Recent content by morganfeldon

Just a tiny update. I'm about halfway done refactoring the Calculator PCB to the ESP32-S3. I've also been tied up working on the Omni PCB. I'm just as frustrated as y'all are that the Calculator isn't out there yet. We're pushing!

I don't know how I'd even begin trying to find and reach out to who did this and whether they'd have a copy of the sound. Main roadblock right now is refactoring the PCB to a different ESP32 chip than I'd initially chosen as I need dual core. One core will maintain the screen while the other...

There are two sounds I'd like to include in the Calculator, but currently I have no way to do so as there are no "clean" versions of them. The first is the Warbling sound. The first two samples in this file are from "Maybe Baby". The third sample in the file is from "Play Ball"...

Captain Galaxy's signoff would be amazing. And thanks!! :)

Alas, I never made a drawing. I probably would have created it moulage, which is another way to say I'd do it by trial-and-error of holding the components up to the physical replica rather than designing the whole thing in a computer. Which is funny as I've been into computers for 37 years.

Some great outside-the-box thinking here! If they had approached us on making a crossover or nostalgic one, I had some ideas of a beat up gummy bear with nixie tubes and a text display added to it. The nixie tubes would show percent chance of success. The text display would have cold cathode...

Will be curious to see what you design!

A saleable replica needs four things: Available reference material (screenshots, contemporary set/prop photos) A manufacturable design* Customer interest Artist interest We've got the first two. I don't know that we have the third or fourth. The original show didn't have the first calculator...

So the easter eggs for the Gummy Bear handlink are: "You're part of a time travel experiment that went a little caca." "He's leaping! Ziggy said no but Sam's leaping!" "With a million gigabyte capacity, I'm quite capable of rubbing my tummy, patting my head, and doing a trillion floating point...

The original LED light bars on the screen-used calculator were HLMP-2300 (red), HLMP-2400 (yellow), and HLMP-2500 (green) by Broadcom. Their light output is about 1/20th of modern LEDs for the current drawn. We considered many options, including 3D printing our own "light bars" and lighting them...

I think there will be good overlap between fans of the Gummy Bear and fans of the Calculator, so I think I really need to have all unique easter eggs. I'm hoping I can do something with the screen too. Right now we're chasing a power drain issue.

From the Quantum Leap Podcast interview with Caitlin last night, they will briefly mention the handlink change since the originally shot pilot (1989 Earthquake) is being re-edited to act as episode 6. And yeah the handlink is like a disc from the movie Tron now:

So I'm leaning towards the recharge stand being exclusively for the Wristlink to ensure proper charging alignment and because a dock that would hold both the Wristlink and Handlink would be pretty huge. And because we went with deeply recessed microUSB port on the Handlink, it's hard to make a...

Glad you liked the video! The most common blinking mode was short blinks 2-4 times and then long blinks 2-4 times. BUT I have also seen the LEDs blinking randomly more like the gummy bear, so I will support both behaviors, as well as ALL ON and likely 2-3 other modes based on studying the...

It always made me sad that there wasn't a documentary about the various Handlinks. Only took me 30 years but here we go: At some point I'll do a shorter followup video about the Evil Handlink(s) and a couple more details about the different LEDs in the Calculator vs. the Gummy Bear that I...