is showing an alternative reality picture of the LEGO Apollo stud? Looks like a perfectly round hole to me Could be a Changzheng stud ... Best Thorsten

I share your doubts I'm not aware of any other LEGO sound sensors (other than the ultra-sound sensor) than that for the NXT/EV3. Quick question: The scale on the VU meter is logarithmic, is that correct (as the dB scale is, if I am not mistaken)? With the NXT sound sensor, the lowest level is almost always on, as it hears really low level sound (not line noise!) Best Thorsten

- more than 7 months later - I know this is considered cross posting - so out with it, should the violation go beyond the thinkable The reply above from @alexGS triggered me. Since then, I was thinking about how to accomplish this ... Shared my idea for using an Interface A as VU with Yves (@Bliss), who is actively developing his LEGO Blockly (LBL) programming environment as described in this thread, which has also grown to a mega-thread ... Yves has integrated the NXT PBrick into LEGO Blockly, which in turn has among others, a sound (microphone) sensor. Which means, that one can connect the NXT to LBL via Bluetooth (USB works as well) and an ESP32 board hooked up to Int.A as well. Yves does not have an Int.A but I do. This is just a very crappy video had to rush things this morning - tonight, I shall hook up 4.5V lamps and take another crappy video: The Int.A VU meter operated by LEGO Blockly, with an NXT as microphone: https://bricksafe.com/files/Toastie/lego-blockly-programs/Just be good to me.mp4 I am planning on using Interface B/Control Lab as microphone, as it is connecting to LEGO Blockly as well, and then use my laptop earphone output to drive the VU meter ... Best Thorsten

I'm back :D Well, it is true that I simply love these VU meters, which have LEDs in a row - starting with 8+ greens, then two yellows, and 2 reds. Real bright green, yellow, and red - in that order - as I am "advanced colourblind" . On my Sony cassette player (1999) they are all greenish but ... cool. However, the idea of doing this with Interface A came from a post of @alexGS in the 9750 thread, in reply to my post of the pimped 9771 card: Alex wrote: "I burst out laughing when I saw the ‘power meter’, like a VU meter on an 80s stereo… needs translucent green/red bricks for effect" That triggered me somehow. I am planning on using Int.B and my laptop earphone output to pick-up the sound ... we'll see. But there are more ideas: using 2 Int.A for extendend VU meter range, of course the 4.5V lamps with translucent 1x2s in front ... the NXT is doing an excellent job, but some vintage brothers may not like it - we'll see! Best wishes Thorsten

@amine not exactly sure what you mean ... PEEK and POKE are BASIC commands, aren't they? So you are in some BASIC interpreter >in the TC Logo Connect emulator< (essentially you are in DOS/8086 machine???) and want to access Int.A from there, correct? >If so<, then you need to use IN/INP and OUT. As far as I know, PEEK/POKE are addressing locations in the computer memory (you can store/check things) or, if the address decoder has freed some memory locations, work with memory mapped devices. The #9771 card listens to I/O requests on a "port", rather than a memory location. IN/INP and OUT accomplish that. PEEK/POKE activate the MEMREQ (or whatever the name is) line on the ISA bus, IN/OUT the IOREQ line. This is how I understood the IBM XT/DOS/9771 interplay ... others may know better. Best Thorsten

Yves! Crazy - got my NXT out, paired it, attached the sound sensor, put it next to my laptop, loaded your LEGO Blockly program, and played some Music ... This is how it looks on a real Inerface A (link to a quick and dirty video below) https://bricksafe.com/files/Toastie/lego-blockly-programs/Just be good to me.mp4 C-R-A-Z-Y! Best - need to bike to school ... Thorsten

OK, I said it so often - you don't want to smell my farts, that is how old I am. That being said (what a pre-1980's term ...): This forum does not look old - to me. I am on several vintage computer forums - they thrive, and look old. So what? This forum does not even blink because of DOS attacks (yeah, who's da man???) it is simply adjusted to cope for that. This forum has been "called dead in the very near future" so frequently that I believe I am in a time machine. Just beaming back the forum to dial-up times when such a message comes in - and it rocks again! Structure, knowledge, organization, moderation, not that hip any more, huh? That takes time, dedication, vision, energy. Well, glad to be here. This forum is one bright building for me. Best Thorsten

Well, let us just delete the woke thing, OK? Vibe is more than enough. I really hate (yes, I mean it) reading that "term". It is used all over the world for so many things, virtually nobody using it can define it concisely. Maybe you can, and I believe that, but I am not interested reading any reply. That said: Nothing is wrong with calling anything any name. Clonebrand has been around, but I won't list any term here that has been around as well for quite some time. But picking one individual and apply anything even near "woke" for attaching a "vibe" is - at best - disgusting. To me. That's all there is: To me. Perhaps we can move away from that and focus on the issue, regardless of our "origin". After all, it is surely planet Earth. I am German, and proud to be "woke", whatever that means, I don't know. Best Thorsten