I've been turning a pretty rough Asteroids cabinet I've got into a Lunar Lander.
I'm doing this because I got an original Lunar Lander control panel out of a junkyard and partially restored it.
Trying to find ways to make it more "Lunar Lander-y" despite the fact that it's running on an Asteroids board with a Braze kit (Lunar Lander PCBs are pretty expensive!)
Arduino to the rescue!
Some other features I"m working on including:
- Hold abort for five seconds in attract mode to calibrate thruster (using a second Arduino)
- Hold both left and right rotate for five seconds in attract mode to disable "Special" attract mode and directly emulate lunar lander behavior.
Thoughts?
I'm doing this because I got an original Lunar Lander control panel out of a junkyard and partially restored it.
Trying to find ways to make it more "Lunar Lander-y" despite the fact that it's running on an Asteroids board with a Braze kit (Lunar Lander PCBs are pretty expensive!)
Arduino to the rescue!
Some other features I"m working on including:
- Hold abort for five seconds in attract mode to calibrate thruster (using a second Arduino)
- Hold both left and right rotate for five seconds in attract mode to disable "Special" attract mode and directly emulate lunar lander behavior.
Thoughts?
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