First post, by wbahnassi
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Me and my brother wanted to try out a Throttle Blaster for some of our builds. I decided to build one without using the github PCB, as I don't need all the options that are offered by it. I just went directly to the rotary encoder and thus ignored all jumpers.. and instead I hard-coded their values in the firmware.
The result was just a Pico and the LED display with 4 dupont wires between the two. The Pico also extends one wire carrying 3 lines out to the PC. These are +5V, gnd and the line that goes to the CPU HLT.
My brother has an IBM PC 300GL NLX desktop with a P2 400Mhz CPU. Unless you mod the case, there is no convenient place to install the Throttle Blaster, so we went the fully external way.
Similar to my adventures with Lego (Lego PC - Traditional Damascus Theme) he went ahead and designed a prototype Lego case to house the TB.. this time the design is inspired by a well-known Midi device.
The device works great! Huge thanks to Scrap Computing for his great work and sharing this project.
Some Lego pieces are still temporary placeholders, like the transparent blocks, until we get the pieces in black. But overall it came out nice and sturdy.
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